In celebration of the new animal shelter that was opened this week at Silverdale, the subject of today's blog is DOGS.As you can see if you click on the link above, if you do a subject search in the Rodney Libraries catalogue, you get three pages of subject headings on dogs - from dog behaviour and dog training, through to dogs use in war and dog anecdotes.
There are plenty of dogs in fiction, both children's and adults. Think Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, Spot, Walter the Farting Dog and Clifford the Big Red Dog for the children. Marley has taken all age groups by storm and is among the dogs that win in the cute stakes. However at the other extreme are dogs like Cujo and the were-wolves. Of course - one of the all time favourites for a lot of us is LASSIE. We have a couple of Lassie books and movies, but for the real fan you need to head somewhere like http://www.lassieweb.org/.
The Northern Animal Shelter is a joint project between Rodney District Council and North Shore City Council. The shelter was officially opened yesterday by Rodney Mayor Penny Webster and North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams. It provides state of the art accommodation for up to 40 dogs. The partnership with North Shore City Council reduces the constructing and operating costs of providing the shelter through cost sharing.
photo credit - Rodney District Council - one of the cuter current members of the shelter
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