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12:24:15 My dog was taught to pick stuff off the floor like keys. I put a bobble keychain on it so she could easily pick them up.
She also would bring the mail from the mailbox into the house.
She loved the small jobs.
When she was younger, she could also spend two hours running in the dog park or the backyard.
It made her feel useful, it made her calmer in the house, and easier in public.
She loved meeting new people, especially kids, and she was a BIG dog, so she was taught she had to lay down to meet someone new, and then she would present her belly for rubs (one of her absolute favorite things).
It made her think and respond accordingly to people.
She wasn't the most mannered dog - still would bark at the door and if she knew the person would jump on them and lick their ears.
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12:19:23 Sorry for the whole rambling rant - training and behavior are a HUGE passion for me.
There are great clicker training podcasts. My favorite is Equine Clicker 101, as it gives a step by step guide to the session and also what to do for troubleshooting situations.
There's a few people who are on the Video Social Media who give training tips and ideas for keeping an energetic dog.
Like small things you can do is make meal time interesting and a challenge - scattering kibble in a towel and rolling it up, or in a ball, or a frozen peanut butter Kong.
Anything that makes them take longer to eat and have to use their brain.
Something mentally challenging is almost as energy depleting as something physically challenging.
Having a job can also promote self confidence in a dog.
Something simple like bringing you the re |
12:13:47 Oriyana| Strut you want mares strong in M and I. St wouldnÂ’t hurt either |
12:11:19 Training a service dog was one of the most rewarding experiences I've had.
She loved having a job - from being a mobility guide, anxiety helper, and even household chores like putting dishes in the sink, garbage and recycling, and putting laundry in the basket.
Training is one of those things that is always happening - every time you interact with anyone, you are teaching them how to interact with you.
If you let a horse or dog take up your space, they will then you think that that's an okay behavior.
Sometimes sessions are about fun things like crawl and roll over, sometimes it's experiencing a new environment and relaxing, and other times it's going back to basics.
Have fun - do dog things
Work on manners - in th house
Work on tasks
You can't demand perfection all the time, they should be allowed to be an animal, but make it interesting and fun to do different things all the time. Even if it's something small. |
12:01:05 Kitty| The only thing my dog retained in training, is good girl spot and finish, means pee and poo. hahaha other things because of being a Chihuahua mix and selective do and hearing |
11:59:49 Strut -HEE Click-
like what am i supposed to look for |
11:59:32 Strut ok i have a question.
to get a better rating what should i breed this guy to?? |
11:50:49 Sway| Yep I trained my dogs myself🙂 not much to say with Minga lol cause she tries to murk people and ity her jumps sometimes, but my rescue Shiya and my dog Ive had since I was 10(LiLi) I both trained. LiLi and I did 4H dog club, and got BIS at the show:) |
11:45:51 Hummer| @Lucky, I just need to find the time and energy! 😉 |
11:35:10 Stitch| Going new places can also be a good workout. We take our pit mix out to new hiking areas whenever we can and all of the new things really help to wear him down. |
11:34:47 lucky I bet you could teach him yourself
as long as they have decent drive its pretty easy to teach dogs to do a job |
11:28:55 Hummer| Yeah, I should probably look into teaching him some more things. We used to go to dog-friendly stores to train and I still take him to them, but he is familiar with it. |
11:26:56 Sun/Sunny| -HEE Click- What a pretty colt *_* |
11:26:32 Hummer| The trainer we worked with offers sessions in weight pulling or similar "job like" things, but they are freakin expensive. |
11:26:30 Sway| You can make jobs like teaching them to assist you with daily tasks, hiding things and getting them search for them, all sorts of things |
11:24:52 Hummer| Oh, that's fun! My dog would probably be scared of the wagon or cart being behind him. XD |
11:23:47 Sway| Drafting is essentially what sled dogs do, but with a tiny cart! Like horses do pulling carts or carriages. Minga loved it, and would get so excited anytime I pulled out her harness. Our little wagon broke sadly, so she has not done it in quite some time. |
11:22:11 Sway| (My dog, Minga, was supposedly from the girls female blue am bully, but she later told me they rescued the litter from a bush before their eyes were open🤨 |
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Help Me Out! I'm wanting to write a kind of short story/first chapter to see if I'd like to keep going with this story or if it'll just be a practice book for continued improvement. Idea: My plan for this book is to be a story about a barrel racer named Audry. I'm basing it off of my own experiences with riding with frustration and anger ; taking out her anger on her horse. I really want this to be enormously about character development: how she learns to overcome her anger and do away with it, how she copes and betters herself as not only a rider but a person. I'd like it to include the relationship she grows with her horse and their growing success in the barrel racing world. My Issue & Hardships: I'm horrible at following through with things, especially drawing. I have a hell of a time with thouroughly executing my writing ideas without burning myself out from all the prep work. So, advice on that would be absolutely amazing! I also am not sure what jackpots/gaming days/pro rodeos look like or feel like. I really want to enter, but me and my horse aren't quite prepared for that. So, if you guys have experiences with those things, I'd love to hear about them and what you guys saw. My Half-Ass Storyline! Beginning: Audry purchases a cheap prospect at auction. She follows through with training him and in the process learns he was well trained. But, in learning his buttons, experiences strong anger and frustration. After senselessly beating her horse in a blind rage, it dawns on her that she needs to figure out how to deal with her anger. So, she begins her trip in finding how to be calm with herself and while riding to better her relationship and rebuild trust with her boy. Middle: Shows Audry's trials and how she tries to defeat her rage. (Not sure what or how I want these scenes to unfold. If any ideas, I'd love to hear them!) Audry begins to enter local jackpots and gain experience and begin her winning career. End: Entering her biggest rodeo yet, (a local Pro Rodeo) she suddenly falls back into her darkest place before she is to compete. She is finally able to break down her biggest wall and defeats the three day competition. (Not sure whether I should add anything else). That's kind of my idea and a rough layout of my plans and what I'd like to put forward. I'm not sure where else to take this prep process, so again, if anybody has ideas for that I'd love them! ^^ Later, when I get a handle on a rough of my first chapter (may turn out to be quite a few pages long, not sure yet. That might be a good thing, what length of chapters do you guys prefer/like?) I'll go ahead and put it up here to see what ya'll think! :D My Questions: 1. What other prep work can I do? 2. What are your experiences with competing at jackpots/game days/rodeos? 3. What would you guys suggest to do to develop Audry's character thouroughly? 4. How can I conclusively end my story? 5. What are your favorite chapter lengths? 1-5 pages? 6-10? 11+? Any writing advice, even as a general is greatly appreciated! I don't even care if it pertains to these ideas! Thank you all in advance! |
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Wow! That's a great idea, I love it! Unfortunately, I can't help you with question #2, as I've never gone to a show before. Audry needs some faults to be a good character, and it sounds like you've already got some, so that's great. Make her a character that people can identify with, not someone that's perfect. There are so many different ways to end a story. I think one of my favorite ways, though, is when it's not calm exactly, but not all the action is at the end. I think a nice chapter length is between 5-10 pages. I also write, I don't publish, but I love to write. Pm me if you want some more help. Again, I love this idea! |
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Elsea Acres said:
Wow! That's a great idea, I love it! Unfortunately, I can't help you with question #2, as I've never gone to a show before. Audry needs some faults to be a good character, and it sounds like you've already got some, so that's great. Make her a character that people can identify with, not someone that's perfect. There are so many different ways to end a story. I think one of my favorite ways, though, is when it's not calm exactly, but not all the action is at the end. I think a nice chapter length is between 5-10 pages. I also write, I don't publish, but I love to write. Pm me if you want some more help. Again, I love this idea!
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I have a few questions to ask. Question One: What role does Audry's family play in this story? Do they help or hinder her on her journey to become a better person? I find when writing that the family should have at least some impact in the story, which would make it more relatable. Question Two: Has she always dealt with situations in similar ways before? It would seem strange if that was the very first time it ever happened, especially if it gets overboard. Question Three: Was there something in her past that might have caused her to act in the way that she does? |
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I have a few questions to ask. Question One: What role does Audry's family play in this story? Do they help or hinder her on her journey to become a better person? I find when writing that the family should have at least some impact in the story, which would make it more relatable. Question Two: Has she always dealt with situations in similar ways before? It would seem strange if that was the very first time it ever happened, especially if it gets overboard. Question Three: Was there something in her past that might have caused her to act in the way that she does?
I definitely want Audry's dad to play a major role in helping her start up her career and helping her get through her frustration. I think I'll bring up some parts in the story that shows she has been through it before, but hasn't realized it was an issue until she unfairly brought her horse into it. Maybe her mom's passing could've made it to where she bottles up her feelings? Or maybe she never knew her mom and instead her first horse's tragic passing makes it hard on her? What do you think would be more interesting? I feel like the parent passing away is a very overused cliche. |
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So I've written a few full-length equestrian novels (on wattpad, but still) and I've picked up a few things along the way, so feel free to message me if you ever find yourself needing feedback! That being said, here are some of the biggest things I've picked up over the years: Make your horse a character! So many books I've read have had the horse doing nothing but existing while the riders ride around and have crisises and virtually ignore the horse unless they're on it or describing tack in great detail (also: don't do that). Figure out your horse, and let it breathe and have a personality of it's own. Smart, dumb, slow, fast, spooky, bombproof? And let the horse have a bit of character development. Maybe it's a bit stubborn at the beginning of the story but learns to respect its rider at the end. Maybe it had an accident and has to learn to trust again. Regardless, bring your horse to life! Another thing I've learned is that you need to stock up on side characters. Let the story feel full of life and people and their own quirks. If you find yourself really enjoying one side character, use that! Let them have a bigger role than you may have originally planned. One of my all-time favorite side characters was supposed to be briefly mentioned in my main character's class and ended up becoming his love interest and having a whole character arc of his own outside of the romance as well. It was really fun and some of my favorite writing and it was COMPLETELY unplanned. Basically- if you want to do something, do it. Readers can tell when a writer enjoyed writing something, and it makes the reading experience so much better. My last piece of advice is one I think you've already discovered, given recent conversations and the topic of your story, but I'll say it regardless. Let yourself explore emotions and feelings and scenarios in your story. You'll discover things about you, and it's a safe place to try new things and see how they work without having real world repercussions. That's a hugely important part of storytelling that I think a lot of people overlook, but it's there for a reason. Stories, while they seem fabricated on the surface, inhibit something that's actually brutally honest. So use that. Stories can be so, so good for you. |
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Wild River Stables said:
I have a few questions to ask. Question One: What role does Audry's family play in this story? Do they help or hinder her on her journey to become a better person? I find when writing that the family should have at least some impact in the story, which would make it more relatable. Question Two: Has she always dealt with situations in similar ways before? It would seem strange if that was the very first time it ever happened, especially if it gets overboard. Question Three: Was there something in her past that might have caused her to act in the way that she does?
I definitely want Audry's dad to play a major role in helping her start up her career and helping her get through her frustration. I think I'll bring up some parts in the story that shows she has been through it before, but hasn't realized it was an issue until she unfairly brought her horse into it. Maybe her mom's passing could've made it to where she bottles up her feelings? Or maybe she never knew her mom and instead her first horse's tragic passing makes it hard on her? What do you think would be more interesting? I feel like the parent passing away is a very overused cliche.
I think the parent's passing and the first horse's passing are both commonly used in equestrian books, although you can bring that into the story if you want to(it is your story after all). I noticed that very few, if any, of the equestrian books I've read had the death of a main character's friend. Perhaps she had a friend who also liked horses, but died in a horse related accident. That could explain some of the anger she feels towards her horse. |
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So I've written a few full-length equestrian novels (on wattpad, but still) and I've picked up a few things along the way, so feel free to message me if you ever find yourself needing feedback! That being said, here are some of the biggest things I've picked up over the years: Make your horse a character! So many books I've read have had the horse doing nothing but existing while the riders ride around and have crisises and virtually ignore the horse unless they're on it or describing tack in great detail (also: don't do that). Figure out your horse, and let it breathe and have a personality of it's own. Smart, dumb, slow, fast, spooky, bombproof? And let the horse have a bit of character development. Maybe it's a bit stubborn at the beginning of the story but learns to respect its rider at the end. Maybe it had an accident and has to learn to trust again. Regardless, bring your horse to life! Another thing I've learned is that you need to stock up on side characters. Let the story feel full of life and people and their own quirks. If you find yourself really enjoying one side character, use that! Let them have a bigger role than you may have originally planned. One of my all-time favorite side characters was supposed to be briefly mentioned in my main character's class and ended up becoming his love interest and having a whole character arc of his own outside of the romance as well. It was really fun and some of my favorite writing and it was COMPLETELY unplanned. Basically- if you want to do something, do it. Readers can tell when a writer enjoyed writing something, and it makes the reading experience so much better. My last piece of advice is one I think you've already discovered, given recent conversations and the topic of your story, but I'll say it regardless. Let yourself explore emotions and feelings and scenarios in your story. You'll discover things about you, and it's a safe place to try new things and see how they work without having real world repercussions. That's a hugely important part of storytelling that I think a lot of people overlook, but it's there for a reason. Stories, while they seem fabricated on the surface, inhibit something that's actually brutally honest. So use that. Stories can be so, so good for you.
Thank you for that! I've always struggled with side characters, I've always found them boring, but in this one, I want side characters to be a big portion of the crowd and helping Audry or maybe criticising. I want this to be a good story something awful! XD I've never finished a book before, so if I can do this, I would be so ecstatic! |
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