#obedience classes

[northgeorgiadogtraining]

What Do I Do to Have a Happy Dog When Traveling This Holiday Season?

Family car trips are very different now than when I was a little tyke.  When I was young, we were lucky if the AM radio would get a signal when we left one city driving to the next.  Our form of entertainment was playing board games with pictures of things like buildings, trees, and animals.  Each box was covered with a “see thru” door that we would open when we would see whatever was behind it.  Whoever opened all their doors first would win the game.  Sometimes simply going to sleep was our best form of entertainment.

Nowadays the back seats of cars have every entertainment option available.  Kids today have their cell phones to keep them entertained.  There might be video screens on the back of the seats so that they can watch their favorite movies or play their favorite games on larger screens.  There are often built-in coolers offering all sorts of goodies. 

In both cases, then and now, the kids are in places that they enjoy and feel completely safe.  This is because they have been acclimated to the specific environment and associate it with “I feel fine”.  When the kids feel safe and happy, it often minimizes their habit of constantly inquiring “Are we there yet”.  This is a good thing.

Now, let’s turn to our dog.  Believe it or not, we need to make them feel the same way as our kids. If they feel safe and secure, they will most likely be great “travel companions”. 

Robin and I have a great dog training article that will help you prepare for a family road trip with your dog.  Please take a moment to read our dog training blog titled “What Do I Do to Have a Happy Dog When Traveling This Holiday Season”.

https://northgeorgiadogtraining.com/have-a-happy-dog-when-traveling-this-holiday-season-dacula/

[bonefall]

I haven’t read these books in years WHAT is the angel fetuses. What is happening

LMAO yeah there's actually been three instances where Warrior Cats made fetuses into StarClan characters. We're joking about Moonpaw's absorbed fetus twin (Starpaw/The Voice) meeting with Clear Sky's first dead wife's unborn kids.

The first time they did this was in the last book of DOTC, on Gray Wing's deathbed. Bright Stream, last seen in early pregnancy and being carried off by eagles to be gruesomely eaten alive, shows up accompanied by Tiger Tail and Pale Sky. Her embryos.

Because they show up in this big fanservicey montauge of all DOTC's fridged wives happily living as eternal mothers in StarClan, I sardonically call them the Dead Angel Fetus Children.

(It's dark humor to cope with how much the concept freaks me out)

And with Moonpaw, I have to explain how fusion chimerism works.

There are a few types of chimeras, but when a single individual is created from the combination of two fully fertilized zygotes, that is called fusion chimerism. That's what Moonpaw is.

And you have to understand, we're talking zygotes as in cells. The fusion of haploid gametes. NOT embryos (developing major organs) or fetuses (has major organs). When multiple embryos or fetuses are detected during pregnancy, but one vanishes, that is called Vanishing Twin syndrome (VTS).

There is actually very little linkage between VTS and the chance of a baby being born with fusion chimerism. At best it's an overstated link. At worst, it is a general misconception of Vanishing Twin syndrome.

Fusion Chimeras can happen in a lot of different ways, most of them fertilization errors, very few of them involving the multiple embryos of VTS. Likewise, the vast majority of VTS cases do not result in fusion chimeras. I explained Chimerism in-depth over in this post, and I encourage you to follow my citations to learn more if you're interested.

Sooooo... we're not even talking fetuses for Starpaw and Moonpaw. If they ever were separate, it would have been as embryos at best.

Which means that Moonpaw is haunted by cells that hadn't even developed major organs.

Ergo, we're joking around about how peculiar it is that Supernatural Utero Ghosts have happened thrice.

[zooophagous]

Tuunbaq was trying to pick up Bingus in his mouth like an asshole so I had to rescue the poor traumatized goblin and forced her to pose for a selfie

[the-genius-az]

How does Fire Lord Azula treat her concubines?

She will treat her concubines and consorts equally, for Azula all her lovers are her everything.

Azula treats them all as if they were her goddesses.

I'm serious, she reveres and adores them so much it's scary sometimes, it's like she's their loyal servant and would do anything for them.

Do you want me to destroy the world? Of course, my loves.

Do you want me to save the world? Perfect, I'll do it right away, my dear.

Do you want me to die for you? Okay, who will be my executioner?

Do you want me to kill for you? I will do it, who will be first?

[fjordfolk]

local dog club have both a nosework course and a beginners agility course coming up but they're both weekend deals and i work saturdays :)))

[seagulley]

regular haunts

[thinkingabout-girls]

today in my sociology class we watched a video on the obedience experiment and after several minutes of discussing why it was highly unethical my professor said “and that’s why tomorrow i’m bringing in 3 car batteries and some conductive gel,”

[theadventurek9]

Articles!

This exercise is our new issue in utility. She is very regularly finding the correct article, bringing it halfway to me, dropping it and then searching the pile again. Most of the time she returns to the correct article and brings it to me...sometimes she doesn't.

So we are working on replacing the metal ones. (I think they're cold, and hurt when they clank her teeth) and building up a lot more confidence again.

[quotidian-oblivion]

I hate those memes with moms (or dads) getting exasperated or irritated with their kids and joke about how much they hate them, or underappreciate their kids and undermine their love for their parents. I hate them. If you don't want kids, don't have them. If you're "stuck" with your kid(s) then maybe reconsider your mindset as a parent and look beyond the surface. They're kids. They're not gonna say "I love you" until you make a habit to say it first.

[ringchollyandfriends]

First SDIT training appointment with Elliot tomorrow!!

I'm excited but also Very Scared

[elvenferretots]

On one hand, I feel horribly guilty for having a couple weekends where I've committed to absolutely nothing to the point of backing out of volunteering at a local dog show.

On the other hand, I have dog sport events literally every weekend and practice or class at least twice a week throughout the entirety of October and November. I think I get a free pass for a couple weekends.

[northgeorgiadogtraining]

What is the Right Way to Meet Another Dog When Out in Public?

There can be a plethora of ways that you and I may greet an individual while we are out in public.  If they are one of our friends, we may get excited and yell their name while we wave.  We may be a little devilish and sneak up on them in order to surprise them.  If they are someone we don’t know, we may approach slowly and calmly introduce ourselves. 

If they are someone we don’t really know, but recognize that they are someone we don’t like, we may yell bad words at them.  If we are newspaper reporters or “internet influencers”, we may simply follow them around to “get the scoop” or take pictures or videos that we will post on our site.

To put it quite simply, there is a never-ending list of “meet and greet” scenarios that we naturally employ on a daily basis.  Stranger or friend, foe or ally, they take place and, for the most part, life calmly goes on.

With all this assumed craziness, why don’t these divergent encounters cause more issues?  The reason is simple.  You are a human and I am a human.  We have many of the same life experiences and react to those life experiences in relatively the same way. We understand “yin and yang”.

When we interact with a dog in public, things change. Dogs react to things differently than we do.  A simple “meet and greet” we initiate with a dog could turn into a “jump and bite”. We need to understand why and what we can do to prevent it.

Robin and I have a great dog training article that will help you meet dogs in public in a way that will keep everyone calm. Please read our dog training blog titled “What is the Right Way to Meet Another Dog When Out in Public”.

https://northgeorgiadogtraining.com/right-way-to-meet-another-dog-in-public-lithonia/

[soylent-crocodile]

Fey Trickster (Rogue Archetype)

(The Pied Piper by Shraeliah)

The Eldest of the First World do not seek out mortals to employ, but their pastoral home and enigmatic way of life attract such worshipers nonetheless. Such strange beings attract people who live outside the norm- among them are fey tricksters, rogues who cavort with the fey and are rewarded with their power.

Skills

A fey trickster gains Handle Animal (Cha), Knowledge (nature) (Int), and Survival (Wis) as class skills and loses Appraise (Int) and Knowledge (local) (Int).

Prestidigitation

A fey trickster gains Prestidigitation as a spell-like ability usable at-will.

Fey Obedience

At level 4, a fey trickster gains Fey Obedience as a bonus feat. They must pick a Fairy Noble, Eldest, or equivalent figure to swear fealty to. They gain boons at an advanced rate. They gain their first boon at level 8, their second boon at level 10, and their third boon at level 14. As standard, if they lose fealty to their Noble, they lose the benefits of the feat.

This replaces the rogue talents learned at levels 4 and 10. 

[albusthefakepitbull]

if you were gonna take any fenzi course this semester with juniper what would it be ? i see a few but always love to hear yalls thoughts

[chrischrossmusings]

wilbur soot i think you should read about this to know your rights ahead of your upcoming australia tour

[seagulley]

I've been feeling really down about where we're at wrt rally obedience, to the point where I'm starting to consider giving up on trialing.

Kaija continues to disengage as soon as we enter the trial ring. Our instructor thinks that I need to be more firm, and that I have to keep asking Kaija to reengage and focus, so she learns that she can't get out of work by 'demonstratively' disengaging from me.

This doesn't sit right with me at all. Even if this approach did work/yield better results in the competition ring... is that really how I want to get there? With a dog that believes she has no choice but to work, regardless of her emotional state or her confidence level?