Tag Archives: Twitter

2009: It wasn’t so bad for me. How was it for you?

By Edie Jarolim | Published: December 29, 2009
I know, I’ve been a grouch lately. Bah humbugging Christmas. Accentuating the negative on animal welfare groups. Dissing people who don’t appreciate pets. Discussing diseased dog butts. Grousing about defunct writing markets. But 2009 was far from disastrous for me. And I don’t want to finish the year with a bad taste. Consider this my [...]
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Virtually family

By Edie Jarolim | Published: December 6, 2009
[originally posted November 26, 2009] People who don’t blog on a topic that’s close to their hearts and who don’t have a Twitter community that provides important information as well as consolation and celebration might not understand this post. Then again, they likely won’t read it. This is for those who do understand, who feel [...]
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Five training tips for traveling with your dog

By Edie Jarolim | Published: December 5, 2009
[originally posted November 19, 2009] I was looking for something clever to title this guest post by Mary-Alice Pomputius and then realized I had one of those gems that doesn’t need a flashy setting. This interesting, informative article does exactly what the title says: gives five great training tips to help you travel successfully with [...]
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Dinner at the Dog Dominance Cafe

By Edie Jarolim | Published: September 22, 2009
Honestly, I was planning to forgo all negativity, to stop writing posts with clever — but hostile — titles about a certain TV personality. I was planning to — and still will, I promise — write about how to find a good dog trainer. Then, yesterday, someone posted a link on Twitter to a dog [...]
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Contest winners, book reviewers, storytellers

By Edie Jarolim | Published: September 9, 2009
First, the contest. The people have spoken! The final two winners of the What Books Would Bore Your Dog? contest are: Bone Free by Joy Catamson, submitted by Kath Usitalo and Mastering the Art of French Poodles by Julia Styled, submitted by Ellen Perlman. Congratulations, Kath and Ellen! As soon as I have copies of [...]
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Dog Breeding & Its Discontents, Part 1

By Edie Jarolim | Published: August 20, 2009
The other day I got into a mini-argument on Twitter –well, in 140 characters it’s got to be pretty short — with a dog breeder who extolled the virtues of “hobbyists” as opposed to “professionals.” The tweeter proclaimed that hobbyists breed dogs for love whereas professionals do it for money, making the former preferable to [...]
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Bad to the bone

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 21, 2009
Frankie was in a funk. Why wasn’t he getting the media attention he deserved, he wondered, after his stellar YouTube debut? I told him I tried again to get him into PeoplePets.com on Twitter, sending them a link of him in full cowboy regalia. I was sure that smug head turn at the end would [...]
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Banning Puppy Mills/Farms: What Can Twitter Do?

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 14, 2009
This is not a rhetorical question. It came to mind because someone on Twitter this morning suggested linking #woofwednesday with #banpuppyfarming or #banpuppymills campaigns. For those not familiar with these weekly rituals, #woofwednesdays are a way to say hey to others in the dog tweeting community or to recommend them to others (the # indicates [...]
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Diabetic and loving it? Yes, says an Alaskan malamute

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 8, 2009
At first, she seemed like just another Twitter dog; great looking, I’ll grant, and with an exotic home base in Australia, but not otherwise distinguishable from the pack of tweeting pooches. She was a dog without a blog, unaffiliated with either a pet business or  rescue organization. But a phrase in the short biography of [...]
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Puppy Mills, Twitter & Not Minding Your Own Business

By Edie Jarolim | Published: May 20, 2009
It all started with a casual request from a fellow dog Twitterer for me to submit a photo of my pup for her site. I’m always happy to share Frankie’s cute mug with others, and it looked like she ran a nice, small dog supply business. Sure, I said. After submitting the photo, I clicked [...]
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