The ‘Week in Tweets’ is name in the optimism that I will post a Twitter round up on a weekly basis. This sometimes happens, and sometimes (like this time) it doesn’t. But here’s everything we’ve tweeted about for the last few weeks. It’s basically my ‘recommended reading’ list.
Kelso is waiting for his new home. He’s our current foster dog! Read more about Kelso.
Tweet of the Week
This is one of my favourite readings on bringing a puppy into a new home. There is a rhetoric that puppies should be allowed to ‘cry it out’, otherwise you’ll be rewarding their crying and so create an ongoing problem. I argue if you let your puppy cry it out, you have in itself developed a habit of crying when left alone – bad habit!
Dr Rachel Casey more pitches her post ‘How puppies become anxious ‘home alone’ dogs‘ at the psychological level, but reaches a similar conclusion. I think this is one of the must reads for new puppy owners, and I have included it in my new puppy owners resource list.
Dog Bites
One of my niche areas is dog and child safety (and, indeed, my business is based on this). So it comes as no surprise that I present some dog bite resources this week.
Danger! Or: The worst can happen to any of us from aggression expert Jim Crosby.
National Canine Research Council Preliminary 2014 Updates on Dog Bite-Related Fatalities
Register for the UK’s National Dog Bite Prevention & Behaviour Conference
Infant Swings and Dog bite Risk: National Dog Bite Prevention Week
Can fatal dog attacks be prevented?
Dog Training and Behaviour
Do you know what the canine hip nudge behavior means? by Roger Abrantes.
More than just training: Changing your lifestyle to change your reactive dog from Crystal Thompson at Reactive Champion.
Ferren dog low stress vet practice by Jade Foundation of Animal Behaviour Matters.
Designing stress studies, part 1: what do you sample? from Jessica Perry Hekman at Dog Zombie.
Sound masking for reactive dogs from Eileen at Eileen and Dogs.
Religious Dogmatism or Meet Carrie’s Mom by Leonard Cecil.
Why I train dogs the way I train dogs by Robin K Bennet.
Jumpy, Skidboot (video).
How to teach your dog to get along in a multi-species household from Pat Miller.
5 calming signals (video).
Dog Rescue and Rehoming
KC Pet Project 2013 year in review
Rescued with Love Sponsorship Program
Genevieve’s vet bill (Adelaide All Breed Dog Rescue)
Sharon Harmon – What does it take to G2Z (video)
“No safety for Kiki“, “Homeless animals without a hope in Orange“, “Welcoming 2014“, and “Sacrificed on the altar of temperament testing“, from Saving Pets.
The real reason homeless dogs die
Spay-Neuter Laws Kill Dogs from Time4Dogs.
Cruelly Abandoned Dog from Viral Nova.
Dog Health
Sweden doesn’t repeat unsafe and unnecessary vaccines to pets
Loving tribute to dog erected at beach
Other Dog Stuff
Owners’ heartbreak as would-be thieves kill Belmont puppy
Safely securing a Kong to a crate
Pied pipers and the blot on the fancy’s landscape
Legacies: How to ensure your bloodline goes forward
Other Animal Stuff
The Goat (video)
What my beagle does when we are not home (video)
Human Issues
RSA Shorts – The Power of Empathy
Kelso’s here and likes the ball.
Landy pants = public relations officer.
