Welcome to our only weekly (ish) segment: The Week in Tweets! This is where I summarise my weekly tweets (from my Twitter account) and choose my favourite as the Tweet of the Week. (And this post was supposed to occur on the 27th of May… Whoops…)

Tweek of the Week

Since I found this link, I have been recommending it, and I’ll probably continue to recommend it while it continues to be active.  Sue Ailsby has a fantastic website, mostly detailing the ‘training levels’ (which I also advocate!), but also with a page called; “Teaching your dog to eat“.  I admit it doesn’t sound very special but, gee, it has some good advice!  Sue outlines a process for teaching a dog to finish off their bowl of food. I’ve never had a dog to try this with, but all the logic is perfect, and I’m excited to include “Teaching your dog to eat” as the Tweet of the Week.

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Welcome to our only weekly (ish) segment: The Week in Tweets! This is where I summarise my weekly tweets (from my Twitter account) and choose my favourite as the Tweet of the Week.

Tweek of the Week

It is no secret that I have a huge crush on the Saving Pets blog, with them being in my 5 Favourite Blogs of 2011, and with their blog making regular appearances in the Week in Tweets.  One of their latest posts is, “Could Instagram make your photos pop?“.  Having recently joined Instagram, I am starting to appreciate the app more than I ever could as a spectator.  Saving Pets considers how Instagram could be used by shelters to, firstly, make very cool pictures of their pets available for adoption, but also for making an online gallery of their pets available for adoption.  An innovative marketing strategy for shelters to see more pets in new homes, and faster. Continue reading →

As many of my regular readers know, I weekly (ish) present my Twitter links for your appreciation. This week, I’d like to introduce something new with a “Tweet of the Week” – that is, the favourite link I tweeted which I highly recommend that you have a read of. I hope this helps those of you who are time poor to have one good read a week. Of course, I recommend all my links! But I will try to pick out a favourite each week now.

Tweet of the Week

The Kick-Me Sign, a post by Nicole Wilde on her blog Wilde About Dogs.
It was actually very difficult to choose a favourite tweet, but I selected Nicole’s because its actually changed the way I talk about dogs.  Working in boarding kennels, I often saw dogs that were, as Nicole puts it, sporting a ‘Kick Me Sign’ – that is, regardless of circumstances, these dogs got picked on!  I’m glad to see that someone else has noticed this phenomena.  I have started calling these dogs ‘Kick-Me Dogs’ and, when I’ve used this term, other people have instantly got what I’ve been talking about!  Though this article is interesting in itself, it actually got awarded the ‘Tweet of the Week’ for its long reaching consequences on my vocabulary.

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On a near-daily basis on my Twitter account, I tweet numerous doggy links. Each week(ish) I compile them to share.  This week, there is a new feature: I jumped into Instragram and you can find me at MacDogald. Would love to have some new followers! Continue reading →

The stuff we tweeted about this week!

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