Things we tweeted about this week.<\/p>\n
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Events and Going Ons<\/strong><\/p>\n I want to go to the International Ethological Conference Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in 2013<\/a>.\u00a0 Sadly, I don’t think I will be able to afford travel arrangements to the UK, but I hope some of my readers may be able to attend (then blog like mad about it!).<\/p>\n Another conference I wish I could attend: The Canine Science Forum<\/a>.\u00a0 This one is happening in Spain in July this year.\u00a0 This forum has been great (from afar) the last couple of events, and I so wish I could attend. Alas!<\/p>\n Another event – this one closer to home, and I’m going to be there! – the Adelaide Animal Expo<\/a>.\u00a0 The Companion Animal Welfare Society (CAWS)<\/a> will be attending, and I will be there with my borders. Hope I might see some of my Adelaide readers there.<\/p>\n Dog Training and Behaviour<\/strong><\/p>\n A punishment method highlighting how an efficient and safe punishment<\/a> is often easier to implement and has prompter results than a long-term reward method. From Click And Treat.<\/p>\n An interview with Kathy Sdao<\/a>, “One of the Dog Training World’s Rock Stars”, from Dogster.<\/p>\n When asked to reflect on dog training over her life, Susan Garrett concludes: “Dogs are amazing and will do everything you want if you have cheese<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Crystal continues on her long stream of marvellous content on Reactive Champion with a post on teachings at a Jane Killion seminar: Attention is a Behavior, and you Can Teach It!<\/a><\/p>\n Do you remember Clever Hans, the horse that could count? Well, seemingly… A post from Patricia McConnell on “Clever Hans Revisited<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Dog Breeds<\/strong><\/p>\n The Honest Dog talks about why we should give up on breeds, just change the way we are breeding them to focus on health. “Don’t change breeds: Change the breeding<\/a>“. And mixed no words with her post: “‘Fancy’ reacts with outrage over denying train-wreck breeds their trophies<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Terrierman talks about several breeds (specifically the Bulldog, Pekingese, and Clumber Spaner) failing the new health tests at Crufts<\/a>.<\/p>\n A news article on a couple who spent \u00a310,000 on ‘cosmetic surgery’ for a facelift for their bloodhound<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dog Health<\/strong><\/p>\n Is pet insurance worth it?<\/a><\/p>\n Dogs Naturally wrote about challenging ‘the ultimate vaccine authority<\/a>‘: The vet, in regards to vaccine health.<\/p>\n ThatMutt spoke about What Not To Do regarding dog vaccinations<\/a>\u00a0(and also wrote a great post on\u00a0why does my dog shake his body?<\/a>).<\/p>\n My Dogs Love Me wrote a post about\u00a0turmeric in reducing a dog’s eye cyst<\/a>. \u00a0I had heard about turmeric’s benefits, but was I excited to see some ‘first hand’ experience on its success.<\/p>\n Dog Rescue<\/strong><\/p>\n Prisoners for Profit commented on the recent saga with the Pet Industry Association of Australia: “Pet Industry Out of Touch<\/a>“.<\/p>\n At Love and a Six Foot Leash they shared the story of Lollie the Wonderdog, and how her new home was a work in process, and not ‘love at first site’. Read about it with: “A Hard Transition<\/a>“.<\/p>\n As always, Saving Pets provided a worthwhile analysis of an Australian pound, this time looking at what may be ‘Australia’s worst council pound’ – Campbelltown Pound<\/a>.<\/p>\n As we know, getting pets out of shelters is partly about marketing, and photography is a huge step of marketing. Second Chance Photos<\/a> is a fantastic project aiming to save pets through photography.<\/p>\n Pet MD Asks: Why do so many dogs end up on death row for peeing in the house?<\/a><\/p>\n Reducing stress and boredom in pound environments is important to making dogs don’t go ‘kennel crazy’ and become (debatably) ‘unadoptable’.\u00a0 These videos<\/a>, from the Animal Farm Foundation, shows a process in making awesome Kong and ice treats.<\/p>\n Don’t assume that the lost dog you find is uncared for! Assumptions usually lead us down the wrong path<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other Dog Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n The KC Dog Blog looks at ‘political irrationality<\/a>‘, a video on TED, and then applies this conduct to notions of breed specific legislation.<\/p>\n Interesting post from the Canine Corner by Stanley Coren about the dogs on the Titanic ship<\/a>. I learnt something new!<\/p>\n Dog Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n Radish: The Amazing Ball Bopping Whippet.<\/a><\/p>\n 30minutes of agility at Crufts.<\/a><\/p>\n Cute beagle playing with wind up mouse toy.<\/a><\/p>\n Learn a little bit more about herding dogs.<\/a><\/p>\n Lovely little retro\/vintage video describing dog ownership in the 30s\/40s.<\/a><\/p>\n Animal Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n The 25 Funniest Hover Animals Ever.<\/a><\/p>\n Two bits about Alex the (amazing) talking parrot: A podcast interview<\/a> and a ABC News segment video<\/a>.<\/p>\n I found the Creature Cast blog<\/a> – the most amazing, quirky content ever. Still getting through all their existing great content!<\/p>\n Non-Animal Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n This is extremely off topic. You may not know but, in my other life, I am a teacher with honours in education and a deep interest in young people’s sexualities… Which spurred me to write about child porn<\/a> for the Adelaide Reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What I tweeted about in the last week(ish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[333,347],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-of-interest","tag-links","tag-week-in-tweets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}