Dear Friends and Customers,
Our new website is now up and running.
www.ScruffMacDuff.co.uk
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Reading with Rover!
There is an exciting program here in the Northwest that involves kids, dogs and literacy. The program is calledReading with Rover.
| Reading with Rover is a community-based literacy program volunteering in the schools, bookstores and libraries in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. It is our goal, as volunteers and founders of Reading with Rover, to make the "Rover" program available to all schools, reading and learning facilities that would like to enhance their reading programs. |
| In the "Rover" program, children with reading difficulties actually read stories to a dog and the dog loves listening! A child who may be hesitant to read aloud to his peers is typically less stressed when reading to a dog and the dog never judges the child's reading ability. |
| Implementing the program takes time, money, and more importantly, it takes good people with good dogs to succeed! |
More info: http://www.readingwithrover.org/
Friday, 19 August 2011
Goggie ob teh Week – Service & Assistance: Lemme Get That
Thursday, 18 August 2011
New Scruff Website coming up!!!!
Thanks for all your feedback!
We're always trying to improve Scruff MacDuff, so we've taken your suggestions and made a brand new site! We're going to launch it in August, along with plenty of offers.
It is much easier to use and the check-out is a lot more streamlined. We'll still have all your favourites and lots of seasonal goodies, so do come visit. We hope you love it as much as we do!
Quick Update from Graham Povey
Hello ScruffMacDuff! ...just a line to let you know how the kit is holding up!..
Very stable and well designed in general...works very well even though this is quite an extreme test for any Dog Kit. ...only problems so far are minor...rubbing on top of paws from boot fastening where it crosses-over (but we are walking from dusk to dawn in very rough terrain) ...and Panniers prone to wear from scuffing on rocks on the narrow very rocky high trails and ravines. .. in geñeral this kit is excellent and very stable and practical! ...
Thanks,
Graham/Shadow.
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Other articles of interest -
An update from Graham and Shadow
OTIS THE PUG
OTIS the pug flies through the air strapped to owner Will Da Silva - in his 64th tandem skydive.
The ten-year-old dog wears special goggles for the parachute leaps from thousands of feet above LA.
Will said: "He seems to love it.
"He's having a ball like a dog with his head out of the car window."
Article from TheSun.co.uk
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Bloodhound Miss Belle sure nose her reds
A NOSE of breeding and distinction sets Miss Louisa Belle apart from the pack.
The seven-year-old red bloodhound has such a superior sense of smell that she has been trained to detect tainted corks affecting wine.
Her owners, Michelle Edwards and Daniel Fischl, said when faced with a pile of corks, Belle meticulously selected those that had been tainted by putting them to the side with her snout.
"She just has to sniff a barrel of wine to know whether it is off," Mr Fischl said.
"Most wineries rely on the human nose but that is time-consuming, costly and nowhere near as reliable as Belle, whose nose is 2000 times more sensitive than ours."
The owners of Caulfield-based boutique wine label Linnaea buy fruit from the Napa Valley in California and Heathcote in Victoria and they, along with most overseas vineyards, prefer corks for their bottles. Instead of sniffing corks, they decided to train their dog, who was becoming destructive around the house.
Coming from a line of search-and-rescue dogs, Belle is particularly sensitive to smell and can even detect a tainted wine through the bottle.
"It was time to put her to work because that's what she loves and she was very keen to put her nose into everything," Ms Edwards said.
"After two weeks she could isolate the tainted cork within 30 seconds."
Cork taint is a term that applies to wine that has been contaminated either by the wood where it is stored or the cork in the top of the bottle.
It has an odour that resembles damp and makes the wine undrinkable.
Miss Louisa Belle can detect faulty corks before they are inserted in bottles as well as corks that have broken down when wine has been stored.
She can also detect mildew leaf on vines.
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