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[pmcd9]

Cans for Hash Wed.

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Cans for Hash Wed.

Yes, cans you can turn into tiny bongs. Much better than Catholic guilt any day!

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Only tangentially related: when the pup gets excited, he does what I call "mouthing," which is not actually biting, but more putting his open mouth on my hands without use of teeth while playing. Not cool because the next step is actual biting, which is 100% not allowed, and something I especially want to train out of him before Tokyo baby arrives. Affective response to put a stop to it? I shove my whole damn hand in his mouth everytime he tries that move.  After a couple WTF reactions from him, he no longer tries this.  You want a hand in your mouth?  You get a WHOLE hand in your mouth!  Shocked corgi face is pretty funny.

[wombat]

Only tangentially related: when the pup gets excited, he does what I call "mouthing," which is not actually biting, but more putting his open mouth on my hands without use of teeth while playing. Not cool because the next step is actual biting, which is 100% not allowed, and something I especially want to train out of him before Tokyo baby arrives.

Actually most dog trainers think it's important for a dog to understand how to mouth a human gently. One of the things that puppies learn when playing rough with each other is exactly how hard you have to bite for it to hurt. Because we don't have fur, how hard it hurts on a person is different, and a dog should know this:

Dogs have one defense—their teeth. Every dog can bite. If frightened enough, or in pain or threatened, your dog will bite. That doesn't in any way make him a "bad" dog. It makes him a dog. It's your responsibility, therefore, to teach your dog that humans are fragile. If you teach your dog bite inhibition, that training will carry over even if he's later in a position where he feels forced to bite.

http://www.clickertraining.com/node/725

It sounds like your dog already knows how to mouth gently and that's a good thing, so I wouldn't respond to this with punishment.  You do want to teach him that that's not appropriate play, which you can do by simply stopping play. If he learns that mouth on hand means you stop playing with him, that will work just as well. Just get up, walk away, ignore him for a bit.

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Thanks for that wombat, I'd never thought of it that way, and he is gentle.  It's just something I started in prep for the coming little one cause I just think it would be unacceptable for him to mouth a baby, at all.   I can't use a clicker.  Whatever his previous owners did, clicking a clicker means run, hide and cower in fear.

[theinevitable]

I hope this petite 30-something married customer at work doesn't know (does know?) that she is my imaginary valentine.
I have a Thing for women who always seem frazzled. Not to mention the whole "hipster mom" vibe, holy cow.

I hate working the opening shift while it's happening, but the part where it's over and I have the rest of the day to myself makes it so worth it. What a great feeling.

Today I'm gonna try to find a brain doctor to give me some pills. This whole "learn to cope" strategy is definitely important to keep working on, but is not sufficient.

[wombat]

Thanks for that wombat, I'd never thought of it that way, and he is gentle.  It's just something I started in prep for the coming little one cause I just think it would be unacceptable for him to mouth a baby, at all.   I can't use a clicker.  Whatever his previous owners did, clicking a clicker means run, hide and cower in fear.

I don't suggest a clicker for this - I just thought that link had a good explanation of why you need to teach a soft mouth. People who are really good at clicker training want to train everything with a clicker but for a lot of things it's more complexity than you need. He's already got a soft mouth, so now if you want to teach him not to mouth even in play, you just need to be consistent that "mouth on skin" always means "play is over." Simple cause and effect.

[doomglobe]

TIG buy tulips instead of roses. Fuck quadruple price gouge-roses. Hopefully the special lady will prefer to date a man who isn't a chump. Maybe this will blow up in my face. BONZAI

[theinevitable]

today the dude "who isn't a chump" spends his money on a different slowly dying pretty plant.

I am 100% a sucker for Valentine's day and romance and whatever, but I can't wrap my head around giving flowers.

[Mr Trout]

Today I did the same thing I do every day: ski, jump off big rocks, and ski some more. It certainly didn't suck I'll tell you what.


Time to eat a billion tacos, drink a thousand beers, and have a Skype date with that special lady who is currently 600 miles too far.

[Mr Trout]

Race you to proper inebriation!

 Tacos and beer got replaced with steak and scotch because goddammit I'm worth it.

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TIG see the little one, and get the news that everything is going to be okay.



Best V day ever.  Second best was when I was drunk with hubby in Cuba and he squirted crab juice on the face of a lady one table over and I over-fed a sick stray cat until it barfed on the floor of the open air restaurant.

[pmcd9]

All I gotta say is that baby must be pretty special if he tops your Cuba Shenanigans.

[Carlos del Vaca]

TIG see the little one, and get the news that everything is going to be okay.

SO glad to hear this. Right on.

[Arachno-capitalist]

HOO'''YAAAH!

Good call on the scotch, Trouters, I upgraded to a whiskey myself.

Canadian Mist isn't exactly an "upgrade"