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Golden retrievers have a special knack for stuffing their face with stuffed toys. They seem to be born with a craving for stuffed toys. I know my golden, Nikki, already had a penchant for stuffed toys at the age of six to eight weeks old.

She is an amazing Certified Therapy Dog but, she will steal resident’s stuffed toys if I would allow her to. Now, for those of you who are handy with the needle, you could remove the stuffing, and fill the toy with tough fabric instead, that way, it will last forever!

I think that dogs feel closer to being a dog when they actually have a stuffed toy in their mouth. They feel that they have caught it. They can carry it around, they can claim it, they can retrieve it (especially retrievers), and it is theirs. And, it feels good to them. After a while, the smell of this stuffed toy becomes awful to us, but great to the dogs.

Depending on the breed you have, some dogs will kill the stuffed toys, some dogs will love it, sleep on it and snuggle with it. Retrievers will consistently have it in their mouth when you return home.

By far, the cheapest way to keep your dog in stuffed toys is buying cheap, right sized stuffed animals at garage/yard sales. I wash them in hot water, and a bit of Solumel (Melaleuca household cleaner that helps get rid of bacteria and it is animal and nature friendly), this is very important! Then, I remove all the detachable; lose things like eyes, whiskers, etc. These toys are a very cheap alternative to expensive pet store toys.

Be very careful though that you check and make sure that this toy is not stuffed with small, styrofoam beads. Avoid those. You can easily tell by squishing the toy in your hand. Dogs often rip open their stuffed toys, and the styrofoam beads could become a hazard to your dog.

I know of some big dogs that shake their stuffed toy to so much that they are actually killing it. If you have more than one dog watch that the other dog doesn’t get hurt by the toy that is being shaken. It is easy to have your other dogs eye get punctured or hurt.

So to repeat the question, why do dogs like stuffed toys? Well, it seems that we all love stuffed toys. Adults have them, kids love them, cats play with stuffed mice, and dogs claim them to kill it, to claim it, or just to love it.

Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Opperman

AOL is one of the oldest and most recognized internet service providers and while many people have stopped using their connection portals, millions of people still use the AOL mail services. Even better, AOL now offers free, web based e-mail services. Many people prefer web based e-mails because they can take them along whenever they change their internet providers. The AOL web mail offers plenty of services along with web mail so it makes sense that it is one of the leading web mail providers.

Of course, because web mail is so popular and because there are people who like to change e-mail addresses often and create addresses specifically for newsletter subscriptions, junk mail, etc, there are a lot of AOL e-mail accounts that get hijacked by stalkers and people who like to send “anonymous” e-mails to others. The good news is this: if you have been getting unwanted e-mail from an AOL web mail address, it is possible to do a reverse e-mail search and find out who has been sending you the unwanted e-mail and make them stop.

Your first line of defense when it comes to unwanted e-mail is the reverse e-mail search provided by the web mail provider. If the e-mail is coming from an AOL web mail address, use the reverse e-mail search option provided by America Online itself. Using the web mail provider’s reverse e-mail search tool should always be your first stop because it will be the easiest method in finding out who has been sending you the unwanted e-mail and/or spam. This is because it is easier for AOL to check its own records than it is for an outside source to try to check those records for you.

Of course, if the reverse e-mail search provided by AOL isn’t successful, there are other options that are available to you. There are many different reverse e-mail search services available on the internet and you should try as many as you can to get the results that you need. If none of the internet based reverse e-mail searches work out, and the unwanted e-mail has become a real problem, you might want to consider hiring a professional search service to find out who, exactly has been sending you the e-mail. In some cases a professional search service is the best way to go because there are many people, cyber stalkers especially, will take many steps to make sure that their identities and contact information remain hidden.

Remember that you need to be taking steps to protect your own AOL e-mail account as well. Make sure that your password isn’t obvious and that it is hard to crack. Change it often so that you can reduce the risk of having your AOL web mail account being hijacked by cyberstalkers or people who would send unwanted harassing e-mail to other people.

Your tenacity will also play a big role in whether or not you see success with your reverse e-mail search. The more thorough your search, the more likely you will be to discover the identity of the e-mail address owner.

It can often take a professional investigator weeks to trace back and identify the person behind an AOL screen name and they do this work everyday. Even if the AOL mailer is using, dial up or a proxy server it is still possible for them to be identified.

AOL is one of the oldest email service providers and a person that has used an email account for a long time will leave more of an Internet “footprint” and it will be easier to identify them.

Being able to call anyone from anywhere in the world via the internet is already a hugely popular method of communication, but BlackBerry SIP goes beyond that.  In today’s world, where people travel so far and so frequently, it is becoming more and more important to be able to stay in touch with those important to you.  This isn’t just a matter of sharing news and updates, but also to let people when you are coming home, did they find the insurance policy, can Mum please feed the cat because Bora Bora is just so amazing you’ve decided to stay an extra month.  Before BlackBerry SIP you had to find an internet cafe and phone home from there via Skype or send an email.  Not any more.

Blackberry SIP lets you ‘phone home’ from anywhere in the world as long as the both of you have an internet connection.  With the huge variety of programs and possibilities offered by your BlackBerry, SIP is possibly the most useful.  Communication is the name of the game and your BlackBerry SIP lets you communicate with whoever you need to when you need to do it.  In areas of the world with a high tourist population, it is possible to sit in the town’s central square and find four or five wireless networks which allow you to connect to the internet.  When it comes to BlackBerry SIP this is great.

Why?  Well, this is great news because not only can you catch up on your emails, but with BlackBerry SIP you can actually place a phone call home direct from your BlackBerry.  You don’t have to go into an internet cafe and pay to use the internet, nor do you need to go to a call center and pay to use their phones.  You can phone home for free using your BlackBerry SIP.

Blackberry SIP is basically just a simple signalling protocol which allows you to make voice calls over the internet.  This means that if you have a BlackBerry and an internet connection, you can phone home to the other side of the world if necessary and make sure that your family knows how you are and also that they know about that electricity bill you forgot to pay before you left.  The same goes for such niggling questions as “did I turn off the gas?” or “has that cute guy over the road dumped his girlfriend yet?”  Whatever you need to talk to someone about, your BlackBerry SIP will let you do it.

When you are travelling far from home, it is important to be able to stay in touch and BlackBerry SIP lets you do this for no cost beyond that which you pay for the BlackBerry anyway.  That is the beauty of using the internet.  You only have to pay for the amount of time you spend on it and since your BlackBerry is enabled for the internet anyway, BlackBerry SIP enables you to talk to anyone at no extra cost.