Google has a cool little tool that shows search trends. Here are some interesting statistics.
The cities googling certain search phrases the most:
'Dog Agility'
- Seattle (spending too much time in Starbucks on their laptop)
- Denver
- Portland, OR
- Phoenix
- Minneapolis
- Dallas
- San Diego
'AKC'
- Oklahoma City (is this where all the puppy mills are?)
- Raliegh, NC
- Tampa (isn't the AKC headquarters down there?)
- Portland, OR (makes it on both lists)
- Denver (same with Denver)
- Sacramento
- Seattle
'Clean Run'
- Philadelphia
- Chicago
- New York
- Toronto
- London
'Dog Trainers'
- Phoenix (move here if you are an aspiring dog trainer
- Atlanta
- New York
- San Diego
- Portland
- Irvine
- Denver
- Washington DC
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
'Shock Collars'
- Minneapolis (if you are a dog stay away from here)
- Phoenix (and here)
- Denver
- Seattle
- Houston
- Chicago
- Atlanta
'Positive Reinforcement'
- Washington DC (who would have guessed?)
- Sydney, Australia (what's up with the aussies getting clicker happy?)
- Philadelphia
- Houston
- Chicago
- Los Angeles
- Atlanta
- New York
- San Francisico
'Dog rescue'
- Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (never heard of it)
- Austin
- San Francisco (not a surprise)
- Pleasanton, CA
- Seattle
- Denver
- Sheffield, United KingdomÂÂ
'SPCA'
- St Johns, Canada (way to go Canadians!)
- Fredericton, Canada
- Victoria, Canada
- Halifax, Canada
- Norfolk, VA (first US city)
- Buffalo
- Edmonton, Canada
- Vancouver, Canada
'Border Collie'
- Brussels, Belgium (so much for the Belgian sheepdog)
- Denver, CO
- Perth, Australia (hot bed for BCs)
- Melbourne, Australia
- Brisbane, Australia
- Sydney, Australia
What can we glean from all this? I will let you draw your own conclusions.
btw
 You didn't actually mention how to access this Google utility. I couldn't find it.
Search trends
Yay my little city Perth gets a mention! And for my all time favourite breed as well...Australia rocks when it comes to Border Collies IMHO. I must admit - at least 5 of those terms I have searched for via Google at one time or another.
The Aussies have certainly sussed out that Positive reinforcement is what A. Gets your pet to be a well adjusted and easy to live with family member and B. Is winning rings from Obedience to Agility to Tracking and Flyball. Of course some people are going extreme with this (there always are some who will) and have crossed that line where positive is now equalling permissive. But in the end I'd rather tey went to that extreme than the other extreme!
Fascinating piece of info... how do you find it?
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