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15/01/2022

A Valentine's Day bubble wand by SweetEmms Soap 💕 Hold these under running water and you will be granted bubbles for days. (But it's almost too pretty to use!)

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Icarus is now a registered therapy dog

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10/01/2022

If your Belgian Sheepdog has the habit of biting you or other members of your family, you can use some of the following techniques to stop it from doing so:

One thing to keep in mind when you are teaching your Belgian Sheepdog not to bite is: DO NOT use toys and activities that encourage biting.

Let me explain with an example:

Playing tug-of-war. Although this may be a popular playtime activity for you and Zeus, did you know that this encourages Zeus to bite, thus leading to unwanted behavior problems?

Well, I am not saying that you should never play tug-of-war with Zeus. Once he is trained and fully understands the "Off" command, you may tug-of-war with him. Until then, it is best to put the rope away.

Another common mistake made by inexperienced Belgian Sheepdog owners that encourages biting is rough housing.

How many of us have either seen, or participated in, activities such as growling at our dogs and letting them grab our hands in their mouths during play?

Then, when our Belgian Sheepdog bites too hard, we scold him and tell him "no bite". We are completely confusing our Belgian Sheepdog by doing this if it has not yet been trained to understand hard bites from soft bites.

If your dog has a great propensity to bite when playing, it is a good idea to keep your hands away from its face when playing or petting. This will discourage the biting by removing the item it is trying to bite.

Never reward mouthing, snapping or grabbing types of behavior.

An example would be playing with Zeus even after it has grabbed a toy from your hand. In this instance, you should stop playing and ignore Zeus.

Continuing to play will enable it to think the grabbing behavior was acceptable and it will continue to do so in the future. This could result in it later grabbing food or other items, unintentionally injuring someone or another animal.

Once your Belgian Sheepdog has established that mouthing or biting is not the appropriate response in most instances, it is important that you make it understand when it IS an appropriate response. For instance, Retrieving is a situation where it is appropriate for your Belgian Sheepdog to mouth or bite.

Another approach to stop the unwanted biting behavior is to simply stop interacting with your Belgian Sheepdog and ignore it for a period of time.

09/01/2022

That’s because the science of animal behavior tells us that the best way to train dogs is by using body language and not verbal commands.

When dogs communicate with each other, they primarily use body language. They only use vocalization to make their body language more dramatic. It’s like when we humans put an exclamation point at the end of a sentence.

Dogs don’t understand English. So if we want to communicate with our dogs, we need to communicate with them using language THEY understand.

And the language they understand is body language.

Starting your dog’s training with verbal commands like “sit”, “stay” etc. is the #1 reason that a lot of “normal” dogs have behavioral issues like:

09/01/2022

Remember: This workshop won’t be up for ever, so please watch it while you can. And please watch the entire workshop, because we have a special surprise for you at the end!

08/01/2022

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07/01/2022

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Rescued all these....even Meghan Hatch.....she ran away owing me money.....stole my car.....lol

06/12/2021

Hello Walter I saw your post on a different post then mine and I was hoping you could help me find a home for my Belgian Malinois puppy who's almost a year old. He's from champion lines and isn't the best behaved and sadly I don't have the time to dedicate to getting him under control. I didn't plan on getting this puppy he was just kinda dumped on me and I've been losing my mind for a good 3 months now. What do I do I posted him on the BM web page but I've gotten no hits. I don't want anything for him even tho I know he's worth something. I just want him to go to a good home.

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ICELANDIC YULE CAT Parents told the tale of the monstrous feline saying that JÓLAKÖTTURINN could tell who the lazy or naughty children were and these children would be sacrificed to the Yule Cat

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05/12/2021

The Toy Drive is aimed at giving hope to the children on the reservation. The simplest things like a basketball can make a world of difference. 

05/12/2021

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05/12/2021

REMEMBERING WOLVES — THE MOLLIES FIRST ALPHA FEMALE 🐺

Seventeen years ago today the first alpha female of the Yellowstone’s Mollie’s Pack sides of natural causes, as a wolf should.

She and her mate 193Mb from the Rose Creek Pack founded the newly renamed pack (formerly Crystal Creek) in the year 2000.

Here’s the rest of her story from the Yellowstone Wolf Family Tree:

174Fg was one of eight pups born in Pelican Valley in April 1998 to Crystal Creek alphas 5Fg and 6Mb. Her father 6Mb died in August 1998 from wounds incurred during a hunt by a bull elk. Her mother 5Fg was then the only original member of the Crystal Creek Pack left, and she was, in fact, was the first wolf carried into an acclimation pen in 1995 by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbit, the late Mollie Beattie (former Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service), Superintendent Michael Finley, and Maintenance Foreman James Evanoff.

"The Crystals carved out a year-round existence in Pelican Valley, and learned how to hunt bison. The Pelican Valley area supports many elk during the snow-free portion of the year but supports very few during the winter. However, several hundred bison live in Pelican Valley, no matter how severe the winter. When the bison weaken during late March due to protracted winter conditions, the Crystal wolves increase their frequency of bison kills. In 1998, wolf project field workers observed two bison being killed by the Crystal Creek wolves — both in March. The number of wolves involved with the kills were 10 and 14, suggesting that it may take more wolves to bring down a bison than it does an elk" (Yellowstone Wolf Project 1998 Annual Report).

174Fg remained with the Crystal Creek Pack through her mother's disappearance in 2000 and the resulting name change of the pack to the Mollie's (in honor of the late director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife, Mollie Beattie). The pack had declined from 15 wolves at the time of 174Fg's birth to only 4 in 2000, and the adept bison hunters of the park (averaging 6 bison every late winter when the snows deepened) would be hard pressed to maintain kills that they already lost to grizzlies on a regular basis.

But in 2001, the progeny of 5Fg and 6Mb rallied and gave birth to 10 new pups, 6 of which survived by year's end.

In 2003, 174Fg was officially listed as the alpha female of the Mollie's pack along with 193Fb (who had been the alpha male since 2000), but she may also have been the unidentified mate of 193Mb and alpha female of the pack from 2000 to 2003 before that.

174Fg died in Pelican Valley of unknown causes on December 4, 2004. This happened just before the breeding season 2005, and no other female stepped into the vacated position to give birth to pups in 2005.

Her mate 193Mb remained the alpha male of the pack until his death in 2006 at the age of nine.

The legacy of Mollie's alpha female 174Fg lives on in the bloodline of the pack.

Leo Leckie
www.wolftales.info
Archivist of the Yellowstone Wolf Family Tree for The 06 Legacy
Lead of Program Education, Wolf Connection
Co-founder of the Yellowstone Wolf Family Tree

The Yellowstone Wolf Family Tree is Ancestry.com's largest and most unique family tree with over 600 human guests and featuring the life stories and genealogy of nearly 1,300 Yellowstone Wolves! The tree exists as a free online resource (for both browsers and mobile devices) to all those who study and respect wolves, and updates to the tree are made possible by The 06 Legacy. To become a guest of the Yellowstone Wolf Family Tree, go to the web portal https://www.wolftales.info/, select the Yellowstone Wolf Family Tree, and follow the instructions to submit your guest request.

04/12/2021

A Mississippi judge ruled the law that allows landlords to take anything in a home after the time period of an eviction order is unconstitutional.

04/12/2021

Jonathan M. Cuney, 38, of New York was sentenced today to 87 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing fi****ms that included “ghost guns,” the Department of Justice announced in a press release. From the DOJ’s press release: Cuney previously ...

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