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Devi, to asklemmy in What's a proper response to another dog attempting to mount your dog multiple times and the owner really not doing anything about it?

Lot's of comments about dominance. This is an old erronous theory about dog behaviour based on a botched study. Dogs hump for many reasons, sexual is the obvious one, but also being nervous or poorly socialised.

What you should do is stop the behaviour, move your dog or theirs away and tell the owner to come get their dog.

If it happens in certain scenarios you can also stop it before the behaviour, so a common scenario is two dogs are playing, one dog gets overstimulated and then jumps on to hump, in that scenario you'd want to watch for earlier signs of overstimulation, wanting to stop, panting heavily, whale eyes, and stopping the play at that point.

Devi, to asklemmy in My beagle has suddenly started resource guarding random stuff. What should I do to get this behavior to stop?

I'm a fosterer with quite a bit of dog training education. I second the advice that you need a good qualified behaviourist, this means degree level study or above.

However, for the meantime, nobody should be taking anything from him by force. This will worsen the behaviour. The things he's taking don't sound like they pose danger to him so take all the urgency out of the response. It's anxiety driven so you want to make everything really chill.

Firstly, clear everything away, as much as possible get things in drawers or too high to reach. The less he can get that he shouldn't the better.

Work on swapping with a low value item like a toy he doesn't play with much, so say an old ball, give him the ball, get a treat and offer the treat while holding your hand for the ball. What should happen is he drops the ball, give him the treat, then hand the ball back. He's learned that nothing bad happens here. He gets the treat AND the ball. Do this 5 times in a row, then leave the ball with him. He's learned here that it's all very chill and you've reduced his anxiety.

As he gets better at this, increase the challenge slowly, maybe a toy he likes a bit better, then better again. At this point you can also start swapping items, so you take a teddy, give him a treat, then give him a ball. If this makes him anxious then slow down, you want it to be really chill for him.

Eventually he'll start giving you stuff just to see what he can get. It's a fun game.

Another exercise you can try if he does get something you don't want him to have is to throw treats away. If he has something you can throw a treat in one place, then another, then another, while he's having a great time, quietly remove whatever he had, he'll probably have forgotten he had it, but make sure it's quickly hidden to help, give him loads of fuss when it's gone for extra memory wiping!

Also make sure he is getting enough exercise and attention, and he's not in pain, these kinds of problems usually start if a dog is feeling crappy for whatever reason.

Devi, to asklemmy in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

Mine is Rosie, the maid in the jetsons, cause it's the future and I have a cleaning robot.

Devi, to asklemmy in Lemmings without bidet: how do you deal with your period?

I'm wondering if there's a medical condition here. What is happening to need showers between tampons?

Devi, to asklemmy in During travel, what can I prepare beforehand as meal, which can be eaten without access to fire or microwave?

Sandwiches? I did sandwiches and snacks.

Devi, to asklemmy in Do grown-ass lions and other big cats enjoy standard cat-treats?

There's videos online of captive tigers doing all those things.

This is my favourite video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11uu8L8FTY

Devi, to asklemmy in Hot tub owners: any tips? any regrets?

You need the chlorine, you need to always put the cover on, and you need the net to get the bugs out.

It feels much less luxury when you come out in the morning to a green tub full of flies and spiders.

Devi, to asklemmy in Which items/products were you once able to get from local shops on a whim that you now more or less have to order online?

All the little doohickeys that you don't need all the time, like plug converters, extension leads, puncture repair kits, a good range of screws.

Local shops might have something, but never the one you want because it's just not economical to keep a good range in stock.

Devi, (edited ) to asklemmy in You have to spend the rest of your life in a micronation. Which do you choose?

Does the vatican count? I'd get into the archives and make it my lifes work to find all the secrets.

Plus it's pretty cool there, there's people who do spend their lives there, and always visitors from round the world to hang out with.

Devi, to comicstrips in Ornithologists are assholes.

Small animals is a specialism. Like just animals that are small. Actually, so is exotics! So the same guy is treating parrots, reptiles, and monkeys. That's ridiculous.

Devi, to asklemmy in Are any of the DNA testing companies trustworthy?

Most companies don't cooperate with law enforcement, it's only Gedmatch who do currently and you need to personally opt in to that because they originally gave free access and there was a legal challenge. None will give info to health insurance companies, privacy laws in most places wouldn't allow that. All of them have to let you delete your info whenever you want.

However if you don't trust for profit orgs then you're out of luck. Many of them are run by the LDS though, and their goal is to get your family tree so that they can baptise your dead relatives, so like, kinda harmless as far as corporate strategy goes.

I've had mine done and nobody has made an evil clone to frame me for killing the king yet, so it's not too bad.

Devi, to comicstrips in Ornithologists are assholes.

I'm with the ornithologists. Herpetology is weird.

Devi, to comicstrips in Water? What's that? [ADHDinos]

I was so confused how a 1 week old had ADHD then.

Don't forget to look after yourself. Babies are hard work.

Devi, to asklemmy in In which scenario would you last longer before being outed as a time traveller?

So how about, you go to the future, look up a museum of your time, then just go and be yourself, like the people who do similar in museums now of the past.

Either way though, unless time travel has become widespread in the future, you wouldn't be outed, people would just straight think you're a bit odd. There's people now who straight up claim to be time travellers and we're just like, OK mate, suuuure.

Devi, to RedditMigration in now that i don't have a reddit account, i guess i can tell you guys about secret communities

I've been in a few for various reasons. There's one where they choose a few redditors at random and you get 7 days to talk amongst yourselves, after that you are banned from the sub forever. That was amusing. Kinda gutting when you get the ban notification.

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