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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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Events
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- Dogs' Day Out Sun, November 22
- Tellington Touch - Canadian Edie Jane Eaton is back in New Zealand.
Check for details here (Feb 2010)
- Dr. Ian Dunbar is coming back to New Zealand. Check for details here
(March 2010)
Early bird ends October 2009
For a complete view of what's happening around the country,
view our Dog Calendar
http://doglinks.co.nz/calendar.htm --------------
New Zealand Dog News
http://doglinks.blogspot.com/
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World Dog News
http://doglinksworldnews.blogspot.com/
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Behaviour Quiz
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The US population is starting to consider the importance of controlling the amount and kind of carbohydrates in their diets. Yet, very few dog owners know how to find out what percentage of their dog's commercial diet is carbohydrate. How can you find out?
A. Find it in the "Guaranteed Analysis" on the package label.
B. Use simple arithmetic.
C. Phone the manufacturer and ask.
Last Newsletter Quiz's answer:
B. Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe. Try a Google search for his name and "Dominance"and you'll be more aware just how unfairly some people get treated in academia. :-)
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Doggy links
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Animals teach children empathy and compassion Pets and children share a deep bond, one that teaches children empathy, compassion and respect. When Cynthia was five years old, her family acquired a cockapoo named Nellis from a neighbor who no longer wanted it. "I still consider Nellis to be the brother I never had," wrote Cynthia one afternoon a few months ago on the New York Times blog.
http://webvet.com/main/article?id=1566
An investigation of human-animal interactions and empathy ... in children
http://tinyurl.com/mgzm8p Caring for a dog Teaches Kids Responsibility
http://akitarescue.rescuegroups.org/info/display?PageID=3257
How to Assess the Severity of a Dog Bite I follow Dr. Ian Dunbar's bite assessment criteria when assessing a dog bite. Level 1 to 6
http://watchandtrain.com/dogtraining/blogs/thoughts/archive/2008/02/20/how-to-assess-the-severity-of-a-dog-bite.aspx
Breed Bans- All Bark and Fiscal Bite-Are Breed-Discriminatory Laws Effective?
http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/canines-issues/breed-bans/
Paw Justice (NZ) Animal Abuse Is Getting Out of Control... It's time to stand up for our pet's rights...
http://www.pawjustice.co.nz/index.html
Dr. Ian Dunbar's list of things a dog can't do while sitting
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Non-Doggy Sites
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Plan B: What to Do When All Else Has Failed to Change Your Kid's Behavior More child-rearing advice for dealing with rotten kids
www.slate.com/id/2228559
Police Squad variation on "Who's on first?" (video) This is really funny
www.youtube.com/watch?v= het1kl-A8qw&feature=player_ embedded#t=117
The top 10 doctored photos
www.time.com/time/ photogallery/0,29307,1924226_ 1949528,00.html
Going for baroque -- slide show of churches in Italy
www.flickr.com/photos/ stuckincustoms/sets/ 72157594201844069/show
Sibley Guide to Birds online
http://sibley.enature.com
Recipe: Tostones -- twice-fried plantains
http://bluejeangourmet. wordpress.com/2009/09/11/ feelin-kinda-sunday-a- football-inspired-series
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Non-Doggy Reading (from Geoff)
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Couple of language books. I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
The title, for example, is the Russian way of saying "I'm not pulling your leg." Very interesting collection, but the book simply gives the literal (?) English translations without the original, so you don't get the musicality, alliteration, rhyme, and so on. Stephen Dodson's Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World
is another round-the-world collection, this time of insults and imprecations. It's a slimmer but better organized book.
Also, a thrilled, Vanished
by Joseph Finder -- seems to be the first of a series about a character not unlike Lee Child's Lee Child
or the old Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald. Pleasant enough reading, except sometimes the hero is insufferable about being smarter than everyone else.
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Doggie Videos
-------------------- Tips: Dog tricks Think your dog is smart? Teach him a trick -- and you may be keeping him healthy too. Animal trainer Scott Dunmore has more on how to send your dog to the head of the obedience class.
http://multimedia.boston.com/m/21774597/tips-dog-tricks.htm?q=figure
Guide Dog Training : Guide Dogs for Blind & Visually Impaired
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_7xmqvz-JMo
Autism Assistance Dogs - ACA Adelaide, Channel 9 He may be man's best friend, but the dog you're about to meet is so much more. He's part of an Adelaide trial by Guide Dogs SA.NT that's providing real hope for children with autism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=qAfVU7mqTEg
Dog Guides being trained to assist people with autism
The new initiative will complement the Oakville-based school's four existing Dog Gude programs - vision, hearing, special skills and seizure response. Aimed at autistic children aged 4-12, Autism Assistance Dog Guides is meant to provide safety, companionship and unconditional love for those in need.
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Quotes of the Week
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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
-- Robert Sarnoff
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-- Peter Drucker
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
-- Twain, *Following the Equator*
Time and space -- time to be alone, space to move about -- these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
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Edwin Way Teale
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -
- Jonathan Kozol
Maria Montessori:
. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
. The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
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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
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