By Zazie Todd, PhD
Are you lot a blogger? Do you lot back upwardly reward-based grooming for dogs in addition to other animals? Would you lot similar to accept role inwards the #Train4Rewards weblog party?
You are invited to write a weblog post service most reward-based grooming of dogs or other companion animals, post service it on your ain weblog on the laid date, in addition to therefore come upwardly in addition to portion a link to it here. Bloggers from anywhere inwards the basis are invited to accept part.
In the past, posts guide maintain covered the grooming of dogs, cats, horses in addition to pigs. Posts on the grooming of rats, mice, ferrets, rabbits, in addition to fish are all welcome too. Read on to discovery out more.
If you lot are non a blogger but however desire to accept part, you lot tin laissez passer on the axe practice therefore past times reading in addition to sharing the posts, in addition to sharing a photograph of your ain pet on social media on 16th June amongst the hashtag #Train4Rewards.
Here is how bloggers tin laissez passer on the axe accept part.
On Th 14th or Fri 15th June:
1. Publish a post service on your weblog inwards back upwardly of the #Train4Rewards weblog party. It tin laissez passer on the axe live on words, photos, video, a podcast, or a combination, in addition to relate to whatever sort of companion animal. I’ve lay unopen to suggestions below to learn you lot started.
Double-check your post service to brand certain the note is friendly in addition to supportive to people who mightiness non know anything most positive reinforcement grooming – nosotros desire to live on encouraging in addition to upbeat.
2. Include the #Train4Rewards push inwards your post service in addition to learn inwards link to the Train for Rewards weblog political party page (see below for to a greater extent than info).
3. Add your weblog to the listing on companionanimalpsychology.com. The listing volition live on opened upwardly from 8am PST on 14th June until 8am PST on 16th June. Don’t immature adult woman the deadline!
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On Sat 16th June:
1. Check out the total listing of participating blogs on companionanimalpsychology.com. Visit the other blogs, in addition to exit comments to demonstrate back upwardly for your boyfriend bloggers.
2. Share your weblog post service on social media using the hashtag #Train4Rewards.
3. Share your favourite posts from other participating blogs on social media, also using the hashtag #Train4Rewards. You don’t guide maintain to portion all the posts (unless you lot desire to), therefore pick the ones you lot similar best in addition to portion those. You tin laissez passer on the axe spread this out throughout the day.
4. Feel proud of your contribution to improving animate beingness welfare. Reward yourself amongst a slice of cake, a bunch of flowers, a walk inwards the woods, or whatever makes you lot happy.
Ideas for posts
Blog posts tin laissez passer on the axe live on most whatever facial expression of reward-based grooming in addition to tin laissez passer on the axe job text, photo, podcast or video, therefore experience costless to job your imagination.
Here are unopen to suggestions to learn you lot started:
- What you lot bask most grooming using positive reinforcement
- How to job positive reinforcement to instruct a deportment or solve a deportment problem
- How to develop your truthful cat to conk into a carrier
- Reasons why grooming is of import to cats too
- A video of your dog, cat, rabbit, rat or ferret doing tricks
- The telephone substitution affair that made you lot learn a crossover trainer
- Photos of dogs (or other animals) enjoying a grooming session
- The best treats to job equally rewards
- Recipes for grooming treats
- An ode to your bait pouch, written past times your dog
- Why you lot dear your Canis familiaris trainer
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How to learn the most out of the weblog party
1. Bring your best post. It’s similar wearing a beautiful wearing clothing to a party. The people who got the most out of previous years’ weblog parties wrote cracking novel posts. If you lot must job an older post, you lot should update it. People are to a greater extent than probable to portion novel content.
2. Take fourth dimension to edit. It’s by in addition to large best if you lot tin laissez passer on the axe laid aside the offset draft of your post service for a twenty-four hours or two, in addition to and therefore come upwardly dorsum to edit. Re-writing is ever an of import role of the writing process.
3. Use a cracking photo. When you lot add together your post service to the listing here, you lot volition learn the risk to select the photograph that volition look equally your thumbnail. Everyone volition guide maintain the Train for Rewards button, therefore if you lot guide maintain your ain photograph it volition brand yours stand upwardly out. Also, photos actually assistance amongst sharing on social media. You tin laissez passer on the axe job your ain photo, discovery i that is available for costless job or pay for a stock photograph (just brand certain you’re next copyright rules).
The rules
What is allowed: anything that celebrates the reward-based grooming of companion animals.
What is non allowed: grooming that uses pain, including but non express to choke in addition to prong collars, electronic daze collars, alpha rolls, milkshake cans, citronella sprays, or other aversive techniques; weblog posts of a commercial nature.
I reserve the correct to take away posts if they are inappropriate and/or non inside the spirit of the weblog party. Please continue posts family-friendly. No discussions volition live on entered into.
If you lot want, you lot tin laissez passer on the axe allow me know that you lot are planning to accept part. I await frontwards to reading your posts!
Technical details of adding the weblog political party button:
The push is already available on this page, in addition to the url it should link to is this one.
This year, I am non using a photograph hosting site because the toll is prohibitive. Instead, you lot tin laissez passer on the axe download the photograph past times right-clicking on it in addition to saving it to your computer. Add it to your post service where you lot would similar it to appear.
You should brand the weblog push link to the weblog party; if you lot prefer, you lot tin laissez passer on the axe include a text link equally good or instead.
Please brand certain the link to the weblog political party is a nofollow link.
Google does non similar it if people job follow links inwards weblog parties in addition to tin laissez passer on the axe apply penalties, which no-one wants. Typically, to brand a link you lot simply click the ‘nofollow’ push when you lot add together it.
If you lot demand help, delight ask. There are many of us amongst unlike blogging setups taking part, in addition to betwixt us nosotros should live on able to help.
Technical details of adding the link to your weblog post service to the weblog party:
You demand to post service the specific permalink to your weblog post, non the brain url of your blog.
If you lot guide maintain several pictures inwards your post, you lot volition guide maintain a alternative of thumbnails. Choose the i you lot desire to display inwards the link-up.
If you lot brand a error or desire to select a unlike thumbnail, you lot tin laissez passer on the axe delete it in addition to start again, whatever fourth dimension upwardly to the deadline.
Blog posts volition live on displayed inwards a random order, therefore you lot practice non guide maintain to live on the offset to add together your link – simply don’t immature adult woman the deadline of 8am Pacific fourth dimension on Sat 16th June.
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