How to...

Ths section is a wealth of information on how to do things to enjoy your live with a Danish/Swedish Farmdog.

The How To category will have new articles each month to offer suggestions on how to do things. This month we are featuring articles on:

1) How to Travel With Your Dogs
2) How to Make a Web site Shortcut on Your Desktop.
3) How to Take Pictures of Your Farmdogs

Each month we will either expand upon a topic or add a new one. If you would like to learn about a subject please let us know by sending an email to the Web Committee.

Create a Desktop Shortcut to a Web Site

By Susan Weber and Sally Frankel

The following will help if you are having a hard time remembering how to get to the Members Only site, the Farmdog Blog or any other Web page you frequently visit. These are simple instructions on how to make desktop shortcuts. There is always more than one way to make a shortcut so I am giving you a couple to try.

You may use this image for your DSFCA shortcut. To copy the image to your computer just do the following:

PC: Right mouse click the logo and select Save Picture As...

Mac: Right mouse click or control/click and select Save Image As...

more about making a desktop shortcut on a PC or a Mac...

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Traveling with Farmdogs

By Melody Farquhar Chang

People who consider their dogs as part of the family rarely like to leave them behind when they travel, so they often choose to stay at home rather than leave them with pet sitters. Unfortunately, these people miss out on the wonderful experience of travel abroad because they feel they cannot take their dogs.

more about traveling with your Farmdogs...

Travel Testamonial

by Michele and Greta

I would love to give testimonial to how "untraumatized" Greta was from her first flying experience. I would say that after having taken her with us on Spring Break, I was amazed at how well she adjusted to flying, staying in motels, and just being in a different atmosphere. From now on, if we go on a trip - she goes with us.

Dog Show Preparation

by Helene Petersen

This article is written to help you prepare for showing your Farmdog at ARBA Shows. Helene gives plenty of good advice about show leads, attire, and things to do to prep for the show.

This article plus the many other articles about traveling with your farmdogs should give you a great start for the next DSFCA National Breed Specialty.

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Flying With Dogs in Cargo and in Carry-on.

By Helene R. Pedersen

This article is written by Helene about Flying with your dogs in cargo and in carry-on. The article has sample copies of forms for you to download. Helene did a very nice job of explaining how to fill out the forms and explaining the requirements for travel by air. Also included are testamonials from other Farmdog people about their Air Travel adventures. This topic along with Travel by Auto written by Tonya last month will give you a good start in preparation for the DSFCA 2009 National Breed Specialty.

more about air travel with our Farmdogs...

On-the-Road-Again; Traveling with Dogs

by Tonya Jensen

One fact is certain, if you own a dog sooner or later you will find the dog traveling with you. You dog's safety and comfort is as important as that of the humans. I do not fly with my dogs so will leave that discussion to those who have experience. I do have my dogs with me in the car everyday, sometimes for short trips and sometimes for marathon drives. I will share with you the equipment and practices we use to make traveling with our dogs an enjoyable experience for all.

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more about our travel experiance...

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Point and Shoot--Taking Photos for the DSFCA Calendar

by Tonya Jensen and Sally Frankel

This article is designed to give you information on how to take good print quality photos for the Danish/Swedish Farmdog annual calendars. Some of the subjects covered are:

Taking Pictures of Animals

How to take good pictures

What is Resolution?

Pixel Count

How to Scan a Photo

Photo Guidelines

How to e-mail large photo files

The 2010 Calendar photo submissions are due Sept. 1, 2009

Learn more about taking good quality pictures and haow to send them by e-mail.

Taking Pictures to Show Your Dog

By Helene R. Pedersen

There are many ways of taking pictures of dogs, which make for fun and unique memories. But there is really only one kind of picture, which can show the dog’s proportions and give a hint about it’s quality. These kind of pictures can be useful or helpful for breeders, to evaluate i.e. their own off spring, a male dog for possible breeding, a female they might want to consider buying a puppy from sometime, or the breeding value of the dog’s parents, etc.

Mostly a series of pictures is necessary, as “the perfect picture” is next to impossible to get. The series of pictures should include:

1. Standing dog pictures taken straight from the side
2. Standing dog pictures taken from the front and/or ¾ shots
3. Head pictures, profile and frontal pictures.

more about taking evaluation pictures...