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You know it's been 2 years since I've posted on here? I'm alive, I'm doing... Better. Life was hard for a while and some days feel easier than before. But here are my kids, we're added to the pack.

Pandora, 6 years old, black standard poodle

Carbon, 3 years old, black lab

Thalia, 3 years old, black and tan beagle/lab/pit

Rocher, 3 years old, tan beagle/lab/pit

Neon, 10 months old, black and white fox hound/lab

Zest, 12 weeks old, tan unknown mix

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Marie Kondo quotes but edited to be about training dogs

“Does this training spark joy?” If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. 

When you reward, you gain a little confidence. You start to believe in the future.

We should be choosing what behaviours we want to keep, not what we want to get rid of.

The space in which we train should be for the dog they are becoming now, not for the dog they we were in the past.

Keep only the training that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest.

People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking.

Visible reactions distract us from the true source of the behaviour.

Training is the act of confronting yourself. 

We can only transform our training if we sincerely want to.  Small changes transform our training.

There are two reasons we can’t let go:  an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.

Now imagine yourself training in a way that contains only methods that spark joy. Isn’t this the lifestyle you dream of? 

From the moment you start training, you will be compelled to reset the rest of your life.

Once you learn to use your training properly, you will be left with only the ways that suit you perfectly. 

Changing training habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

It is human nature to resist throwing something away even when we know we should.

To get rid of training you no longer need is neither wasteful or shameful.

The whole point in both discarding training and keeping training is to be happy.

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Me: *Sees articles about flyball fitness* Oh cool, just what I need. *Articles literally just mentions exercises should be done but never names any* Also Me: ...well that was useless.

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Everybody here is "Child" until they mess up then it's sir or ma'am.

Apropos of nothing, I love how @malinwoman refers to Happy as a ‘woman’.

Bindi’s been a ‘kid’ her entire life.

My roommate’s chihuahua is a ‘mister’.

I tend to address dogs as ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’.

I just like refering to dogs with these respectfully teasing (teasingly respectful?) titles.

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Every 2 weeks is our standard schedule minus little old lady Ice who just gets spot cleaned as needed. Nails and ears get done at the same time and Pandora gets neatened every other time and a groom when I get a chance. 

On another note, my work has an unlimited bathing membership and we have at least 80 dogs that get a bath once a week, sometimes twice depending on the weather.

How often do you bathe your dog(s)? 🤔

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My sweet summer child earned her FM this weekend.

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Happy New Year’s Eve

🎉🎊 🎉🍾🎉🥂🎉✨🎉

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Me, at the beginning of the decade: I will never refer to my pets as my children.

Me, at the end of the decade: my son would never do that.

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"Intact males have no self control around bitches in season"

Carbon - "🤔 never heard of it"

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Ice has been very sick lately and fortunately Pandora has been very empathetic towards her and she's helped me keep the pups away so Ice can rest.

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My dumb thing

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Carbon, 11 months

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I may have done a dumb thing....

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Calling all Dogblrs!

I’m in need of more dogblrs so I can do Inktober without repeating the few blogs I follow - Reblog and I’ll follow if you’re mostly dog content

Edit: Or recommend dogblrs here, keep the love going <3

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Pandora is 24″ and 43-46 lbs depending on the time of year.

polling dogblr:

how many of you have dogs that are ~20” tall and 40-45lbs?

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Rocher got a serious lesson in stay the other day. Still got to put some duration on it but she's got the distance thing down.

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So, this is not my reply but I got 71 dogs on the books today in my shop. 21 of them are doodle. That's 30% just for today! I have no doubt that in a week I see well over 70% doodles.

Doodles aren't my favorite thing by far but once you train the clientele and the dogs it's pretty smooth sailing.

it’s not like it’s hard to find this reply but anyway im curious what region u r in because i’ve worked in a grooming salon in three places in the deep south (nc, and two in sc) and i think 70% is underestimating how many dogs were doodles