u/HavaMuse

I would love some feedback.
I’m thinking about a bark collar but want to know if there is a better idea, or if this would be a bad one

Dog is a 2yo Havanese, living in a house with a 14yo havanese, a 4 year old Golden, and a 10month old golden. Dogs are confined to the first floor of our house with a baby gate.

She has always been VERY excited to see anyone, and has always been an excited barker. We recently had our first baby and she LOVES him. But that means every time someone closes a door upstairs, or starts to walk down the stairs, she excited barks. Which, naturally, wakes the baby.

She knows she shouldn’t and as soon as we get close to her she stops, but I’m assuming there is a level of intrinsic motivation pushing her to bark.

Is a bark collar the move here? Something else? If a bark collar, what kind?

Does anyone have puppy cams they share with their pet homes?
I did for my last litter and my puppy people LOVED it. I kept it on 24/7 so they could check in when they wanted. It kept down photo requests and gave them a big sense of security in how the puppies were raised.

I used a WYZE camera

But. Our puppies are in our living room, and the Wyze cameras don’t have a way to turn off sound from the live view. I don’t love them being able to hear any conversations we have lol.
If anyone has a camera set up, can you control the sound recording, and what camera do you use? Google is being very unhelpful here.

When I was 26 I went to vet school, at my state school. I had a fair amount of family/personal things happen during my second year, and the summer between 2/3rd I decided to leave. I changed my mind, wanted to push through, started third year, but only made it a few weeks due to overwhelm related to family things.l and my own mental health.

I moved on, went to nursing school, and am now getting my NP.

It’s 10 years later. I don’t have regrets, I did what I had to, but I’m sad I’m not a vet. Nursing doesn’t scratch that itch, and I’m not intellectually stimulated enough in my psychiatric nurse practitioner program (I have one semester left).

I’m now married with a baby, in a super loving and supportive relationship, and am in a completely different mental and emotional place in my life.

I’ve been thinking about vet school. I’m now 35, and already have a ton of student debt from vet school the first time around.

I need you to tell me that looking into going back/restarting is complete insanity so I stop thinking about it and move on lol

Hey all

My family currently lives in a Dayton suburb but we don’t love the school district here and plan to move before our oldest starts kindergarten.
Springboro is highest on our list because of its high ratings and proximity to husbands job.

That said, I’m very worried about the amount of screen time and electronic “learning” occurring in schools pretty much everywhere, starting in kindergarten. We don’t want our kindergartner learning to read on a Chromebook.

So those with young kids in the Dayton area, how are your districts handling screens and electronic use?

FWIW we’re not completely anti tech, but there’s a time and place for it, and it’s not always the better way to learn.