Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[patrickBOOTH]

That's really sneaky of her. I would argue irregardless.

 

[mrjester]



That's really sneaky of her. I would argue irregardless.

Agreed. I'm not married, nor have ever been. But if my girlfriend (we're serious) did something like that, it'd be a real good reason for me to reconsider our relationship.

 

[munchausen]



I love dogs (I've got two), but crazy and irresponsible dog owners are ******* pissing me off.


I was walking my dogs early this morning a little before 6am and this unbalanced late 30-ish woman walks right up to me with her chihuahua and says: "Let them play! Let them play!" while immediately unleashing her dog. My dogs start to get riled up (because there's an unleashed chihuahua yapping at them) and I start get tangled up with their leashes and then all hell breaks loose when my dogs start really getting riled up (biting/barking and teaming up on the little dog). The woman starts to yell at me frantically asking why I didn't warn her my dogs wanted to fight.

People with little dogs are the worst. One of my dogs is a rescue and part pit bull. I've worked very hard to train her to stay calm towards other dogs on leashes, but when dogs approach snarling and growling it's too much for her. So many people with small dogs don't train them at all, or even pay attention. There's one lady who has some little terrier and always passes us talking on the phone while the things pulls hard on its leash and sends my dogs into a hissy fit. I've started turning the other way when I see her because I hate having to punish my dog for having a natural reaction to threatening behavior.

 

[munchausen]



Of all the arcane SF "rules" regarding acceptable dress, I find the the distaste for black suits to be unique in that it is the most universally true yet hardest to articulate appropriately when you encounter resistance to it.

I tried to explain one time to a lawyer that I worked with that he shouldn't wear black suits with black shirts and black ties. No luck. I realized later I should have told him that it just didn't look right without an apron.

 

[mrjester]

I have a smaller dog that's some kind of mix. She is great indoors but barks while on a leash. She also nips at other dogs at the park. I have no idea how to train her. She's getting better and its not terrible. But short of whacking her on the nose I have no idea what to do.

Its the real tiny one, "Squirrel."

 

[lawyerdad]



I have a smaller dog that's some kind of mix. She is great indoors but barks while on a leash. She also nips at other dogs at the park. I have no idea how to train her. She's getting better and its not terrible. But short of whacking her on the nose I have no idea what to do.

Its the real tiny one, "Squirrel."

Cute. Looks like she has some Australian shepherd in the mix.

 

[munchausen]

Every dog is different, but I found that a lot of my instincts (yelling at her, hitting her) were actually counterproductive. She started to associate the other dogs with me losing my temper, and it just made her more agitated. A couple of things worked for me:

a) keeping her on a short leash, right beside me instead of out in fron

b) in the beginning, when another dog passed by, I would make the dog sit and look at me. I would get down on her level and keep talking in a calm voice until the other dog passed. If she would stay relatively calm, I would praise her and we would continue on. If she lost her temper we would sit until she had remained calm. After that began to work consistently, we would continue our pace as the other dogs approached, but the calm speech and praise continued. Basically still does, although there are some dogs that I know we can pass consistently without any drama and those we just walk past normally.

It's kind of a pain because it requires your attention to be on the dog rather than letting your mind wander or listening to your ipod. It's part of why I still prefer to walk the dogs really early in the morning when we see fewer other dogs.

 

[dlm4114]



I have a smaller dog that's some kind of mix. She is great indoors but barks while on a leash. She also nips at other dogs at the park. I have no idea how to train her. She's getting better and its not terrible. But short of whacking her on the nose I have no idea what to do.

Its the real tiny one, "Squirrel."

I've found that hitting your pup with a spray or two from a regular spray bottle/mister right in the nose/eyes area works pretty well for reining in bad behavior. This is the sort of bottle I'm talking about:

http://www.amazon.com/Tolco-Bottle-...8&qid=1370447479&sr=8-1&keywords=spray+bottle

Could be worth a shot.

 

[mrjester]

She's a great dog. The other one, Abby, is too. Abby chews and snores (lol). Other than that, she's great.

Squirrel is the perfect small house dog other than her etiquette on a leash. She loves to sit on your lap, listens (for the most part) and is friendly after a while. And she doesn't bark like a Chihuahua or anything, never in the house... but she does bark at other dogs. And nips if off the leash. Luckily none of the dogs at the park have fought back. They just stare, looking in disbelief. She nipped at a mastive a while ago.

She nipped at my dad a few months ago but she's never nipped at anyone else since. And he did reach kind of fast.

 

[mrjester]

Thanks for the tips guys.

Love my damn bitches.

 

[arredondoae]

Ebay now limits searches to 100 characters. All of my saved searches are useless now.

 

[aravenel]



Ebay now limits searches to 100 characters. All of my saved searches are useless now.

All mine are still working. Hope they dont change that, would make it much less useful.

 

[StephenHero]

I tried contact lenses for the first time today and it kind of sucked. I was blinking repeatedly the whole time and my supposed prescription one made my vision worse. Is there some sort of adjustment period?

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I could never wear contacts. Touching my eyeball freaks me out. I'd rather go to the dentist than the eye doctor. Eye stuff sucks.

 

[gomestar]

yes, there is an adjustment, especially if it's your first time. It's kind of like getting new glasses, for the first hour or so the lenses will feel a little wonky and vision odd, and then they settle right in. I just dealt with this yesterday.

your vision shouldn't be worse though. Unless you were rubbing your eyes a lot, and this caused irritation plus excessive tears, etc. Those will all affect how well you see from them.