I am issuing invitations to join the community to numerous experts in the behaviour field. Hoping to get some participation before the Canine Behaviour and Genetics meeting in London 26-29 June. At least I hope to spark a little interest.

The greatest challenge is that everyone is too busy. It is easy to say that we can collaborate and share on DogWellNet.com - and I do believe there is a great potential for success and efficiency and reducing redundancy of efforts - but it has to start with people putting in time. And that is a very precious commodity.

Terminology - lack of consistency in use of terms, etc. is always a hot topic in this field. It starts with the challenge of 'behaviour' vs. 'behavior'. We decided from the start that we would use 'International English' (the standard used by the U.N.); but we have also said that the first rule of getting along internationally is flexibility and tolerance. So - you will see it spelled both ways across various articles - maybe even within an article. But hopefully that will not distract from the bigger issues!

Here's hoping that the behaviour crowd will behave in a supportive way!