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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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New Zealand Dog News
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World Dog News
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Behaviour Quiz
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Ivan Pavlov was a pioneer in using dogs for experiments. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1904 for what work?
A. Psychology
B. Conditioned reflexes
C. Canine nutrition
D. Digestive secretions
Last Newsletter Quiz's answer: What is one of the leading causes for dogs to eat their own stools?
B. Over-feeding. Feeding a pup or adult dog too much overwhelms their digestive system and results in the pet eliminating partially digested stools that contain the odors of palatable food. In the meantime, the dog's stomach has been over-stretched by the heavy meals, which creates an excessive appetite. Result... Dog eats its poop and the voracious cycle is reinforced.
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Doggy links
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Puppy Socialisation and Habituation Why is it Necessary? Socialisation can be described as the process whereby an animal learns how to recognise and interact with the species with which it cohabits.
Socialising a Litter If you help raise puppies from birth until they are ready to go to new homes, you will have a tremendous impact on their character and behaviour as adults, and, hence, on their future lives.
Why Dominance Won't Die To be at the top of the pack with total dominance would make you the “alpha”, with all the esteem that entails, therefore dogs will strive for dominance unless you beat them to it. It's a neat explanation. Except that none of it actually bears scientific scrutiny.
Canine Dominance Revisited "Owners often describe a belief that their dog is trying to increase its status over them (dominance). This would require that their dog has a capacity for forward planning and to know how its behaviour affects the feelings and thoughts of others, which we believe they are not capable of."
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Non-Doggy Sites
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Marksmanship guide Even if you don't shoot, this is a very cool graphical training aid
40 more stunning examples of high-speed photograph
Collective nouns
Animal adjectives
Hidden billing on the BPL
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Non-Doggy Reading
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Cleaning out me mum's apt, I found my misplaced copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It's quite good -- Lisbeth Salander is a very intriguing heroine -- although I'm sure I'm missing a lot of context because I don't know anything about Swedish history and culture. The map on the Larsson web site helps a little -- www.stieglarsson.com/ millennium-stockholm-map.
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Doggie Videos
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Fun RECALL games to play with your dogs Orca (killer whale) and dog
Dog's eye view of agility -- various videos:
. www.youtube.com/watch?v= iJLPBzBeyQs
. www.youtube.com/watch?v= ixiE8OMBN4M
. www.youtube.com/watch?v= 8r0E547wL5M
. www.youtube.com/watch?v= NBSAOGLLGmc
[Camera mounted on the dog's forehead as he runs the course]
U. S. Customs Canine Enforcement Training
About 22 mins. The dawggs are intensely prey-play driven. These dawggs perform because they're pretty much obsessive about tearing open boxes to get to the target scent -- and get rewarded by intense play with a ball or tug
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Quotes of the Week
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It's not really important that Tip was a good dog to hunt over, but it is important to me that she was a good dog to be with. She was my pal. We enjoyed being with each other. I don't know that you can ask for much more.
-- Gene Hill
In 1868, Alice Raikes, then 8 yrs old, was playing with friends in her London garden when a visitor at a neighbor's house overheard her name and called to her. He was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson -- Lewis Carroll.
"So you are another Alice," he said. "I'm very fond of Alices. Would you like to come and see something which is rather puzzling?" He led Alice and her friends into a room with a tall mirror in one corner.
Alice later wrote: "'Now,' he said, giving me an orange, 'first tell me which hand you have got that in.' 'The right,' I said. 'Now,' he said, 'go and stand before that glass, and tell me which hand the little girl you see there has got it in.' After some perplexed contemplation, I said, 'The left hand.' 'Exactly,' he said, 'and how do you explain that?' I couldn't explain it, but seeing that some solution was expected, I ventured, 'If I was on the other side of the glass, wouldn't the orange still be in my right hand?' I can remember his laugh. 'Well done, little Alice,' he said. 'The best answer I've had yet.'
"I heard no more then, but in after years was told that he said that had given him his first idea for *Through the Looking-Glass*, a copy of which, together with each of his other books, he regularly sent me."
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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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