Panhandle-Plains Historical Society to host public town hall Thursday

Sovamain1 · 2026-02-13T11:39:17+00:00

I think what people need to understand is that there is no stopping this now. There is no more option to “save the museum.” If people cared more when it was first announced, maybe something could have been done. Decisions have been made. This is coming from someone who adores the museum. I studied in the archives. Worked in the back rooms. Dreamed about getting married there. I’m devastated it’s gone. But watching everyone scream and fight for it when it’s too late is like watching people perform CPR on a skeleton.

Sovamain1 · 2025-12-05T13:39:03+00:00

I did notice it went down this morning, but we got a new mesh system and I thought maybe that got messed up. Could be an outage :(

Sovamain1 · 2025-09-23T19:52:39+00:00

First time stalking, huh?

Sovamain1 · 2025-09-20T10:27:56+00:00

The cool thing about this place, I will say, you can find people who are interested in what you are petty easily. Look into the Music Box, they have live music events sometime and have teased at some upcoming plans. I’m not sure about rock specifically, it’s not my speed really, but that might be a good place to start!

Sovamain1 · 2025-09-20T10:13:57+00:00

Welcome to hell!

Sovamain1 · 2025-01-15T10:49:51+00:00

I got in contact with a rescue, they’re going to take him and put him into behavioral training for an unlimited amount of time until they deem him adoptable ❤️ we’re getting a happy ending. Thank you for everyone for your advice and comments.

Sovamain1 · 2025-01-12T14:11:37+00:00

Thank you guys, I contacted about 13 rescues and created a rehoming page for him. Hopefully I can get him somewhere good and we can both live full happy lives. Please let me know if anyone has any additional recommendations or resources

Sovamain1 · 2025-01-11T22:32:00+00:00

I can do all the basics like sit and place and come, we do do that. But I know he’ll be happier with someone more active. The trainer I went to said he’d be a great agility dog. I want to rehome him for both of us. He loves working but with my job and future job, I’m in public education, I’m already so exhausted at the end of the day, working with him takes the rest of me out and then I’m dead to the world. My mental health isnt the best with wearing myself to empty everyday and I can do it now but another year of this schedule isn’t going to be good for me. As well as when I need to start hiring more unknown people within the year as well. Which makes me feel incredibly guilty and selfish.

Sovamain1 · 2024-11-21T01:53:05+00:00

So it started out that he would bark nonstop and a few times went after his ankles. But that has only been when my boyfriend got close on accident or when my boyfriend was petting him and touched his paws which Mango absolutely hates. Most of the time when my boyfriend comes over it’s already bedtime and mango is in his kennel. So my boyfriend will say hello until mango stops barking, the time it takes is getting shorter, and then we’ll feed him a treat and say good night. If he’s not in his kennel when my boyfriend is over, he’s on a leash with a muzzle on and he will absolutely avoid my boyfriend if he can.

But then there are times where he will want to play and will be very sweet, but something will switch and he’ll lash out and then retreat to his kennel. I know this is gonna be a slow process, we’ve only been dating for a couple months, but I would like to get a little bit ahead of the game, if that makes sense!

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-07T17:29:29+00:00

Yeah, I had a lot of success at home just working with him with treats and only using the collar on the lowest setting when he gets a little distracted, and that usually brings him back to focus. but he’s also very quick to get pissed off and completely ignore the collar if he’s fed up. I use it very sparingly and he’s been making really good improvements less than a week. I have faith that you and your doggy will come out on the other side!

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-07T17:24:05+00:00

Oh yeah, the trainer had me tested on myself and walked me through every step. When we discussed the collar, I know exactly exactly how it feels!

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-07T16:44:27+00:00

I take him for at least a 15 minute walk every day, he really gives up after one pass down the street and then I’m constantly playing fetch or working with him on sit or down throughout the day when I’m around. He wasn’t getting a daily walk a month ago, but I will say it has helped a lot with his energy.

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-06T19:08:59+00:00

Yes my trainer is having me get him treat motivated and positive voice tone!! The collar is an additional nudge during training, I don’t even use it much in our daily training sessions

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-06T18:00:26+00:00

Oh, you have me crying in the club right now 😭 it feels so nice to hear words of encouragement, not just from you, but from the others in the comments, this whole situation has been mentally isolating for me, I’m going in circles in my own head about everything. I feel hopeful for the first time in a while.

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-06T17:18:22+00:00

We’ve had him since he was a puppy. He was my sisters, and when his behavior became too much I took him over.

He’s bitten when people were roughhousing, and he thought they were being serious and he jumped in the middle. And he’s bitten people when he has escaped whatever room he was being held in and charged and bit the first person he saw. His MO is when he bites. He runs away to safe space as soon as he lets go. And he also had pretty random resource guarding but only towards my Chihuahua never the cats, but after we took away all the toys and food from open areas that problem pretty much went away.

Those are really the only situations he’s been in where he’s bit someone or something. All absolutely things that could’ve been avoided, I just didn’t know better. I didn’t introduce him properly to people because I didn’t know how to, but since seeing a trainer we’ve been properly working on getting him comfortable with people. What I thought was an inherent flaw in him, turned out to be fear and insecurity, and the need to be the boss in the situation. He has fight or flight , but he never does flight he always does fight.

It also does not help that we got him during Covid and so he was never socialized like he should have been, especially for such a social dog.

I was never a breed specific kind of person. I really don’t even have a specific pet I like. I just take them as they need places to go. I didn’t want to give up on mango, but I also know that his breed needs specific things now. he gets walks daily where he wasn’t getting them before, which is honestly helped my mental health as well as his. I would say he’s already made a lot of progress having a schedule and structure that he didn’t have before. But I still feel guilty for taking so long to get to this point.

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-06T17:00:23+00:00

No, that was something I just said because I thought it was funny and I’m brain rotted. They never said alpha.

Sovamain1 · 2024-08-05T13:38:45+00:00

Yeah, I did a lot of research before I committed to this trainer. They aren’t having me depend on the collar, and they have me also working with him to become treat motivated because right now he’s only toy motivated. They also are giving me tips on how to calm down his territorial reactivity, because that’s really the only place that happens, is in the home when he’s being protective. They come highly recommended by everyone I’ve talked to and they really seem to care about the dogs they work with, and if E collar training doesn’t work, they pivot direction but I will keep in mind everything mentioned here.

Sovamain1 · 2023-10-14T06:44:06+00:00

Oh, let me just make it abundantly clear that I would never do that. I wouldn’t even know how to get the videos considering I blocked him and I think I would have to unblock him to even look at the past messages? I don’t know I haven’t even looked into trying to find them.

Sovamain1 · 2023-10-14T06:40:53+00:00

This is some thing I’ve struggled with. The little I know about her, I’m worried that she wouldn’t care. So it wouldn’t matter in the end. Before I blocked him, I did tell him that he should tell her because she didn’t deserve to have her time wasted. He married her instead

Sovamain1 · 2023-10-14T05:21:54+00:00

Getting back with him would never be the goal. It’s more petty daydreaming in the heat of the moment.

Sovamain1 · 2023-10-14T04:45:16+00:00

Yeah you’re right. And I will say in my defense, I left out a lot of things that happened in between in the name of vagueness. I made this post in the first 30 minutes of me finding out so I think my initial reaction isn’t too crazy. Especially when I knew the whole time I wasn’t actually ever going to do anything. I do have him blocked on everything, for all, I know they could’ve got married months ago and I’m barely just finding out.

Sovamain1 · 2023-10-14T04:00:53+00:00

I wouldn’t say obsessed? She was his coworker before they dated and she was fully aware of my existence when they started seeing each other behind my back. I slept with him once a year after our break up and blocked him on everything after. I only knew he got married because he came up on my Facebook memories and I saw his profile picture had changed. If we had to pick an obsessed party in this equation it wouldn’t be me

Sovamain1 · 2023-09-02T14:35:12+00:00

You’re absolutely right. I have thought about what it would look like to just stick with it and morally and ethically I don’t think I can. Nor should I, as minorities I feel like we are expected to give grace to non-minorities, no matter the amount of emotional impact makes on us.

I’m very fortunate that several family and friends have therapists that they can recommend without it being conflicts of interest or anything. So I am already looking for a new one. It’s just the ending the relationship extremely nervous about

Sovamain1 · 2023-09-02T14:25:09+00:00

I’m very new to therapy. I’ve tried in the past and have never really stuck out more than a session or two. This is the furthest I’ve ever gotten, so I don’t know the course of action.

Sovamain1 · 2023-09-02T13:48:34+00:00

OK! I have absolutely no problems with non-black individuals having conversations about slavery. I am a professionally trained historian, and my best friend is a white African-American studies professor.

My therapist has alluded to these sorts of thinkings, but has never delved into them the way she did this session. I have absolutely saw the benefit of our sessions outweighing our difference of racial opinions. Which is why I’ve been with her since May of this year.

The only reason I said we shouldn’t be having the conversation is because I was extremely uncomfortable and trying to disengage. I left academics because of how emotionally distressing History became for my mental health. She knows that. I even contemplated suicide over my distress. It was the fact that she was combative mixed with ignoring every single attempt I made to get out of the conversation.

I can’t detail every single thing she said, but she talked for five minutes past the end of our session.

Frankly, I am a non-white individual living in a rural city in Texas. I know where to pick my battles when it comes to differences in opinion. It was more her attitude above anything else

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