{"id":887,"date":"2012-01-16T07:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:23:12","slug":"bits-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/aboutblog\/bits-and-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! We&#8217;ve had a few things happen that I thought you guys should know about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Picture-121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-916\" title=\"Screen Shot from All You Need Is Lists\" src=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Picture-121-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Firstly, thank-you to <a href=\"http:\/\/allyouneedislists.com\/\">All You Need Is Lists<\/a> for posting my post second guest post with them, <a href=\"http:\/\/allyouneedislists.com\/lifestyle\/pets\/5-reasons-not-to-buy-a-puppy-from-a-pet-shop\/#comment-7472\">5 Reasons NOT to Buy a Puppy from a Pet Shop<\/a>. \u00a0This list has been in creation for a little while, but it was just a matter of finalising it. \u00a0No, the article is not puppy mill focussed! \u00a0Puppy mills is only one of 5 reasons not to buy a puppy from a pet shop.<\/p>\n<p>(My first blog post on AYNIL is <a href=\"http:\/\/allyouneedislists.com\/lifestyle\/pets\/7-tips-for-improving-your-dog-recall\/\">7 Tips for Improving Your Dog Recall<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In other news, my McGreevy seminar series is now complete. \u00a0I have added an <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/paul-mcgreevy-seminars\/\">index page<\/a> to the initial post, and all posts in the series have a little link to the index. \u00a0Phew! \u00a0That was an exhausting effort, but I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s done now. I hope others enjoyed the content from the seminar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pawsome_blogger.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-922\" title=\"Pawsome Blogger Award\" src=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pawsome_blogger.png\" alt=\"Pawsome Blogger Award\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pawsome_blogger.png 222w, http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pawsome_blogger-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haopee at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydogslove.me\/\">My Dogs Love Me<\/a> was kind enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydogslove.me\/2012\/01\/thanks-for-pawsome-blogger-award-nola.html\">award us with the Pawsome Blogger award<\/a>. \u00a0I am very flattered &#8211; thank-you! \u00a0It seems I am now required to pass it on to 8 other &#8216;pawsome&#8217; bloggers. \u00a0Clearly, I&#8217;d have to have award my <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/personal-posts\/5-favourite-dog-blogs-of-2011\/\">5 Favourite Dog Blogs of 2011<\/a>, plus three others&#8230; So that would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingpets.com.au\/\">Saving Pets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reactivechampion.blogspot.com\/\">Reactive Champion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/intellidogs.com\/blog\/\">Intellidogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/btoellner.typepad.com\/kcdogblog\/\">KC Dog Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/my-puppy-my-self\">My Puppy, My Self<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rescuedinsanity.com\/\">Rescued Insanity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/loveandaleash.com\/\">Love and a Six Foot Leash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/denisefenzi.com\/\">Denise Fenzi&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I wanted to show you the unexpected gift my friend, Stefan Psarkos, sent me. \u00a0I have been belated in sharing Stefan&#8217;s work with you all, but it was really too good not to share.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan has sculpted a model of the Belyaev foxes &#8216;before&#8217; and &#8216;after&#8217; Belyaev&#8217;s selection for tameness. The picture has been posted into my series on <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/the-origin-of-dogs\/belyaevs-fox-experiment-index\/\">Belyaev&#8217;s Foxes<\/a>, but I thought that they deserved to be highlighted here.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_761\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\" wp-image-761  \" title=\"Belyaev Foxes - Before and After\" src=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010004.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010004-300x165.jpg 300w, http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010004-1024x565.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010004-670x370.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left is the &#39;typical&#39; 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.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This lovely model sits on the shelves with <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/personal-posts\/my-dog-book-collection\/\">my dog book collection<\/a>, so I can appreciate it in my lounge room, and contemplate the domestication of dogs often. It&#8217;s made all the better knowing it is a unique representation, and nothing else like it exists! Thanks, Stefan!<\/p>\n<p>Just had to share all these little bits with you. A more standard blog post coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post. McGreevy Index. Pawsome Blogger Award.  Belyaev model.  So much to share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[344,307,308,249,345,346],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutblog","tag-award","tag-blog","tag-blogging","tag-guest-post","tag-puppy-mill","tag-puppy-mills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}