poodleteeth

[poodleteeth]

made the decision i never needed a pet sideblog because i literally never interact with anyone from petblr/dogblr at all. i won't be using this blog anymore, but I'm keeping it as an archive + the url is cool as hell.

follow my main @knifebun for completely random reblogs and photos of sparta sometimes. or follow my instagram if you want very infrequent updates on sparta without the random reblogs.

#szad.txt

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that german longhaired pointer handler should've been kicked out of the ring. what the fuck was that.

#if you can't show your dog without pushing it around and yanking on the lead you're a shit handler! #crufts 2023

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so funny when someone is like "look at my pet wolf. he is half arctic wolf and half timberwolf 🥰" and the animal in question looks like this

#the last one kinda looks like a czechoslovakian wolfdog more than a wolf #but yeah huskies really don't look like wolves At All i have no idea where people are getting the wolf part in them lol

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reblog with where you are from!

#don't have a cat rn :( #but if i did it'd be an indoor only cat #also im from poland

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the difference in profiles created by 1 cm of hair, or almost 4 weeks without shaving.

#my pets #sparta #poodle #dogblr #petblr #dog #its a pre-bath shave so its not very clean gabsbjs i hust wanted to show the difference

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That is a fun noise there

neoliiii

[poodleteeth]

poodles are usually anthropomorphized to be froufrou ladies but i always see them as a miscellaneously european man from the 1970s

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Animal welfare = a science based approach to the needs of animals, taking the needs and behaviour of different species into account and ensuring they are treated humanely and cared for in ways that allow them to live good lives

Animal rights = an emotional approach based on the feelings of individuals who do not necessarily understand the animals they are advocating for, who often group all species needs and behaviours as one and who may end up causing more suffering to animals through failing to understand their actual needs. 

#whoops wrong blog

[poodleteeth]

hi may i interest you in this lil clip from our small training session

#its vertical bc i originally posted it as an instagram story #my pets #sparta #poodle #dogblr #dog training

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If your sister has a toy you want just swim on the floor about it

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watching a national dog show vid. this beast has the saddest most glistening eyes I've ever seen

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listen to each their own etc but my ancestors didn't coevolve with, bond with, and engage in interspecies communication with canines since the heyday of the woolly mammoth only for me to go and buy into Dog Buttons

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not-so-friendly reminder that hunting is an important part of conservation in many cases and that painting all hunting as morally, ethically, and/or environmentally "bad" does a major disservice to indigenous people, poor communities, and our environment

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i brushed her too much by accident and she looks like a fake groen

#thats it [unmudis your shepherd]

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What are some of the "hard questions" you've had dog training clients ask you before?

~ @release-the-hound 💙

sadfsadf i can't come up with specific question i've been asked rn and i blame it on the late hour (it's almost 2am for me), apart from the ones where my answer boils down to "i could research this, but you could also ask your vet, because they're more likely to know the answer". but i have some specific cases that kept me awake at night lol.

i've had a border collie who would get to such level of arousal in a very short training session he'd start humping everything and it'd often take him two hours of constant humping to calm down. so his owner would do very long training sessions, just so he'd sleep after them. at first it just looked like a typical case of someone who got a border collie, learned they need to work and just... forgot to teach the dog it doesn't have to work all the time and that it can chill out sometimes without getting frustrated. but quickly we noticed it's not only training that would get his arousal level to skyrocket, but generally anything remotely exciting (like meeting other dogs or his owner coming back home) would immediately make him go from 0 to 100. and i learned he'd do this since he was a puppy. so i recommended they see a vet, because that seems like something health related, but it seemed like everything is fine, all tests were showing he's healthy... until i got a phone call that he had a cluster seizure that lasted for about 12 hours total :I it's a fresh case and they're still diagnosing him, but it's basically confirmed idiopathic epilepsy made him Like That.

i also had a dog that would bite without warning, seemingly at random. the same situation would be fine one time and would make her attack her owner the second time. there seemed to be no correlation. multiple vets also didn't find anything wrong with her. it took us a while, but we finally got to it: the dog would bite as a result of sensory overload and tiny changes in routine. so stepping into an unexpected puddle in the kitchen was enough to make her bite. i don't want to say this dog has doggy autism, but that was basically the conclusion lol. introducing her to sensory integration and body awareness exercises has had a massive impact on her.

there was also an 8 months old puppy who'd just lie in one position in one specific spot for hours without eating or drinking. on walks he'd be a fearful dog who'd do everything to come back home as quickly as possible, but at home he'd shut down, refuse food and water, there was zero contact with the dog. it lasted for a month before the owner contacted me. i don't know how it ended because his owner was expecting a quick fix and never contacted me after our two sessions, probably they returned him to the breeder. my guess is that the dog was from a puppy mill (i mean. i've seen his papers and know it's byb) and he'd spend most of his time in a kennel crate, so my action plan was getting him a crate or ex-pen again and slowly expanding his available space, but. yeah. never got to see if it'd work.

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i find it really funny how easy it is to tell if i like my client or not. the cocker spaniel dude who keeps complaining about everything, keeps denying his resource guarding dog his whole family is afraid of has a problem with resource guarding, doesn't train in between our training sessions and admitted to hitting the dog? i see you for exactly an hour and not even a minute longer. the very sweet older lady and her ancient mom and their very fearful puppy who's so afraid of cars she couldn't continue our group puppy classes and has to be homeschooled? these ladies put a lot of effort in training her and ask so so many hard and important questions - and i keep spending additional 30 minutes with them almost every session.

#i love it when people care about their dogs and don't just want an easy fix #i love it when people ask difficult questions and want to know more and make me do research and ask other trainers for advice #idk man. i just like it when i see my work is doing something and people WANT to work with me #instead of stubbornly assuming the dog is broken and the dog needs fixing but they refuse to change anything about themselves #sigh #szad.txt