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Subject: OT: Performance problem
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> Quote - what is it?Probably it is only a black sheep, so no harm done. It might also be a dog, in which case you might have to be careful of when to leave your computer unattended (see link).
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It's not her behavior that's really distracting, it's her existence. I've had a lot of dogs over the years but this one is pretty enchanting, it's really hard to pay attention to anything else.
Full size pic is here by the way. Not trying to brag up my photography skillz, I'm a shitty photographer, just wanted to post this.
She's some kind of terrier mix I think. She's about 9 pounds and energetic as hell, EXTREMELY fast runner and very agile, so I kinda think there is some border collie in there too, she has a little white flash on her chest.
a rescue dog? those make the best companions. I found a Lab on the side of the road, about 8 weeks old. Starved to death practically, you could see it's back bone it was so bad. It's right hip was broken. It living under a culvert next to a bridge so I suspect some ass threw it off the bridge to break the hip. Sure can't tell it was ever broke now though. He's my alarm clock, sticks his nose in my ear every morning at 5 am.
Yeah she's a little foundling mystery dog, she'd obviously been on her own for a while when she came to us (underfed, bony, dirty). She's already decided my bed is really her bed - I haven't allowed a dog to sleep in my bed for maybe twenty years and wasn't planning to start but apparently it wasn't up to me. And yeah she is also a pretty good alarm clock :)
Quote - It might also be a dog, in which case you might have to be careful of when to leave your computer unattended (see link).
Yeah she has already found the Delete key (dammit).
We have two maltese shitzu who we share the house with. They are actually the girls' dogs, but the girls recently moved out (empty nest), into an apartment complex where body-corporate forbids dogs. To their credit, the girls come over a lot to wash and groom them, they take care of all those vet visits and all that stuff, so we just have the fun bit to do. Woe unto the cockroach who decided to cough at our front door, though: the din two small furry canines can make is nothing short of astounding.
BTW, maltesers are like the hardest dogs to train. And I don't alpha anything real well.
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Try getting one of these
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If you want to see your performance take a dip.
We're getting another one in a few weeks. :)
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.
I would have been happy enough with a dog half as smart, but as it turns out she's really bright, she caught on to "chase and fetch" like the second time I threw a toy. She's a good socializer too, we have a 13 year old schnauzer female and our new friend has been very friendly without being submissive - can't say the same for the schnauzer, who has been extremely uncomfortable having her nice quiet orderly world disturbed. Not quite angry or afraid, more like a severely OCD person reacts to having their important things get disordered. She's a sweet old thing, still pretty frisky herself, but I expect this is going to take her a little time to get used to.
The puppy has just now (literally just now) figured out how to jump into my lap. I don't think bodes well for my productivity. :(
I was going to recommend Viagra, but I like your solution better!
What a cute Doggie!!! Thank you for rescuing her!!
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others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
She's turning out to be pretty smart, in the learning department. I've almost gotten her to stop teething on people's body parts (thank God). Today it's cold and raining pretty hard, and although she didn't really want to go outside, she at least went out long enough to "make a deposit" on the covered porch, twice. I've had many many dogs and it usually takes a few weeks, a doggie door helps immensely with that. Well, and being with her full time helps too of course.
Quote - Try getting one of these
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If you want to see your performance take a dip.
We're getting another one in a few weeks. :)
:lol: Yep Sam I agree.. its hard to do anything with the lil one around.
Also..what a cute pup!!! Aww :)
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Quote - Woe unto the cockroach who decided to cough at our front door, though: the din two small furry canines can make is nothing short of astounding.
Darla is turning out to be a really great guard dog herself, most of the time she's quiet but yeah she has the super-hearing thing going on too. I think I've come up with a decent compromise for getting a little work done with her around - I've set up a little doggie bed next to my desk so she can nap there and I can tap away on some modeling work. If I had the camera handy I'd catch a snapshot of her sleeping but the flash would probably startle the crap out of her (possibly literally).
Quote - Hmmmmm.......
Yes, that would be distracting. ^^ :blushing:
I saw that and knew it was only a matter of time...... LOL
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
LOLOLOL!
But if you're really upset with the effect the little furball has on your work performance, I'm sure a good taxidermist can help you out!
It probably won't help in Sam's case... the law frowns on stuffed babies...
And if you did that to ... well... one of the Rendo moderators, I think you might get a three day ban or something!
^_^
A little updated info for any who were curious: Darla has been with us for one month now, and I spent some frustrating time the first couple of weeks trying to teach her to stop playbiting and teething on my hands. I was trying to apply some of the stuff I've seen on Dog Whisperer but was getting pretty much nowhere - actually she was biting harder and harder as this went on. Because she's such a playful and energetic little booger, she interpreted the various Dog Whisperer techniques (scruff grab, "alpha roll", "Be The Alpha") as another form of play, and they just were not working worth a crap. She'd dodge and flinch when I went to correct her, but she was still biting just as much when she had the chance, and usually in a vindictive "I got you back!" kind of way that I was really getting worried about. I got her housebroken in this period without needing to correct her at all, mainly because I've spent a lot of time on her with the leash and making sure she was comfortable with the doggy door.
After catching an episode of It's Me or the Dog I did a lot of reading (particularly this thread about small dogs at SomethingAwful forums) and have concluded that the whole "be the alpha" method of training is terrible. It may work for some dogs, and in fact it was how I raised many Alaskan Malamutes in my younger days, but it works very poorly on excitable, energetic dogs. I started trying to use a much less stressful "time out" method, where I just stop playing with her if she insists on trying to bite. This works much much better. Over the past ten days or so she's been playbiting less and less, and with much less pressure, and the worrisome flinch/dodge reflex that was appearing is nearly gone.
I did some more reading and research, and for other purposes I am solidly converted to clicker training. Yesterday morning I went and bought a clicker ($1.75 from PetSmart). It works so much better than the "Be The Alpha" it's like black magic. In one day I've taught her a few tricks, the most impressive to me being "Speak" where she will bark exactly one time. Needed to teach her to bark on demand so I can teach her to "shut the hell up" on command, which is another high priority problem. I've never been able to teach a dog to do any kind of complex trick in the past and this is pretty neat. Now I wish I had never watched an episode of Dog Whisperer.
Hmm yeah I do see some similarities:
http://www.akc.org/breeds/portuguese_water_dog/
... but she's only 9 pounds and I think that's probably her full growth size. Any who are curious, I wrote up a lot more biometrics details along with some more pics in this thread at SomethingAwful's pet forum:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3174513&pagenumber=22#post387564948
Although she's shown in these pics with a choke chain, it was all I had for the first couple of days and as soon as I could I bought a harness for walking. DON'T USE CHOKE CHAINS ON TINY DOGS! There's a very common problem with fragile tracheas, and choke chains will damage them!
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I recently got one of these (attached pic) and my performance has gone to crap. I thought this would be a great upgrade but now I can't get any work done. What do I do?My Freebies