Karlin's Dog Blog

[QUOTE=Karlin;319336]Blog post today by vet and Daily Telegraph columnist Pete Wedderburn

This is such an important subject. I'm delighted to see there is now clear, cite-able, published-study evidence that confrontational, correction-based training using shock collars, alpha rolls, shouting, 'dominance' techniques etc make problem dogs more problematical in a significant number of cases, and make aggressive dogs MORE aggressive.

Who uses Twitter? It's called a 'microblogging' service (because you can only type a 140-character message) but it is better described I think as a very versatile text messaging service where you can text to, and receive texts from, literally as many people as you'd like, in real time as they are sent. They can arrive and be sent from your mobile, but I have them come to my computer where you can set up a free application like Tweetdeck or Nambu to read, manage, organise into groups, and send texts. ...

Thought this special thread was worth highlighting for anyone who wants to add their dog at a time of difficulty or concern.

Originally Posted by Nicki

A thread for you to add your Cavalier or friends {human or animal companions} in need of positive thoughts, prayers or healing.
Whatever your religious/spiritual beliefs, I know we all feel better when we know that others are thinking of us and our beloved companions.

Please post as normal in the Health and diet section http://board.cavaliertalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43

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Check out the new features both on the main page for all the blogs, and on your individual site -- I am checking out whether there are some new modifications I can add into the site as well.

You can manage your blog through the 'blog' setting in your User CP; it's at the very bottom.

In this case me. I have an XBox gaming console courtesy of Microsoft to play around with and a stack of games. The intention is to see if MS can persuade me to embrace gaming... . Well, so far it has taken me a week to get the console set up -- and I still have no idea how to network it and if this has to be done via Windows. I have found that the directions provided more or less assume you know what you should be doing whereas I haven't a clue and am finding it really hard (though I can figure ...