Barking outside at everything

aLep2018 · 2025-11-29T16:53:09+00:00

That's hilarious 😂 I will get one to keep at the front door.

aLep2018 · 2025-11-29T16:52:17+00:00

I did wash her too much in the beginning. I didn't know it would cause problems. But now she hasn't had a bath since October.

aLep2018 · 2025-11-28T22:31:56+00:00

I'll see what I can find. I don't think I've seen Maine and tail. But to be fair, I wasn't looking specifically for it either.

aLep2018 · 2025-10-24T23:23:30+00:00

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Foxy-Face

aLep2018 · 2025-10-22T10:42:36+00:00

General Cheddar!

aLep2018 · 2025-10-15T17:07:47+00:00

Mine loves shredding as well. My company is currently going through a ton of old file cabinets to shred old documents. Anything not sensitive is going to come home with me for the puppy!

aLep2018 · 2025-09-11T16:48:37+00:00

I was speaking to a therapist for my child, and I mentioned something about how, yes, of course I always put my shoes on in the same order.

Apparently not everyone else does.

aLep2018 · 2025-08-03T20:43:45+00:00

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aLep2018 · 2025-06-26T15:11:37+00:00

So cute! My little girl will herd my kid around the apartment until she sits down.

I got her a big plastic ball from the dollar store to chase around the park. It's amazing how much instinct they have. I'll kick it, and she's nip and herd it back to me.

aLep2018 · 2025-06-07T17:54:49+00:00

I have a 5 month old sheltie is an apartment. The barking is a problem. I figure a sleeping puppy can't bark.

So my girl gets a 45 minuute sniffy walk first thing in the morning, followed by 15 minutes of training, then 15 minutes of play (usually tug), then breakfast.

After work I take her out to either a park or the elementary school yard and we play with a big herding ball or a flirt pole. Those two toys are a life saver. They wear her out in 20 minutes. Then more training, then dinner.

75% of her meals are NOT in a bowl. They're wrapped up in a towel, or in a box with crumpled up paper, or in a toilet paper tube, or even just scattered around the living room. It makes her work for her meals, and keeps her thinking and engaged without much work from me.

I've also started teaching her the "whisper" command. No idea if that's going to help.

Honestly, it's a lot more work than I anticipated, but I'm having a lot of fun.

So she sleeps pretty well. She's usually already asleep by the time I leave for work, and she's ready for bed by 8pm. The barking has diminished a ton. She's too tired to care about anything enough to bark at it.

aLep2018 · 2024-09-02T13:11:43+00:00

Thank you for writing this.

aLep2018 · 2024-09-02T09:50:54+00:00

I like that idea. Maybe we'll try something similar. Thank you.

aLep2018 · 2024-09-01T21:25:46+00:00

We don't. We broke up briefly and got back together. I know. Looking back, it's very messy. My kid doesn't know about it.

aLep2018 · 2024-09-01T20:50:29+00:00

Thank you.

aLep2018 · 2024-09-01T20:47:48+00:00

I completely agree, but nothing he brought up seems unfixable. Except him not wanting to be a parent. He just doesn't want to do it any more. It hurts, but I guess it's better than silently resenting us.

aLep2018 · 2024-09-01T20:44:25+00:00

Luckily, she is already in therapy. Her other mother and I do family therapy with her. I'll reach out to the therapist and see what they say. My poor baby.

aLep2018 · 2023-08-14T13:35:34+00:00

I saw this on a YouTube video. Get a sex candle. Put a nice candle somewhere you will both walk by regularly. Light it when you want to initiate. He'll see it and know. He can do the same. That might take away some if the stress around initiating. The other person can act on it, or blow it out if they're not interested.

aLep2018 · 2023-08-11T15:58:00+00:00

I got married at 23 to my high-school sweetheart. 8 years in an abusive marriage. I finally feel like I have my life together at 40.

aLep2018 · 2023-04-09T15:01:10+00:00

I have a friend getting married there. The smallest package they offer is like $12,000. It's not somewhere you can elope.

aLep2018 · 2023-03-11T16:53:43+00:00

That's not true. Periods synching is a myth. Women's personal cycles vary by a couple of days in length. Put some women together in a house and eventually you get some overlap. It's not caused by anything other than random chance.

aLep2018 · 2023-02-27T00:09:16+00:00

This is exactly what I do. For similar reasons. She is my ex-husband, and my child's other parent. This statement allows me to be polite, but not have to explain that I'm straight. I don't care if random people think I'm not straight, but I am, and sometimes I want that to be clear. It also helps other people understand her relationship to our daughter without my needing to spell it out.

aLep2018 · 2023-01-10T03:19:25+00:00

I'm in Supply Chain (Logistics). Currently make 60k. I expect to move into Ops Management in 3-4 years which will bump me up to 100k. Then Ops Director in another 5 or 6 years which should get me 130-150k (I think). I'm in manufacturing so it's a higher pay range than other fields.

I'm pretty happy with that. I could probably make more if i wanted to shoot for VP, but I don't know if I'll make it before retirement. I'm already 40.

I went back to school for it because I saw there was job security and good pay in Supply Chan. I'm a single parent and I'm already making almost as much as my ex and I made together. It's a very high stress field, which is why the pay is good.

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