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Events
New Zealand Dog News
World Dog News
Behaviour Quiz
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Non-Doggy Reading
Doggy Videos
Quotes of the Week
Dog Blog
Thanks to...
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Thanks to our sponsor
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Doggy DNA provides K9 DNA tests to identify the breed makeup of an animal.
http://www.doggydna.co.nz

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Events
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Tauranga SPCA Dog Wedding Sun, Jun 7, 2009
Take your Dog to Work Day June 26, 2009
Ian Dunbar, 2010

View our Dog Events Calendar for a complete view of what's happening around the country,
http://doglinks.co.nz/calendar.htm

Kennel Club listings
http://www.nzkc.co.nz/caltest.html?current_year=2009&current_month=05&crit

Please send your events or known events to natalie@doglinks.co.nz

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New Zealand Dog News
http://doglinks.blogspot.com/
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• Is this the world's most dangerous dog?
• Fugitive leaves dog tied to kennel
• Call for code to stop 'cage crazy' dogs
• Super-council, dangerous dogs on Hide's agenda
• Teach your dog to take photos
• Trials sort out who's top dog

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World Dog News
http://doglinksworldnews.blogspot.com/
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• Welfare woes
• World RSS Email Print Terminally ill dog saves owner from burning house
• More Recent Articles
• An Eye-Opening Look Into Puppy Mill Prisons
• Is the Dog-o-Matic an owner's best friend?
• Unlikely combination of dog water and sun may have caused house fire
• Amazing Hero Dogs -- More Than Just Pets
• Victoria Stilwell of 'It's Me or the Dog:' Can she train kids, too?

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Behaviour Quiz
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Hyperkinesis is a medical condition resulting in uncontrolled muscle movement, akin to spasms.
Who was the first scientist to study hyperkinesis in dogs and when did he publish his results?

A. Samuel A. Corson, 1973
B. Ivan Pavlov, 1913
C. B. F. Skinner, 1938 

Last Newsletter Quiz's answer: What is the most misunderstood word dog owners use when talking to their fearful pet?

"It's Okay" tops the list.  When it is used to console a dog who is worried or fearful, it can create the feeling that we "approve" of the way the dog is feeling and behaving. It's better to distract the dog with an invitation to play, take a walk, or anything that will get the dog's mind off what happened.

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Doggy links
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Collection Development "Dog Care & Training": The Well-Behaved Dog
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6606465.html?q=dog+training

Are Dog Breeds Actually Different Species? A humorous take on using
dog breeds to prove evolution
http://www.scientificamerican. com/article.cfm?id=an- immodest-proposal

Self-Quiz on Animal Behavior and Cognition
http://www.psywww.com/ selfquiz/ch08mcq.htm

Food additives
http://www.mbm.net.au/health/ 296-385.htm

Author Deb Davis of Making Scents of Tracking will be this month's (June) author on DogRead. This is a listserve where authors and readers discuss their book.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/DogRead/

Male or female (Patricia McConnell) "If you want a good dog, get a male. If you want a great dog, get a female and cross your fingers." That old saying has been passed down through generations in a variety of fields from retriever training to sheepdog handling. But is it true?
www.thebark.com/content/ gender-gap

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Non-Doggy Sites
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Tipcam  You can create videos as FLV or AVI.  No limit to the length of the video.  Works with XP or Vista.
www.utipu.com

ScreenCastle the screencast recorder and record a screencast directly from you browser
http://screencastle.com

Recuva shareware file recovery tool- Haven't tried this yet -- just installed it. Supposed to be one of
the better tools for recovering accidentally deleted files
www.recuva.com

Recipe: Salt-crusted fingerling potatoes with a cilantro-parsley
dipping sauce
http://bitten.blogs.nytimes. com/2009/05/07/a-deceptively- simple-appetizer

The Most Dangerous Roads in the World
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html

American Tricruiser -- semi-recumbent bicycle (or tricycle, I guess)
www.americruiser.com
[Not sure you can attach a thingy for biking with your dog]

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  Non-Doggy Reading (from Geoff)
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Ben Crystal's *Shakespeare on Toast* ( www.shakespeareontoast.com ) is a nice little book. Crystal, who's the son of an eminent linguist, is very good on matters of Shakespeare's language ("thou" vs. "you" which is always important in Shakespeare), on how much it cost for Elizabethans to go hear a play (note: hear, not see), cost of the costumes, how the design of the Globe theatre informs the plays, and so on. Good book for a send-off gift to a freshman.

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Doggie Videos
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Boundary Training Having a dog that knows and respects the boundaries of your home can make your life easier and your dogs life safer. Dr. Ian Dunbar demonstrates how to teach your dog to sit at boundaries, whether you ask them to or not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCuY9uX7ods&feature=player_embedded

Sit For Walk Going for a walk is one of the biggest rewards you can give your dog. Make sure you take advantage of this by having your dog sit many times before and during each walk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6byHMx2iE&feature=player_embedded

Thousand-Hand Guan Yin (non-doggie) Amazing Chinese dance. Would takes years to perfect!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgHmSdpjEIk

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Quotes of the Week
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A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just
fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.
-- John Grogan, *Marley and Me*

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
-- Shari R. Barr

We are made kind by being kind. -- Eric Hoffer

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
-- Richard Feynman

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Plato, *Republic*

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers

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Thanks to...
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Geoff Stern for insert in Non-Doggy Reading
Behaviour Quiz- taken from http://www.webtrail.com/petbehavior/quiz.html

If you have any interesting links, send them to natalie@doglinks.co.nz and your name will be here:)

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