u/white_tiger_dream

I am completely new to this and my breeder is in another state. We do talk but I could use a little more advice.

My puppy is four months old and I feel like I need three hands to stack him. One to hold the leash, one to hold the bait, and one to move his feet.

If I loosen the leash he gets so wiggly aiming for the bait. If I drop the bait he completely loses interests. Therefore I can never position his feet. How can we work on this?

We have met several dogs that I ask “Is your dog friendly?” and the owner says “Yes.” Then the adult dog proceeds to growl, snap, and lunge at my puppy.

It has even happened when the owner came up to ME asking if they can meet the puppy, saying their dog is friendly. Their dog is giving tense body language and once within reach of my puppy lunges insanely with hair standing up.

Should I just never let my puppy meet other dogs? It seems like such a normal thing. I thought this is an important time for him to meet and play with other dogs. But it seems like every dog is a jerk! And why are the owners under the impression that their growling dog is exhibiting friendly behavior?! I want to protect my puppy but I want him to play with other dogs too, what can I do?

By the way my puppy has the funniest reaction to all this. He is like 😮🤨😛 but I’m worried HE could become reactive from the negative experiences.

I am the type of person who isn’t shy about conflict; I’m also nice. Like many of you I found this forum because I am having a problem with another tenant in my apartment complex. Let me tell you I was ALWAYS upvoting the comments like “Just be an adult and talk to your neighbor” and thought the people saying “Report everything to management” were being dramatic.

Well about TWO MONTHS ago I confronted my neighbor in the nicest way possible IMO, asking if she can keep it down during quiet hours. I think I went about it in the best way: I saw her in a neutral common area during the day, I introduced myself, I said I’ve been hearing yelling and it just kinda made me worried if everything is ok, it’s kinda disconcerting hearing yelling at 2AM. She seemed cool although her explanation for the yelling didn’t make any sense (she gets off work late ???) I was just like ok but in my head thinking well it happens literally every night so wtf.

Whatever, I started my log to send to management, not much else I can do. Management predictably has done nothing which is one reason I always agreed with the advice to confront.

Well DONT. Yesterday she comes up to me in the common area super aggressive and tells me someone fucked with her shit and she knows it was me, not to mess with her stuff and she will fucking kill me. I don’t have any idea what she’s talking about but now I’m super nervous!

It made me realize something: people who are bad neighbors don’t give a shit, so confronting them doesn’t do anything. Like if your neighbor is a good one, and is being loud, at some point they’re gonna realize they’re being loud and quiet down. And make the effort to be more quiet in the future. But if they’re trash they don’t care and confronting them isn’t going to suddenly make them “aware” of their behavior—they know what they’re doing and they know it inconveniences others and they don’t care. They probably get off on it somehow tbh

If you let them know you’re unhappy with them and someone ELSE is also unhappy they’re always going to blame you because you’re the one they’ve seen. That’s what happened to me.

My dad is low income and spends too much money on cable TV. He would also like to watch soccer games airing in Europe this summer.

I know there is a box you can buy and it has “TV” on it for free but I don’t know where to buy it or how to set it up. He is under the impression we need a VPN for any of this to work. Is he correct? Could someone ELI am very very stupid? We are in east side Los Angeles by the way if it helps.