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Has anyone here successfully litter-trained a dog? Any advice or recommended how-tos? I know it's usually only done for toy breeds, but Seba's anxiety is so bad that even medicated, every thunderstorm or other disruption puts us right back to square one on housetraining and this is not a good way to live. #Dogs #DogTraining #DogsOfMastodon #AskFedi

@Goodworkdog@sunny.garden Thanks, there are a few complicating factors with this poor little guy, so I'm just poking around for ideas to figure out what might work. At a guess, based on behavior and the few clues I got when adopting him from the local pound, someone tried an outdated punishment technique for housetraining that obviously didn't work, then got quickly frustrated and stuck him in an outdoor kennel with minimal interaction for a year or so. He seems fearful of being *seen* going potty( though I've managed to get him to go outside on leash and praise heavily occasionally), and didn't appear to recognize any basic commands or the name he supposedly came with at first( actually looked confused that a human would speak to him and started looking around for the other person I was addressing!), yet he's obviously intelligent and picks things up fast when you can get him calm enough. He also is exceptionally prone to panic when in an outdoor setting compared to indoors. Unfortunately very little if any inhibition about pottying near sleeping areas as long as he's not being watched.

@Lazarou@mastodon.social @nev@flipping.rocks @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org That sounds more likely to give someone PTSD than cure them of anything!

@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Realistically, they're probably *also* having normal crashes at the same rate, but only the really spectacular ones make the news

@pteryx@dice.camp @pluralistic@mamot.fr We've really reached the point in our society where Ebenezer Scrooge looks almost sweet and harmless instead of an exaggerated villain.

@mzedp@plasmatrap.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I wonder if the distinction is regional or time-period-based? It could give some additional information about the machine.

@MicroSFF@mastodon.art This is actually more realistic in some places than you might think! I remember as a child being quite shocked, as someone from a non-sports-enthusiast household, to see a human interest story on the news making a huge deal out of family members who supported different teams "coming together" to support a mutual family member *who was dying of cancer*.

@mattblaze@federate.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I've heard of some people who use them to reduce ADHD distractions, and also related to concerns about government/corporate spying on electronic devices.

@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange "What's wrong with Utah students?". Apparently the answer is that they're being doxxed and attacked for going through a developmentally appropriate edgy humor phase.

@realtegan@wandering.shop @plutarch@gotosocial.plutar.ch @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org This was what I was thinking, as well. A long way back in the 8-bit days, all they were known for was making quality products. Somewhere along the way they turned to corruption.

So, apparently some asshole *stole* my pickup order from Michaels. They tell me now I have to have them process a refund, which will take a week, and reorder. For a $6 item I needed. Why are people like this?

@Godyssey@pagan.plus I think your alt-text has an autocorrect issue. Should be "*pink* with green tips".

@Darkphoenix@universeodon.com At this point, *not* removing him from office should be considered treason, but no one with any authority is doing anything at all.

@Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus Ah, I missed this one. My view is unconventional, but I believe in multi-part souls---in itself not unusual, both Kemeticism and Taoism, my major influences, have that idea, but my particular odd UPG is that the pieces are also holographic, with each piece having enough information to recreate the whole, and thus one may experience more than one afterlife, some reincarnated, some not. How many parts, I'm not entirely sure. It would be completely logical to me, though a little overwhelming, to consider that every cell of the body has one, but certainly there are many different aspects to a self.

I feel like whoever wired my house must have involved a troop of drunken circus monkeys somehow. Trying to map out the breaker box because I wanted to change out some light fixtures. I have two ceiling lights in my little 9x12 kitchen (along with the bathroom, makes up roughly the middle 1/3 of the east wall of the house). They're not only not wired to the same switch, but the one I decided to start with, the smaller fixture above the sink, is wired to, so far as I can tell: (1)the wall outlet in the southwest corner of the house (not to anything else in that room), (2) the ceiling fan in the northeast bedroom (not to the outlets there) (3) unclear as yet. Meanwhile the ceiling fan in the living room (southwest corner) is connected to the GFCI in bathroom, but not to the vanity light there. I'm not a pro-level electrician by any means, but this doesn't strike me as the most logical and efficient wiring diagram. 🤔

@mayorbeetles@pagan.plus Correct. Did I miss something from another dumb politician trying to live in the 19th century, or was this spontaneous?

@geekysteven@beige.party That's quite a pretty little turtle, I didn't know they came in such bright colors!

@hanktank61@NerdJoy.social Slowcookers are a very normal part of Midwestern US life, but you might also be confusing them with rice cookers, which are sold in Asian markets more frequently. I have both and I actually use the rice cooker more (it's not totally limited to just rice), but it does depend on the specific recipe. A rice cooker cooks at a medium temperature until the liquid is absorbed or evaporated, a slow cooker just heats at a consistent fairly low temperature indefinitely.

@thegrumpyenby@tenforward.social how about zucchini bread? I used to enjoy that as a child and depending on where you live, it can be proverbially easy to find a gardener who planted too much zucchini.

@hollie@social.coop They get most of my very limited disposable income. Though I have in the last few months had to get refunded for two different books that they apparently failed to check for condition( one had multiple pages permanently stuck together with who knows what, and another someone had carefully removed an entire chapter with scissors). Still, they did the refund with minimal fuss.

@FiddleSix@zeroes.ca @NorcalGma2@sfba.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Miso soup is a joy, IMO. I've often said people should be greeted with that on entrance to Heaven. And I don't think I could eat kimchi or sauerkraut at all either.

@ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de Barbie before plastic was invented.

@ChrisJagged@mastodon.social I am somewhat more a dog person but I actually like both and if I knew my current dog would be cat friendly would be open to sharing my home with the right cat again.

Ugh, stuck at work as the nausea phase of getting stung by a nest of wasps I accidentally stirred up doing yardwork is hitting. ( I looked it up and this is apparently a common thing that doesn't necessarily mean a severe reaction but definitely sucks).

Was coming home from dance class tonight, and when I got to where I usually turn, counted 8 police cars zooming through the intersection with lights and sirens. Decided not to risk ending up in the middle of whatever they were headed for, so went another 3/4 mile to an alternate route, and counted 4 more apparently converging on the same point from the opposite direction. Couldn't find anything on the local scanner feed or the news yet, but anything involving that many cops is surely a bad day for somebody. 😬

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anolandria/116992942023577958 I remember being so flabbergasted the first few times I heard of someone being openly pagan or queer, or even considering coming out to their family. The way I was raised, family was synonymous with needing to hide major parts of yourself and basically putting on the same kind of falsely perfect "realtor beige" persona expected for a job interview. Someone later described me as "getting a 404 error" every time I heard them talk about their own genuinely loving and casual family, and I still find it a hard concept to understand non-adversarial biological relationships. I actually believed it was a biological imperative to hate your relatives in order to discourage incest, as well as a social requirement to feign love for them in front of others.

@timixretroplays@digipres.club It rhymes with cone and it apparently is not the same thing as a scone in other parts of the world, which I didn't learn until adulthood. A Utah Scone, which is what grew up just calling a scone, is a variant of Navajo Frybread, essentially it's a hunk of deep-fried pizza dough with copious amounts of honey, butter and cinnamon. And very tasty but probably considered an abomination by much of the world.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I get that it likely won't be well-received, especially since people often are uncomfortable with the idea training animals that don't have a long prior history of domestication( and sometimes even those who do), but I also get where he's coming from, because I used to be somewhat locally famous for my ferrets, who are smaller wolverine cousins and often provoked excessive fear in a lot of people. They're definitely highly intelligent, and people underestimate how much intelligence translates into willingness to work with others, though how well this works depends on the wolverine having a longer attention span than a ferret, which they probably need to survive as a wild animal.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/09/20/sugar-house-park-trump-great-salt/ While this would be sad in a way, that pond was built when we had both a different ecosystem and much less knowledge of how things worked environmentally and it sounds like it's actually harming the birds it was meant to help us enjoy, so I hope they do find a way to move forward on this, though they don't sound very optimistic.

@LabSpokane@mas.to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I know we can't in Utah because it likes humidity and acidic soil, but PNW might be very possible.

@njion@bark.lgbt I wonder if you could try experimenting making a brownie recipe with more flour/less liquid? 🤔

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I mean, it could be a soy hamburger. I used to know a guy who had a vegan hotdog truck and from the marketing I don't think half the customers knew they weren't real meat.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I wish I could say I was the kind of ever-young person who loves new things, but the fact is my tastes have always been strange and specific and most of them belong to the 30-year span from my birth to adulthood.

@rooster@beige.party yeah, that sounds about like what we've got in charge now.

@Sarenth@pagan.plus Hear, hear!! Spent way too much of my life avoiding help I needed because of "help" I didn't need from people who only thought they knew anything about "correct" brain function.

Sitting in an exam room waiting for urgent medical care while bill collectors blow up my phone. Life in America today, I guess. FML.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org tiny stegosaurus? 🧐

@patrick@social.seattle.wa.us @markwyner@mas.to Weapons of war? Or just the toys of spoiled wealthy man-children? Because that's what looks likeliest to kill us off at this point.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Admittedly, "Salpicon" seems not the most readily translated word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salpicon

@HabitatRing@sakurajima.social All I really know about it is that I once in the early 2000s spent a highly uncomfortable two hours cornered by a homeless man in a severe psychotic episode haranguing me that I was supposed to be the Chosen One who could save us all from ending up like this movie, which he apparently had decided was The Real Truth, so every time someone brings it up all I can hear in my head is That Guy screaming at me.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Well, and the GOP tends to laud atrocities while attacking harmless quirks, so indeed, better line of discussion.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I suppose she could just be nuts and have terrible judgement, but knowing how conservative that area is, I kind of wonder if she was being pressured into a marriage she really didn't want at all and couldn't think of another way to get away from her family to get help.

@giflian@techhub.social Both 3 & 4 have been good for me, also. And using dry shampoo + sponge bath or even baby wipes when properly bathing is just too damn much. Always have a large wastebasket in every room. And, though it's more about AuDHD tendency to visually skip over plain-colored things without seeing them, rather than depression, finding and always using a glittery or neon-colored version of things I need to find quickly such as shoes, keys, phone case, glasses, etc. I was able to save about 15-20 minutes off my "getting ready to leave the house" routine by doing that. Also I apparently don't have object permanence so all containers and doors need to be clearly labeled or see-through, lest they subconsciously become just a permanent part of the wall to my brain.

@bloodravenlib@mas.to Honestly, from a very young age I feared marriage because of having to share a bed. Not even sex, because I was too young to know about that, but sharing a bed. My mother used to tell the story of how once when I was a toddler, my dad was away, there was a terrible thunderstorm and she assumed that because being alone in bed with that noise outside made her anxious, I would feel the same, so she came into my room to cuddle. And after about 15 minutes or so, I told her "I think you should go back to your own bed now!" I realize in many places people do indeed have to share because of poverty, and that I am fortunate that even though we didn't always have adequate food or utilities things didn't get to that point for us. But it really is a miserable thing to have to do and very odd that culture tries to mandate as a necessity for a specific relationship.

@thegrumpyenby@tenforward.social It's been a really long time and I can't seem to lay a hand on the exact one, but this seems close to what I remember except it's missing a teaspoon of nutmeg: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6698/moms-zucchini-bread/ Someone else a few days ago posted the Fannie Farmer version, which is apparently famous and definitely has nutmeg, but it has vegetable shortening in it and I know that was never something we had in the house when I was little.