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BudToaster

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Docs office just called xrays show calcified joints, arthritis, separation between this and that. What a mess so it sounds to be anyway.
Have always wondered why I feel like I do, wonder what the rest of me has to tell?
Just get me to 75 without a bunch of shit and I'll go quietly into the night.
70 will probably be more like it

Glad it's nothing important cant see orthopedist till mid January.
have you ever looked into DMSO. i have some stiff/constricted hands i plan to use it on - still reading the fucking manual - i'm a bit OCD that way. it works like penetrating oil but for body tissue not machines.

DMSO is considered to be horse liniment or athletes use it for sore muscles.

midwestern doctor substack has a lot of articles about what it can do. mercola has been retweeting his articles about DMSO.

not medical advice - just in my feed (got to love the AI - it knows me like my spouse)
 
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oldmaninbc

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When I had a kennel and real dominant breeding males got in the same area,and it happens, they didn't care about the no touch, no talk, no eye contact stuff and you couldn't reason with them when bitches were in heat . They will fight to the death. I don't think most people should have working breeds but they are the most rewarding for the proper owners.again jmo
When I lived on a beef ranch. I rather enjoyed the working dogs but they had a mind of their own, as well.
The ranch dogs got together and crossed the road to the dairy farm and killed their dog. Causing some bad feelings between neighbors and friends.
 

Gray Wolf

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OleReynard

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have you ever looked into DMSO. i have some stiff/constricted hands i plan to use it on - still reading the fucking manual - i'm a bit OCD that way. it works like penetrating oil but for body tissue not machines.

DMSO is considered to be horse liniment or athletes use it for sore muscles.

midwestern doctor substack has a lot of articles about what it can do. mercola has been retweeting his articles about DMSO.

not medical advice - just in my feed (got to love the AI - it knows me like my spouse)
Something ill have to check into, Thank you
 

Dime

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My son had a border collie that needed a home before he got the pyrenese and the collie was naturally trained out of the womb,the past owner crated her most of the day and never trained her or thought of the potential,she was smarter than the past owners and would listen without training and catch on fast during subsequent training. Great with kids and just wanted to chase a stick and work. He thought it was going to be a breeze when he got the new dog but soon discovered how breeds differ. If I don't walk mine and tire him out playing fetch ,he's a dick. As soon as I come home from work he's standing on the fence leaning over with a stick in his mouth. I'm off till March now so he gets 2-3 hours of work and he's "calm".

 

Dime

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in Riverhead and it was beautiful
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It's only a crime until the gov decides they can get more votes and make more money when it's legal
 

Countryboy

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Growing up on the farm, I learned from my parents to get the response I desired from our animals, including cows, horses, pigs, chickens, and dogs. Our Boxers were as well behaved as male Boxers can be. They followed directions and were situation appropriate, but were still spontaneous as dogs are wont to be.

It wasn't until Grayfox and I got a German Shepherd pup that I started reading the available books, most oriented around hunting dogs or family dogs, but I learned a lot from a couple authors whose training methods I was comfortable with.

Looking at our dog books library, I see books by Strickland, Woodhouse, Monks of New Skete, Kohler, Coren, Pearsall-Leedham, McConnel, Eckstein, Haggerty-Benjamin, Hirchhonn, Morris, Bennett, Ross-Patterson, Patterson, Fox, Wolther, Owen, and Dunbar.

After reading them all, I of course thought I was as smart as all of them and me combined so did my own thing after taking ideas from them all.

The first thing I teach a pup is to sit, because I require them to sit at every curb before crossing until it is automatic that they never cross a curb without a release. While I have them sitting, I teach them to shake, using a treat for both.

That is the only training that I use a treat for. The rest of the training is done with stern voice or praise.

I teach them to come by putting a 20’ lead on a training chain and getting 20’ away from them before saying, “Come.” If they come, I love them up and if they don’t I jerk their chain and say come again. When they then come, I love them up for coming and then repeat until they always come.

For heel I use a training chain and walk them at heel, after commanding them to heel. If they break their heel, I jerk their chain and say, “HEEL”.

The worst punishment that I heap on them for heinous offenses, is the Alpha Wolf Rollover, which I notice the Monks of New Skete no longer recommend after someone got their face chawed. I’ve only used it with pups or dogs that I raised from a pup, none of the dogs that we’ve rescued.

I never strike or inflict pain on a dog beyond jerking their training chains, because I don’t want them afraid of me, when it critical that they immediately drop what they are doing and come. When my dogs get in trouble, they run to me, not away from me.

I forget which teacher said it, but I agree with the training philosophy that you treat dogs with love and respect, but you never let them win.

If you call them and they don’t come, go get them. If you tell them to stop and they don’t, go grab them by the scruff. Never let them get away with disobeying a command.
I noticed,'How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend' or at least the authors.
And next pup, I'll be biting the fuck out of Karma's throat, if it's called for.
 
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