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Dog 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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Dog Events
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Upcoming dog events Check our calendar
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World Dog News
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New Zealand Dog News
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Behaviour Quiz
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After hurricane Katrina many pet animals were left behind in their homes when their owners fled or were evacuated. Other dogs manipulated human rescue workers in order to bring about their safe recovery?
A. True
B. False
Last Newsletter Quiz's: Ivan Pavlov was a pioneer in using dogs for experiments. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1904 for what work?
Digestive secretions (Which proves: Sometimes the importance of a person's work gets mislabeled. He actually pioneered classical conditioning experiments!)
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Doggy links
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Free Dog Food for New Zealand Dogs !! - Sign up and take the Purina One 30 Day Challenge All you need to do is answer a few questions, and keep Purina up-to-date with how your dog is doing. Check out some exercise ideas both you and your pet can enjoy.
Helping Your Dog Overcome Fear of Thunder & Other Startling Noises PDF
Queen Victoria's Border Collies
Cold Water Tail "Cold water tail," "limber tail syndrome," "broken tail," "dead tail," "broken wag" are all euphemisms for a relatively common occurrence in sporting dogs. This episode appears to be a painful, but relatively benign affliction that can occur after swimming, after a heavy hunting day or after a bath with cold water or water that is too warm.
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Non-Doggy Sites
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Best jobs in America -- by salary and other criteria
Recipe: Toasted angel hair pasta (*fideos*) with pancetta, tomatoes, mushrooms, and basil
The world's most generic news report - Charlie Brooker's Newswipe (video)
Teahouse shootout in John Woo's *Hard Boiled* (video)
Chow Yun-fat -- his character is named "Tequila" -- uses a pair of Chinese pistols, copies of the Russian Tokarev, which seem to have infinite magazine capacity -- in reality, 8. But it's still a great scene, gory but beautifully choreographed. In Asia, Chow is a combination of Steve McQueen and Cary Grant
World Battleground, 1000 yrs of war in 5 mins (video)
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Doggy Reading by G Stern/R Mandell
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Had to get Jean Donaldson's new book -- and DVD -- Train Your Dog Like a Pro. Really, I'm not a pure positive trainer. I use force corrections for safety violations, for teaching what *not* to do, esp. what *never* to do, and I don't grow faint when someone mentions e-collars. There are things I compel my dogs to do, such as a down-stay while I have dinner, and things I punish, such as canines' canines in contact with my flesh. (Excepting when Riv and I are rough housing, he gently takes dental hold of my cheek or nose. Quite playful, sort of tickles. He has the best bite discipline of any dog I've had.) Nevertheless, I can't resist Donaldson. I disagree with her at times, but she writes with such wit, I just enjoy the hell out of her books. (And, yeah, and I've had the hots for her for 12 yrs or more, and that impedes my judgment, I admit it.) After all, I'm an unremitting atheist, but I read Merton and Chesterton.
Donaldson gives some nicely organized recipes for shaping this or that behavior. That's one of her strengths, one of the strengths of her method. She's less convincing or helpful in dealing with behaviors that aren't reducible for discrete shaping. She makes very good teaching point in emphasizing 5 tries to determine when to push, stick, or drop:
5 successes = push to the next level or degree of difficulty
3 or 4 successes = stick with what you're working on (because you may be close to a break-through)
1 or 2 successes = drop back to a lower level or easier criterion
Five is an easy number for people to keep track of. (Really, most pet trng students aren't going to do the kind of careful bookkeeping Donaldson's recipes would demand.) Her approach makes shaping by +R/-P manageable for pet trainers.
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Doggie Videos
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Commuting Romanian wolf (BBC World) This is in the city of Brasov. This wolf bitch raises her litter without a mate or helpers. Because she is not entirely paranoid about people, she can utilize the excesses of our civilization to raise her offspring.
Sheperd's Contest - Bavaria 1963 MS. Large flock of sheep penned closely together. MCU. Two shepherds. MCU. Good shot of Alsatian dog. MS. A sheep dog. Various shots of Bavarian shepherds with their dogs giving a fine display of controlling a large flock of sheep during the competition.
Using Tug Games to Train Recalls in Bite Work Whistle recall
Drop on recall
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Quotes of the Week
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Lovers have a right to betray you . friends don't.
-Judy Holliday
A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
-- Thoreau
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite to the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
-- Hume
The greatest use of marriage is for riveting the fact of paternity in the male mind.
-- Rebecca West
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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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