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I'm the copy editor for my school's newspaper (and am semi-obsessed with our style guides, which we call the big book of grammar :D ). Each person's quote should have its own paragraph, and you pretty much need to just use said all the time. Also we don't integrate quotes, but our local...

I think they mean that they don't want you telling the dog to down as a correction for a missed contact or something. If your dog just runs down the contact, lies down, and you release in a couple seconds, there should be no problem with that. Many dogs lie down in four-on-the-floor and I have...

A lot of people on Youtube do more with puppies than they should, so be careful. She shouldn't be jumping at all until 6 months, and shouldn't jump above her elbow height until the growth plates close (the safest is obviously not to jump at all until the growth plates close). Some people use...

I'm a senior in high school ... IB English 12 IB/AP Biology IB 20th Century World History IB Higher Level Math IB/AP Spanish 5 AP European History, hopefully. If I don't get into that, IB/AP Physics. Journalism (after school)

I know it's not easy, especially for people our age who can't just go to a shrink and get happy pills. But if you could state your opinion and feelings with people you're not terribly afraid of losing, that means sucking at talking is not the issue, and even if you stopped sucking at talking...

So maybe you just need to deal with your own confidence to make yourself care less whether you're loved by people like that? I know it's natural for a child to want to please their parent, and obviously it's perfectly normal to want to be loved, but you need to recognize when someone is just...

The first step is for you to figure out why you need the love/approval of other people. Do you feel like you need them to take care of you, do you need their support to know you're doing okay, are you trying to make up for feeling unloved during childhood, etc. As far as just learning how to...

I have done AKC, USDAA, NADAC/ASCA and CPE. Right now we're doing entirely AKC to get my older dog's MACH. I like the challenge of AKC courses, I think AKC's jump heights are reasonable, I like that their rules stay basically the same (unlike NADAC), and it's the most common organization around...

We do agility 5 days a week. Usually that's 2 days of trialing, 1 day of class (an hour long), and 2 days of obstacle training in the backyard (5 minutes for the 8-year-old, 10-15 for the 4-year-old). The days before and after trials are breaks for both dogs, and the older one usually doesn't do...

I was talking more about jumps, weave poles, that type of thing. Other than maybe a PVC dogwalk and teeter base, wood is good for the contact obstacles.

It's not that expensive. The class I take is $75 for 6 weeks, you don't need any of your own equipment yet, and if you decide you want your own equipment you can build a lot of it with PVC.

All three of them can do agility. The Golden would probably be the easiest to start with. The mix might not be able to compete because of her nervousness, and the GSD is a little old to just start competing with a big dog, but they can learn the obstacles and have fun too...

Do you mean 15 or 16 MACHs? There are only three of those, a MACH17 Keeshond, a MACH16 Sheltie, and a MACH15 Papillon. The Keeshond is ILP and 13 years old, the Sheltie is 10, and the Papillon is 8. While those are certainly great agility dogs, it also has a lot to do with being able to compete...

I've heard that there are still plans to submit a revised mandatory spay/neuter bill in January 2008, and that Los Angeles plans to implement mandatory spay/neuter as well as door-to-door checks for dog licensing ...

And there are all the variations on OFA-hates-me. Paperwork got lost in the mail several times, they keep contacting OFA with no response, someone hacked into their personal computer and used it to change OFA records (true story), they are radiographing again when their dog has severe...

The one that has the Golden walking around the shop! :D

Dusty (7-year-old Golden) just gets a lot of "OOOH look at the golden RETRIEVER!", wanting to know either what we feed him or IF we feed him, and wanting to know if he's a puppy because he's so small (he's right in the middle of the breed standard's height range). Boo the field Lab, pet...

Okay. Initially the distance from the top of the ladder to the ground is 17.32 feet (a^2 + b^2 = c^2, so it's the square root of the quantity 400 minus 100). Once the ladder is pulled away from the wall, the distance from the top of the ladder to the ground is 16 (square root of the quantity 400...

I wish I lived somewhere where going for a walk at 1 am would even cross my mind. I don't even feel entirely safe in my own backyard when it's dark (partially because I'm a naturally paranoid person and partially a legitimate fear).

I agree with that. "Rescue" is not an excuse for financially supporting a BYB. Yes, they may have gotten one dog out of a miserable situation by buying a puppy in a Wal-mart parking lot that otherwise may have been sold to an idiot owner who would mistreat it, but that money in the BYB's pocket...