Every dog breed in existence would be improved by making them drop eared

#dogblr #oh it has pointy ears?#disappointing #flop superiority #2earsdown #let your ears hang low #Let them dangle to and fro

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graceking

rannienjoyer

Watch Nimona NOW it is beautiful and funny and amazing!

#nimona #I had no idea what to expect and thoroughly enjoyed both story and art

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moss-wizard

this is peak Craigslist

impuretale

I want to know if they got answers.

I really wanna know how this turned out.

Just so you guys know.

hydok

cracking open 500 cold ones with the dads

I’ve seen this ad, but i can finally rest knowing what happened.

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I dreamt I was a fox and I communicated through the sounds from this song What does the Fox say.

Sometime something it’s funny how our brains are influenced

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shrimpsisbugs

pwlanier

John Martin Tracy (American, 1843-1893)

Two Setters in an Autumn Landscape

signed 'J.M. Tracy' (lower right)

oil on canvas

Bonhams

#oh #I love Irish markings #dogs #art

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I had to suffer a 2 hour convo with a balanced trainer who, after they brought up the topic of r+ trainers who work with aggressive dogs, was adamant it was not possible and had no interest in being connected with r+ trainers who work with aggressive dogs and quite successfully.

They kept bringing up the dogs they had “fixed”, many of which I had watched be train (and found wanting), but god forbid they learn about the actual murder dogs being rehabbed into relatively good citizens.

It was just an endless rant about how impossible this entirely possible thing is, with no curiosity to broaden horizons, to connect with local trainers doing it or even just listen to other pathways.

Bloody exhausting I’m so sick of our balanced trainers and their whinging. Go outside and start meeting trainers outside of your little circle.

#all they do is complain #never learn #if anything lots of them are getting worse #going from precise subtle punishment and aversion #to just whipping a prong on everything and correcting into compliance #there’s no skill or thoughts #just immediate in the moment results that don’t last long term #look ma I taught this dog to loose lead walk in 5 minutes past dogs it wants to kill #it’s cured!#the dog that has withdrawn inwards and learned nothing but this person is a dick #no capability to make own decisions and no confidence in them #I am so so so soooo thoroughly sick of dog training methods #because it means I’m forever having to entertain ineffective training #and sure I can tolerate the pet owner constantly correcting #their oblivious golden for pulling because in their 4 years at balanced company #it still doesn’t understand the exercise of lead walking #but aside from mild stress and shut down and disinterest in the owner #it doesn’t care #but then you got these same trainers applying this to genuinely dangerous dogs and #telling the owners their dog that needs a muzzle and management and understanding of body language to prevent situations #is fixed now?#yeah I think there’s a reason that person has not shared that they got kicked out of the ANKC sports for their dog #attacking at a dog trial #they’ll brag and brag about how they fixed the dog #and just sweep under the rug that it got a level 5 ban from the beginning we trials #so many lies and coverups #to justify dependence on punishment and compliance #why bring up a topic you’re not interested in learning about #your rant isn’t going to convert me #I’ve seen people handle and help aggressive dogs just as good and even better than you

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mad-hare

Comparison gifpost.

First row shows shut down dogs, trained to heel using aversive methods. Tucked tails, hunched posture, low energy, low heads, think you can see some lip licking in that 2nd one.

Second row show a dog trained by Jenny Gould with positive reinforcement. Very energetic, pricked ears, wagging tail, head up and focused on the handler.

Third row is Clinton Anderson (who trains exclusively using aversive methods) working with his horse Mindy. You can see pinned ears, lip licking, clamped tail. There is irritable, anxious and passive body language depending on the point in the video.

Fourth row is Mint, trained by Shawna Karrasch with positive reinforcement. Note the presence of real positive body language. Pricked ears, head toss, relaxed tail.

Obviously I have an agenda re: encouraging the use of positive reinforcement, and discouraging the use of negative reinforcement and punishment, but mostly this gifset is intended to make it obvious that what we think of as ‘relaxed’ or ‘submissive’ body language can actually be a sign of a shut down animal that has learned not to react, or react only when made to. A horse is not relaxed just because they aren’t reacting. A horse is not happy just because they aren’t actively fighting. Horses can be taught to shut down just as easily as dogs, and typically, they are. The next time you watch a training video, watch for the quiet signs of stress (tight mouth, whale eye, clamped or thrashing tail, pinned ears, lip licking). You’ll be surprised how many ‘calm’ or ‘relaxed’ horses are exactly the opposite.

I don’t know much about horses but holy shit those dogs in the first gifset look terrified and miserable

wolverinequeen

The GSDs in the first gifset belong to that horrible trainer/breeder Augusto DeOliveira - news sites like Buzzfeed and whatnot made him an internet sensation a couple years back - he keeps his dogs in stacked up kennels without water as punishment and breeds out parvo + and genetically defected puppies for thousands of dollars (also paper hangs constantly). He’s got a lot of publicity as one of the best trainers out there because he trains dogs for a living, but if you watch his videos his dogs are super stressed out and there used to be a whole facebook community of puppy people who bought pups from him that ended up dying or needing immense vet care from his horrible husbandry. He continuously tries to lay the blame on everyone but himself.

Here’s a whole page about him

And the Facebook Page that archives his every move/has owner testimonies, etc

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charlesoberonn

This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.

charlesoberonn

Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”

ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m

can we have some context to this, perhaps?

charlesoberonn

Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)

connard-cynique

just fucking read it

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

fuocogo

There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me

actuallyjuststealingmemes

This is just as wild with the context

charlesoberonn

Some of my favorite moments in the series

esoteric-merit

From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.

This needs a caption

Everyone talks about how balanced training ruins dogs but nothing about how it ruins you as a trainer

#how do you stop being compulsive #how do you check yourself and stop being coercive and compulsive #how do you stop rushing and setting your dog up to fail #once learned this is all so hard to undo

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Latest upgrade to Australia, 4 new species of sand dragon given names by the Traditional Owners of the area:

tjakalpa - the indigenous name for the Great Victoria Desert, where the lizard lives

ibiri - means "small lizard" in the Barngarla language, and are found in parts of the Eyre Peninsula

kartiwarru - the Dieri term for red-backed lizard and is found in the Strzelecki Desert.

tuniluki - "sand lizard" in Ngarrindjerin, with that lizard found in the mallee along the River Murray.

#australia #sand dragon #lizard #new species #first nations #NAIDOC

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niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian

I can't wait to see these two and their interactions on screen.

Just a stressed out, robot armed knight on the run from the law and his shape-shifting, equally as unhinged daughter taking the world by storm.

#this was a hilarious and heartfelt movie #a+ would watch again #Nimona

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I can’t believe none of you told me history was made at Westminster 2023 with the first English Springer Spaniel to get BOB in the USA with a natural tail

#english springer spaniel #westminster kennel club #dogblr #westminster 2023 #i've been busy i didnt have time #not just first in westminster #first in the whole dock-crop addicted country #outstanding!!!#i don't usually watch westminster because it is just endless docked and cropped dogs #it looks so bizarre #they're all so much less than they could be #the wholly different grooming style is interesting but then the tiny shaved little pinprick nubbins....#it is nice seeing a few more natural dogs showing up in the line up #and what a happy dog she was too #which yknow was really easy to tell #because of the tail

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Sled Dogs from the 1974 Concise Encyclopaedia of Dogs

#dogs #vintage dogs #history of dogs #old books #don’t ask me about the training sections it is hilariously yikes #anyway I know who to tag for this one #books #history #also anything relating to dog motivations and emotions is yikes #damn we have come so far

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negreaux

In case anyone thought I was making things up

#australian first nations get this too #ex-friend seemed to think this despite #my equally huge debt and having a job to pay the rent and unlike her #no parents to pay for my accomodation etc #but as far as she cared that $5k scholarship to HELP PAY FOR FOOD AND ACCOMODATIOn #was me getting a $30k degree for free #fucking stupid

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odddogs

i fucking love this guy so much i’m tearing up i could through a fangirl fit over this dog he’s like no other

i want him

(source)

#I want this dog

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blueboyluca

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

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