Looking for advice on some training regression

Looking for advice on some training regression

Our buddy is 4 years old and pretty healthy, but he’s suddenly started regressing on things he’s been solidly trained on since age 1 and before.

  1. the pulling. This was the hardest to train out of him for regular walks and took till about age 1. He is a big and kinda clumsy guy (135 lbs) and I think that contributes. Although as a puppy we had to deal with him yanking us into the street and that we trained out of him probably by around 9 months.

Back in the spring I had noticed he had started pulling on leash again. I do the morning walk (or dog park) and my husband does a late evening one. I have always been more of the disciplinarian on walks. There’s people and dogs around when I’m out with him and not so much for my husband. Plus husband was hit by a car as a kid and is easier to knock over as a result so I think he goes the path of least resistance.

Anyway, lately I’ve been dealing with some injuries in my legs and while I can walk I can’t walk as far. So our usually long disciplined walk though the neighborhood to the park where I lay off the discipline a little and we just wander while he sniffs, has been downgraded to me driving him to the park where we wander and sniff. Or I’ll practice a disciplined walk with him around the park a little bit it’s not the same. So he’s losing a lot of practice.

And then I took him with me to Petsmart and on the way out he yanked me so hard and suddenly towards the street -he had seen a little girl in the parking lot who said “hi” to him in the store- that I had to stomp down hard to brace and majorly aggravated one of my injuries, just to keep us out of the street. It was completely unexpected and I’m still shocked he did it.

  1. the poop: Since about 6 months he’s been peeing and pooping on the same gravel area in our yard. Just in the last month he’s decided he wants to do it all over the yard and the grass. Now I don’t need a perfect lawn, but it’s made clean up really hard and I’d like to be able to walk on my back yard without having to search for land mines first.

Any advice? Anyone go through this kind of regression before? We had a great trainer when he was a puppy but the trainer is now living on the other side of the country.

Dog tax included

u/transdermalcelebrity — 9 days ago

Mystery intermittent loud noise when door first starts to rise. Frequently have to reset limits after. 2 different repairmen couldn’t replicate it and said they inspected everything. Ideas?

So we get this noise and it’s been getting more frequent. Often but not always when it happens the limits have to be reset so we assume the door is being obstructed in some way.

2 different companies checked it out and couldn’t replicate because after about 10 or so repeated test openings the controller does start to overheard (we will be replacing that next month; 12 yr old Genie).

But the noise issue sounds like some kind of structural problem.

Any guesses what the 2 guys missed?

u/transdermalcelebrity — 2 months ago

New to payoneer, trying to start an account and it's been in verification for over a week but no one has contacted me for anything further?

Ok, so I recently set up up payoneer to do some freelance remote work. It's been stuck at the verification stage for over a week but no one has contacted me for further information. In fact they have sent me two emails while I've been waiting asking me to "apply for an account" and the button to do that just takes me to the same error message that they "still need a little more time" to verify my account.

this how it normally goes? Also when I'm at their help center there is a msg at the top that their chat and phone support is down. How long has that been going on?

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 2 months ago
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Asking about housing waitlists

I’m a parent of a sophomore transfer student. She’s been accepted but we haven’t proceeded from there because there have been a number of technical issues delaying her financial aid offer (she currently has an extension to accept GWU so we haven’t put down a deposit yet.

We’re expecting to hear very soon and the financial aid offer would determine whether she can go or not. However I saw a comment on this sub mentioning housing waitlists.

Does this mean since she’d be coming in at such a late date that even as a sophomore mandated to be on campus she is not guaranteed housing?

She is already accepted at another school with housing and classes determined, we just haven’t paid there yet because GWU was her top choice and we wanted to see this through. But if GWU doesn’t have available housing then this changes the situation dramatically.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 3 months ago

HELP! Dog just swallowed small animal. I think it was a bunny. Just gobbled it down whole because he saw me coming to take it away.

What do I do. Is this an emergency? He’s 135lb Bernedoodle. I don’t know if the animal was alive or dead.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 3 months ago

Looking for insight and help. Transfer student’s ssn was incorrect so fafsa didn’t show, it took a month to fix. Now we’re told it will take 3 weeks for financial aid to process and we only have 1 week till our extended deposit is due

Please help, we’ve had this stupid ongoing saga.

My daughter is transfer student. We filled out fafsa back in Dec 25. However her preferred school had her ssn number wrong in the system so her fafsa never showed up as completed.

As soon as we discovered the problem we called. It took multiple tries but finally got someone in financial aid to identify the problem as the ssn. They gave us a link to fill out and we did and waited… and nothing for 2 days. We can’t see the ssn on their system so we couldn’t check.

Then on Reddit’s advice we called admissions and they gave us another form. We filled it out multiple times with them, they assured us it was good and we just needed to wait a few days. And still nothing. At one point we got shrugs from the admissions office and they gave us their Dean’s email… and he never responded back.

Finally last week someone in admissions told us there was this same problem affecting a number of students and they were working on it. And by the end of the week we got the correction pushed through. We called financial aid this morning and they too see the correction.

However they told us it would take a week for their system to even show that it received fafsa and another couple weeks for them to review. Meanwhile original deposit was due end of June and we got an extension to the 14th when this whole thing started.

Financial aid gave us shrugs when we asked if it was possible everything would be processed before or by the 14th.

Complicating the situation further (but also a saving grace), she did get into a 2nd school with scholarships and she’s fine with going there. But school #1 is far more prestigious and she was so excited to get in. It was her stretch school. She’s accepted everything for school 2 but hasn’t signed up for housing or classes and I don’t know how long we can hold off on that.

Really looking for advice from someone in the field to see if we’re fighting a losing battle here. Or if there’s something more we can do. We can’t just accept school 1 on faith because we can’t afford it with no aid. And fwiw at the other school she got a presidential scholarship and a grant but not financial need like Pell or anything.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 3 months ago
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Just one thing after another. Starting to have difficulty coping

I’m older than many redditors. I used to spend a lot of time helping people online with their anxiety. Now I’m the one drowning.

Forgive me.. the easiest way to do this in probably a list:

  1. weird medical shit:

-sympathetic overload with wayyyy too much adrenaline and cortisol most of my life

-had to start medicating it because I was getting hurt and not feeling it. Still getting adrenaline dumps though. Physically falling apart. And can’t sleep. (Dysautonomia does this and perimenopause kicked that hornet’s nest into a frenzy this year and boy are they pissed)

  1. have an awesome daughter trying to transfer to a better school after a rough freshman year at the wrong school. Nonstop weeks of technical issues preventing them from seeing her fafsa. Clock ticking.

  2. Elderly toxic af in laws moved near for us to help. Husband trying to have childhood he never had with them. Cue the eating of all our excess time and financial resources. We are pinched.

  3. See #3… my marriage suddenly is in freefall to such an extend that after 32 years Im wondering id i ever knew my spouse. 2 years ago i was proud if what we had

  4. My family is such a shitshow Im thinking of writing a horror comedy. Because they’re so horrible it’s comedic.

  5. Ignored an adductor injury for a year because busy being mom. Physical therapy now to fix it and my compensating gait. New injuries happening from relearning the right way to move. Lots of pain.

  6. And just today after catching another crisis at home, suddenly the external drive with all our pictures and my kid’s performances is failing to mount. Praying our offsite backup worked correctly (in the middle of restoring everything to a new drive).

But seriously just what the actual fuck?!

I haven’t even gotten into my job search and trying to go back to work after almost 20 years. There’s more but this was already too long.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 3 months ago

Manifesting with physiologically induced anxiety and injuries. Have you experienced this and what did you do.m?

So I find myself in a pickle. Right when there’s a lot that I’ve been working on, perimenopause stepped up and brought me out of remission of a condition where I get huge adrenaline dumps that play out as anxious spells. Wakes me up almost every morning and it takes most of my energy just to stabilize that.

On top of that I’ve been in physical therapy working on an old injury which is opening up all kinds of pain doors and it’s current rare that I can walk for long without some kind of pain. Chronic pain is no fun.

And neither of these issues were what I was trying to work with in manifesting. It’s hard to focus consistently and positively. Any tips or similar experiences?

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 3 months ago

Recommendations for doctors who prescribe adhd meds? Elderly family member unable to get new script since moving here.

So I have an elderly family member who moved here a couple years ago and I recently found out he’s been off his adhd meds (that he’s taken for years) since he moved here because he can’t get a new prescription.

Back where he used to live I believe he said it was prescribed by his primary care and primary care here refuses to give him a script. Looking around I suspect that because in NM it looks like it needs to go through psychiatric channels and not primary care.

I’m not sure I’ll be able to get him to go to a psychiatrist, but does anyone have any recommendations either in town or via telemedicine for getting him back on his adhd meds. He appears to be suffering and it’s been really hard getting other business done for and with him.

ETA: I was informed that some pcps do prescribe. So if you know one weld also consider those recommendations. He specifically was on adderall.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 4 months ago
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SSN still wrong in their system even after requested fix. Anyone experience this problem? (Transfer student)

Ugh. We’ve been trying to get this problem resolved for weeks now. Daughter’s ssn was off by a number in their system so her fafsa didn’t register. We spent a week talking to financial aid trying to track and solve the problem. Then thanks to this sub we went to admissions and they gave us a request form to get it fixed and we put that in.

It’s been over a week and we don’t know where to check to be sure the fix went through. Daughter emailed some questions to financial aid on Friday and they got back to us today that her ssn is still wrong.

How do we even get this fixed? And then I know they need time to process and then review the fafsa. We have an extension till 7/14 but I know this financial aid process takes time, and we need time on our end to figure out what we can do to make this happen given the eventual financial aid offer.

Anyone know where else to bring this issue to? I have daughter calling admissions and some contact email they gave her for transfer students.

This is so frustrating.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 4 months ago

Anyone else have this weird combo of symptoms: hair, nails, teeth?

So my daughter was diagnosed with pots about 7 years ago. Then 3 years ago she suddenly starting having issues with hair loss, weak tooth enamel and demineralization, and brittle nails which still plague her. (I also have dysautonomia but not these symptoms).

We’re treating each of the symptoms separately, and have even done genetic testing looking for some other diseases that she doesn’t have, but it dawned on me to ask up here if anyone has encountered this array of symptoms and if so do you have any medical insight as to what’s happening.

She really doesn’t have good medical support because we live in a state with a severe doctor shortage and almost no one even really acknowledges dysautonomia (her diagnosis was a minor miracle). So it’s not like we can ask a medical expert familiar with pots. So, anyone ever deal with this?

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 4 months ago
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Anyone know how long it takes for an acceptance deposit extension to be reviewed and approved?

My daughter is a transfer student recently accepted to GWU. We’ve been having a lot of problems stemming from an initial typo on her SSN which prevented her fafsa from being seen. It took a while to get that tracked down and fixed and now we’re in a two week wait to get her financial aid offer.

We can’t accept without knowing whether we can afford the school and this is her #1 school.

Earlier in the week admissions put us in touch with someone to get an extension. That person said they’d send a form but we haven’t received it yet (daughter is trying to call to get that rectified).

My worry is that Monday is the deposit date. At the rate the paperwork has been moving, even if we can get the form I am concerned that there’s no way the extension will be approved before the deposit deadline.

Has anyone been through a similar experience?

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 4 months ago
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Transfer student problem getting financial aid statement with deposit deadline coming up

My daughter was recently admitted as a transfer student however there was some kind of issue where her ssn was incorrect in GWU’s system so they never saw her fafsa. We’ve been trying to get this rectified for a couple weeks now.

Last week someone in financial aid emailed a link to correct the SSN mismatch but the link didn’t work and it took several days to get a response on that problem. The response was that they’d research today and send an email by end of day but that never happened so we’ll have to call tomorrow.

We’re getting close to the point where we have to put in a deposit and we really need to know the financial aid offer. It’s between GWU and another school and we have all the other school’s info, but prefer GWU so we’re sitting in limbo. Any ideas how we can speed up getting this fixed? Anyone else we should be talking to?

Also any ideas if this delay (we sent the form through fafsa back in Dec) in GWU’s system means she won’t have eligibility for merit aid this year?

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 4 months ago

Can we talk about the ego?

Ok so I’m very new to the community, to discussing any of this with others. But I have spent years reading and researching and especially enjoy older texts. I trend towards the Jungian side of things but have also greatly enjoyed time with hermetic alchemy. But I don’t ascribe to any one philosophy at this point.

Speaking very simply, I have run into much discussion about ego death and ego suppression and it always has me a little confused. While I don’t believe the ego should be completely in charge, I have to believe we have this thing for a reason. It came in the package and it can create beautiful things and teach us wonderful lessons when not running amok. Shouldn’t that be embraced, even though we keep it in the play yard to make sure it doesn’t make messes on the rug?

So if there’s someone out there who has deeper experience with these concepts, please chime in. I have done a super deep dive on it and I feel like I’m missing something.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 4 months ago

Is your vet being controlled by private equity? See if it’s in the map.

Costs at my vet have skyrocketed in the past few years (not a VCA). A few years back one of my cats needed a cleaning with many extractions and that cost $700 (I used to think $450 was pushing it). Now I was just quoted $1300 for a basic cleaning in a healthy young cat.

I think this explains it. Check the map.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 5 months ago

Any ideas for a mattress topper that would cover only 1/2 the bed without shifting?

I acknowledge this may not be possible.

Spouse and I have a sleep number bed. His side feels like a slab of rock, mine is considerably softer. And it feels decent. However whenever we go to hotels I’m often in love with the beds that have pillow toppers.

I would love to find a decent pillow top to add to my mattress that I could affix under my side only with minimal shifting.

Any ideas? Is this possible? Every time I look around I only see toppers that need to wrap around the mattress (like a fitted sheet) which wouldn’t work for only 1/2 the bed.

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u/transdermalcelebrity — 5 months ago

Last couple years I’ve been fighting whatever this is every spring. I get the progression to slow down but it never really stops. I’ve cut back chunks, used neem oil, even tried lady bugs (but they don’t stick around). Had one landscaper say it was spider mites and cut huge chunks out which seemed to help at the time but didn’t solve it.

Any ideas. If possible I’d prefer not to use heavy pesticides. Aside from the fact that I have a dog in the yard, these bushes circle our bird feeders and I don’t want to make them sick either (although I could move the feeders if necessary).

Bushes get consistent morning sun, 🌞 probably 6-8 hours depending on time of year. They get about 15 minutes of water 3 times a week.

u/transdermalcelebrity — 6 months ago