Your dog will not understand you. They do not speak English. You can teach them words but to them they will be sounds. They will never understand what a word means, just what happened after the word was said and the outcome of what happened. Try to get into this mindset from the start, and be consistent with your cues (what we might normally call commands) across your entire family.

Some dogs will respond to physical cues better than verbal cues. Try to get in the mindset that you aren’t giving the dog a command, you’re giving them a cue. Do the all the steps of X when I say Y.

Martingale collars are great and can be used in conjunction with a harness. A harness is fine with training. It is true that dogs find the tugging rewarding but a well trained dog will behave regardless of what they are or are not wearing.

Look up LIMA training. Look up the Two week Shutdown

Look up the Three DS of training YouTube is an invaluable resource, but pick your content creators wisely, I would recommend a Lima trainer. I like Kikopup because the content is easily digestible.

If you THINK your dog is ready for X, consider that it is not and you need to revisit whatever you are working on. When you KNOW they are ready, consider it again.

Crate train, but the crate is never a punishment.

You will soon have a new best friend and an incredibly rewarding relationship. It will most likely be hard at first but it will be worth it.

Could be slang for vagina. Or an insult towards the trans community. Slang for your cars transmission.

Everyone who has ever told me not to vote down the party line is someone who is absolutely voting down the other parties line.

While I will never promise it will work, I can promise you it has worked even in the height of Covid.

Send a kind letter asking to be exempt from to rest increase, using your history of being a good tenant. See what happened. Worst they can do is say no.

I was sending letters in DMs to people here and on other subs last year. the short is our rent went up 300$ and we asked to go month to month (to try and move out) and to remove our pet fee because rent was just too much.

We kept the pet fee, went month to month, and got our rent LOWERED. We are in great terms with our property manager and our maintenance team, most of them just want to do their job and not deal with assholes.

The reality is a great tenant with slightly less rent is more valuable than a shitty tenant leaving and finding a new (hopefully less shitty) tenant, and all the costs AND RISK that is incurred with that. We were only able to close on a house because of this letter and the money we saved.

Who’s the highest. Asking to hate myself more !

Idk your first post was nine hours ago and here you are, eight hours later, making the same mistake.

You can probably get a great photographer for 300$ IF they use this as a deposit for your wedding.

Take a very small hit of their time upfront to lock your date.

I doubt the proposal will be a surprise that it’s happening, more of when it’s happening. I’d talk with your partner and do some research on photos you like and then the photographer rates, not the other way around.

I just use bags that if use for any smaller garbage, for offices or bathrooms.

Some rescues do allow that. Great for the dog, great for the human.

Big recommend. St Hubert’s comes to mind.

It was basically a chilly spring day today if even that. 60 degrees on a December afternoon. And a week before we had frozen pipes and power outages.

It’s not that it was or wasn’t freezing. It’s that it was 50 degrees in the same 24 hours and we had people on this sub with a windchill under -10. And a week later we are in shorts with the windows down. I shut my heat off today and had to open the windows. That’s bonkers

That’s how I wanna go.

Something about the tri-state area consisting of Pennsylvania, Painsylvania and New York just sounds off