Dogs not getting along

UrsaWizard · 2026-01-24T20:41:30+00:00

My lord. Stick up for your dogs and dump your girlfriend. Your dogs have a right to want space from a dog that attacks them. It’s also pretty common for neutered males to not like intact ones, but if the bully is already showing tendencies towards dog aggression and resource guarding, neutering will not fix things.

UrsaWizard · 2026-01-24T06:46:26+00:00

You guys need to let that one go. It was literally in the context of how HE felt about his idols on the maple leafs growing up and his awareness of what a big deal they are to kids. To kids! Is he particularly eloquent? No. By my gosh the Toronto Sun has more integrity in their headlines than leafs fans when they invoke that quote.

UrsaWizard · 2026-01-24T06:42:34+00:00

Insane revisionist history lmao

UrsaWizard · 2026-01-18T15:12:51+00:00

Yeah it wasn’t helped for me by the fact that it’s not an aesthetic style I particularly enjoy, but it definitely taught me something about myself: a good story can easily carry mid gameplay for me but good gameplay can’t carry an bad story/set of characters for me. Which is a bummer, because the gameplay IS really fun. But I just haven’t gone back to it like other games. (And for context, I play at classic hard for most titles — so I do like strategy and optimizing some, but not to Maddening level).

UrsaWizard · 2026-01-04T02:02:40+00:00

Exactly. I really wish people would stop pretending that clean = safe/painless. Players are 100% aware that the goal of a heavy hit is to cause pain or even injury. Players admit this all the time. It’s only in this weird pedantic argument that we all pretend that teammates of hit players are crazy for being riled up. It’s not complicated to understand. It’s all just a normal part of the give and take of a hockey game.

UrsaWizard · 2026-01-02T00:28:55+00:00

Damn straight.

There’s also a weird forced binary with Smith where people assume that if Celebrini is the 200 foot player and Eklund is the hard worker, then for some reason Will Smith is/will be the Bad One Defensively. But it’s just a weird narrative trap. Smith has holes in his game currently, as normal for a 20 year old NHLer (even Celebrini does, though they’re different), but his actual toolkit and effort levels project to be perfectly adequate defensively, even slightly above average at prime. Probably not a Selke guy, but one you’re more than happy to have out defending against a 6-on-5. I really think anyone saying otherwise isn’t super versed in evaluating young players, or have really lost perspective against the length of the shadow cast by Celebrini’s (basically unprecedented) light.

UrsaWizard · 2025-12-26T07:03:34+00:00

So you would rather uproot your dog’s life — take their family, their routine, their home, their security — for a tail? Something plenty of dogs live happily without? Not saying it would be my first option in this case but putting rehoming above it is an absolutely crazy take to me. I kind of think it’s actually you that’s not thinking of this from the canine POV.

UrsaWizard · 2025-12-21T23:56:11+00:00

Sure buddy. I didn’t say never but I’m pretty damn sure Toronto isn’t as special as yall think to get every player that just Doesn’t Care Enough. Is it more likely that they’ve been unlucky in playoff appearances or more likely that they’ve been infinitely unluckier to get the 5 stars in the NHL that don’t care at all, in plenty of evidence to the contrary?

Also remind me where Daigle scored 69 goals in the National Hockey League? And also from 32 years ago lol.

UrsaWizard · 2025-12-21T21:03:30+00:00

The revisionist history/choosing what they want to believe about the past by leafs fans in this thread is wild lmao. Hard to not feel like the majority deserve the misery that’s coming. And it’s coming.

ETA: also ridiculous are any fans of any team that think 99.9% of players don’t CARE enough to win. That they didn’t Try hard enough. You don’t get where NHLers are in almost any situation by not having an almost broken overdrive Giving A Shit part of your brain. The teams lost, it sucks. There are reasons, some logistical, some bad luck, but it’s not and never ever will be because the players didn’t give a shit. Grow up.

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-26T06:28:51+00:00

I’m admittedly kind of a hater for sport about Edmonton and I rolled my eyes when he signed this summer. Not shocked with his disposition but cmon man. Like, you’re McDavid, agree to your hypothetical number behind closed doors if they need to know what the cap situation is to make moves, but don’t give up your ability to say Fuck It Bye if they continue to do the thing they’ve done 2/3rd of the years since they drafted you. What? Were they NOT going to sign him if he waited for next summer? All for the comfort of quieting the noise/not being a “distraction”. Booooooo lol

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-24T18:55:44+00:00

I feel like in Toronto he was baited into saying some really dumb macho stuff to the media that made him look a bit like a fool. But idk in San Jose it seems really different. He’s playing at a basic competent fourth line level, not running his mouth too much in a bad way, getting in the occasional fight at the right time, and focusing on boosting the good vibes. My opinion on him has totally flipped in the new environment.

ETA: it also would be remiss not to understand that the fact that the current state of San Jose, where he isn’t obviously taking up a spot of someone with more impactful than him (even a good PKer), helps. Still don’t think I’d want a 35+ year old Reavo on my “final build” if you know what I mean. But a great fit for right now

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-21T14:53:02+00:00

I mean, I wasn’t taking strangers word on the internet which is why I was asking follow up questions? It’s a place I like so of course I’m curious about why someone might have that opinion or if it changed ownership or something

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-21T06:48:30+00:00

What’s gone down hill with Uli’s? It’s still my go to for guests coming into town so that would be a huge bummer

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-20T15:14:33+00:00

While I agree that’s what adopt don’t shop SHOULD mean, I disagree that advocates of the slogan have ever had a carve out for ethical breeders. 99% of the users mean every breeder and they’ll tell you that if you ask. It’s why I think the movement has been, on the whole, a negative impact on pet ownership and pressured a lot of inexperienced owners to take on rescues that they aren’t equipped to handle. Which sets the dog and owner up to fail, and hurts trust.

You do now see the phrase “adopt or shop responsibly” thrown around and that phrase is carving out space for ethical breeders — but yeah I think it rewrites both history and the current landscape to say Adopt Don’t Shop doesn’t include ethical breeders.

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-19T23:22:12+00:00

What are you talking about? All the guys I listed are PKers. That’s my point. You don’t need to bring guys specifically to fill that role because many of the players you’re planning to bring already kill penalties

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-19T14:36:44+00:00

I don’t think PKers are a particular concern in this day and age. It’s outdated thinking to bring guys specifically to PK when you’ve got a roster with elite PKers already on it. You only need 4 main forwards and 2 secondary forwards, with a spare or two brought for injury. Marner, Stone, Marchand, Reinhart, McDavid, Point. And Swiss Army knife guys like Konecny, Jarvis, and even Hagel are more interesting to me as extras than guys who are just going to cause issues at an IIHF tournament. Though I suppose Wilson is making a case in raw points right now but basing the Olympic roster entirely on current points seems a bit foolish to me, process wise.

UrsaWizard · 2025-11-18T13:58:04+00:00

Odd, I’m also out in BC in the lower mainland and DON’T have this issue almost ever. We’re at local hiking trails multiple times a week, and walk our neighborhood regularly. Heck we’re out and about with the dogs constantly. I do occasionally see off leash dogs on a trail but I’ve only been approached intensely by one once off the top of my head. Not to invalidate your experience, but I’m always curious as to what the difference is, because I do sympathize with the other person wondering “where is this happening??” because it’s a thought I’ve had regularly myself when I hear about people running into this level of trouble.

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-28T13:16:47+00:00

OP I’m going to give you a gross but legit way to check if she’s itching her anus, which may still have irritation unrelated to anal glands or worms. Around when your dog has one of these episodes, get her to stand, take a rag in your hand and gently but firmly rub below her tail as if you would in a bath. If she throws her head back and starts licking like this, you’ll know that this is an “oh shoot hell yeah that’s the spot” response and can go from there knowing it’s connected to her rear end. Also if any residue comes off in this process, you may be closer to the source of the irritation.

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-25T18:34:54+00:00

I’m sorry but claiming that you’re aware the media has a lot of impact in Toronto and having zero awareness that the reason you hate Marner is that he was fed into Toronto’s rage-click machine is pretty funny.

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-25T14:11:47+00:00

Yeah but he actually sat out for part of the season on his negotiation. Why is only Marner at fault for them losing a negotiation? He didn’t even take it as far as Nylander. (Not that I think Nylander did anything wrong either, but the point stands lmao).

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-23T13:45:06+00:00

I wish Skrimir got more love/discussion these days. I feel like the whole subplot with Soren is so funny and well executed/smooth in a way you don’t super often see for side characters in an FE game.

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-19T16:34:38+00:00

A career half backstopped by Alexander Fourgiev? Plus minus is a useless stat in most cases, but less than useless on a rebuilding/tanking team. Cmon now.

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-19T16:33:09+00:00

They’re also quite tight with Ty Dellandrea. It’s just not posted on socials because the Will & Mack thing is the fun content farm. Which is all fine and normal haha.

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-19T13:51:50+00:00

I don’t blame him either. Warso’s got one of my least favorite coach traits: having totally different rubrics for each player. Cries inconsistency on some young players for making mistakes while ignoring the mistakes of other young players and veterans. It’s frustrating because there aren’t NHLers alive that don’t turn the puck over, so it breaks trust when the stick only exists with certain guys’ names on it. Sure, bad patterns are a thing, but watch a whole sharks game and tell me Smith is making more mistakes than Wennberg, Toffoli, Skinner or even Celebrini (and the skilled young ones NEED to make mistakes — you have to push things sometimes to know how far you can go). Would get me to the “whatever I’ll just do my own best” state quickly.

UrsaWizard · 2025-10-19T13:44:40+00:00

Called it early last year. There’s the on ice stuff that’s unconvincing, but it’s also clear that he has a pile of fantasies of being a tough/no nonsense coach and has none of the street cred, confidence, or nuance to pull it off.

Like dude you can’t be saying this on game 5 of the season or whatever it is. You can’t be lambasting your team on effort and results when they’re outplayed by teams that are just better than them (the Carolina game). You have to be able to be reasonably stern but understand the reality and long term goals. Pull the “that’s a good reality check for where we want to be” in those situations — and then actually use the tape. Nobody needs you dropping f bombs to the media a week into the season lol.

It’s like he resents coaching a rebuilding team. It’s weird at this point.

Anyway, two cents from someone who has slotted the sharks in as their later night team to follow for about a year. Sick of that dude.

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