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Contents
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Events
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Doggie Videos
Non-Doggy Reading
Quotes of the Week
Thanks to...
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Events
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Check our calendar for the latest dog events
http://doglinks.co.nz/calendar.htm

Edie Jane Eaton, practitioner in TTouch is coming to New Zealand.
http://www.listeningtowhispers.com/ttouch.shtml

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Doggy links
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Nat'l Geographic: In the Womb-- Dogs In utero photographs of the fetal development of four dogs and a
wolf
http://channel. nationalgeographic.com/series/in-the-womb/4046/Overview


Wikipedia: Labrador Retriever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Labrador_Retriever

Nose Touch -- "Touch It!" and "Hit It!" trng devices
www.nosetouch.com
[Electronic targets for teaching running contacts in agility. Also, the "Tug-it" toy and other stuff]

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Non-Doggy Sites
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Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant
http://conantparkmysteries. googlepages.com
[Susan is the author of the very enjoyable "Dog Lover's mysteries"]

Top 100 Stories of 2008 from *Discover* magazine
http://www.discovermagazine.com/ columns/top-100-stories-of- 2008
[One of the more interesting of the many year-end compilations]

50 Jokes for 50 States "It's so hot in Arizona, cows are giving evaporated milk and the trees are whistling for dogs"
http://www.rd.com/clean-jokes-and-laughs/50-jokes-for-50-states/article111765.html

Font Types:

Da Font
http://www.dafont.com

1001 Free Fonts
http://www.1001freefonts.com

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Doggy Videos
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The Cat Came Back This hilarious Oscar-nominated animation is based on the century-old folk song of the same name. Old Mr. Johnson makes increasingly ... From Canadian Film Commission. [ ok, it's about a cat, but it's still hilarious!]
http://www.nfb.ca/film/the-cat-came-back/

Service Dogs- view the incredible ability of a dog to help those who need a bit of help
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=uClXtPdlfpk

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Doggy Reading by Geoff Stern
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I've liked all of Patricia McConnell's books and booklets, so no surprise I liked Tales of Two Species: Essays on Loving and Living With Dogs, her collection of columns or essays from *The Bark* magazine. Nice lunch-hour or coffee-break reading. Could use some
editing (McConnell thinks the mind boggles instead of being boggled and gets the title wrong for *The Miracle Worker*).

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  Non-Doggy Reading
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Another of Alan Furst's superb World War II espionage thrillers, Dark Voyage: A Novel . This one seems a little less world-weary, less sombre than
some of Furst's other books.

Also, another favorite writer has died, Donald Westlake ( www.donaldwestlake.com ), known for very funny "caper" novels,
including a series about the hapless Dortmunder and his gang who are a kind of parody of the heistmen -- the "Parker" series -- whom Westlake
wrote about under the pen name Richard Stark. Terrific books, not only for the crime adventure, but also for a keenly perceptive, if
understated sociology of modern America. Somebody Owes Me Money, What's So Funny? God Save the Mark: A Novel of Crime and Confusion

At last, Thomas Perry has written another "Jane Whitefield" thriller, Runner . Great way to start the year. Perry is one of those
writers who seems to be congenitally incapable of writing badly.

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Quotes of the Week
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The dog is a creation especially made for children. Our Noble has been at least equal to one
hand and one foot extra for frolic and mischief, to each of the urchins.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
-- E. W. Howe

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence
of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
-- Allan Bloom

I exaggerate, I sometimes change a motif, but in the end I don't invent the whole
painting. Instead, I find it ready-made in nature, though I still have to extract it.
-- van Gogh

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Thanks to...
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Geoff Stern for providing the links, articles, and quotes.
If you have any interesting links, send them to natalie@doglinks.co.nz and your name will be here:)