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Do you also tell it you don't trust the choices it's making?

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Whose balls hang so low that they could be under a beach chair that you are lying in? He couldn't have been on his stomach because they said they slipped through the slat when he sat down.

Where the hell is Encyclopedia Brown when you need him?

TM

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They are delicious, but you have to order a good number of them to fill up.

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Another way to deal with a behavior you don't like is to condition it to something else, and then take away the trigger. Pryor's book talks about a dog that barked all the time when crated. The owner got a piece of wood, black on one side and white on the other, and hung it in the room on the door. If the dog barked when the white side was showing, she came and let it out immediately. If the dog barked when the black side was showing, nada. The dog learned that barking only worked when the white side was showing, and then eventually the owner left the black side up all the time.

Not useful here, but kinda cool.

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I'm ready for a new phone with Verizon -- any suggestions? I use the camera a lot, and am inclined to get one with a 3-megapixel camera, if available.

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There was a picture floating around the internet a while back of Cisco Adler, who I think is a musician -- anyway, he was the boyfriend of that girl who looks like a meth head now -- she was on the O.C. My point is that his balls hung to his knees. Maybe old Mario had the same issue.

"Do your "ears" hang low, can you tie them in a bow?"
 

Because they called it a deck chair and not a lounge, I assumed when they said he lay in the sun, it was more like leaning back in the chair instead of lying flat.

ETA: Gwink's theory works too.

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our dog, when he barks, we put ice cubes on his balls then push them through something small. then we hit him with a sun lamp. it stops him short, believe me, but won't work with a bitch, plus no neuters, also, you have to be close to the dog to get away with it.

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guy had to have some out-of-pocket pool (NTTAWWT) going on- even if he fell asleep and even if he balls just fell down, when they get big enough to contact slats you'd wake right up.

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STP. Oh well.

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Is he in school? If not, get him to a trainer posthaste and work with him every day. Repetition will help him get it, but it doesn't work if he just goes once a week for six weeks and you never work with the commands again.

One of the best training tools we have this go around is a clipboard. If the puppy is doing something she's not supposed to, we say "no" (in a calm voice) and then pull back the clipboard handle so it makes a loud, sudden popping sound. That startles the puppy so she stops doing whatever it was that she was doing, and she looks to us for comfort and/or direction. Anything that makes a loud, sudden sound works (flip flops clapped together are also great), but the key is to distract and annoy your puppy from doing the bad thing long enough to pay attention to you.

There's a dog school here that has a class called "Learn to Love Your Lab."

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When I was studying for the Texas bar, a cockatoo named Boogie used to hang out at the same coffee house where the Displaced Dog and I studied. Boogie was awesome. He'd drink lattes, flirt with the ladies, and tease the Displaced Dog. Until I met him, I never knew that birds had personalities. His owner said that Boogie would sleep on a perch next to the bed, and would jump in the shower with him. Boogie had been nearly stolen twice, but both times he pecked the would-be thieves, and flew back to his owner.

The major bird-owning drawback that I could see is that (at least for cockatoos) it's a near life-long commitment. Their lifespan is 30-70 years, and my understanding is that they're a one-human bird. Apparently, they're (again, at least to cockatoos) prone to psych problems if they're not in the right environment.

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It's like none of you know anything. In order to get a dog to do whatever you want it to do, simply keep it in a calm, submissive mindstate by saying, "Sh!" and tapping it once it leaves that state of mind. You should also give off positive, dominant yet calm and assertive energy. And, oh yeah, own the space around you. That should do it.

TM

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Has anyone watched Dogtown (the show on after Dog Whisperer on Animal Planet)? It is a current favorite of mine. I fall in love with the dogs on that show every single time (starting with the Vick dogs that were featured on the first episode I ever saw). Just added it to the Tivo season passes.

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Look at it! LOOK!

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TM