touching grass is not enough I need to train dogsport

ryleigh • she/her • 28yo Minnesota 🇺🇸 agility, obedience, mostly mondioring, and now i guess canicross????

[groenendaze]

It's been a week with this golden boy. I am SO impressed with this puppy and so excited about our future. Happy first week, Solo

[beemovieerotica]

hate it when pets learn words, my dog flips out when he hears "greenie" so we had to start saying "G word" but now he knows G word so we have to say shit like "are we out of emerald indulgences"

[yellow-cat]

its less like a mental health walk situation and more like a "i have these dogs in me and if i dont take them for a walk every day theyll turn on me"

[weebsandwobs]

quito - 10 weeks montage

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[prescription-cactus]

what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.

[border-collie]

it's not until you are deeply involved in dog sports that you realize that when a person picks their dog breed of choice, they are picking the one with the same problems they have

[hotvampireadjacent]

[elvenferretots]

Please help Valkyrie keep her teeth!

I've mentioned in passing on here that Valkyrie broke a canine. It was quoted at $4,200, and I was given a half-down payment plan. Turns out, she's damaged all four and needs crowns to prevent the same thing happening to all of them. The new total came out to almost $9,100. She needs those canines to keep doing the sports that are so essential to both of our mental health, but this last year has drained every resource I have.

If you're more comfortable paying the clinic directly, I can also give that info. I can also share info for booking virtual dog training privates or trick dog evaluations, if you'd rather support us that way!

Every little bit helps, even just freeing up my paycheck that little bit for dog food and gas money.

Donate to Support Valkyrie's Dental Surgery, organized by Ron McKinnon

Valkyrie's broken tooth fund - It has been a year of personal tragedy from helping best… Ron McKinnon needs your support for Support Valkyri

[pigeon-butch]

your muscles being pleasantly sore after exercise is such a nice incentive I can see why they patched that in. the forced regular logins to avoid losing progress however are a predatory practice and deserve nothing but scorn.

[avoiding-claws]

Still doing weird story requests?

What’s the craziest thing a person has admitted to feeding their dog as a long term diet? Not the classic raw meat, but truly insane stuff like McDonalds every meal or something.

Literally always, I love it.

Oh my god this made me think. I’ve heard so much random stuff over the years.

You’ve got a Yorkie that was ONLY fed salmon and steak? A spaniel put on a home made vegan diet (BAD). Bulldog frequently being given raw egg and weetabix. I do vaguely remember a dog being fed spaghetti on the regular but I can’t remember the context.

Had a cat also that was given a sugary tea every morning too.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

I knew a dog that was fed whole sticks of butter.

[heu-ris-tic]

Had a client who legit would feed their border collie entire boxes of whoppers, puppy chow (the snack…like…the Chex mix peanut butter chocolate sugary snack), entire candy bars etc.

Dog was obese, terrified of everything, and their only goal was to be able to put a collar on him.

[fastwalker]

men will get ONE people pleaser herding breed dog, style themselves as dog training experts on social media, and grift people out of thousands of dollars

[blondebrainpowered]

Leucistic Loon on a remote lake in British Columbia, Canada.

Photographer: Chris Whitty

[akajustmerry]

I wanna say from very bottom of my heart that I deeply truly rabidly despise Taylor Swift and the glamorous black hole of immorality, gracelessness and lack of integrity she represents. I truly hate that I have to witness her 2-chord mediocre stream of consciousness high school ballads win the highest accolades in music. I hate how there's not a single discourse - from sports to fucking queer theory - that's free of her. I hate her white feminism, how she's never stood for a single thing that didn't ensure her wealth. I hate how she's credited and praised for things marginalised artists did before her. I hate how she latches onto new artists so they serve HER fame, like remoras to a shark. I hate her phony humble beginnings narrative that people parrot without acknowledging she's a nepo baby. I hate what she did to olivia rodrigo and how no one talks about it. I hate the waste her concerts, lifestyle, and merch create and that a young girl died from heat illness at her concert because the swift team prioritises exclusivity and profit over safety. I hate how she and her fandom popularised the idea that critiquing a woman = misogyny. I hate how she's in her mid 30s and still writes songs like she's a teenager and that songs written by a woman in her 30s acting like a teenager are inescapable. I hate she deliberately re-releases songs and records so other artists can't chart. I hate how she regularly and openly associates with bigoted people but somehow is always given the benefit of the doubt. Most of all I hate how she does and continues to do all of this and so much more and her fans will always have a, "but!" always have an, "anyway!". she's openly and uncritically supporting a presidential candidate who's administration is enacting genocide, but because she made a joke with her cats, we're meant to be like, "yay!" I truly despise Taylor Swift and the black hole of neoliberal white feminist mediocrity she is in popular culture.

[cognitohazardous]

dogs love using their horizontal nature to stand in front of you

[oliviawhen]

Some polymer clay magnets I made to put in my gachapon machine at Illo Mart this weekend! I really like how they turned out! 💖

[eeyore1926]

Drunk fremen walking back from the bar in a straight line