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Events
Dog News
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Doggy Reading
Non-Doggy Reading
Quotes of the Week
Dog Videos
Thanks to...
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Events
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The Big Paws Out! Napier April 19th MORE>>
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=132
Bio energetic healing course- Blenheim - June 2008 MORE>>
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=130
Have your say in the Bylaws Reviews in Christchurch... do you want a $750 fine? Find out how you could.
Submissions close at 10am on 28 April, 2008.
Add your event in the forum. No charge. --------------
Dog News
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Men shy away from the unkindest cut New Zealand men's sympathy for their pets' packages is an "ecological disaster waiting to happen", Unitec research has revealed. MORE>>
Dangerous Dog Video- Japanese Akita
Donna-Marie Lever reports on the story of a man viciously attacked by a dog -http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1665202 Now he wants the popular dog out of the country or at least added to the country's dangerous dog list.
100 years of dog trials They have often been referred to as the marriage trials rather than the dog trials, such is the time the men spend at them.
More on http://doglinks.blogspot.com/
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Dog Jokes
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Beware of dog- and why have a sign
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=129
If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.
--Karel Capek 1890-1938 Czech Journalist.
You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.
Dogs are lousy poker players. When the get a good hand they wag their tails.
Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won't use it. --------------
Doggy links
-------------- Mealtime for Working Dogs
www.emainehosting.com/mesard /Articles/Articles_pdf/Mealtim e.pdf
Palman's latest superb article on trng -- the title is somewhat
misleading, because she covers more than just using mealtime as a
reinforcement opportunity. Don't miss this one or any of her articles
Ready, set . warm up! How to lessen the risk of dog-sport injury
http://www.dogsincanada.com/Default.aspx?tabid=64&iID=206
Look Closely
www.wickedworkingdogs.com /articleslook.aspx
Observing your dog for signs of being unconfident
Who's in Charge: It's All a Question of Leadership
www.uvhs.org/behavioral_docs /whos_in_charge-leadership.pdf
So You Want to Raise an Agility Star
www.tergosa.com/OurDogs/Kesa /RaiseAgiltyStar.htm
Dog Show People: Newcomer's Field Guide
www.dogwoodtrainingacademy.com /lib_fun-people.htm
Very funny
Drug Reaction in Herding Dogs
www.pethealth101.com/Working _dogs/WorkingDrug.shtml
How to train two dogs
http://www.miriamfields.com/teachtwodogs.html
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Non-Doggy Sites
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Basketball: The Bill James method of calculating when a college basketball game is
out of reach
www.slate.com/id/2185975
[Is your team's lead safe?]
Better View Desired Online -- reviews of binoculars and other optics,
esp. for birders
www.betterviewdesired.com
Politicker -- "inside politics for political insiders"
www.politicker.com
Fair, objective, non-ideological coverage of local, state, and national
politics
Esquivalience and Other Mountweazels (Dave Wilton)
www.wordorigins.org/index.php /site/comments/esquivalience _and_other_mount
Pop culture as opera
www.thestar.com/article/346285
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Doggy Reading
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Got a batch of dog videos and a little
booklet by Steve Ripley, Making Scents of the Urban Jungle: A VST
Primer more for R than for
me. BTW, for New Englanders, the current issue of Dog Sport magazine
has a nice interview with Elaine Hammil.
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Non-Doggy Reading
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Henry Chang's Chinatown Beat is, presumably, the first of a series
about NYPD Det. Jack Yu ( www.chinatownbeat.com ). Pretty good, noir-ish.
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Quotes of the Week
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went. -- Will Rogers
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes
it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
-- B. W. M.
Young, headmaster, Charterhouse School, UK
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when
they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become
proof that they were busy.
-- Charles Peters
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only
for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
-- Robert
Chapman
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Dog Videos
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Jenny Damm agility playtraing session -
www.lotuseducation.se/film/557
Schutzhund in 1936
www.youtube.com/watch?v =NsBi0PehfAM
Some neat re-attacks and gunfire
while the dog is on the sleeve, bike action, etc. Then a jaunt into town
for some cold beer for all
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Thanks to...
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Geoff Stern for providing the links, articles, and quotes.
If you have any interesting links, send them to natalie@doglinks.co.nz and your name will be here:) |
