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"There are no shortcuts. I'd sugarcoat it for you, but that doesn't do you any good in the long run. The kindest thing I can do is give you the truth: after a few days of adjusting, every “accident” is the human's fault."

— Kathy Callahan: Welcoming Your Puppy from Planet Dog, p. 18

With my first puppy, it didn't take long to switch from "getting seething mad because the puppy peed on the carpet again" to "Oh, a couple hours passed already. She just woke up. Also she was trying to tell me she needs to go". One will realize how most "mishaps" are one's own making, and were preventable (which leaves the remaining few a truly fascinating mystery to try to solve).

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“There are no shortcuts. I'd sugarcoat it for you, but that doesn't do you any good in the long run. The kindest thing I can do is give you the truth: after a few days of adjusting, every “accident” is the human's fault.”

Holy shit this book is soooo goddamned good :blobcatchefkiss:
#planetDog

Ever since I got @lumi, I've been telling people "trying to understand a dog is like playing activity with a alien from outer space". Don't get me wrong, learning to read and understand canine body language is *magical*, but dogs think, communicate AND *perceive* the world very differently than us humans. What they hear or see we might have a clue perhaps, but what a dog smells is completely locked away from human perception, and smell is _the_ most important sense for dogs.

So we need to treat them as such: not as their master, but a watchful guardian, a dutiful guide to an intelligent but clueless little spacefarer who got plopped in the midst of the chaotic swirl of human society.
#pupdate #planetDog
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/202404/how-to-raise-chewing-peeing-pooping-fun-seeking-puppies

on now:
banco de gaia - last train to lhasa
(1995 planet dog / ultimate 540 361-2) 2xcd

i for one actually prefer the 💿💿 cd over the ⚫⚫⚫ lp (vinyl in collection? check ✔️) because the 36 minutes of kincajou (duck! asteroid) come in one piece in their uninterrupted full glory. maybe the most blissful track from the height of ambient techno in the mid-nineties.
or ever 🐺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUtMnUJ8P4

#wolfsmixedbag
#BanceDeGaia #LastTrainToLhasa #PlanetDog #ambient #techno #SundayMusic