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01/3/13

The Week in Tweets – 3rd January

Welcome to our near-weekly 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

I tweeted a post from Maddie’s Institute, “Study: Focus on the present, not the past, to get pets adopted“. I am a big advocate of positive adoption listings, and this post by the institute covers it well.  Statements like “rescued from deathrow”, “had been used as a breeder in a puppy mill”, and “was so skinny when he arrived in care”, don’t get pets adopted!  People aren’t terribly interested in what the pet was yesterday, but more the animal they’re bringing into their household today. An excellent post on positive adoption listings.

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12/28/12

The Week in Tweets – 29th December 2012

Each week, I blog the links we shared on my twitter account. I also a select a favourite to crown the ‘Tweet of the Week’. It’s a big hunk of links, so get a coffee and enjoy some reading.

 

Tweet of the Week

When I attended a seminar series with Paul McGreevy, he mentioned how studies of guide dogs have shown that the most successful puppies have characteristics that you wouldn’t typically associated with success.  That is, the ‘perfect guide dog puppy’ is right pawed (‘handed’), left eyed, and has hair that whirls in an anti-clockwise direction.  This is seriously the case, as crazy as it sounds, and ABC Catalyst looks into this in more detail in the story “Left Paw Right Paw“.

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12/21/12

The Week in Tweets – 16th December 2012

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

My favourite post this week is a cute video I found where a film crew put pet dogs to the test, to see if they are any good at guarding the property. This is just a ‘silly test’, and a lot can be said about how one would really test these dogs’ guarding abilities. But it’s pretty fun to see how these dog’s reactions, and how their owners think their dog will be react is very interesting, too.  The story is, “Guard dogs more friendly than frightening when put to the test“.

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12/14/12

Resources for New Puppy Owners

I started compiling this list for my puppy buyers, but realised that it would probably be of use to other people intending on adding a puppy to their lives soon.  I have tried to narrow this list down to the resources that I genuinely think are the best. I understand that many people are strapped for time, so I’ve included, in bold, my favourite of the resources listed.  This means that, if you can’t read all of these links, then just accessing the first one would be my recommendation.

Photo © Ruthless Photos.

 

Books

Before You Get Your Puppy (free download!) by Dr Ian Dunbar

After You Get Your Puppy (free download!) by Dr Ian Dunbar

The Perfect Puppy in 7 Days by Dr Sophia Yin

The Perfect Puppy by Gwen Bailey

First Call for Dogs by Dr Alex Hynes

 

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12/8/12

The Week in Tweets (8th December 2012)

Approximately every week, I make a post detailing the links I shared on my Twitter.  I also use the Tweet of the Week to highlight my favourite link.  This is the post where you get a cup of tea before you start and prepare yourself to waste an hour.

 

Tweet of the Week

The Notes From a Dog Walker blog posted a very thorough round up on why “It’s not how they’re raised” is a problematic mantra in many ways. The post is very well written and not a tiresome read at all, so just have a look yourself: “It’s not how they’re raised, it’s how dogs are managed that matters most“.

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