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today's hot take for dog people: management is not the same thing as training.
#dogblr#unpopular opinion: a lot of the current flavour of dog 'training' is actually just management#does your dog know how to make a good decision? does your dog know what a good decision even is?#or is your dog under such heavy management that they never ever have to make a decision on their own?#YES set your dog and yourself up for success!!!! absolutely!!!!#but (unpopular take) errorless learning is detrimental to overall wellbeing#stress is a part of life and of your dog crumples when they experience A Stress then you have a serious problem#teach resilience as a skill#dont misunderstand this on purpose#im not saying let your dog run wild unruly unmanaged#im saying train your skills and then trust your training#when it is safe to do so let your dog make a decision#(this is not in response to anyone on here#i am casual irl acquaintances with a service dog handler and i do not respect her handling/training/management#i am very frustrated with the lack of nuance between training vs management#and the beautiful space where they overlap#people who are here from Not The Dog World#management is setting up your environment so your dog makes the decision you want#eg using a long line so your dog has no choice but to come when called#training is teaching your dog to make the decision you want them to make#ideally you would use both (management while training) but the current flavour of dog training#tends to put all responsibility on you as the person#to manage your environment so the dog never has the opportunity to make a mistake#instead of training your dog so they understand what the 'right' choice is and WANT to choose that most of the time#i am braced for the deliberate misunderstandings that are likely to come out of this post#THERE IS NUANCE PEOPLE
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Hey shoutout to the guy at the store who started talking about my service dog, and when I looked uncomfortable and couldn't answer, politely said 'have a nice day' and walked off.
I couldn't tell you in that moment how much I appreciate it, but respect and allowing service dog owners to stay silent rather than engaging in conversation with a stranger is a rarity.
Thanks
#the autism decided to autism#my doggo is trained for a medical disability#you'd be surprised how many people think they are entitled to a conversation with me- that I am obligated to discuss anything they want#bestie my dog is trained to keep me alive and be friendly TT#I on the other hand will bite. leave me alone.#I appreciate that dude. anyways.#service dog#service dogs#uhhh tags#disability#autism#yeah that#personal#my doggos#have a lovely day friends <3
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Even more find the keys practice.
I don't know what it says about me that his first thought was to check the dumpster, but it's probably accurate lol
#dogblr#belgian tervuren#forte#psychiatric service dog#service dog#task training#he really likes finding things for me#which is good because i lose things a lot#i have the short term memory of a goldfish#the pepperidge farm kind
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Frost covered grass makes for very happy hooskers
#she only has two settings in the morning#hold on let me sniff first#and ZOOM#service dog#medical alert dog#husky#dogblr#Service dogs have fun too#siberian husky#morgan lane#force free training#dog training#task trained
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"the most well behaved dog here!" -five different vendors at the farmers market
#beans beans the magickal fruit#every other dog we saw had a prong collar on#even the little Boston!#still behaved so poorly#it makes me so sad#and wonder why they still bring their dog with them if they have to literally drag them everywhere#but that's why we went#for both of us to get better around reactive dogs#I think she needs to start training me on how to stay calm#service dog#dogblr#farmers market#SO MUCH FUN#she was vested for the four blocks the farmers market was on#but I carried it the rest of the time we were out#I am working on vest=work no vest=sniff n poop#which is EXACTLY what happened#I love her so much#she is the bestest Bean of all the beans
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Yeah I'm a fucking dick,
But this dick isn't supporting terrorism and isn't sympathetic for people who want to ethnically cleanse the middle East funded by the UN?
Lol yes, Karen, you're totally on the right side of history here, you're quoting antisemetic tropes from both the Nazis and the KKK handbooks, and openly calling for ethnically cleansing Jews from Israel which they call "isn't real" or whatever but it's named over 100 times in the Quran, and I've read the xtian bible it's mentioned probably twice that at least. But it isn't real. Sorry it's hard not to laugh at that logic.
Glad we had this chat.
#jumblr#jewish#I am an asshole but at least I don't support terrorists#Extreme leftists I hope you see you can't argue or answer anything#Can someone answer why in a dog attack the dog is not in a trained kill position lol#You're fucking idiots#ISRAEL IS MENTIONED OVER 100 TIMES IN THE QURAN YOU IGNORANT STUPID FUCKS THIS IS A WAR TO GET YOU SUPPORTING KILLING JEWS AND DESTROYING#ALL THEY WANT IS ISRAEL SO THEY CAN ETHNICALLY CLEASE IT#You're stupid if you call Israel 'Isntreal'#Next time I will find you and I will take away your internet service because you have nothing to contribute#Leftist go fuck yourselves or let a terrorist do it for you
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Did you see the part where Meg was annoyed that only dogs can be qualified to be service medical dogs? lol guess she's mad a bird can't be a service cardic arrest animal. Once again pulled up the "people think only DOGS can be trained to do this!!! How dare they!!!" *grumbling about mammalian bias* argument. I'm sorry Meg but your fucking bird or a rabbit cannot be a service animal for the blind or anything that dogs have be bred to do
me when they won’t let my service crocodile into Walmart:
#Dogs are favored because they have been domesticated for thousands of years and selectively bred for extremely specific behaviors#they also have heightened hearing and smell that can allow them to detect certain medical emergencies early#and because a dog can be predictably trained to not attack someone#yes you can train a Komodo dragon to perform a lot of what is asked of dogs#but as a wild animal guess what#they are more likely to attack someone because they are more likely to perceive normal human behavior as a threat#and even domesticated non-mammals just generally aren’t built for a lot of what a service animal needs#what would a service pigeon do for you exactly#and even if it could do something to help you it’s still a pigeon and if you take it outside there is a very present chance#of a hawk plucking it off your shoulder as dinner#generally don’t need to worry about a golden retriever being carried away by eagles#not to mention dogs being able to be potty trained which. Many animals cannot reliably be#even rodents and other small mammals can’t generally since they don’t have voluntary bladder control
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Here's me working with all my assistance animals on sharing and manners. My son's the rudest while my two girls are so patient.
#esa#emotional support animal#service dog#assistance animals#disabilities#actually disabled#invisable disability#pots#migraines#fibromyalgia#chronically ill#chronic pain#spoonie#lgbt writers#pinkpillow19#sapphic#writers on tumblr#swanqueen#sepsis survivor#i have too many disabilities and health issues and procedures to fit on this page just know you are seen and heard with me fellow spoonies:#atheist#wiccan#midwestern in california#third culture#theres a reason my new story Safe Place has disabilities! and a service dog#service dog training is the most frustrating and most rewarding thing#two of my kids alert and intervene and task guess which two lol#this is my support team and my oldest daughter is my manager
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Dumped by phone call out of nowhere after 9 months. I'm completely shocked and absolutely blindsided. I really thought he was the one.
#me mine#me#me txt#me text#can life please stop fucking me over#i thought he was my soulmate#i really saw spending the rest of my life together#this month i lost a boyfriend#but i bought a new car#and got a puppy to train to be a service dog#now to be able to drive it#i guess I'm just meant to be alone#this really was the worst timing#he couldn't have waited until i had surgery on my back tomorrow and went back to work in two weeks#i honestly don't know how I'm going to do it without him#but i will because i have bo other choice#he told me we would get through this(the acar accident/ptsd) together.#That he would be here for me.#I guess that was just a lie.
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I know it's been a few years since I've run my own dog training business instead of working for someone else for exploitation wages and that previously I was working in the rural south where prices are a bit different in general, but out of curiosity I decided to look at some dog training services in my area in upstate NY today and got hit with sticker shock ngl.
Most places don't post their prices so I could only compare a few (which... I sort of get since they want to avoid competition doing what I'm doing right now lol but as someone who has run a dog training business and had business marketing included in my education it's something I see as an... *interesting* choice, because most clients want to know price up front without having to contact you and wait for a response because they probably already have a budget in mind and just want to be able to quickly see if you fit into it or not, which means not having prices posted will make some potential clients immediately look elsewhere and if you don't even have some sort of price range for services posted somewhere then most of your calls and emails will just be people asking for pricing and a majority of those calls and emails will not lead to services purchased so it ends up wasting a lot of unpaid time on office work BUT THATS AN UNRELATED TOPIC, I DIGRESS) but WOWZA the ones that did have prices posted really made me realize I do NOT live in a low cost of living place anymore.
One of the popular places here that I looked at charges $150+ for ONE training session with one of their APPRENTICE trainers. It's double that price to train with one of their more experienced dog trainers for just one session.
I looked back at some of the trainers I was competing with back in FL and NC to compare as well as the dog training school I went to just to check and see if prices were getting that high in other rural areas, and nope. Most places $300 would still get you at least three - maybe up to six - private lessons spread out over three (or six, or whatever) weeks, which is the pricing range I'm used to seeing dog trainers in the rural south suffer with because of places like Petsmart setting the pricing bar so low.
I'm pretty sure I have more formal dog training education and certification than most of the employees at this place too since even their main "behaviorist" (not a protected title in the USA so anyone can call themselves that) has no certifications listed at all that I can find, so... I guess now that I live here if I ever start training again I'm going to have to rethink my pricing lol even if I don't charge those kinds of prices I clearly still need to bump them up in this area from what I used to charge in order to be competitive with these other training businesses.
#pricing too low compared to competition is a business killer btw#another think i learned in my marketing classes#most people buying dog training are wealthier#not necessarily rich but... not poor#and although id love to offer sliding scale for low income clients if i ever do training on my own again#your normal prices being too low WILL turn away those clients who are higher income#cuz EVEN IF IT'S NOT ACTUALLY TRUE higher class members of our society have a subconscious idea that price often = quality for services#I KNOW I KNOW I did not believe this either straight out of school and underpriced my services still anyway despite being taught that#because it did not make sense to my poor person brain to assume that wealthier people think like that#but i learned very quickly after having a couple of wealthier people literally LAUGH at my pricing#or make weird faces and say “that's it?'#the first dude who laughed at my pricing actually gave me a tip that doubled my price for his services every time i worked for him#and another regular of mine often left me envelopes of cash because she said she felt bad that i was charging so little#and that it actually made her second guess hiring me at first#SO JUST TAKE THE ADVICE AND CHARGE WHAT IS COMPETITIVE IN YOUR AREA AT LEAST INSTEAD OF TRYING TO UNDERCUT COMPETITION#or compete with the big chains DEAR GOD DO NOT TRY TO COMPETE WITH THE BIG TRAINING CHAINS PRICE WISE FOR YOUR OWN MENTAL HEALTH#you will burn yourself out and make yourself hate dog training if you try to compete at their exploitation prices#at the least price around what other people who are NOT working for chains in the area do#and ideally price what you think would make you feel like your time and labor is being adequately compensated#which means enough to afford to live and afford to pay for things like health insurance as an independent contractor#and have enough left over for some QOL stuff and to put some into savings for emergencies or slow periods for your work#a lot of people working with animals ridiculously undercharge and then end up screwing themselves over mentallt and physically#anyway this post and the tags are long enough and i could rant about pricing and fair wages forever so im done now lol#just reeling a little at the idea of charging $300 for a single dog training lesson and that PEOPLE HERE ARE PAYING THAT#THAT PLACE IS POPULAR AND SUCCESSFUL#they do not pay their trainers that much though lmfao they make only like $6 over minimum wage OF COURSE#which I know because I got into this pricing deep dive after seeing multiple of their job listings because they're hiring right now#i hate business owners that do pricing vs employee pay so differently like that they are honest to god EVIL that is exploitation
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Maybe the problem isn't more places being dog-friendly. Maybe the problem is that American dogs are chronically ungroomed and unexercised. Maybe the problem is that dogs who are brought in public should be kept in training classes or competitions longterm to maintain their training and emotional wellbeing. Maybe the problem is that dogs need to have trained public access skills to be safe and considerate to bring in public.
The problem is not businesses allowing dogs (grocery stores and indoor restaurants can't legally be dog friendly, so that's a straw man argument); but that dog owners have a huge problem with selecting, caring for, and training their dogs to the standards of the society we live in.
#i might not be the right person for this rant#but my life has gotten so much better because i can and feel obligated to take my dogs out in public#and you know my boss has been training psychiatric service dogs for over a decade and insists i would benefit from working Valkyrie as one#so maybe I'm extra biased to the benefit#but I do think it can improve so many lives to have places be dog friendly in our lonely world where people can't afford to have families#as long as the dogs are held to a high standard of behavior#the life of ron
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Yo
I'm gonna not post anything for linktober today or probably tomorrow bc I'm waiting on the right equipment- all my shiny things are dull and I also need new safety gloves- and the last time I cut myself cutting glass it got infected so. I want proper equipment before I continue :) I'll catch up probably! Or just skip a day or two, but the plan is to catch up. I'm having a lot of fun with this and appreciate all the support :P
#safety first#personal#yall are way too nice to me lol#:')#most of the stuff I make is at the risk of losing a finger or damaging my lungs lol#so I play it safe and I'll wait till the stuff I ordered arrives to catch up :)#I'm going to a concert tonight tho! it's like. my first one. and I'm autistic and get overwhelmed easily#but I have noise cancelling headphones and a good attitude so hopefully it'll be fun#and I know some of yall know I have a service dog for medical stuff- don't worry I've been training him with HIS noise cancelling headphones#we'll be matching lol#I hope this made sense#anyways. me and my dog are going safely to a concert and I'll see yall soon#linktober
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My 8.5 hour drive turned into 10 and now I'm cranky and out of sorts. 8 is not bad with a break halfway. 9 makes me antsy but 10 as a solo driver is where I start to really hit my limit.
Going to relax with a good book and my faithful companion and hopefully have a good day tomorrow at the seminar.
#dogblr#belgian tervuren#forte#psychiatric service dog#service dog#dog training#training seminar#body's a bad monster#1.5 hour's difference shouldn't feel so big but it really wrecked my plans#originally I'd have arrived early enough to grab some groceries and drive over to the seminar location#but I'm too tired so i just grabbed convince food and didn't check out the facility the seminar is at#so even though I'm here a day early and planned and packed carefully#i feel like I'll be winging it tomorrow#ugh why is my brain like this?
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We went Places and did Things
Place 1: A farm with lots of puppies and kitties running everywhere. We worked on our down stays with these kittens and a puppy who I didn't get a picture of. Hek was so good that she even let this little guy climb on top of her while she stayed in that spot. I was very impressed, not going to lie.
Place 2: Our favorite cemetery to stop at on our way home. It was so nice out we had a little picnic under the lovely trees. We talked to this really cool, nice guy who fought in the war of 1812
Herz had just "down stayed" very nicely for 3 hours so this was the only time I actually asked her to recall so we could go back to the car. I honestly didn't want to do anything. I thought I should but we just enjoyed the nice weather and good sniffs
#beans beans the magickal fruit#I have felt very neglectful the last few days because we havent done anything#Herz said she wanted to do something fun and easy#I also have been struggling with feeling like she is not a well trained dog and we dont deserve the service dog label#my mental health hasn't been the best lately#but we had a great day today
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The only thing I do on Twitter is retweet gay shit and tell ppl they are stupid as fuck
#⌜off the air⌟ . // ooc#ppl think service dogs have to have a certified vest that indicates they are a service dog#no they don’t#some ppl do it to avoid ppl accusing them of just wanting their dog around#but no !! it’s not required !!#and you can’t ask either ! that violates the ADA under federal law#emotional support animal is different#tbh I’ve thought about making my dog a service dog#but he’d need specific training with ppl with diabetes#but it’s also ppl thinking service dogs only help the blind#or ppl in wheelchairs#cuz all disabilities have to show or ppl think you’re faking#ughhh ppl make me so mad
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took Tiber to a pottery class last night and he was so good and well behaved. I worry so much about his behavior in public but man I think I just have unrealistic standards for us in public (hello anxiety) because he really is just so good. did he perfectly settle next to me the whole time? no. but he just wandered around gently at my feet on leash and was quiet and unobtrusive and sweet and gentle to everyone. he only barked once when he got himself tangled around the table. he did go settle on his mat whenever I asked. and that is so good for a one and a half year old puppy. he got lots of treats and pats and I made a cool ring dish.
#I gotta stop being so hard on myself#I’m always worrying that I’m not doing adequate training with him#I have to take him with me so many places because of his SA and I’m always so worried we’ll bother other people#or worse bother service dog teams#I was also so anxious yesterday in the wake of the election#but I think going out and interacting with people was good for me#also dadtiber is gone again too for work until the end of the year#many anxieties for me#Tiber helps by being such a good boy#a good and soft and cuddly boy
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