#dog training Book

[peacefulandcozy]

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[pidgydraws]

🐕 dog dads 🐕

[wtfforged]

redraw again i couldnt help myself this one was so cute

[ailithnight]

Touched slime for the first time in memory today. The fun toy kind, not the mysterious substances kind. And have determined this is exactly how ectoplasm should feel and behave.

[barksbog]

i swear i´m gonna start biting dog trainers if they don´t stop comparing dogs with behavioural issues to autistic people

[grison-in-space]

I really want to think deeply at some point about the ethics of breeding for extreme temperament (eg drive, food motivation -> trainability, tendency to hyperfixation, low energy, high defensive aggression) alongside the ethics of breeding for extreme structure.... from the standpoint of both being informed by neuroscience underlying brain variation and also being doubly neurodivergent, firmly anti - eugenics for humans, and firmly pro-deliberately-selective-breeding for dogs.

It's a landmine of a topic, not least because one of the use cases I would want to examine is an unintended side effect from breeding service dogs, but man what a topic to sit with and have first and second and third and fourth thoughts about in exhaustive detail. like an extremely autistic one-person six-opinion argument.

[darkwood-sleddog]

This is my MILs new cat, Lucy!

She was adopted from a family member’s co worker who couldn’t care for her anymore…if fact they weren’t really doing any care. She was left outside to fend for herself after initially being indoor only and came to my mother in law with tons of burrs matted into her hair and not enough meat on her bones.

She’s now recovered, indoor only again, gets groomed every day, and loves sitting in weird places. She greets guests at the door and demands attention always. She is very spoiled.

[magicratfingers]

gigi helped me move the supplies back into the art room by carrying a jewelry box* lid back and forth obviously it was delightful

gigi just brought me a package of his hidden Christmas gift (chew bones) to open for him

I want him bring me things so bad man but what if I accidentally reinforce counter surfing my brain melted he laid them so politely at my feet

*he loves boxes because one time I tried to make him an enrichment? activity by putting a bunch of kibble in a shipping box with the packing materials but instead ignited a great passion for the mouthfeel of bubble wrap and its compatriots** and increased budget in sundry gravies for kibble

I tried to be as neutral as possible so who knows

[tea-time-terrier]

Such a nice morning with the girls!

[nyssasatelier]

So i finally got my hands on translations of both the Odysee and Iliad!!!

And despite originally caring more about the story of the Odysee i decided to read the iliad first and I'm so incredibly glad i did!

About 20 pages in and two different women are separately kidnapped and taken hostage, Agamemnon and Achilles are at each others throats, the gods are getting involved, Zeus is threatening to beat up his wife and Apollo is spreading the plaque.

Meanwhile Odysseus is somehow on a peaceful road trip and has a sleep over with the boys after a fun karaoke night.

[creekfiend]

I get a lot of asks about training advice and I'm always like "well I am not a professional in any capacity" and also I forget every book I have ever read etc the moment someone asks me, but I remembered at random today that my very talented friend has written a really amazing training book that I think would be especially good for the people who tend to ask me this, bc Bridger has ADHD (LIKE DO MANY OF US) and is therefore really good at breaking things down into digestible chunks! this is one of the things I find most challenging about training so I think this is an extra valuable thing to have in a book.

It's mostly training basics for people who are beginners, but in a way where you can use the info the build a LOT of skills once you grasp the basics, and I really vibe with Bridger's ethics around training as well.

it's called Level Up Your Dog Training by Natalie Bridger Watson and I'm going to provide a couple different links where you can get it.

Amazon link:

Support a small business link:

(Bridger adds: "Also for accessibility, there is a large print paperback edition (Amazon only) and a digitally-narrated audiobook (Google Play only, trying to get it available more places). Am aware of the ethical implications of AI narration and would like to replace this with a human-narrated version when I can, but that costs $1,000-$2,000+ to hire out, so the not-ideal compromise is digitally-narrated for accessibility in the short term with plans to do better when I can.")

Anyway this is a really great book and not recommended as often as it should be bc it's just not one of the standard go-to books (yet!!!) so I thought I would plug it and in doing so answer all the training rec asks I get all the time and am so bad at answering 🤣

[ohmystarrynight]

Speaking of Just Dog Things (for Callisto): you know that thing where people talk to their dogs using keywords that SPECIFICALLY provoke head-tilts? I like that thing.

Oh god yeah, his crew DEFINITELY does that to him. He’s a wood burning engine too so his fireman will just randomly bring over his favorites like “oh who’s a good train???? You want some white oak?? Huh?? Oh, you want some walnut? Some pine?”

And the whole time his flag ears are PERKED and he’s doing the dog head tilt like a madman whistle going CRAZY bell going crazier :)))

[blueboyluca]

“Dogs are not stubborn, spiteful, or withholding. They either haven’t been adequately taught and the behavior sufficiently proofed, or they have not been motivated to act. There are no other options.

In a related development, training in the scientific manner also requires that massive and personally challenging thing called a paradigm shift (with apologies for resorting to a cliché, but it is the only shoe that fits here). One must get out from under historically weighty beliefs, which also happen to be utterly wrong, of how dogs work.

As with a bridge, though, these conceptions of dogs amount to pilings that are sunk deep, through multiple geologic layers of belief. You have to pull them out from the sucking notions of free will. And beneath that from wishful thinking. And beneath that from bedrock beliefs of what we’re all doing here in the first place.

Oh, is that all? Just change the worldview bequeathed to you by thousands of years of Western thought, and you, too, can get your dog to come when called.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Now that I have your attention:

[alasisdrawing]

idk if this trend is really a thing in tumblr but RYMIN!!!!

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Ya know, life to a chihuahua must be fairly alarming

Theyre so small, can be on the fragile side

Most things are much bigger than they are and could hurt them pretty easily

I know coyotes in particular are a fairly big threat to them, which i can only imagine how a chihuahua feels when facing a coyote

Coyotes arent even that big but compared to chihuahuas

And then theres things like hawks or owls, which has gotta be even spookier

Like jus being out in the world knowing some large beast could swoop down and snatch you off

Happened to my 2nd grade teachers dog, it was in their yard and an owl grabbed it and carried it off

Fortunately, theres those dog vests, with spikes and sticks on them that help protect chihuahuas and other small dogs from this kinda thing

And i know not everyone is going to buy or use them, but hey, its nice that they exist

And now you might be wondering "What in the world does this have to do with Httyd?"

And the answer to that is very simply you see

Dragons, of course, are very large predators, they can easily swoop down and grab someone, and even the smaller dragons could likely scoop up a child

Now, as we all know, theres no dragons in our world

A tragedy, but nevertheless, a fact

And obviously httyd's world has dragons, its kinda in the name

Furthermore in our world, Vikings didn't wear horned helmets, it's just not the case, they didn't have them

But in httyd, they do

so essentially what im saying is

Thank you for your time