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Velvet living the van life
What more can u ask of life?
Bad photo but uhhhh More coconut oil results Her hair is thick and soft still V easy to comb Not collecting dirt as bad as I thought?? Easy to bbbbbbraid
Bubs will forever turn a shitty day into the best day ever ❤️
Velvet and Zvea eating some snow mmm what a snack
So my doggo met some other doggos out at the farm. And some big doggos aka horses and some small ones aka cats.
my pet: *does anything*
me:
Silly puppy
Dogs in the snow…
The music is Slobberbone’s Gimme Back My Dog. I wish the universe would, but he’s gone and I miss him.
Footage found on my old BlackBerry Playbook.
Animal trainer valentine’s hearts for y’all <3
@themotherfuckingclickerkid thinking of u
omg I love this
Another Salt Wells gelding. I’m really thinking Toto could be Salt Wells, that profile is uncanny. 5 years old, 14.3 hands. The bidding war is going to be VICIOUS on these boys.
Omg beautiful horse
Sweetheart doesn't mind the snow ❄️
Velvet and her shaved leg. Such a cute little burned bun!
exploring..
What a good doggo
I live in the USA and shock collars have always bothered me. I see them fairly often on dogs in Petco. I had to dogsit a family pet and was handed the remote to his shock collar to, in their words, keep him calm. He was a puppy and the reason he had it was because "he jumps and pulls on the leash". Puppies... do that??
Where shock collars are freely available there seems to be this persistent belief that if you can just be tough/fierce/scary/strong/alpha enough then the animal will ‘submit’ and have perfect behavior. This isn’t the case, and it’s super confusing for an animal to be surrounded by strong ‘DONT DO THAT’ messages without any positive ‘Do This’ messages, it can only guess at what you want.
Sometimes they stop trying and they exhibit learned helplessness, where they essentially do nothing because they don’t understand how to void the punishment. In a human this might look like depression, but people might mistake this behavior as being ‘a good/obedient dog’ instead. This is because the animal stopped showing the behaviour the human didn’t like, but it is not a good state for the dog to be in.
I’d also like to point out how dogs who stop showing signs of distress or aggression aren’t safe dogs for anyone around them – human or animal – if anyone who reads this and is thinking it doesn’t sound so bad to have a “chill” dog all the time. Dogs with learned helplessness almost always go from 0 to 60 in an instant because they skip all other warnings (moving away, stiffened posture, growling, air snapping, all other “I am not okay so stop what you’re doing and leave me alone or I will escalate things until you do” types of communication). They’re the dogs who are “fine” one moment and the next someone is on the floor with a bleeding dog bite.
Which also happens to mean they’re at increased risk of having to be put down, not to mention injuring, disfiguring, or even killing someone or something.
Once you get to the point where a dog has learned helplessness, there’s really very little you can do and they’re extremely hard to work with as a behaviourist. Because they don’t give off any signs of what they’re feeling until it’s too late, there’s a mountain of trial and error you have to go through before you can actually start working to help the dog. And every trial carries the risk of the dog reacting, which puts the people around in danger, can end the session early because the dog is in no mental space to continue, and can erode any trust the trainer has built with the dog.
(You also have to convince the owner not to do X and Y and have the owner be able to convince anyone who comes into contact with the dog not to do X and Y, which can be super difficult because I swear some people just want to be bit. I have lost count of the number of times people and clients have been told not to do X to their dog, only for them to do it in front of me, or admit to doing it at home, or letting family and friends do X, and then they wonder why all the training isn’t helping.)
Some dogs do respond well with specialized training and work, but others are too traumatized. The most that can be done for them is setting them up with a safe and calm space in a home with people who won’t push them, but in some cases the dog is so traumatized and so unsafe that euthanasia is the only humane option.
I can’t speak to things on the vet side of things, but dogs with learned helplessness are some of the scariest dogs to be around. They hide what they’re feeling for fear of punishment so you have no clue if the dog is fine and relaxed or if it’s getting close to 60. I’d rather deal with a dog that growls and muzzle-punches than one who seems perfectly fine no matter what, since at least with the former you have behaviour to react to and know where you stand.
So you may have a “chill” dog for the moment, but the next moment may be very different.
THIS THIS THIS
We have a young golden retriever patient who was anxious and mouthy. He probably would have done great with positive reinforcement and anxiolytics. The owners (a lovely but gullible older couple) consulted the local Cesar Milan-style trainer who was all about the prong and shock collars, and now he’s fucking dangerous and really ought to be put down.
Two visits ago, he was giving all happy signals in the exam room, and I knelt and looked at his belly to check an area the owner was concerned about, and he nailed me straight in the face without ANY warning. No growl, no tensing up, nothing. Top jaw over my nose, lower jaw around my lips. THANK GOD it was just a warning bite and I was only bruised and sore for a few days. It could have been much, much worse.
And the scariest part was immediately after he was back to being lovey and trying to kiss my face, all loose, wiggly body language and everything.
And then at the last visit, we muzzled him for his exam and vaccines because of the above incident (we finished everything at that exam fine with just a muzzle), and he proceeded to flail wildly, scratching all of us to hell, knocking Doc against the wall so hard she bruised, and nearly broke my hand when it got caught in his collar. He also sprayed stress diarrhea, anal glands, and saliva all over us and the room. Only afterward did the owners reveal that he’s getting worse at home, too, and he’s started biting *them* without warning if they deviate at all from their usual routine for coming in or leaving the house. He goes from “calm” to absolutely losing it, and has drawn blood on them. We’ve discussed medication, but there’s a strong bias in the area against any sort of medical management of mental health (for people or animals) so they declined. And we don’t have any behaviorist in the area to refer to, unfortunately. So now I guess we’re just waiting until he puts someone in the hospital, and the court makes them put him down. Meanwhile Milan-wannabe is still in business in our community, living scot-free of the consequences that their “training” methods have had, while the poor animal and the rest of us who have to deal with him pay the price.
I keep seeing comments on this post about how people know their shock collars are ok to use because they’ve tried them on themselves and it doesn’t hurt.
It is not just about the pain. Understanding how to implement such training tools is equally or more important. If you don’t have a firm grasp on the difference between positive reinforcement, positive punishment, negative reinforcement, and negative punishment (and the general public does not actually understand these ideas at all……), then you should not ever even think about using these collars. @iheartvmt’s story is a classic example of people not understanding the differences. Please seek a veterinary behavior specialist or a certified applied animal behaviorist.