Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Helping animals one bottle at a time
My local shelter has started a new donation program though "CLYNK". In case you havent heard of it, let me walk you through. First you go to your local shelter or participating rescue group. In my case that is The Humane Society of Knox County. They give you a package of biodegradable plastic bags.
Each bag comes in a paper wrapper with a sticker on it. The sticker has a bar code specificly for that rescue group. You fill the bag with returnable bottles and cans.
When it is full you peel and place the sticker onto the bag in the assigned spot.
Then simply take the bag and drop it off at your local Hannaford grocery store collection point. This happens to be pretty convienient since I shop there anyways. The collection point scans the barcode and the money collected from the returnables goes into their account. You have nothing to keep track of AND they provide the bags so you arent out anything but your drop off time. It is a fabulous program and SO easy to participate in. Please consider helping out your local shelters or rescue group. Those nickels might not mean much to you but they can add up to a heck of a lot of much needed funds for the animals in need.
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Each bag comes in a paper wrapper with a sticker on it. The sticker has a bar code specificly for that rescue group. You fill the bag with returnable bottles and cans.
When it is full you peel and place the sticker onto the bag in the assigned spot.
Then simply take the bag and drop it off at your local Hannaford grocery store collection point. This happens to be pretty convienient since I shop there anyways. The collection point scans the barcode and the money collected from the returnables goes into their account. You have nothing to keep track of AND they provide the bags so you arent out anything but your drop off time. It is a fabulous program and SO easy to participate in. Please consider helping out your local shelters or rescue group. Those nickels might not mean much to you but they can add up to a heck of a lot of much needed funds for the animals in need.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
So much dog to talk about All the time in the world!
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Hi Mia,
Yowzer!! We have so much to talk about! Dogs eating poop, welfare assessment, behavioural needs, enrichment and the “guilty look” are only the beginning!
Yowzer!! We have so much to talk about! Dogs eating poop, welfare assessment, behavioural needs, enrichment and the “guilty look” are only the beginning!
Speaking of which, I’m sure you have at least 7,000 more words on assessing welfare. Can you tell me more about assessing welfare?
You hyperlinked to a scientific journal article by Dr. Georgia Mason, and that made me smile a lot lot lot (or, Alot).
I am a bit of a Georgia Mason worshiper (for any of you who don’t know, she is a researcher in Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the University of Guelph. She explores how the housing of “Applied Animals,” those animals managed or controlled by humans, affects behaviour, brain functioning and welfare. She focuses on lab, farm and zoo animals... I feel like The Oz coming down and speaking to people other than you, Mia. Weird). Anyway, a while back, I gave Dr. Mason directions at a conference in France, and its still a big deal in my book.
So, yes! Tell me more about welfare assessment!!!
Life for me presently revolves around writing projects. Instead of writing about my writing projects, Ill give you a visual interpretation of what I’m working on and how I feel about it.
How I feel after reading a scientific paper and having a worthwhile thought:
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| Yay words! (source) |
How I feel after sitting and writing for a long time:
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Writing projects are about:
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| Chaser. (source) |
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| Rico. (source) |
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| Sofia. (source) |
Another writing project on this beloved topic:
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| Whats the "guilty look" all about? (source) |
And writing up research I presented at the 3rd Canine Science Forum in Barcelona, where we met, awww...
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| What is aesthetically pleasing? (source) |
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Come September well gear up to finish a study at the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab about this:
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| What the nose knows.(source) |
I’ll tell you more about these pictures later.
Happy weekend!!!
JULIE
Referenced
Mason, G. 1993. Why is there no simple way of Measuring Animal Welfare? Animal Welfare 2, 301-319. Click here for abstract.
© Julie Hecht 2012
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