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mishasminions · 3 years

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Here’s why the Supernatural Series Finale Sucked

(AND IT REALLY ISN’T JUST BECAUSE CAS/MISHA WASN’T IN IT)

First of all, I’d like to state, that this perspective is coming from someone who has watched, invested in, and dissected this show for 15 years. I’ve tried to rationalize and justify every single decision each of the main characters made throughout the years, and I’ve always tried to make sense of each of their story arcs from a “bigger picture” standpoint as each season progressed.

Anyway, before I can properly explain why the finale sucked, let me quickly take you through 15 seasons by segregating them into 3 eras, because you can’t really comprehend what Supernatural is about and what it’s become without going through how it tried to expand its universe.

SEASONS 1-5: THE KRIPKE ERA

Now, we all know that Kripke was always set in wrapping up Sam and Dean’s story in 5 seasons, and he did just that.

So, in this era, Supernatural is about two brothers who set out on a journey to fulfill “the family business”. They hunt mythical monsters that terrorize the world, while battling the monsters within themselves. Their ultimate “big bad” is an apocalypse.

Towards the end of this era, we find out that Sam and Dean are actually a parallel to Biblical characters who are brothers turned rivals. And that Sam and Dean’s destiny is to go up against each other.

However, as a dynamic, they have always been about making their own choices, choosing free will, and having a brotherly bond that can power through against any obstacle at any given day.

So, this era is neatly wrapped up with its finale. The characters grow, and get justified endings.

Dean, a man who thinks of himself as two things: 1. Sam’s older brother and protector; and 2. Daddy’s blunt little instrument.

He’s spent his whole life believing that that was his only purpose, and he knew that the only ending he’ll get would either be a bloody death fulfilling his duty to the family business; or laying his life on the line to save his brother.

Dean gets the ending he thought was never possible for him, something he thought he could never deserve. After years of living and dying for his family, he gets a shot at having an apple pie life--to settle down with a nice girl, raise a kid in a house with a white picket fence. With Sam gone, Dean’s responsibility now is to himself.

Sam, on the other hand, never wanted any part of it, because he wasn’t groomed the way Dean was, and because thanks to Dean, Sam wasn’t traumatized or forced into growing up too quickly the way Dean was.

So Sam aspires for a normal life, and works the cases with Dean so he can maybe get some semblance of it, when everything they set out to kill are laid to rest.

Ultimately, Sam performs a selfless act for his brother, who has given up everything for him, and for their cause--to save the world.

The journey is this: Dean sacrifices everything to save Sam, and Sam sacrifices himself so Dean could live.

Apart from being Dean’s “savior” and guardian angel, Castiel’s role in this era is to serve as a mirror to Dean’s journey. Castiel goes from being heaven’s foot soldier, following “God’s orders”; to an angel who learns to choose and feel for the first time in his existence.

After they realize that they’re both daddy’s blunt instruments, Dean starts choosing his own path for himself, and convinces Castiel to join him. Castiel stops following heaven, and starts following Dean.

In the end, with his newfound understanding of the world thanks to Dean, Castiel goes back to heaven to reform it.

We’ve resolved the biblical arc, and the character journeys.

SEASONS 6-10: THE SPIN-OFF ERA

So this is where the show realizes how vast its universe can be, so it tries to expand it by tapping into uncharted lands and experimenting with it.

They take on heaven, reform hell, explore purgatory, have the angels fall, turn Dean into a demon, and kill Death.

Dean and Sam recognize their codependency, and try to rise above it.

They go back and forth between which brother will risk it all for the greater good every other season.

Dean and Cas strengthen their relationship by recognizing the impact they have on each other’s lives.

Cas structures his life and decisions around Dean (Seasons 6-7), and Dean learns to trust and fight for Cas (Seasons 8-9).

Sam and Cas bond (mostly over Dean) because of their shared rationales in decision-making.

Dean, Sam, and even Cas also forge relationships with the people they work with. The concept of “found family” is introduced here.

This era was heavy on the plot while establishing, reinforcing, and solidifying relationships and dynamics.

At this point, it wasn’t just about the brothers anymore.

If Supernatural had ended in Season 10, the logical finale would’ve been Team Free Will, along with the family that they’ve found, going up against the latest big bad (Death or whoever). Maybe they lose them along the way, maybe they all make it out alive, or maybe they go down swinging, but at least the show recognizes and supports the message they keep saying, “Family don’t end with blood”

SEASONS 11-15: THE REWRITE ERA

This is where the show runs out of ideas and decides to invalidate the seasons that came before it.

From bringing Mary back (basically rendering their whole journey pointless because they’ve literally started hunting because of her death), to changing the stipulations in being Michael and Lucifer’s vessels (another character struggle rendered useless), to God himself breaking the fourth wall by saying that the Winchesters get away with everything because “they’re the main characters in his story and everything they’ve been through was just part of a badly written narrative”.

But what we’re getting from this era is that Sam and Dean, along with Cas (who has also deviated from the story) ARE trying to escape a badly written narrative.

That’s the “big bad” in this era. The writer.

At this point, the characters have picked up so many strays (including those from alternate universes), and have settled into their roles in their “found family”. Dean, Sam, and Cas all become surrogate dads and uncles.

They’ve also graduated from the whole “we’re on different sides” and “going behind each other’s backs” drama. And they just want the whole family together.

They’ve all resigned themselves to the cause, but they’re also tired. Dean allows himself to contemplate about wanting more out of life or at least getting a vacation. Sam, on the other hand, realizes his capabilities as an effective leader. Castiel learns to love another being that isn’t Dean (spoiler: it’s Jack).

However, they also realize that they’ve just been puppets on a string all this time.

So what they want now, is to write their own story, and make their own choices knowing that God/the writer isn’t the one fueling their narrative.

So here’s why the finale sucks:

Andrew Dabb, the current showrunner, said that there would be two finales.

15x19 - The finale to wrap up Season 15, and 15x20 - The finale to wrap up the series by “resolving the characters’ journey”

In 15x19 the boys find a way to de-power God/the writer. For the first time in their whole lives, they are free from the story. Their lives are completely theirs now. They can make their own decisions. There are no more “big bads” to fight

And here’s what happens in 15x20:

Immediately after being freed from their story arc, Dean and Sam go back to hunting the monster of the week.

Dean eats pie, gets nailed (literally), makes a 10-minute speech to Sam because he knows he’s dying, then he goes to heaven.

Dean is greeted by Bobby, his surrogate Dad who he hasn’t seen (fully alive) since Season 7. Bobby’s expository dialogue comprises of him explaining that he got out of heaven’s jail, that John and Mary are next door, and that Jack and Cas fixed the dynamics of heaven off-screen.

The first thing Dean decides to do is go for a long drive in his Impala (as if he hasn’t done enough of that already).

Meanwhile, Sam decides to stop hunting after Dean dies, he gets the apple pie life he hadn’t wanted since Season 8 (while Dean was in Purgatory), and names his kid “Dean” for effect. He grows old and dies.

Dean drove around in heaven for so long that Sam catches up to him.

They hug. The end.

Great, right?

After 15 years of struggling to battle their own respective destinies, going up against big bads and even bigger bads, then finally being able to take charge of their own stories, Dean and Sam regress to hunting the monster of the week, and get killed off by a nail and old age. Okay.

Sam gets to retire and have a family, sure, but they still focus on him and the kid he named after his dead brother. Still just “Sam and Dean” through and through. Nothing to do with found family. Just lineage. Just blood. And it ends there.

See, the problem here is that this ending would’ve been passable in The Kripke Era. But we’re 10 years down the road since, and while Sam and Dean are the original main characters, the show isn’t just about them and their codependent relationship anymore.

So you see, even if you take out the whole “Castiel deserves to be in the finale because he’s also a main character with an unfinished story arc” argument, the finale still does no justice to the series it tried to “wrap up”.

But anyway, now I’ll make the case for the problem with Castiel not being in the finale:

In 15x18, we get a 5-minute rushed confession from Castiel to Dean. The context of which are as follows:

1. Earlier in the episode, Dean had wounded Death with her scythe. We later find out that this wound is fatal.

2. Their friends start to “blip out” in a Thanos-like snap, and Dean thinks that Death is causing it, so Dean seeks her out, and Cas goes with him.

3. Dean and Cas anger Death, apparently for no reason because she didn’t even do the thing they thought she did. She chases them to try to kill them

4. Dean and Cas lock themselves in a room. Dean starts a pity party.

5. As Dean goes through hating himself out loud, Cas decides to inform Dean of the deal he made with The Empty. He then proceeds to explain the stipulation of the deal (that he would get taken once he experiences a moment of true happiness), then discusses his newfound happiness philosophy. Dean is getting whiplash.

6. Cas goes on to imply that the one thing that he wanted that he knew he couldn’t have is Dean Winchester reciprocating his romantic feelings for him. (Don’t even try to fight me on this because Cas already has Dean’s platonic love, and he knows that Dean thinks of him as a brother, so if he really meant this in a “familial” way, then why would he think that he couldn’t have the thing that would make him happy?) So Cas’ realization is that telling Dean about his feelings is enough to make him happy.

7. Cas tells Dean all the reasons why he loves him (thereby combating Dean’s self-deprecation tirade), and all the reasons why he’s worthy of his love. Meanwhile, Dean is still winded from the fact that Cas is about to sacrifice himself for him again.

8. Dean never gets to process anything, because Cas is shoving him out of the way, as he and Death (who busts through the door) get taken by The Empty.

After this episode, Dean never speaks of it. Misha Collins supposes that Dean doesn’t reciprocate. Jensen Ackles says that Dean didn’t really get to process it because it was too much, too fast, and that Dean, still dense as ever, thinks that Cas, a celestial being, doesn’t interpret human feelings the same way.

So what was the point of this confession?

Politics and sensitivities of a 2005 network television aside, what does this do for the story?

Cas proclaims his romantic feelings to Dean, but Dean never acknowledges it, doesn’t even give it a passing thought afterwards. So Cas’ big declaration goes unheard.

Cas cashes in on his Empty deal to kill Death (who was dying anyway), in order to save Dean who dies two episodes after.

Dean makes no effort to save Cas (despite being really broken up about his previous deaths, or even spending a whole year in Purgatory looking for him), even after they’ve beaten God, not even asking Jack (who has all the power in the universe) to bring him back (when Jack has already done it before, with less mojo).

Dean moves on to fight the monster of the week. Somewhere off-screen, Jack rescues Cas from The Empty, but Cas uncharacteristically doesn’t even bother to go to Dean? (Every single time he comes back, Dean’s always the first person he goes to)

And Cas, who apparently helped craft and reform the new heaven, isn’t the one who welcomes Dean and explains the new dynamics of it?

Sure, Jan.

Supernatural, you’ve created a finale that only your casual viewers and people who dipped out after Season 5 can appreciate.

Just goes to show how much you actually valued the people who actually invested in your story and characters, and consistently helped keep your show on the air.

[RT this on Twitter]

#SUPERNATURAL #DESTIEL #15X20 #I KNOW I SAID THAT MY LAST LONG POST WAS MY LAST ON EVER BUT I REALLY DIDN'T THINK THE FINALE WOULD BE WORSE THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE #INSIGHTFUL INSIGHTS #UNTAGGED #PERSONAL

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feralkokopuff · 2 years

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˗ˏˋ DILF Cinematic Universe: part 3 ˎˊ˗

Men my age? 😒 Men 30+? Now THAT is where it's at. You know what time it is my fellow members of Team Geriatric. Beware, once you have entered DILFville, there is no turning back- it's time to pay these absolute MEN some homage and appreciation, so not in any particular order, give it up for the DILF Cinematic Universe + every movie/show I've seen them in. Do feel free to suggest more movies with them, I'm always game for content to hyperfixate on. Remember, these are based on my type- you don't have to agree with them ^^ See part 4 below:

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21. Sebastian Stan

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Captian America (all), The Devil All the Time, The Martian, Avengers (all), Black Swan, Ant-Man, Black Panther

22. Ethan Hawke

Sinister, Training Day, The Guilty, The Purge, Predestination, The Magnificent Seven, Daybreakers, Regression, First Reformed, 24 Hours to Live, In a Valley of Violence, Assault on Precinct 13, The Kid, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Adopt a Highway, Brooklyn's Finest, Good Kill, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Dead Poets Society

23. Benicio Del Toro

Sicario (all), The Wolfman, No Sudden Move, Guardians of the Galaxy (all), Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Sin City, Avengers (all), A Perfect Day, Thor: The Dark World

24. James McAvoy

Split, Glass, X-Men (all), IT Chapter Two, The Chronicles of Narnia (all), Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Unbreakable

25. Stellan Skarsgård

Chernobyl, Dune, Good Will Hunting, Insomnia, Nymphomaniac, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Thor (all), Angels & Demons, The Glass House, In Order of Disappearance, Our Kind of Traitor, Ronin, The Railway Man, The Avengers

26. Brad Pitt

Fury, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Fight Club, Seven, Interview With The Vampire, Inglourious Basterds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, World War Z, Legends of the Fall, Ocean's Eleven, As Astra, A River Runs Through It, Allied, Sleepers, The Big Short, Twelve Years A Slave, Burn After Reading, Killing Them Softly, The Departed, Babel, The Assassination of Jesse James and by the Coward Robert Ford

27. Karl Urban

The Boys, Priest, Thor: Ragnarok, Riddick (all), RED, Hangman, Lord of the Rings (all), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

28. Billy Burke

Revolution, Twilight (all), Zoo, Along Came a Spider, Komodo

29. Pedro Alonso

Money Heist, The Silence of the Marsh

30. Thomas Gibson

Criminal Minds

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boogerwithab · 3 years

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Shows for Masculine Regressors by streaming service

prime video

0-3

Tumble Leaf

Creative Galaxy

Daniel Tiger's neighborhood

The Stinky & Dirty show

Leo the truck

Carl's car wash

Dino the dinosaur

3-6

Bug diaries

Fireman sam

Car City series

Dinosaur train

Wild Kratts

Sid the science kid

Overall rating: 💫💫💫 out of 5

Great toddler shows but it has minimal options for littles who regress to bigger ages

Netflix

0-3

Trotro

Twirly woos

Pocoyo series

Number blocks

Buddi

3-6

Archibald's next big thing

Justin Time

Titipo Titipo

Transformers rescue academy

Little monsters

Go go cory carson

Trash truck

Jurrasic world camp cretaceous

Ninjago

Sonic X

Skylanders academy

Stone age the legendary pet

Pup academy

Power rangers series

Inspector gadget

The adventures of puss in boots

You vs wild

Zoidz wild

Alien TV

Overall rating: 💫💫💫

LOTS of options but most shows only have one or two seasons.

Disney+

0-6

The book of pooh

Gigantosaurus

Handy Manny

Imagination movers

Henry Hugglemonster

Little einsteins

Jake and the Neverland pirates

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

PJ masks

My friends tigger & pooh

Miles from tomorrow land

Bluey

The Lion Guard

Superhero adventures

Muppet babies

6-9

Puppy dog pals

The replacements

Weirdest bestest truest

Star wars rebels

Goof troop

Chip n Dale's Nutty tales

Guardians of the galaxy

Hulk and the agents of smash

Duck tales

Gravity falls

Iron man armored adventures

Marvel rising

The wonderful adventures of Mickey Mouse

Mighty Ducks the animated series

Lego series

Overall rating: 💫💫💫💫 and ½

Infinite options but nothing specifically for the youngest of regressors.

Hulu

3-6

Ruff Ruff, Tweet and Dave

Blippi

Little Baby Bum

Ranger Rob

Curious George

Doozers

The Bravest Knight

Wildwoods

Chuggington

6-8

Where's waldo?

Rabbids invasion

Monchhichi

Kick Buttowski

Wander Over Yander

Pinky & the brain

Chowder

Foster's home for imaginary friends

The marvelous Misadventures of flapjack

Thundercats

OK K.O.! Let's be heroes

The Amazing World of Gumball

We Bare Bears

Ben 10 Omniverse

Animaniacs

Overall rating: 💫💫💫💫

HUGE selection of nostalgic cartoon network shows. The best shows are for older kids.

Paramount+

0-4

Paw Patrol

Blaze and the Monster Machines

Bubble Guppies

Danny Phantom

Fairly Odd Parents

Fanboy & chum chum

Avatar: the Last airbender

The Loud House

Monsters vs Aliens

The Penguins Of Madigascar

Overall rating: 💫💫💫 ½

Only place to find all the Nickelodeon shows. Downside is the only cartoons available are from Nickelodeon

#sfw cglre #sfw little boy #sfw dxlb #dxlb #boy regressor #boy regression #boy littles #cgxlre

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pl4n3t-plut0 · 7 days

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Plutoz Masterlist

ASKS OPEN

Hi hi!! My names Theo, but you can call me Pluto >< My personal agere account is @bunnis-teeny-corner

I’m an agere and petre writer but I also create mood boards, headcannons and communication cards!!

Fandoms I write for:

Ace attorney

Assassination classroom

Attack on titan

Black butler

Blue period

Bungo stray dogs

Cherrycrush

Creepypasta

Darwin’s game

Demon slayer

Devilman Crybaby

Doctor Who (9th to current)

Genshin Impact

Green Eggs and Ham (Netflix)

Haikyuu

High rise invasion

How to train your dragon

Kakegurui

Legend of Zelda

Little witch academia

Obey me

Ouran High School Host Club

Rise Of The Guardians

Saiki K

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Seraph of the end

Seven deadly sins

Sk8 the infinity

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hopeatermeetsgodzilla · 3 years

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Chapter 19

“Sir?” Jonah raised his head from his computer, frowning as he saw Emily. The young woman seemed worried about something. “May I come in?”

He softened his face a bit. “Of course.” Emily nodded, coming into the room and sitting down in front of her boss’ desk. Jonah took his hands away from the keyboard, folding them over his desk. “What’s wrong? Are you afraid Monarch knows of our headquarters’ position?”

“No! No, it’s not about that.” Following Florès’ exposing of their takeover of Outpost 32 to the military, the Titan Liberation Front had had to leave in an emergency, coming back to their base in Boston. It had quickly been followed by Emily doing a quadruple check of the security system.

The only trace from Florès she had found was an encoded message on a Word document that hadn’t been there before.

Remember, Jonah doesn’t trust you...

“Well then, what is it about?”

“... are you sure waking all the Titans is the way to go?” Emily asked, frowning. When Jonah narrowed his eyes, she quickly tried to correct herself. “I-I mean I know they’re the only ones who can save the planet at this point and that not waking them would just delay the inevitable, b- but what if when we free all of them, we end up regressing back to the Stone Age-”

“Emmy.” Jonah suddenly cut her off. She flinched away. Emmy was a nickname her parents had given her before they had died. Jonah was pretty much the only person close to her who was still allowed to use it. “Why are you so worried? Humanity going back to a time were they held no impact on the planet is an ideal scenario.”

“I- it’s not just about that... it’s Ghidorah.” She started. “It’s- they’re not from Earth, they’re not going to restore the planet- they’re destroying it- it’s not going to be the co-existence you told me about, they’re a walking extinction event-”

“Kane.” Jonah started, rubbing the bridge of his nose. “Are you telling me you’re having second doubts now? You were fine with millions of people dying, but you’re going to draw the line at billions of people dying?”

“That’s not what I said-”

“If we’re a sickness,” Jonah started, circling his desk, “and the Earth Titans are a fever, then Ghidorah is both the cure and the vaccine. It doesn’t matter what our intentions are: what’s important is that humans won’t be able to rise up again once they’re done, and the planet will only benefit from it. Do you understand?”

“... yes, sir.”

“And if we do live to see this mass extinction event through...” He placed his hand on Emily’s shoulder, making her flinch. “I trust you and your talents will help us out, yes?” Jonah smiled down reassuringly at her, patting her shoulder.

... And you shouldn’t trust him.

Emily hesitantly nodded, remembering the message Florès had left her. “O- of course, sir.”

“You want me to teach you how to absorb energy?” Rodan nodded, San turning away from the coast to look at him instead, still not getting up. The sun was starting to set, and Ghidorah had made it very clear they were fascinated with the sky and the objects in it. There was also the fact they drew most of their energy from it. “Any reason why this sprang up?”

“I’m having difficulties finding food, and your brother mentioned you could teach me how to do it.” Rodan explained, sitting down and craning his neck up to look at San. “Something about being more spiritual.”

San nodded. “That is true. Ichi’s too clinical, and Ni convinced himself that if he allows himself to be vulnerable, he’ll die.” There was a pause. “Either way, neither can meditate if I’m not here. Can you absorb energy on your own, like, consciously?”

“Not consciously, I just start doing it automatically the moment I submerge myself in lava.”

“Partially, or fully?”

“Both. The more I’m submerged, the easier it is.”

San nodded. “Alright, that means you’re the unconscious type. We’re gonna try to meditate, okay? Okay. I want you to close your eyes, and breath in a pattern: 4 seconds in, 4 seconds hold, 8 seconds out. You think you can do it?”

“Yeah, I’m not an idiot.” Rodan hissed out, San giggling to himself before closing his eyes. Rodan watched the taller one do it a few times, before attempting himself. He started taking a deep breath. 1, 2- Heat, too much heat, feathers burned off, scalp burning, sides of mouth splitting, veins bursting, eyes burning, heart burning, too much light, no noise, nothing, lost everything-

“Hey, hey.” Rodan opened his eyes, craning his neck up to look at San. The blond had a worried look on his face. “You weren’t able to get it in. What went wrong?”

“I felt like I was burning from the inside out.” Rodan wheezed out in a shaky tone, before stopping and taking a moment to gather himself. When he spoke again, his voice was steadier. “Am I supposed to feel like I’m losing control of my powers?”

“You’re not. Probably. I don’t feel like I’m getting struck by lightning when I meditate, but I do feel like I’m floating... You said you felt like you were burning, right...?” San seemed to think for a moment, before holding his hands out. “Take my hands.”

“... alright?” Rodan hesitantly put his hands in San’s. He shuddered. Apparently, the cold from the ice had seeped into their very being. It felt as if frost spread were his hands touched San’s. Long fingers curled around his hands, and he shivered as he felt a shock run through his body.

“If you start feeling too hot again, focus on my hands, alright?” Rodan nodded, closing his eyes again as he took a deep breath. 1, 2- liquid fire in his lungs, in his heart, can’t breath, can’t talk, all alone- he squeezed San’s hands, all cold and long fingers and letting off small shocks each time they moved- shaky 3, steady 4. He opened one eye as they held their breath in, but quickly closed it again when he saw San’s were still closed. He let it out, and San giggled. “See? You did it!”

“Y- yeah.” Rodan couldn’t help but blush. “I guess I did. What now?”

“We continue. Try to find your own rhythm. I’ll follow you.” Rodan nodded, resuming the exercise as they slowly adapted to his own breathing- which was more along the lines of 5,3,8. He could practically hear his own heart beating, how the magma flowed in his veins. Slowly everything seemed to fade away, the only thing left being the hands he held. “Rodan?”

“Mmm?”

“Open your eyes.” Rodan carefully opened one eye, before looking around in confusion.

They weren’t on Mara anymore. The sky had become whirls of color he couldn’t put a name on, and the ground a flat expense of white sand covered by a thing layer of water. Thousands upon thousands of stars filled the sky. Rodan blinked in confusion. “What the...?”

“What, first trip to the Soul Realm?” Rodan turned toward San, and screamed in surprise, letting go of his hands. Instead of San, there was now a vaguely San-shaped golden floaty thing in front of him, three pairs of round white eyes staring at him.

“Wh- San!?” He exclaimed in surprise, the spirit nodding. “What happened? Where are we? Where did Mara go? Why do you look like that-”

“One question at a time, okay? First, we’re meditating. This is what happens when you successfully separate your soul from your body. This is the Soul Realm, or the place between life and death. Mara didn’t go anywhere, in fact our bodies are still on it, alive and soaking in energy. And I look like that because that’s what my soul is like.”

Rodan groaned. “Great. And I thought the moth’s whole deal was weird...”

San giggled. “Don’t be like that, fire bird. I mean, look at you! You’re practically wrapped in fire!”

“What are you talking about- woah!” Rodan looked at his hands. His sleeves had been replaced by feathers of fire, dragging after him like a train as he got up. He slowly moved his arms, watching the flames move in synch.

He slowly started laughing, running around in circles and watching the fire around him grow larger, brighter, encompassing him. He distantly registered San laughing along or telling him to spin as he danced around, but he complied anyway, flames growing with each gleeful pirouette he did.

“You’re even brighter than the precious Fire guardian!” Rodan came to a halt at that, the flow of flames around him dying. San tilted his head at that, Round eyes becoming ovals in an imitation of confusion. “What’s wrong?”

“... Quetz had similar flames?”

“Oh yeah!” San cheerfully said, seemingly obvious to Rodan’s distress. “She was really something to behold. A bloodlust that nearly rivals Ni’s, a flawless defense in her attack, and a passion-”

“-That shined brighter than the sun could ever hope to.” Rodan finished, his voice breaking a bit on that.

San tilted his head in curiosity. “... are you sure you’re alright? Each time the former Guardian of fire comes up, you get really sad.” Rodan said nothing, simply maintaining his lack of eye contact. “With how you and your people’s hierarchy work, I thought you’d be happy about a runt like you getting close to the top of the food chain-”

Rodan’s flames flared up again, this time in anger as he screeched. “WHY WOULD I BE HAPPY ABOUT MY MATE DYING-” The flame went back to a smolder as he realized in horror what he had just blurted out. There was no way they wouldn’t try to use that against him-

San looked impassive, but what he said sounded... horrified? “You... your mate died and you ended up taking her place!?”

“I- I don’t know why it happened either-” Rodan started, the pent-up frustration and anxiety and despair that had accumulated and festered over the years starting to come out as yellow flames started surrounding them. “It’s just- we were trying to start a family and one of the attempts finally took- and before I knew it the volcano we nested in erupted and we lost the eggs and I lost a wing and she choked on the smoke and I tried to join them but Terra wouldn’t let me die-”

Rodan came to a halt as he felt two hands come up to his face. San was looking down at him, all three pair of eyes narrowed. “How cruel.” He blankly stated. “Instead of letting you join her, your god- Terra, is it?- has decided to throw her death right in your face by making you her successor... are you not angry at her?”

Rodan grabbed San by the wrists, taking his hands away from his face. “Why do you care? It’s not like you ever lost anyone dear to you.”

“I have, actually.” Rodan’s eyes widened in surprise. He would’ve called bullshit, but something about San when he said it made him seem more... vulnerable. “Back when we lived in space. He often helped us, we had similar point of views, and he was very fun to be around. A bit similar to you, really. Losing him so suddenly is what drove us to come here.”

“Oh.” Rodan took a hold of San’s hand, squeezing reassuringly. “I’m so sorry for your loss... was his death brutal, or... ?”

“Oh, he didn’t die, firebird.” San started ominously, standing to his full height. “He betrayed us.”

“W- what?” Rodan’s eyes widened in horror. As far as he was concerned, once mated, you essentially pledged your very being to that person. And while a relationship between mates could die if given enough time, betraying them before breaking off was never an option. “Why would he do that!?”

“Weaker beings are afraid of what they don’t understand, and we are very hard to understand.” San stated, his voice back to it’s dissonant cheerfulness. “I mean, I’m very sure you’ve seen quite a few humans who didn’t like Titans and wanted them dead-”

Rodan didn’t process what came out of San’s mouth next. He was too focused by his arms breaking off, separated from his shoulders by tiny black, pointy sticks. He opened his mouth to scream, only for more sticks to lodge themselves in his lips and throat, chocking off any sounds that would come out of it. As those sticks started tearing into his chest, is vision went blurry, the entire world around him melding in a sick spiral of colors, gold at it’s center.

“Rodan!? RODAN! OPEN YOUR EYES!!!” Rodan opened his eyes, eyes turned to the ground and whole body shaking as he hyperventilated. He was back in the real world. ‘Hey, hey, it’s fine, you’re fine, there’s no danger- Look at me.” He slowly looked up. The light of the mostly set sun was casting strange, moving shadows on San, his glowing red eyes amplifying the strangeness of his sharp features. “What’s wrong?”

“C- Can’t breath-”

San frowned. “Breath, then.” He sang, his voice echoing onto itself.

Rodan didn’t know why he wasn’t ignoring the Ghidorah’s songs. Hell, they were the whole reason he had built up his immunity to all Calls, thanks in no small part to hanging out with Godzilla so much. But that didn’t mean he didn’t feel the pull of it. And he was too shaken to not listen right now. He took in a large gulp of air, breathing in short, quick bursts as San held onto his hands.

“Do you want to talk about what that was about?” San asked, tilting his head. Rodan shook his head. Revealing his relationship with Quetzalcoatl could’ve gone wrong very fast, and he attributed San having someone similar to a pure stroke of luck on his part. There was no way Ghidorah could’ve ever been hurt by beings so much smaller and weaker than them. He hoped the other wouldn’t push it.

But San just nodded, letting go of Rodan’s hands and gently bending forward as his breathing calmed down. It’s then he realized. “It worked.”

San blinked in confusion. “Uh?”

“The meditation, it worked!” Rodan cheerfully exclaimed, pushing his earlier thoughts in a corner of his mind. “I feel stronger then befo-”

“Rodan.”

“GAH!” Rodan turned his head, only to see Ni staring down at him and San. “I told you not to sneak up on me like that!”

Ni simply shrugged in indifference. “You’ll get used to it.”

“Oh, hi Ni!” Ni nodded at San, before kneeling down, facing Rodan.

“I found something you might like.” Ni told him, handing him a handful of something. Rodan’s eyes widening in surprise when he realized it was a handful of small roots, nuts and grains. “You told me you couldn’t eat the fish around the island anymore, so I tried to find something you could eat in the human settlement. It’s not a lot, but it should be better than rotten fish.”

Rodan smiled, bringing the handful of food to his mouth and swallowing. He then turned toward Ni, his face glowing a bit. “And it is. Thank you, Ni.”

Ni frowned, bringing a hand to Rodan’s face. “Are you sure you’re fine? Blood keeps rushing to your face.”

That snapped Rodan out of his relaxed state of mind. He jumped up, the flush growing bigger as he did so. “Of course I’m fine, whywouldntIbefine-”

“Rodan, it’s fine, sit down-”

“AnywayitsgettinglateandIneedtosleepgoodnight!” Rodan exclaimed, followed by a strong wind that carried him off to the top of his volcano. Ni and San could see his silhouette collapse at the top of it, followed by a strange, quiet shriek.

San turned toward his brother, smiling. “Good idea to find him food!”

Ni blinked. “I didn’t think my efforts to make him like me were working.” When San gave him a confused frown, he shrugged. “Each time I try to be nice to him, he keeps getting... flustered. Embarrassed. That’s not a good thing.”

“... He’s touched.” San blankly stated. “You keep giving him gifts, Ni. Of course he’s gonna keep blushing.”

“How did you figure out he needed food?” The two turned toward Ichi, who they knew had been watching them for a time.

San waved as their older brother sat down. “Hi brother Ichi!”

“He... told me?” Ni tried hesitantly. “It’s why I told him to talk to San. So he could learn to absorb energy without soaking himself in lava. Help him stay not weak.”

Ichi nodded. “Either way, good job. The both of you.” Ni sighed in relief and San beamed at the praise. His good mood only improved as Ichi pat him on the head. “If we continue like that, we’ll be out of this place sooner than later.”

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yourfaveregresses · 5 years

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Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians age regresses and North is his caregiver

Done. 💅

~Cae

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scionofbalance · 6 years

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The Weaving Thoughts

The Silenced Cathedral. The weapon crafted by the desperation of Humanity in the falsehood of providing their god's glory upon the shared land of Nosgoth with the harmonious muse of accursed pipes sitting high above. Once upon a time, this place would have been a beautiful idol of fervorous worship that all of Nosgoth could have heard. Now, it was a hive of the wyrd and weavers of lying truths and truthful damnations. As Kain looked upon the door that barred all but one upon convenient entry, he frowned. In his mind's clearing clarity, he pondered on some decisions and mused a humor to the physical trials and puzzles that his mother-home always provided. Ever since he was young, he recalled secrets locked away for untold time. Why not make the next champion's trial of equal measure? Reaching back, he grasped his talons around the weapon that he was, is, and always shall be his. Ancient leathers welcomed him as his grip tightened and as if in engaged on a rite he've perfected countless times in respect to its unequal lethality, unsheathed the Soul Reaver from its old scabbard. The locks clicked aloose and the slithering blade hissed a sound of unearthly breath. Upon its quillon, the vampiric skull rested. Its old bone as tested as its former counterpart, sockets glowing the firefoxes of the one grand soul trapped within. "Raziel." The Emperor whispered, leaning the blade over and rested his bony crown upon. Christening the long journey and hard obstacles were slowly blossoming to this moment. He could feel him, even now. So close, yet so far. And through him, Kain could feel the Others. Molded to one and that one touched upon his soul, that is key. Finally, in a moment of this, Kain reared the Soul Reaver and slid it into the lock. The sound scrapping through the bewitched metal and the souls howling, boiling and opening it through before twisting once. A ghostly hymn rolled to the arcane locks enscribed upon the grand entrance and into the engraving of his Fifth Son in his prime, standing as the door guardian. Eyes glowing, condemning who opened his sanctum and tomb, before splitting open to allow a breath of dead air. One step in and immediately, the Vampire Lord felt it. The hundreds of eyes falling upon him. It was a spine-tingling pressure that provoked a soft entertained smile upon his jaded lips. If such heinous thoughts were plaguing to their mind, he would pleased to oblige. For now, he walked through the tower of his son's imprisonment.Eyes drifting and taking in the corruption that Nupraptor has fallen upon his son's clan. It was a darkeningly amusing yet sad thing. Proud vampires becoming...arachnids. Crawling, almost mindless, predators scuttling the walls and shadows.The madness that turned his proud empire into a fractured wood of warring tribes and unenlightened beasts. He have forseen this and the first time, there was rage born of utter disgusted disappointment and finally nihilism that all that he accomplished would be this. He cursed not his sons, they were damned by him, and him by Nupraptor and his love-sickness. Just the thought made him wish he could have made the bulbous-headed fool suffer a little longer when they first met. That was Zephon's way, not Kain's way. He didn't extend death due. Even as they kept to the deepest of shadows, he could see them. Sense them crawling, the more braver just enough to make out their disproportioned forms. Unnaturally long limbs with bodies almost bloated and heinous of their chitinous outgrowth beneath their skin. Eyes peering awe, hate, love, and despair. Why was he here? Now, of this black age. The end of their Empire by the heralding of Nine Pearly Pillars rising into the heavens and pushed the weakened clouds of Turel's smog further. Why was he here? Kain could have went further, dig his talons deep into Nosgoth's history and cut into the festering cancer that have tortured his First of Sons and pulled the doom of the vampires in its gluttonous greed. No, he can't. He must see his responsibility once more. He can not stop and forget this ruined piece of architecture that he crafted with his own hands. His grand piece from the foundation of Six. As he was coming upon the central chime, the Emperor saw nothing but great webs constricting away until it was nothing but a beautiful barrier of grey white and a dazzling beaded constellation of blood practically mimicking the night sky. What was this? Some funerary memoir and protection? Then, there was movement. "My Emperor." A voice chimed from within. A voice wrapped by many others through one throat. "After so long, in the time of reckoning and end of the Great Lords, you have come. Have thee come as our salvation or to scorn one of their Failure?" Kain had a sense of impatience to be warded from his goal, but it was been some time since speaking to his grandchildren. "I have come to see upon the carcass of my beloved Fifth. Open the way and see me through..." He says in the strike of his voice and a sound like a hundred giant limbs moving inside. "Mmhm. Oh yes, yes - my glorious of liege. The vampires have prayed and sung of you, even in their feral degradation. Oh, but how is one already embraced of madness, regress to sanity? Hm. Ironies, complexities, Logical questions. Enough, enough." The other mused on with the eerie flanging of cackling. Then a dead breath. The webs were being combed aside, bit by bit. A great figure was coming through, many limbed. Moreso than the Zephonim that Kain have seen before and this perked a little intrigue, the corrupted evolutions that his sons invented were usually streamlined but few had the will to seek most out of them and it was something he respected in a way. Bladed limbs finally tore the layers of webs and spiders crawled out, old and young to the halls beyond them with one dried husk of a screaming body flopping out. "Hoho, mm...forgive me in that ill manner." The guardian chuckled in dry amusement, the thing moving was bigger than a man. His body a horrific acceptance to the arachnid fate that plagued the clan. Still man of body, skin a glossy, oil chitin of armour with his ribs splayed open into mobile limbs of constantly popping joints that adapted with tendons pulling like puppet strings connected on the spinal control. Long taloned arms and legs crawling his body along with a elongated neck twisting from some distraction to allow the mannish head of the elder to look upon Kain with his six eyes. Lower jaw opening and closing by their mandibles. Yet, even through the devolution, Kain recognized this man. "Cyrill." There was a look of pleasant surprise and pleasure passing the barely human face that he was remembered before bowing his head as if unable to take the perceived godly light that shone of his Emperor. "You remember...you remember." He muttered, starting to crawl aside with absentminded movement of his rib-limbs. "It is I, milord. Please, go to Him. Despite the assassination, his body has yet to leave us." Kain did not stay long, by the release of but a few dire bats from his mane, they fluttered and chattered into flight through the tunnel of cleared web provided.Twisting and turning with magnificent finesse that centuries of practice have provided, he saw the many Zephonim that clung and hibernated on the walls. So many that the most of the circling wall looked almost pallid of their chitinous flesh. The constant hymn of their sorrow singing. Despite their Patriarch's drowning madness, they shared of his mind and through him, they missed his mental song. How long before they became nothing but true monsters? Finally upon the entrance of drying muscle, untouched by blood's nourishment since its owner's death, the bats provided the mark for Kain to teleport into with the clasp of his talons and mental recall. Striding through the hall, he looked upon the monstrosity that his weaker of sons have grew into. What curse would have a vampire practically implode and join into a structure. This wasn't vampiric, it was more...daemonic and it hurt his missing heart to see it again. Like a fleshy garden digging into the walls of the old stone, this tower was Zephon to a point. Through the noticeable orifice of a 'door', Kain looked upon the corpse across this empty chest. The 'heart' of this lair laying dead, its body still crackling of the flames to consume it. Black with veins of rolling charr, mouth in an eternal inhuman scream of anguish. The stench of it offended the father's nose but he stepped close. Zephon. The Fifth of his sons. The Spymaster of his court and craftsman of so many intrigues next to Raziel in their games of passing entertainments in the centuries. He was proud, wickedly cunning man in life but his mind was molding for the worst like most of them. The Mentalist's madness crafted paranoia and possessive fright that Kain had tasted...and fought for his unlife. The same paranoia that never allowed him the fatherly attentions or friendships. Betrayal was too commonplace to him to allow it and Kain made sure his sons were taught this. He wanted to protect them in a way, but they must learn and evolve in their triumphs and failure. Raziel showed that he didn't completely fail...but the boy was always a stubborn romantic. A sad smile crossed and vanished on his face like a breeze. "Zephon..." Kain mused aloud, holding the Reaver in his hand while gingerly touching the great corpse's splayed brow. The chitin hardened like stone, if he pressed anymore, he knew it might collapse and the body ruined. "You shall rise."

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kidkei · 4 years

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How to Potty Train A Dog

For the previous 16 years, I’ve been instructing pet kindergarten and adolescent-dog courses at The Canine Connection, my coaching middle in Chico, California. The variety of graduates of my courses is probably going greater than 1,000 puppies – but it surely appears like I’ve answered shopper questions on potty coaching at the very least one million instances. What’s yet one more time, if it helps somebody stay extra fortunately and harmoniously with their new dog or pet?

Potty-training conditions are of three varieties: (1) canine who’ve by no means realized the suitable place “to go,” (2) canine who had been as soon as housetrained however are having a coaching regression, and (3) canine who’re pottying involuntarily – that’s, they haven’t any management over their urination or defecation. It simply occurs with none intent and sometimes with out the dog even realizing it’s occurring in any respect. Let’s take a look at these so as.

Housetraining For the Never-Housetrained Dog

Perhaps you could have a model new pup or a newly adopted teen or older dog. One factor that’s vitally essential to constructing a cheerful interspecies family is that your new dog turns into housetrained as rapidly and reliably as potential. You ought to be outfitted and prepared to begin housetraining your new dog from the second that you just carry him residence.

Housetraining entails extra than simply studying the place to potty; canine and puppies should additionally be taught to “hold it” till they get to an acceptable potty location and the way to notify you to get them there. To assist canine construct these abilities and to assist hold us on observe with our housetraining obligations, I encourage individuals to consider housetraining by way of C.R.A.P. Each letter of the acronym stands for an essential a part of the housetraining program: Confinement, Routine, Attention, Platinum rewards.

How to House-Train A Dog

Confinement

Preventing your dog from pottying within the improper place is the primary and most essential housetraining process. Since most of us can’t hold our eyes on our canine each minute, having a secure, snug confinement space is essential to housetraining success. Most canine naturally keep away from going potty of their sleeping areas, so confining your dog in a sufficiently small space that’s extra bed-like than room-like not solely prevents undesirable accidents but in addition will assist him develop bowel and bladder management.

What are acceptable confinement areas? I’m an enormous fan of crates, used appropriately, as soon as canine are snug with them. An space that’s fenced off with a conveyable train pen or a smaller room (reminiscent of a rest room or laundry room with a child gate throughout the door) can even function a confinement space.

The key’s that any confinement space ought to be small and comfortable sufficient on your dog that he’ll select “holding it” over pottying in it. When confinement is in place and used appropriately, there might be a lower in potty accidents and a rise in bowel and bladder management.

As your dog enjoys continued success at pottying outdoor appropriately and never pottying indoors, you’ll be able to improve the scale of the realm the place he’s confined when not being supervised. Don’t go too far, giving him whole-house freedom after he hasn’t had an accident for just a few days. Instead, use an train pen to broaden his confinement space by, say, 50 to 100 sq. ft extra per week of success.

Routine

Both canine and people profit from a predictable, constant housetraining routine. This routine ought to account for confinement time, potty breaks, meal instances, play time, coaching time, walks, and all the opposite enriching actions which can be a part of your dog’s each day life.

I like to recommend my shoppers create a written routine that features potty breaks a minimal of each hour or two, relying on the age and scenario of the dog. The basic rule for “holding it” in a crate or pen is that canine ought to have the power to maintain their bowels and bladder, in hours, the variety of months they’re plus one. So, a three-month-old pup ought to have the option to maintain his urine and poop for 4 hours. However, there are such a lot of exceptions to this rule; most notably, that exercise usually makes a pup have to “go.” The greatest routines, then, are based mostly on a stable understanding of your dog.

Some essential notes about potty breaks:

1. You should go together with your dog to the potty space so you’ll be able to reward the deed when it happens. By delivering a direct reward, your dog rapidly comes to perceive that “Oh my gosh, going pee or poop in this location is nothing short of brilliant!”

2. It may be very helpful to educate your dog a cue for pottying conduct. Some individuals use the straightforward phrase, “Go potty!” Others use a euphemism reminiscent of “Get busy!” Whatever phrase you utilize, say it as soon as simply earlier than he begins to potty (don’t say it over and over), after which reward and reward him mightily when he’s accomplished. Soon, he’ll perceive that the phrase is a cue – a possibility to earn rewards for doing what he now is aware of it means: going potty. This will assist him perceive what you need if you take him to go potty in a brand new atmosphere, or underneath distracting situations he has not but skilled.

3. If you count on your dog to potty on- and off-leash, your potty outings together with your dog ought to typically be on-leash and typically off-leash. Why? From a dog’s perspective, pottying whereas on- versus off-leash could be a very completely different expertise. Familiarizing him with each will repay sooner or later.

4. While it might sound handy to have a dog who will potty solely in your yard (I name these non-public pottyers), it’s essential that your dog learns to potty in different outside locations, too. Indeed, I would like canine to be public pottyers (with accountable guardians who will clear up after them) in order that day and even in a single day outings are snug for all. I pity the poor dog who has realized to potty solely within the privateness of his residence when his household decides to carry him on a protracted trip!

5. Also within the curiosity of adaptability to new environments, canine ought to be uncovered to completely different surfaces as a part of housetraining. Dogs can develop “substrate preference,” the willingness to potty solely on particular surfaces, reminiscent of grass or concrete.

While your dog’s inclination to develop a desire for pottying on sure substrates may be useful in creating an outlined bathroom area in your yard, it may well additionally restrict your dog’s adaptability to new environments if he isn’t allowed the choice to potty on completely different substrates.

6. Potty outings ought to be mission-driven. in case your dog tends to fiddle and frolic prior to pottying, limit your dog’s entry to play till the deed is finished. Fiddling and frolicking can then turn into a part of the reward.

7. If you might be away from your private home for prolonged intervals of time throughout the day, it’s essential to have a plan for getting your dog to his potty spot in your absence. Sometimes it takes a village to housetrain a dog, with associates, household, and neighbors, maybe assisted by skilled pet sitters, dog walkers, or trainers serving to with the potty outing shifts.

Attention

The first query I ask when a shopper asks me a query a couple of problem with their dog’s housetraining is: “Are you catching your dog in the act of pottying inappropriately or just finding the evidence after the fact?” More usually than not, individuals sheepishly confess that they often discover the mess after the very fact – and this at all times means their consideration wants to be improved.

There are two enormous advantages to sustaining a laser focus in your dog when he isn’t confined. First, you can begin to acknowledge and reward your dog’s “gotta go” alerts. When your dog begins to tempo, circle, and sniff, you’ll be able to applaud his signaling (“Awesome doggie! Let’s go, go, GO!”) and rush him to his potty place. Rewarding “gotta go” alerts will encourage your dog to turn into extra demonstrative when he feels the urge – communication that’s as useful to us as it’s to our canine.

Second, once we catch him within the act we will present fast suggestions. A easy “Hey, hey!” whereas hustling him to his potty spot will make the purpose that there’s a distinction between the spot the place he began and that particular place you need him to go.

Platinum Rewards!

When housetraining a brand new dog (pet or grownup) I be certain I do know what my dog considers “platinum level rewards.” Housetraining is a giant deal, and it requires that we acknowledge our dog’s success with a becoming consequence for his or her achievement. High-value meals rewards ought to be saved on a shelf or desk by the door so you’ll be able to seize them on the best way out together with your dog. And the rewards of reward and play ought to be abundantly a part of the potty occasion that celebrates your dog’s success at pottying within the correct place.

Housetraining Regression

It is distressing if you consider housetraining has been achieved, solely to discover improperly positioned puddles or poops. Here are some causes your dog’s housetraining would possibly unravel:

Urinary tract infections or different medical issues can lead to potty accidents. If your totally housetrained dog begins to potty in the home, your first cease ought to be your veterinarian. Physical issues have to be dominated out earlier than assuming the issue is a behavioral one. Prior to your go to, assess your dog’s water and meals consumption so you’ll be able to report any modifications that is perhaps a part of the image.

Recognize {that a} dog’s housetraining could not switch to new environments. I’ve had many purchasers whose canine’ housetraining fell aside when visiting the house of a pal, after a transfer, and even in a public place (how embarrassing!).

Just as a result of a dog is housetrained in a single atmosphere doesn’t imply he’s housetrained in all environments. When you modify environments, assume your dog is just not housetrained till you could have helped your dog perceive that the habits realized in a single place can even apply to the brand new setting. To do that, take your dog again to Housetraining 101.

Seasonal challenges. Just as your dog may have to relearn housetraining in a brand new atmosphere, so could he want to relearn housetraining in numerous seasons. I’ve had many purchasers uncover that their summer time pet’s housetraining unraveled on the first fall rain or winter snow.

I at all times advise shoppers to be proactive weather-watchers. If your dog’s potty place is outdoor, think about that potty habits can and would possibly change with the season, and you could have to think about artistic and proactive methods to hold your dog’s potty habits sturdy. For canine who detest rain, the erection of a conveyable cover would possibly simply ease the ache. A snow shovel goes a good distance in serving to small canine cope with deep snow. Some indoor-outdoor carpet can buffer the warmth of summer time pavement.

Differentiate between relieving oneself and marking. Marking conduct can develop in canine after their housetraining is concluded, as canine mature and hormonal ranges change. Marking is a pure conduct of each female and male canine, although extra pronounced in male canine.

I strategy marking like all housetraining issues, taking canine again to Housetraining 101, with the emphasis on eager consideration, since it is vital to interrupt the urge to mark earlier than precise house-soiling happens. For canine who’re persistent markers, a stomach band that forestalls house-soiling could also be a useful administration device.

Consider the opportunity of worry or anxiousness being a contributing issue. One of my shoppers was dismayed when her Newfoundland began pottying in the home. As it turned out, the dog was pottying inside as a result of he had turn into scared of venturing into his yard following a neighbor’s residence being re-roofed. The barrage of blasts from the nail gun had so traumatized the poor dog that he grew to become housebound, leaving him no selection however to potty in the home, inflicting additional anxiousness.

In this case, we established an indoor potty space that was used whereas we labored on rebuilding optimistic associations together with his yard atmosphere.

Potty Problems which can be NOT Housetraining Problems

Involuntary urination and defecation can happen for numerous causes with the widespread denominator to all being that the dog merely has no management over it. Here are some widespread causes for involuntary pottying:

Excitement urination. Some canine, particularly younger canine, will involuntarily produce a puddle throughout joyful homecomings and different joyful conditions. Since most set off conditions may be predicted, the easiest way to cut back pleasure urination is to downplay greetings and different emotionally charged conditions by ignoring or solely casually greeting your dog.

It additionally typically helps to give your dog one thing else to do within the moments when he’s excited. For instance, you would possibly enter your private home with considered one of your dog’s toys in hand, toss it away from you, stroll previous your dog whereas he retrieves it, then greet your dog a number of minutes later as soon as the preliminary pleasure worn off.

Because the set off for pleasure urination is a extremely large deal to the dog, it’s useful to arrange and apply mock greetings repeatedly so the set off turns into much less thrilling – maybe even slightly boring.

Submissive urination. This type of involuntary urination is about social alerts. It happens when your dog’s emotional response to a set off (e.g., a stranger or a member of the family) is considered one of appeasement, maybe even worry. Submissive urination may be distressing to family and friends members who set off it; they could assume it suggests they’ve been threatening or unkind towards the dog, even after they haven’t. More usually than not, the dog could also be responding to the human’s physique posture and dimension, voice quantity and tone, or different traits that set off an innate submissive response.

Submissive urination issues may be usually be resolved by downplaying greetings, counter-conditioning the presence of the person (constructing a optimistic emotional affiliation with the set off), teaching people who set off the submissive urination to keep away from provocative physique language (reminiscent of direct eye contact with the dog, looming over or reaching for him, direct frontal approaches, and loud physique language and voices).

I’ve additionally discovered that instructing the dog a cue which means somebody is about to strategy (reminiscent of, “Hello, I’m Here!”) can cut back submissive urination by eradicating the ingredient of shock from the interactions.

Incontinence. Age and sickness can produce urinary and/or fecal incontinence in our canine. Ill or aged canine could leak urine or expel feces whereas sleeping or could expertise sudden urges to potty and be unable to make it out the door. Female canine with hormonal modifications could leak urine, too.

While many individuals settle for incontinence as an inevitable a part of their canine’ well being or growing old, each western and jap medication supply cures, so a go to to your veterinarian is a should. The use of stomach bands, doggie panties, and potty pads in sleeping areas could assist reduce the burdens of clean-up.

Essential Tools for Housetraining

It makes the entire housetraining process one million instances simpler if you’re ready upfront of your new dog or pet’s arrival with all of the issues you’ll need to handle his whereabouts and assist his progress. Here are the necessities:

A crate, moveable train pen, or small room outfitted with a child gate, so you’ll be able to create an acceptable confinement space on your dog. This will forestall undesirable accidents from occurring. Preventing undesirable accidents ensures our canine don’t rehearse pottying in inappropriate locations and retains the non-potty locations from changing into infused with these potty scents that may set off a dog into making a mistake.

Some good clean-up merchandise to remove potty smells from your private home ought to an accident occur (as it would, since we’re solely human and we do make errors). While there are various in the marketplace and recipes for potty clean-up concoctions may be discovered on-line, my private favourite is unscented Anti-Icky Poo by Mister Max (accessible in some pet provide shops and online). It incorporates enzymes that assist destroy the odor-causing compounds in urine.

A prepared provide of high-level (as outlined by the dog) rewards to dole out to your dog when she or he will get it proper. Appropriate pottying is just not a minimal wage exercise; think about it a canine act of genius when your new dog will get pottying proper and reward with the stuff (meals treats, toys, and play) that your dog actually values.

In some instances, potty pads could also be useful, although I personally desire to exclude them from my housetraining protocols (it’s one much less step to fade out to get to the ultimate aim of the dog pottying in a particular spot).

For some, it’s useful to create an indoor bathroom space – a litter field for canine, so to converse. If an indoor bathroom space on your dog could be useful for you, the “litterbox” ought to be accessible as a potty vacation spot from the get-go.

In instances involving urine marking, stomach bands could be a very useful device. They don’t forestall marking however they do forestall home soiling, and plenty of canine appear to chorus from marking when the stomach band is on. Belly bands can be found in numerous sizes from pet provide shops and on-line.

Potty Pads for House Training?

I’m not a fan of introducing potty pads as a part of a housetraining regime. If the aim of housetraining is on your dog to potty outdoors, then potty pads create a center step that should finally be phased out as a part of the general housetraining plan. I might fairly begin focusing a dog’s consideration instantly on the ultimate vacation spot. Why create an additional step if we don’t have to?

Some individuals, nonetheless, plan for his or her canine to have an indoor toileting spot, with potty pads as a part of their canine’ lifelong state of affairs. This may be handy, so that you don’t have to make that journey outdoors, by giving a dog a authorized potty place indoors. However, they don’t magically entice canine to remove on them; canine want to be taught to use them, identical to they want to be taught to go outdoor. Either process may be completed by following the principles of home coaching 101.

People typically resolve to use potty pads as a result of they’ve to go away their canine alone indoors for longer intervals of time than their canine can maintain it. If that is the case together with your dog, be sure you go away her in a bigger long-term confinement space than the aforementioned crates or cozy confinement space. Make an space for sleeping and hanging out, and a separate area for eliminating on the potty pads.

Dog Doors: Yay or Nay?

As the proud guardian of each a model new Aussie pet and a “sudden urge” Greyhound senior, I’m grateful for my dog door. My canine go out and in at will, by no means needing to name on me to use my opposable thumb to flip the deal with to open that door. At my home, there’s no want to discover the attendant to get the restroom key; the toilet door is at all times unlocked. My canine exit, my canine are available in. There’s nary a potty accident or fear.

(Note: Some individuals fear about issues that may occur to their canine outdoors of their yards if the dog is unattended. The yard that’s accessible to my canine by way of my dog door is tremendous dog-proofed and double-fenced. That mentioned, there are extra risks to an unattended dog outdoor than indoors, however this can be a threat I’ve taken with my canine for a few years and not using a downside. You could make a distinct selection.)

Without a doubt, my new pup has realized to go outdoors to potty and I’m thrilled that she has realized to use the dog door. When nature calls she hops by way of and out. There hasn’t been an accident in weeks and I’m off the hook as door attendant. But is my new pet totally housetrained? The reply is…no!

Besides studying the place to potty, our canine want to be taught to “hold it” after they can’t get entry to the potty place. And they want to find out how to inform us that they want our assist to get from right here to there. Without these classes, housetraining is incomplete and potty mishaps are certain to happen when dog doorways aren’t accessible – maybe when the dog door is inadvertently left closed or once we’re visiting the house of a dog-door-deficient pal.

My new pup might be touring with me quickly and I don’t assume the dog-friendly lodge has a dog door (that’s a bit too pleasant). I’d higher get going with Housetraining 101, fairly than letting my dog door enable me take the lazy method out. And, as an adjunct to the essential coaching, I’ll be instructing my new pup to ring a “Hey, I gotta go!” bell. It’s fairly easy to prepare a dog to ring a bell (I consider this as a name for room service) and by way of my realized response (bounce up and attend to her), I’m a fairly fast examine. (For directions on instructing a dog to ring a bell on the door, see “Target-Train Your Dog to Ring A Doorbell“.)

Proper House Training is A Great Investment of Time

This would possibly all sound like a ton of labor; it isn’t essentially so. If you observe the CRAP tips (Confinement, Routine, Attention, and Platinum rewards) from the very first day together with your new dog or pup, he ought to rapidly determine when and the place to “go” (maybe on cue!), and the way to “hold it” in any respect different instances. His success at these duties could make or break your happiness at dwelling collectively, so give it your best!

How to House-Train A Puppy: Problem-Solving

Amber was a darling Golden Retriever pup who had graduated from my Puppy Kindergarten with honors. She had a powerful basis in socialization and coaching, which had resulted in her having a cheerful and optimistic worldview and good pet manners. Most importantly, Amber had mastered housetraining. At the time of her commencement, her mother and father proudly famous that Amber had not pottied in the home in weeks, and when she had to go, she let her mother and father know by whining on the door.

I subsequent heard from Amber’s mother when Amber was slightly over six months outdated. Completely unexpectedly, Amber had began peeing in the home! While the peeing was downside primary, a second downside was that Amber had began to ignore her homeowners and appeared usually extra “out of control.” The look of those two behaviors collectively led her dad to one conclusion: Amber’s inappropriate peeing, alongside along with her inattentiveness and unruliness, all coming at this teenage second, was proof optimistic that she needed to exert her dominance on her household. Oh, boy.

I had one other thought that I shared with Amber’s mother: When a completely housetrained dog begins urinating and/or defecating in the home, one should get thee and thine dog to a veterinarian to rule out a medical trigger! Urinary tract infections are a quite common cause {that a} previously housetrained dog would possibly begin urinating in the home; the painful situation causes an urgency that few canine can resist.

Sure sufficient, Amber’s medical work-up confirmed simply that. After a course of antibiotics – and her homeowners’ renewed coaching apply periods – Amber’s “dominance problem” totally disappeared.

Sarah Richardson, PhD, CPDT-KA, CDBC, CSAT, is the proprietor of The Canine Connection, a boarding, coaching, and daycare facility in Chico, California. Over the previous 12 years, she and a few of her assistant trainers have usually modeled for photographs that illustrate articles in WDJ, however that is the primary article that Richardson has written for WDJ!

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