Mutt Monday Digs Into Archives

by Carrie Boyko, CEB

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After posing the idea of a theme for each week of Mutt Monday, I got a few emails and decided to go for it.  Hopefully we'll all be linking up and learning. I'd like to simplify it for our blogging community by offering a couple of tips that I believe will take the stress out of it:

• At the end of this post, and each week going forward, I'll offer a theme for NEXT WEEK. That way you can be thinking about old posts we'd like to link up for sharing next week. Many of us may have missed it first time around, and this could be a great way to get us to peruse your blog further.
• Finally, feel free to plug in anything current that is loosely themed to each week's topic. I won't be policing the hop beyond a desire to keep it to pet topics, so don't worry about crossing any lines as long as you're being respectful of one another, and that does include the dogs :).

Having not given out a theme for today, I'll offer a very flexible one, but also leave it to you to make it work for you in whatever way you need. This week, let's post about behavior problems and solutions for them. Who knows, we may have the opportunity to learn a bit from one another.

Next week's topic will be DIY training. 

Share your favorite tips, strategies, books, trainers, and methods. Link up as many related posts as you'd like. We'd like to hear about it all. Got questions? Drop me a note by clicking on the Contact link in the menu bar. Thanks for everyone's participation; I hope we'll begin to see some new bloggers joining in.

Whoa; lightbulb moment! Why didn't I think of this sooner? Let's use some of our Twitter power to get the word out. I'll create and embed a Tweet below. You can use mine or create your own. Just make sure it has #MuttMonday in it so I can track it. In 2 weeks, on Monday, November 25, I'll draw a winner from Tweets and give away a dog-themed tote bag to one lucky Tweeter who helped up talk it up. 

#MuttMonday is digging up Archives 2 share themed articles from our best material of the past. Join in the #BlogHop 2 Link+Learn.
— Carrie Boyko (@AllThingsDog) November 11, 2012

If you have topics you'd like to see me cover in upcoming Mutt Monday themes, please leave your ideas in the comments section.  I'll be checking them each week. Thanks for all the great ideas that have come in already. I'll leave Mutt Monday open through Wednesday at 12:01 AM to make sure you all get a chance to jump in. Happy Mutt Monday!

Mutt Monday Gets Even Better!

by Carrie Boyko, CEB

Good Monday morning to ya! Tanner and Oliver and I had an idea yesterday. I've been pondering how to help my readers explore some of my oldies but goodies. You know, those posts from 3 years ago that have great information and tips. Suddenly Oliver and I both looked at each other as if it should have been apparent forever. Funny how these things happen!

After I spouted out the idea the boys seemed appropriately agreeable so here we go. As of today I'd like to invite pet bloggers to share their favorite or best posts here each week, along with a few of their current ones if they wish.

I was thinking about whether you'd like to have a theme each week. Care to offer your opinion on this idea? I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you're a blogger who will be linking up here, let me know if it will be helpful to share themes, or if you'd just like to wing it. I'm game for whatever you think will be best.

Now, for my readers, you get to weigh in here also. What do you think? Would you like to see a group of posts offered each Monday, always on a unique and similar theme? Perhaps you'd like to suggest some themes that appeal to you.

For today, I'd like to offer a suggested plan. Let's all link up our best post from this past week, and then add 2 older posts from the earliest months of each of our blogs. This will give our readers a hint at our roots.

The comment link is just itching for some action so please give it a workout. You and only you can make all these important decisions. Thanks for your input!

A matter of timing: In an effort to help bloggers find time to link up their posts, I'm opening Mutt Monday at 6 PM each Sunday evening and will leave it open through Wednesday evening. If you work on Monday, try to get your links in Sunday evening to allow all of our  readers to find you. Don't forget to add the code to your blog also. Good luck!