#PLS FEEL FREE TO REBLOG ITS A RLY GOOD BOOK.

[creekfiend]

I get a lot of asks about training advice and I'm always like "well I am not a professional in any capacity" and also I forget every book I have ever read etc the moment someone asks me, but I remembered at random today that my very talented friend has written a really amazing training book that I think would be especially good for the people who tend to ask me this, bc Bridger has ADHD (LIKE DO MANY OF US) and is therefore really good at breaking things down into digestible chunks! this is one of the things I find most challenging about training so I think this is an extra valuable thing to have in a book.

It's mostly training basics for people who are beginners, but in a way where you can use the info the build a LOT of skills once you grasp the basics, and I really vibe with Bridger's ethics around training as well.

it's called Level Up Your Dog Training by Natalie Bridger Watson and I'm going to provide a couple different links where you can get it.

Amazon link:

Support a small business link:

(Bridger adds: "Also for accessibility, there is a large print paperback edition (Amazon only) and a digitally-narrated audiobook (Google Play only, trying to get it available more places). Am aware of the ethical implications of AI narration and would like to replace this with a human-narrated version when I can, but that costs $1,000-$2,000+ to hire out, so the not-ideal compromise is digitally-narrated for accessibility in the short term with plans to do better when I can.")

Anyway this is a really great book and not recommended as often as it should be bc it's just not one of the standard go-to books (yet!!!) so I thought I would plug it and in doing so answer all the training rec asks I get all the time and am so bad at answering 🤣

[softkwannie]

tags, glorious tags

apologies for littering your feed, but i’ve been tagged in a few things! i think some of the question things are repeated across both but oh well here goes

✧ fact tag ✧

(this one is rly overdue, sorry about that, but thanks for the tag!!)

tagged by: @handsomevchwe

name: sophie

height: 5’4 (162cm?? same height as hoon, support group will tell u, its a real conundrum…)

age: 18

birthday: february 6th

fav groups: seventeen, day6, nct, bts & many, many others

sign: aquarius

fav colours: yellow & purple

piercings: 2 in each earlobe

tattoos: 0 (my pain tolerance is<)

ults: seungkwan, wonwoo, wonpil, taehyung, haechan

i was also tagged in a selfie thing but i’m a lil scared of exposing myself uhhhh,,,,thank you for the tag, though!! maybe one day when i learn how to actually take a selfie...me and won are v alike in that sense it seems lol

✧getting to know me tag ✧

tagged by: @kingyeoms

name: sophie

nickname: soph

star sign: aquarius

gender: female

sexuality: ji rly said seoksexual,,,,agreed

favourite colour: purple/yellow

time right now: 10:02pm

average hours of sleep: 6 on a good night but recently...4

lucky numbers: 13 and 6 (i realise 13 is supposed to be unlucky but it always props up in my life somehow...maybe it’s more of a bad omen lol)

last thing googled: ‘best low-ranked universities’...a girl’s gotta be prepared yk

number of blankets: only the one!! i usually wear big hoodies to sleep

what are you wearing: pyjama shorts and my school shirt 

favourite fictional character: shizuku from whisper of the heart

favourite book: the kite runner by khaled hosseini

favourite musicians: 

kpop - seventeen, day6, epik high, nct, bts

otherwise - the 1975, rex orange county, lorde

dream job: something to do with editing/copywriting/publishing

# of followers: just under 100 pals

when did you create your blog: october 2018, although i’ve only really started to use it in the past few months

what made you get into tumblr: wattpad became too cringy LOL (jk i rly can’t disrespect my own roots like that)

when did your blog reach its peak: i hasn’t yet but soon, hopefully

do you get asks on a daily basis: actually i rarely get asks at all, so pls feel free to send me stuff!! i’ve reblogged loads of ask games under my ask tag :’)

why did you choose your url: bc i’m soft for seungkwan and have no imagination, it seems

tagging: ngl i’ve completely lost track of who’s been tagged before in these so anybody who hasn’t been already and feels like a ramble, go for it - i tag you to complete either/both/none of these at your leisure ~

[arodrwho]

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.

was tagged by @chromalogue​ (thank!!)

1. nicknames: the ro friend calls me ace, little sister 1 calls me dork, and and little sister 2 goes back and forth between “face,” “faish,” and “fishy” bc she adorably can’t pronounce my name proper (which tbh no kids ever rly can)

2. gender: mostly a girl, sometimes more, sometimes less

3. star sign: virgo

4. height: 5′1

5. time: 11:10pm

6. birthday: sept. 3

7. favorite bands: ehhhhhh i don’t ? rly listen to bands a whole lot uh. poets of the fall is nice, and fun., and nickelback, and ? others

8. favorite solo artists: uhhhh well tracy chapman’s always gonna be up there, fond of amos lee too, and p!nk, and julia nunes, & ?? others again

9. song stuck in my head: “i’ve got a dream” from tangled and “pizza” by julia nunes have both drifted through a couple times while writing this, also “when the sun goes down” from in the heights

10. last movie i watched: the incredibles!!

11. last show i watched: uhhhh i just watched the latest supergirl ep, but like fuck that bc the whole...nazi crap they’re pulling. soooo let’s talk the last show i watched in the marathon sense, which is leverage. love me some leverage

12. when did i create my blog: 2013

13. what do i post: if we’re talking original posts then complaining mostly? but if we’re talking reblogs then dr who stuff (+bonus leverage and fringe)

14. last thing i googled: “in california if you’re on your parents’ insurance can they tell what doctor’s visits you’ve had”. (answer: surprisingly not always! under certain circumstances u get privacy)

15. do i have any other blogs: yyyyyyep. i’ve got the doomblog over @aroacenbdrwhoquotes, and i’ve got a writing blog i never use @greencomposition, anD i’ve also got a sort of....personal sideblog for junk i don’t want followers i know irl to see (which is in theory give-out-able on request but in practice [vague shrug])

16. do i get asks: ehhh rarely

17. why i chose my url: because i’m the most sentimental fuck who’s ever lived (read: it’s taken from the title of a picture book my mom bought me the day i was adopted) (it’s” called the tin forest” and it’s a rly good book, w/themes i can’t quite word but feel v strongly about)

18. following: uhhhh 163

19. followers: 458

20. average hours of sleep: mmm bout 8

21. lucky number: 4

22. instruments: the tiniest possible amount of violin 

23. what I’m wearing: dude jeans, college t-shirt i got for free, mismatch socks one of which has lil sheeps on it and says “black sheep of the family” which is.....ironic & mildly hilarious, considering. aND also a v soft hoodie w/3 whole avengers on it (hulk, thor, & iron man)

24. dream job: writer. pls let me make the words go for dollars

25. dream trip: uhhhh well, if we take “dream” to its extreme, then i’d say a trip Anywhere in the tardis (except somewhere there’s plague, bc uhhhhh no thx)

26. favourite food: [samwise gamgee voice] PO-TA-TOES. boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew

27. nationality: american, unfortunately

28: favourite song right now: uhhhhhh idk that i have a favorite song rn tbh. am not as wild into music as other folks. like i like it but i also....disengage from it for long periods of time, sorta forget it’s a thing i can listen to, & am only just slipping back into it after one of those periods, so. i got nothin

29. last book I read: uhhhh i read some of the brief wondrous life of oscar wao for class? but non-class-wise, i’m in the middle of rereading good omens

30. top three fictional universes: dr who ofc, and i wanna say fringe and leverage bc those are the shows i’m most into rn buuuuut there is also the fact that hp owns my entire damn soul, and that the young wizards universe is cool as Heck. so...gonna have to actually say dr who, hp, and yw. yeah (wAIT but star wars??? can i have four bc if i can then also star wars)

friiiiick if i’m tagging 20 people lmao but i’ll do a few i guess? @killuabs @keepthemacramesecret @fangoriousfae @autisticpadfoot and ??? whoever else the heck wants to do this, consider urself tagged