Monthly Archives: September 2009

Marketing Opportunities on ProtectionDog.com

September 29, 2009
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The http://ProtectionDog.com site is back up and running. Earlier today I took ProtectionDog.com offline. Because I thought it was hacked. Yesterday I was almost out of bandwidth so I increased the amount of traffic the website can handle by about ten times. I was rather surprised when today I had almost reached my allowable...

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Looking for New Marketing Tactics. Can You Suggest an Experiment?

September 27, 2009
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I am starting to experiment with some new approaches to marketing. I have a few that I plan to implement and will report on how they do in future blogs. Will begin working on the new marketing projects on Wednesday. However I would like your suggestions. What do you think will work? Is there...

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The power of Dog: contest boosts bank deposits

September 9, 2009
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WSFS Bank’s summer pet contest won the bank at least 1500 new accounts. The bank ran a cutest pet picture contest and promised to donate a dollar to the Delaware Humane Association for every new checking account opened during the contest. This appears to be a fairly simple contest without much cost. Apparently it...

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Another article about the origins of the dog

September 8, 2009
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I think this article presents the finding about the dogs origins in a manner that is a bit more believable than they were kept in cages as livestock for food. To me it is plausible that dogs started self-domesticating while humanity was still in the hunter gather state. But agriculture is what allowed dogs...

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Dogs Origins Not Conclusive

September 8, 2009
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With all the advances in science we are still at the beginning of unraveling the mysteries of DNA. While it is a good bet that dogs were the first animal “domesticated by humans” it’s still unclear how it happened. Even more disputed than how, is, where did domestication of the dog occurred?  But it...

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Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA) takes over administration of The Pet Care Trust

September 7, 2009
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Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA) takes over administration of The Pet Care Trust The Pet Care Trust is a nonprofit foundation that promotes the value of the human-animal bond. While there focus seems to miss the mark for dogs I am writing about them because they promote fish in the class room. And I...

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California Intact Animal Cap Bill Passes Senate

September 7, 2009
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California Assembly Bill 241, limits the number of intact dogs a person or business can have to 50 animal. Fortunately, rescue businesses are exempt and so are research facilities. If you have more than the number dictated by the sate they can simply take them from you. same thing that happens in China. But...

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Rebranding all websites as part of the RenChenZa® Media network

September 3, 2009
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Rebranding all websites as part of the RenChenZa® Media network I am planning to rebrand all of my websites as part of the RenChenZa® Media network. While my plans have always been to brand all publishing under Concepts In Dog Behavior® I have decided that RenChenZa® is more true to my mission statement. I...

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