Each week (when I haven’t been a horrible blogger) I summarise my tweets in a blog post. Unfortunately, I’ve been a horrible blogger so, instead, here are my tweets from the latter half of July. (By the way, follow me on Twitter!)

Tweet of the Week

Unfortunately, this article isn’t really long or detailed, but perhaps that’s part of its appeal!  Science Daily published an article called: “Dog-associated house dust protects against respiratory infection linked to asthma“. It provides clues why kids that live in homes with pets seem to have less risk of developing asthma. Cool, eh?

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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.

Tweet of the Week

Stanley Coren (best known as the author of The Intelligence of Dogs, How Dogs Think and a range of other books) runs a fascinating blog, often delving into dog science, called The Canine Corner.  Though I often read this blog with interest, it is his recent post, “Can Dogs Predict Earthquakes?“, that really fascinated me.   What was so interesting is that Coren was actually researching another area through a survey and noted anomalies in dog behaviour surrounding an earthquake event.  Coren goes into a lot of detail, but basically concludes that dogs can hear high pitched sounds with an earthquake, and that’s why some dogs react. My basic summary doesn’t do his research justice – please have a read, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy as much as me!

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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. (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 →