A Hazard to Society

just a boy and his person

[hazard-and-friends]

new pinned bc popular post

hi! I don't usually get popular posts.

I'm a professional dog trainer, working a lot with reactive and adolescent dogs. I also teach nosework.

Hazard (#hazard to society) is my rescue shar pei/cattle dog mix (really) who gives me immense grief and growth on a regular basis.

K'seil (#bucket full of starlight) is my Aussie who thinks all problems can be solved by going faster.

And Penny (#nepenthe) is our cat. She just learned how to sit in laps at the age of 8 years old we're very proud.

My tagging system is pretty consistent except apparently for my job, which has all kinds of tags. My wife also has access to this blog and sometimes posts pics.

[hazard-and-friends]

diversity win! the spammer emailing me is poly!

[hazard-and-friends]

if I had a nickel for every time a client with a behavior case dog got another behavior case dog earlier than I recommended, I'd have two nickels.

which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[hazard-and-friends]

me: do I need to schedule around my CT scan next week? what if they have to sedate me and I can't drive afterward- me: ... me: I'm not a dog. I will probably be cooperative with the CT scan and not bite the tech.

[hazard-and-friends]

I was cooperative with the CT scan and did not bite the tech. who was a client. go figure.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

was your pet expensive to get?

yes

no

not the most expensive but not the cheapest either

for free

it was a gift

found it outside

traded for something

results

Remaining time: 2 days 6 hours

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

imho when you have 200,000,000 olfactory receptors and perceive the world predominantly by smell you probably don’t have to press your cold wet nose directly against my bare skin to get a good whiff of where I’ve been

[blueboyluca]

You probably already know this (and I know this is a joke post), but the touching may be direct absorption into the vomeronasal organ!

The vomeronasal organ is probably why a dog’s nose is wet. Most animals with vomeronasal organs have wet noses, too. It is difficult for an airborne odor to land squarely on the vomeronasal organ, since it is situated in a safe, dark interior recess of the face. A hearty sniff not only brings molecules into the dog’s nasal cavity; little molecular bits also stick onto the moist exterior tissue of the nose. Once there, they can dissolve and travel to the vomeronasal organ through interior ducts. When your dog nuzzles against you, he is actually collecting your odor on his nose: better to confirm that you’re you. In this way, dogs double their methods of smelling the world.

— Alexandria Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (2009)

[doomspaniels]

Gwyn still tries to bury toys she's actively holding in her mouth (but only in blankets, doesn’t try to bury otherwise). In this video you can see why it happens, because the ball is glow-in-the-dark! My darling short-attention-spaniel puts the ball down to bury it; she starts burying it; she turns around, sees it, and grabs it back up; she continues burying "it" (nothing).

Sounds: Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy playing with Tristan 9ut of sight, says "Oh, so good!" Gwyn makes an excited little gurgle and then lots of excited little blowing noises.

[kangals]

I wish I could use my own cheek fluff as a pillow

[pitbolshevik]

the weird looks i get from people when i say i feed my dogs purina is so funny like im sorry im not jumping on the salmonella train or the "give your dogs REAL food that makes their pancreas kill itself" train

[pitbolshevik]

and if you say something about how your vet says purina is good you get to watch the person you're talking to animorph into rfk jr for dogs

[pitbolshevik]

"b-but purina is owned by nestle" don't make me tap the sign

nestle owns fucking everything and the simple reality is that most of the brands of anything, not just pet food, that are anywhere close to affordable are owned by the same 5 evil megacorporations

and in the case of petfood, the smaller brands not owned by evil megacorps are often not researched as well.

[pitbolshevik]

the thing about criticism of dog shows is that a good 50% of the people making those criticisms dont actually know very much about dog shows

[pitbolshevik]

like there are absolutely things to criticize about kennel clubs and showing. god knows I've talked about it. but i feel like most of the people who are loudest about it don't actually go after the things worth criticizing, yk?

[pitbolshevik]

we could be talking about how there are multiple dog breeds whose recognized names have racial slurs in them but instead you want to focus on bull terriers having weird heads

[hazard-and-friends]

some dogs LOVE watermelon. not mine tho.

[moshroom]

tensions are high & patience is low this week. all because miss princess has learned to scale the castle walls

[moshroom]

the castle improvements are working perfectly. miss princess dr. physics has been outwitted!! 😤

[moshroom]

new problem

[hazard-and-friends]

pov: you are not kicking the ball

[hazard-and-friends]

her second Rally Novice run! she's a little worried about fireworks noises, but she looks? fantastic??? literally I keep comparing to Hazard's second RN leg and going "holy shit".

it's possible this is why people compete with herding breeds.

[hazard-and-friends]

me: do I need to schedule around my CT scan next week? what if they have to sedate me and I can't drive afterward- me: ... me: I'm not a dog. I will probably be cooperative with the CT scan and not bite the tech.

[molosseraptor]

We have a lot to celebrate this weekend!

Figaro added new titles to both ends of his name. On Friday he took Winners Dog and BOW for 3 points and his second major, Saturday he took RWD and passed both legs of his AKC Temperament Test needed for his title, and today Fig got the last three points he needed (and another major) to become an AKC Champion! He also passed his CGCA and handled himself well over a long weekend of hanging out while I was testing at the show.

CH Odisseia Magnum Opus BN RI CGCA TKN FTN ATT RATI RATS

[hazard-and-friends]

We tried to get K'seil to lay down alongside her ribbons like one of those French girls but it didn't work.