How could I not?

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Who could have guessed?

Yes.

My experience with this one dog says that simplicity, consistency, and immediate reinforcement with rewards are absolutely necessary. We watched a whole lot of puppy training videos before bringing him home, they all said essentially the same thing.

I have also come to know that in the early training process, if the dog even barely does what you want, treat shower. You’re not only training them “how to do the thing,” but that “this is how training works.”

Arlo knows lots of words now, and lots of body language. Most of his communication to us is in the form of body language, and it can be very subtle. On the super obvious side, he has a mat/blanket in his crate, and he wants it to be straight in there. If it’s not, he’ll turn circles inside the crate for “fix it.” Or if we say “fix it” first, he’ll turn circles in response. That didn’t require any treat training, because he’s already self-motivated to have the straightening out of his blanket as the “reward.”

The only thing which has changed is the medium.

Ours has dogtism. He likes everything to be exactly the same every day. “Other people” are outside of that routine. I’m pretty sure that’s why he likes to do tricks for treats so much: because he knows what is expected and he knows what’s going to happen. I think that “packages” have become part of the “routine,” and that “barking until someone comes” is, too.

I’m really glad that I immediately set the rule “don’t lie to the dog.” He gets confused and frustrated when you tell him something (by words or action), he responds how he should to that thing, and then you don’t follow that with your expected behavior.

We’ve got a few different words for “things that go on outside the window.”

• Packages means someone has delivered something to the front door. Barking is desired until a human is present.
• Neighbors means it’s just someone walking on the sidewalk in front of the house, or across the street, or across the block. Barking is not acceptable.
• Are you tired? Because he loves his crate for a midday nap and going to bed at night (he gets to be off duty), this also works when we have visitors coming into the house. Being in the crate for a bit gives people time to come in and get ready for him to greet them. Adding some “do tricks for treats” after opening the crate gives him “good boy” things to do, which seems to keep him from being quite so jumpy on people. Then he gets to greet, and he’s pretty fine after that.

These mostly work, though he does still occasionally need help with “neighbors.”

Illinois has legislation that state and local law enforcement is forbidden from assisting federal agents in enforcement of federal law.

“We’re going to have to look at judges.”

While James Ritts, the district attorney of Ontario County, New York, referred to Nordquist’s death as “beyond depraved,” investigators have since suggested that it likely was not a hate crime.

Oh come the fuck on. He was tortured and sexually assaulted for a month.

It’s this that takes him from fence-sitting to “the country is finished”?

Patch cables are stranded, spool cable is solid. Spool is good for between jacks and patch panels, less good for crimping RJ45 ends onto.

I love International Harvest.

So do I!

Other appearances he’s made have been sans vest. I can’t imagine that anything has changed so much in the interim that his defense would want a vest on him.

Mangione, 26, appeared in court wearing a green cable knit sweater over a white shirt. He was brought into the courtroom in leg and arm shackles and wearing a bulletproof vest.

Theater to make him look like a villain that people want to shoot at.

The last poll they cared about was in early November 2024.

I mean, with all the guns flowing from the US into Mexico, I think it’s probably in Mexico’s best interest to annex south Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California as a buffer zone.

With the context of your “toss-in” –

Gee, it’s almost like people have always been the way that they are, and what’s changed is the freedom to be who they are out loud.

Oh look, they’re cooking the books. Who could have predicted this?

Musk may be an idiot in a lot of ways, but he knows how to leverage his power over others.

This is comically easy to do when you wield unconscionable amounts of economic power. I don’t think that makes Musk “not an idiot” in any way.

The other side of that coin is that capital punishment doesn’t protect anyone from anything. In fact, it puts us all in more danger for a variety or reasons, including:

• The State can kill you with impunity if so desired
• Where capital punishment exists, people who commit crimes are more likely to escalate to more heinous acts in order to evade capture