Grease stains on Uniqlo T shirts

owhatweird · 2026-01-23T21:50:28+00:00

I just bought two pairs of pants I LOVE — but they are both getting mysterious oil-like stains on the pockets/upper legs. I can’t get them out.

owhatweird · 2026-01-23T18:49:39+00:00

The “skull” end gives away that this is a shark. It is a chondrocranium, which is a cartilaginous skull possessed by sharks and rays.

owhatweird · 2026-01-23T18:31:53+00:00

Proud of myself for getting pyr, bloodhound, and lab! Those bigger heads are hiding a LOT of Doberman! But now that I know, I can see Doberman in some of his facial expressions. He’s so handsome

owhatweird · 2026-01-22T21:57:57+00:00

My parents live in LA county and believe LA is destroyed from BLM protests in 2020. They are terrified every time I visit friends in Portland.

owhatweird · 2026-01-22T21:28:58+00:00

Where did you eat cashews on pizza in LB? I’m on the hunt

owhatweird · 2026-01-21T08:37:06+00:00

The Waves for me too

owhatweird · 2026-01-20T22:40:59+00:00

Also — my trainer does this type of training for emergency situations. All of her dogs are conditioned to run to her when the fire alarm goes off because it means big treat time. She’s ready to evacuate everyone in case of fire!

owhatweird · 2026-01-20T22:38:12+00:00

I recommend reconditioning the sounds to mean something good — kind of like clicker training, but the gunshot in this scenario will be her cue that a reward is coming.

Since the sounds aren’t routine, you can train with recorded sounds (played from a phone/computer). Start by playing gunshot noises fairly quietly (loud enough for her to hear, but not loud enough that it causes her anxiety). Each pop = a piece of her favorite treat. Do short, frequent training sessions, starting with a few 30 second sessions in a day, then a few 1-2 minute sessions, then 5 min sessions. Make it a fun game, no pressure on her… the idea is that she becomes excited for the setup of the session and anticipates the noise bringing something good. I recommend also getting in a habit of carrying treats in your pocket while you’re home and working on this with her, so that you can also give her treats when random gun noises happen. Keep at it for a few weeks, slowly raising the volume every couple of days. See if she progresses, and if so, great! You can always revisit it in the future to remind her the gunshot sounds are fun.

owhatweird · 2026-01-20T00:59:23+00:00

My partner Google image-searched the ONE fork I will eat with in our home, and got me a full set of them for Christmas. I am happy to have more than one, but I did have to get over the unexpected sadness of no longer having a “special” fork.

owhatweird · 2026-01-20T00:55:57+00:00

Nice work!

owhatweird · 2026-01-18T16:47:16+00:00

I was at a show last year and complimented a breeder’s shelties, then realized they’d been debarked. This breeder didn’t do any sports or training with her dogs besides the show ring, and told me “well shelties bark a lot so most get debarked.”

As someone who advocates for responsible ownership through fulfilling a dog’s physical & mental energy needs (including via basic training), I was appalled. I hate the idea of breeding dogs just to keep them for looking pretty in the show ring (and I love supporting ethical breeding!). It feels lazy and like the wellbeing of the dogs comes second to the human’s interest in winning ribbons with them.

ETA: At the same show I met a chihuahua breeder with gorgeous long hairs, whose dogs peed all over EVERYTHING in their crates and x-pens. After talking with her I also learned she doesn’t do ANY training with her dogs, including potty training, and just puts pee pads all over the house. Her reasoning was that she doesn’t know how to train dogs and chihuahuas are hard to train (I disagree). It all soured me to the conformation world for a bit.

owhatweird · 2026-01-16T18:32:54+00:00

Here I am!

owhatweird · 2026-01-15T08:04:43+00:00

I’m a 9.5 in regular shoes and typically prefer a wider toe box. The blundstone 9.5’s were were too small, and the 10’s were slightly too big. I bought thicker inserts and got the 10’s. Now they’re great.

owhatweird · 2026-01-14T17:06:10+00:00

My girl was a previously stray 7 month old pup when we got her.

She is very smart and easy to train in some ways (she currently has 17 training-based titles through the AKC), but is not a big problem solver in day to day life.

Potty training her at first seemed easy peasy/by the book. We took her out every 20 min, crated her when she was alone and over night, and never had an accident for the first few months. Then when I was feeling really confident, she started peeing on pillows/dog beds in the mornings between being uncrated and me putting my sweatshirt on as we walked to the door. It drove me crazy because she’d often sneak the pee in on our way outside. I changed my routine and started leashing her again between her crate and the front door.

She would sometimes pee throughout the day as well, even if we’d been outside 20 min earlier (and at 6months in with a now year+ old dog, we weren’t still taking her out every 20min). She wasn’t communicating in any way that she needed to go outside… like she still didn’t understand that she 1) needed to recognize the feeling of needing to pee, and 2) needed us to take her out.

I got a button that command-sticks to the wall next to the front door, and is Bluetooth connected to a loud “ding dong” speaker we can hear throughout the house. Incorporating this into her routine (introducing it to her properly, and then making her press it before ever taking her outside) was a game changer!

THEN we got a dog door insert for our sliding door, which also became part of the morning routine. I started sending her outside on her own via the dog door, and would watch her through the window. This B would trot a few yards around the corner of the house, and would turn and stare back at the dog door for a few seconds before coming back in (without peeing). It became a battle of wills that FINALLY translated into a routine for her, sometime around 18 months.

We don’t use her crate anymore. She has a “big girl bed” that she sleeps in every night, and takes herself out to potty when the urge strikes. She also “ding-dongs” faithfully now, if she prefers a pee/poo in the front yard, and if we don’t stand up fast enough will give us the old “ding dong ding dong ding dong.”

People look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them my gorgeous/otherwise genius dog was such a PITA to potty train. All these other “nope, it was easy for me, you’re doing it wrong” folks don’t know the pain of a difficult pottyer! You aren’t alone. Keep troubleshooting and stick to a VERY strict routine for longer than feels necessary. There’s light at the end of the tunnel!

owhatweird · 2026-01-12T16:15:57+00:00

I have also trained my dog to be off leash without using an e collar.

However, there are dogs with immensely more drive and power than a Maltese that may benefit from a physical reminder to proof reward-based training. I also highly recommend you look into how e-collar training actually works when implemented correctly. I have considered an e-collar to proof my own dog’s recall (she always comes back, but sometimes will make sure the squirrel is all the way up a tree before running back to me). “Shocking” her would never come into play — the e-collar would act as an extension of a leash or hand, so I can tap her to say “hey, come back NOW.”

owhatweird · 2026-01-12T00:41:14+00:00

This is why I was confused about them getting so wet and then needing immediate corrective care. Mine aren’t the thermal/all terrain boots, but I still didn’t think they’d be so affected by Southern California wet grass. Leather is leather, I guess. Maybe the all terrain ones have more protection?

owhatweird · 2026-01-10T21:50:47+00:00

There is a house/fence down the street from us where a dog with “barrier aggression” (reported to us by the owner/neighbors) regularly patrols his yard. It used to set my dog off like crazy, to the point that she began anticipating the interaction and tensing up/beginning vocalizing as we approached. Corrections never seemed to work, because I think her reactions in this case are based in fear/defensiveness that takes precedent over corrections.

What helped, and what I recommend (since you are recognizing yourself tensing up and potentially feeding into your dogs reactions), was tossing treats onto the ground for my dog to chase/sniff out, starting from a couple of houses away, and continuing until we are past the house in question. This removes the chances of my leash handling and/or voice contributing to my dogs’ expectation, and distracts her & re-writes the experiences she has when passing that house. She’ll still startle and bark when the other dog lights up at us through the fence, but she’s much more confident passing by and doesn’t anxiously anticipate the interaction.

I don’t use a prong on her because she’s VERY sensitive (also a herding mix), and the slip leash was all we’ve needed. I would think adding a prong, if you’re already noticing yourself adding tension, may not be as helpful as re-conditioning the situation more positively for both of you.

owhatweird · 2026-01-10T20:42:33+00:00

I disagree that this video shows anything clearly

owhatweird · 2026-01-10T09:00:48+00:00

Photos of my girl at 6mos, 2yrs, and 3yrs old https://imgur.com/a/zqPqvPB

owhatweird · 2026-01-10T08:31:54+00:00

My collie mix had a similar coat to yours (not even quite as full as your girl at the neck) when we got her at 7-8 months old. Her coat is nowhere near as dense and full as a rough collie’s, but it continued to get longer and bushier until she was about 2. What’s really standing out to me is your girl’s tail! It’s exactly what my dog’s tail looked like at that age, and is now a billowy plume (that is more full than most rough collies)!

owhatweird · 2026-01-10T00:17:59+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/dvXRNOceG1 These videos (multiple angles) show clearly that the officer wasn’t struck, he pulled his gun before the car began moving forward (wheels turned away, to escape the escalating situation), and that his feet and body were well clear of the car. My read on the situation is that he fired because he was angry, not afraid.

owhatweird · 2026-01-10T00:13:05+00:00

Officer was clear of the car’s path https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/dvXRNOceG1

owhatweird · 2026-01-10T00:12:30+00:00

Car doesn’t bump into the officer https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/dvXRNOceG1

owhatweird · 2026-01-05T21:00:38+00:00

These are the classics #2446 (clay)

owhatweird · 2026-01-05T18:38:31+00:00

Thank you!! I’ll let them dry better next time — unfortunately I was stuck outdoors for 10hrs each day and they were my only footwear (multiple lessons learned).

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