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Events
New Zealand Dog News
World Dog News
Behaviour Quiz
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Non-Doggy Reading
Doggy Videos
Non-Doggy videos
Quotes of the Week
Thanks to...
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Events
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- If you missed seeing Dr. Ian Dunbar, you can listen to him on Kim Hill, Radio NZ. Thank to Blair from Doglinks for organising this. It always helps when you know people in high places:) I just wish Rodney Hide came to listen. He was invited!
Ian Dunbar: disciplining dogs Veterinarian, animal behavourist, dog trainer, and writer, whose research in hierarchical social behaviour and aggression in domestic dogs broke new ground. ( duration: 31'24?)
- TTouch- Christchurch-- March 12, 13, 14. Friday evening demonstration only, or stay for the weekend.
Raw Essentials Live with Dr Tom Lonsdal
- Tauranga Doggie Dash--
Sun, April 4, 6:30am – 11:30am
- APDTNZ Conference, Wellignton. Sat, June 5, 2010
- Susan Friedman, and Ray Coppinger, Auckland Wed, July 7, 2010 – Sun, July 11, 2010
- Royal Canin Pet Expo- 2 day show Hamilton, Sat, July 31, 2010, 10am – Sun, August 1, 2010, 5pm
Check Doglinks' calendar for details --------------
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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What are the best words to use to teach a dog named "Tippy" to come to you immediately when he/she is running into the street?
ANSWER
A. "Tippy Halt!"
B. "Tippy Come!"
C. "Tippy Koi!"
D. "Tippy Here!"
Last Newsletter Quiz's answer: How to help feardog dogs? According to Dr Ian Dunbar, the best way of getting your dog or resuce dog to like you is to start hand feeding your dog. He will associate YOU with FOOD, and that can only be good!
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Doggy links
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Take an online Advanced Animal Behavior through MIT
Going to the Dogs Cognitive scientists once spurned the dog as too domesticated to study. But now many are leaping at the chance to use man’s best friend to help understand how social cognition evolved
ASPCA Virtual Pet Behaviorist It's tempting to dismiss this, but actually it may serve some quite useful purpose in leading someone to getting professional help for a very troubled dog or to find some other solution
This is not herding Distinguishing prey drive from herding instinct
DNA and frequently used sires
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Non-Doggy Sites
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Feeding a family for a week: a photo essay
Adjectives of Relation
Venn diagrams to explain everything
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Doggy Reading
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What does the idiom: "Give a dog a bad name" mean? A person who is generally known to have been guilty of some offence will always be suspected to be the author of all similar types of offence. Once someone has gained a bad reputation, it is very difficult to lose it.
Dunedin Dog Show- 1897- the first one! Everything for a Dog (5 hours audio) from Christchurch Library
Grade Level: 4-6 Age Level: 9-11 Listening Level: Grades 4-6
Bone and his sister, Squirrel, are stray dogs born in a shed. Left mother-less as puppies, the two dogs survive together for a while, but are soon wrenched apart, and Bone must now go on, alone. Charlie is a boy who has suffered a terrible loss. And, as he's healing with the help of his dog, another tragedy occurs.
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Doggie Videos
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Training with hand signals focus training. The only problem that I see is that she doesn't lift her expectations of a focus. She basically is 4 metres from her dog, and every time he looks at her, she walks up to the dog and give him a treat. You need to slowly increase your eye contact to 10 seconds before rewarding him.
9 Habits of Effective Clicker Trainers
Part 1: Using Rewards
Part 2: Timing
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Non- Doggie Videos
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The dictionary definition of "cool"
Miles Davis & John Coltrane -- "So What"
Miles Davis -- "'Round Midnight"
How people count paper money around the world
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Quotes of the Week
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The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
-- W. E. B. Du Bois
Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.
-- Desmond Morris
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
-- George Lucas
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-- Thoreau
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
-- Plutarch
Fran Liebowitz:
. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.
. There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
. The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.
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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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