Whippets

The University of South Florida just beat Auburn at Auburn! I realize that a football post is about the last thing you'd ever expect to read in this blog, but USF is my alma mater (twice, no less) and my family is pretty frickin' excited.

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Free / Cheap Phone Calls

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How Voip Works - Free phone calls over the Internet

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Voip Internet telephony Make Free Phone calls over the internet with voip

1. Choose your Service Provider

First, you will need to decide what type of VoIP service you will require. VoIP comes in plans for Residential Users, Small Business Offices; Medium sized businesses, Business-to-Business service providers and International VoIP. The best way to begin is by choosing your needs, and then compare different plans. A good idea is to make a list of all of your requirements in a VoIP plan. This will help you determine which plan is right for you. Some service providers will meet the needs of a small business under their residential plans, while others will have services designed specifically for the small home business. Residential service providers typically include a phone adapter for use with the VoIP service. The Phone adapter allows you to use your house phones with VoIP.

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Recently, I wrote about how my Whippet, Payton, was supposed to be in the opening credits to an Animal Planet show, but was left on the cutting room floor (read about it here). But she still got the chance to make a modeling splash in a new book by writer and dog trainer Angelica Steinker, M.Ed., C.C.B.C., CAP2. Payton, along with my Vizsla, Jordan, modeled various agility moves for photos that appear in the book. Payton is featured in some awesome jumping pictures. It was fun to do (although it was very hot out), and we had to do it over several different sessions to make sure that we got all the shots that were needed.

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A while ago, I wrote an entry about how my dog was "destined for stardom" based on the fact that she did some modeling for the opening to a television show. (Read about it here: My Dog is Going to Be a Supermodel) For those of you who were interested, the first show aired on June 30th to rather anti-climactic results - my precious whippet landed on the cutting room floor.

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Is there really such a thing as a dumb dog?

I was having a conversation with a dog-training friend last night about a dog she had tried to train a few times for agility, which is a sport that involves having your dog do an obstacle course. She was telling me how incredibly dumb this dog was. She didn't go into detail, but one of her reasons for thinking the dog was dumb was because it was too excited to learn anything in the presence of food. So when she used food to lure the dog into position, for example, the dog was unable to move into that position because she was too busy thinking about/trying to get the food. Of course, my friend could never move to the next step, fading the lure, because the dog never had a clue that it was doing anything other than following the food. This was a very different response than she had gotten from her own dog, who could follow the food and learn at the same time.

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