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02/28/13

Little Blog Updates

I haven’t given an update of this blog for a while, and I thought it was important to let you guys know what’s happening.

As many of you would’ve noticed, our theme for our blog has changed to something a bit cleaner – but I am still not completely satisfied with the look. I’ve still got a lot of changes I want to make, so please excuse the site if it looks a bit messy over the coming weeks. I promise it’s for the best!

In keeping with blog-updating, I went through and updated hyperlinks in old blog posts so they’re a little bit more current. In particular, linking to relevant blog posts within this site. Now is as good a time as any to look through out blog archives!

You may have noticed that our last blog post included an audio reading. This was a new idea, and I’ve created this poll to gauge your interest in audio components of my blog posts. Please tick a box below and let me know if audio segments should be a permanent feature of Some Thoughts About Dogs.

 

And we also would like to share our excitement in being included in the ‘Top 100 Pet Blogs to Follow in 2013′ – let alone in the top half! I have so many blogs to visit and watch, and I encourage others to have a scout of these blogs, too. Continue reading →

05/26/12

Latest Awards

I am proud to announce that Some Thoughts About Dogs was voted as one of the ‘Top 107′ pet blogs. A pretty cool honour.  If you have the time, there are 106 other pet blogs you can click through to. Phew!

I am also belatedly extending my thanks to Haopee at My Dogs Love Me for presenting me with the Versatile Blogger Award (though all the way back in January… whoops).

The rules for the Versatile Blogger Award are as follows:
1. Thank the award giver and link back in your post (done!)
2. Share 7 things about your self
3. Pass this award to as many as 15 blogs you enjoy reading and let them know about the award!

Continue reading →

01/16/12

Bits and Pieces

Phew! We’ve had a few things happen that I thought you guys should know about.

Firstly, thank-you to All You Need Is Lists for posting my post second guest post with them, 5 Reasons NOT to Buy a Puppy from a Pet Shop.  This list has been in creation for a little while, but it was just a matter of finalising it.  No, the article is not puppy mill focussed!  Puppy mills is only one of 5 reasons not to buy a puppy from a pet shop.

(My first blog post on AYNIL is 7 Tips for Improving Your Dog Recall.)

In other news, my McGreevy seminar series is now complete.  I have added an index page to the initial post, and all posts in the series have a little link to the index.  Phew!  That was an exhausting effort, but I’m glad it’s done now. I hope others enjoyed the content from the seminar.

Pawsome Blogger Award

Haopee at My Dogs Love Me was kind enough to award us with the Pawsome Blogger award.  I am very flattered – thank-you!  It seems I am now required to pass it on to 8 other ‘pawsome’ bloggers.  Clearly, I’d have to have award my 5 Favourite Dog Blogs of 2011, plus three others… So that would be:

Thank-you to these bloggers for making my Google Reader exciting. I genuinely look forward to the updates from these blogs, in all their diversity.

Finally, I wanted to show you the unexpected gift my friend, Stefan Psarkos, sent me.  I have been belated in sharing Stefan’s work with you all, but it was really too good not to share.

Stefan has sculpted a model of the Belyaev foxes ‘before’ and ‘after’ Belyaev’s selection for tameness. The picture has been posted into my series on Belyaev’s Foxes, but I thought that they deserved to be highlighted here.

On the left is the 'typical' fox, with erect ears, normal colouration and a low set tail. The fox on the right is what Belyaev got after selecting for tameness - a fox with piebaldism, an erect and curly tail, and drop ears.

This lovely model sits on the shelves with my dog book collection, so I can appreciate it in my lounge room, and contemplate the domestication of dogs often. It’s made all the better knowing it is a unique representation, and nothing else like it exists! Thanks, Stefan!

Just had to share all these little bits with you. A more standard blog post coming soon.