Brad’s Pitt being there is just…so upsetting. Listen I get it’s her wedding, her guest list. But how she or Travis could invite a man who abuses his wife and kids is just beyond comprehension to me.
I’m not talking about valid criticisms or a casual “yeah I don’t really like Taylor Swift”. I mean the hate/snark that borders the same intensity of her biggest fans, although on the opposite end of the spectrum…and how it’s mostly other women.
It’s super common for Taylor hate to be branded as misogyny or just men hating something that women enjoy. Often times her “haters” are painted to be men who dismiss her as childish and the like for creating art for women. And that’s true for a portion of it (IMO a very small portion). But the most crazy, nitpicky, or even cruel comments I see about Taylor are from other women.
This honestly isn’t limited to just Taylor; 99% of snark pages/accounts are 1) about a woman 2) run by women. Almost every mainstream female celebrity (Ariana, Sabrina, etc) has one. Male celeb ones are close to non-existent. In non-person specific ones, 99% of posts are about women despite there being PLENTY of shitty male celebrities. You’d think for example someone like Jake Paul could have a rampant snark/hate thing going considering the sheer amount of shit he does, but…nothing. Meanwhile some random female influencer with a few hundred thousand followers gets a daily active snark sub. And it’s driven by women participating.
Anyway sorry to get a little bit off of Taylor, but I just think there is something to be said about women being lowkey the biggest haters of other women. Not just on reddit, but out and about the most intense “haters” I’ve met for Taylor have been other women as well.
My dog (GSD) does great with a prong. Will respond to any pressure without issue and even responds well stronger inputs when needed. He seems most relaxed when we use the prong.
His flat, however, he seems to hate. He’ll wear it no problem, but even the slightest amount of pressure on the flat and he gets incredibly frustrated. If there is pressure on the flat, he will practically dive into it like opposition relax x100. If I use the flat to direct him away from something if needed, he will bark at the thing. For example yesterday out and about a friendly stranger was petting him, then said bye and walked away. My pup tried to trot after him so I naturally held the leash, and as soon as he hit the flat he barked at the person. With the prong he’d just turn around and trot back. I’ve spent time working on the flat and trying to teach him what the pressure means, but overall it just seems to be an incredibly frustrating tool for him so I rarely use it outside of playtime and teaching new tricks.
When I first got my dog, a GSD, I lived in a condo. Naturally, my GSD initially barked at everything. Noises in the hallway, outside, people knocking on the door or even our neighbors door, etc. To be expected with the breed! It was however a bit much since in a condo there’s a lot of noise and our neighbors weren’t too happy with a dog barking nonstop. So I trained him not to. I didn’t really think much of it because I wasn’t exactly ever worried about anyone breaking into a 3rd floor condo with multiple keys to just get to the door. But by the time we left, he didn’t bark at anything (noises, people coming to the door, guests coming over, etc).
Now I’m moving to a house and have been feeling a little uneasy being home alone in such a big space. I’m worried now if someone WERE to break in, or be on the property, my dog wouldn’t let me know since I trained him in the condo not to bark. I’m not sure if I could somehow train him to bark at suspicious things? Or if he would do it anyway? The condo was never “weird” activity it was just guests coming over and general activity noises
Hi all! My dog is 8.5 months old. We’ve been dealing a bit with what I guess I’d call “random/selective and situational dog reactivity”. I am struggling with resources because he’s not TRULY “dog reactive” I don’t think, which is was it seems like everything is geared toward.
We go to obedience group classes 2x a week, once a week at a regular location and the other session location is changed weekly to be at a different pet friendly area each time. He does pretty well in these classes surrounded by other dogs, sometimes in the location changing session he will bark 2-3 times at the beginning or have his hackles up for a minute; but he quickly settles and is fine. We also go to the park almost everyday to play and train. 95% of the time, he doesn’t care about the other dogs walking around, but sometimes out of nowhere he will have hackles and bark 1-2 times at a dog passing by — even if he was fine with all the other ones? Then last week we met up with a friend and his dog (female GSD), they walked up to us at the park and once they got close my pup went crazy for a few seconds. Hackles, barking, lunging. I corrected him and then after like a minute of my friend’s dog standing there, my pup became totally chill. Literally laid down with his tongue out just hanging out…like he hadn’t caused a huge scene moments before.
The worst is “surprises”. The other day we were waiting outside a building for my partner and a person with their dog suddenly came out of the door we were standing next to (I didn’t even realize we were in front of a door). Their dog wasn’t in heel/was walking kind of far ahead of them so basically the door opened and then a dog spawned right in front of us and oh boy…you’d think my pup was a killer. He just exploded into barking, all hackles up. I got him to stop as the dog walked away, but his hackles were still up and he let out 1-2 more barks. Then went back to chill/normal.
I’m not sure what to do training wise and was wondering if this is just teenage or adolescent weirdness? I know he doesn’t have a problem with dogs across the board and he can be around/work around dogs just fine in some contexts. But in other contexts he just seems…defensive? Uncertain? It’s pretty inconsistent. Like today at the park a dog walked by us, he didn’t even flinch. But then 10 minutes later he barked a few times at a different dog for seemingly no reason. I feel stuck with training.
My 8.5 month old puppy isn’t full on dog reactive in the sense that he can be and work around other dogs in many contexts like obedience class, at local parks, etc. He’s not reacting to every dog ever. But one thing that really seems to get him riled up is other dogs staring him down.
Unfortunately, this happens A LOT. I’d say 9 out of 10 dogs we see outside of our obedience classes stare and stare pretty hard. If the dog is fairly far away and staring my dog may glance over but will be more okay just ignoring it. However if we are in close range, maybe like <15 feet, and a dog is staring he will respond. His hackles go up, he drops his head, and will often bark or start to stare back. If the dog is not staring though he is usually okay.
Is it possible to get him to not respond and move on? I understand that staring is rude in dog language, but it seems so common. He doesn’t initiate any staring himself but if he notices a dog is staring at him he seems to perceive it as something he needs to act on.
I have an 8.5 month old puppy and living in a condo building that has elevators, which we take multiple times a day to go outside for walks, training, play, etc. My puppy however has been getting SUPER over aroused/over excited and he is honestly a mess in the elevator (usually) at this point.
In the elevator I always have him in a sit next to me, and we do a heel to enter and exit. He has no problem with people coming on/off, and these days he rarely even tries to greet. The issue however is whatever the elevator, whether it be totally empty or full of people, is triggering for him emotionally. While he holds his sit, he will bark, yelp, cry, you name it the whole ride. Example: today we walked onto to a completely empty elevator. Immediately, all his hackles went up and he started barking. This then transitioned to high-pitched almost yelp-like barking and crying. Once we got outside our building, he went back to calm and was totally fine.
I have been trying to work on this by going to the elevators at odd hours and doing obedience, focus, etc. Just walking on the elevator and walking right off. He does excellent in these sessions, but it just doesn’t translate fully. Occasionally we will have a randomly calm elevator ride, but if that happens he usually just falls apart in the lobby. Very consistently though, once we get outside he is totally fine. Usually on the way back from whatever we were doing, like on the elevator ride home, he is also pretty good. It’s just the way out.
Oh and forget any composure if the elevator doors open and a dog is on the other side of it. My pup isn’t dog aggressive and isn’t truly “reactive” (we do obedience classes weekly where he works next to dogs just fine and regularly see dogs out while at our local parks and he’s fine), however again something about the elevators…if there’s a dog standing there when the elevator doors open, he just loses it barking, hackles, etc.