We have been working to make the site more welcoming by adding our 'Hot Topics' navigation aids to the home page.

These should help orient first-time users or anyone looking to see just what might be available on DogWellNet.

We continue to encourage our Partners and Sponsors to contribute news and information to the site. As a new development, it will take time for everyone to get used to the resource, but we are confident things are heading in the right direction. They are working with each other on exciting collaborations for dog health and we look forward to hearing about them soon.

Our latest partner The Irish Kennel Club is on board...and we are looking forward to exciting contributions from them, especially concerning their national breeds. See my next blog entry for a little more about them.

We are inviting on to the site more Members and Advanced Members from the 2nd International Dog Health Workshop - even as we are working towards the 3rd IPFD International Dog Health Workshop.

And I am soon off to the The 8th International Conference on Advances in Canine and Feline Genomics and Inherited Disease and the

Canine Behaviour and Genetics Conference where we will have posters on IPFD and DogWellNet and hope to meet with many colleagues.