#walk my dog

[northgeorgiadogtraining]

How Do I Choose the Right Leash for My Dog?

We Americans really like our stuff.  It isn’t that we like our stuff, we like having more stuff.  Even better than just having more stuff is having new stuff.  We run out to the dealership to get this year’s model as soon as it hits the showroom.

We love stuff with the newest technology.  I bet there are several of you that have the newest iPhone in your pocket and you are still paying off the installment payments on your last iPhone.  We love bigger stuff.  We just replaced our seventy-five-inch flat screen with the newest eighty-five-inch 8k HDD. 

If it means that something has more buttons, is newer, is shinier, or simply really cool looking; we have to have it.  If you ask someone why that got that shinier, newer thing, they will normally reply that “they just had to have it”.  It is the blessing and curse of being American.

Now, I am not trying to say that this is good or bad.  It is simply my perception of the world and norms around us.  With this said, why does this have anything to do with leashes?

A leash is a training tool that we use to direct our dog and encourage proper behavior.  Because of our dog’s natural learning process, it should be as simple as possible.  If you were paying attention to what I was saying earlier, when we go out to get our dog a leash, we will gravitate to the fanciest thing with buttons, plastic, or batteries.  The best training tool for our dog is something simple. This creates a conundrum.

Robin and I have a great dog training article that will help you pick the best leash to train your dog.  Spoiler alert: it isn’t the one with buttons, plastic, or batteries. Please read our dog training blog titled “How Do I Choose the Right Leash for My Dog”.

https://northgeorgiadogtraining.com/best-dog-leash-gainesville/

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Learning anything about marine mammal training will make you re-evaluate so much of your relationship with your own pets. There is so much force involved in the way we handle domestic animals. Most of it isn’t even intentional, it just stems from impatience. I’m guilty of it myself!

But with the exception of certain veterinary settings where the animal’s health is the immediate priority, why is it so important to us that animals do exactly what we want exactly when we want it? Why do we have to invent all these tools and contraptions to force them to behave?

When a whale swam away from a session, that was that. The trainer just waited for them to decide to come back. If they flat out refused to participate in behaviors, they still got their allotment of fish. Nothing bad happened. Not even when 20-30 people were assembled for a procedure, and the whale chose not to enter the medical pool. No big deal. Their choice and comfort were prioritized over human convenience.

It’s almost shocking to return to domestic animal medicine afterwards and watch owners use shock collars and chokers and whips to control their animals. It’s no wonder that positive reinforcement was pioneered by marine mammal trainers. When you literally can’t force an animal to do what you want, it changes your entire perspective.

I want to see that mindset extended to our domestic animals.

[damianito]

Chuuya will not remember. Dazai will.

[los-colores-de-folie]

Loyal.

[tubbytarchia]

so ranchers huh

[lotus-pear]

in love with tragedy

[zivazivc]

. . . 😳

[lazer-t]

3D Animation Commission

Character belongs to @dog-beast

[iztea]

i personally believe chuuya simply DIY-ed a makeshift leg cast with the stuff he found in prison but ended up bridal carrying dazai out anyways because they wouldn't have made it in time at that pace

bonus:

[strawijuice]

Put em on a leash 👏✨️

Ps,commissions are open~☆

[trans-lunarinjection]

communists arent going to steal your house. except for people in usamerican suburbs. we are going to steal your house, and speficially make your lawn the place where everyone's dogs shit on. And we're going to make you watch.

[shadowhaert]

missing someone bad for you

trista mateer / trista mateer / sue zhao / u.k / u.k / clementine von radics / trista mateer

[xxplastic-cubexx]

oh noooo or whatever

bonus aka The Real Motive Behind This:

SURPRISE double bonus. textless ver of the first pic under the cut

[kiwoa]

i don't post her here often, as she *hates* cameras, but i figured for today she deserves to be shown as the brilliant star she is. happy birthday, opal!

[the-adventures-of-dave]

Around tumblr lately I’ve seen people with the opinion that not only are free roaming cats bad (correct) but also supervised cats in catios or on leashes (????). I assume it must stem from that “ecology of fear” post from a few months ago, but to me the sudden appearance of these kinds of posts just strikes me as odd. I’ve seen multiple posts like the below one in just this week.

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If your cat is contained to your yard/catio/the sidewalk, then it still allows for predator-free safe places in your neighbourhood for wildlife, and creates predictability for them too. That’s one of the reasons why hiking trails ask people to stay on the trail— so you (and your dog, horse, cat, etc) can safely enjoy nature while still giving it space. It is possible to exist outdoors in natural spaces like that while maintaining wildlife comfort. If it wasn’t possible to do that, dog-friendly or (even just hiking trails in general, since humans are predators too) simply wouldn’t exist.

The problem with free roaming cats is that they break boundaries between human area (ie. trail, back porch) and wildlife area (foliage, etc) and there is nowhere the wildlife can go to exist that is safe from predators.

Idk, this is just my opinion but I just think there can be more nuance to the outdoor/free roaming cat issue than “never let your cat step outside under any circumstance”.

[paperglader]

they really put alicent in bridgerton blue on the reunion and genuinely expected me to think that she didn’t in fact march all the way to dragonstone to get wifed up? bfr