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I fianly get a dog of my own. My brother has a mini aussie which he never took much interest in. I have trained her and raised her since she was little. I have certified her as a therapy dog and I compet in agility competitions with her. I need a bigger dog as I am going to get into skijoring/scooterjoring. I have always dreamed of an Siberian husky since I was little. I eventually want to have a sled dog team. As around my area they hold sled dog races. I am plaanning on getting a dog now and training it to be a skijoring dog that way it will have a start for mushing. After I have a little experiance from training it I will get another dog in a year or two and then a few more. Within 4 years I plan on having a sled dog team of 5. There is a 5 dog team catagory at the sled dog race I will be in. I have always loved huskies but recently I have been reaserching and huskies are not good farm dogs. and they can’t be trusted off leash without YEARS of training. I think it would be great to have a dog that could help with the sheep aswell. So I am thinking of getting a full sized australian shepherd. Could a full sized aussie do skijoring? What breed? Thanks

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I used to be the kid who always had money for weed and alcohol.. When I stopped I lost most of my friends and the rest eventually left for a different reason. Now I go to online school and I’m Anti-social.. Also, the only friends I have are my family members and some Xbox LIVE people. ANYWAY.. I like to talk to myself out loud. I’ll commentate over a movie I’m watching as if I’m doing a review on it, or if I play a single player game on my Xbox I’ll also commentate over that as well. I just want to know if it’s normal and should I look for solutions like: making a YouTube account and make stuff like commentaries, vlogs, and whatnot. I plan on getting a dog so I can consume most of my time on training it and talking to it so I don’t seem too crazy. Any suggestions would help. Thanks.

im 16 and i love mma so much i cant imagine not being able to do it i train my *** off and work out and exercise like crazy so i can be the best i can
but im still skinny as hell and me and my family cant afford to be part of a fighting gym so i have to take mma and tae kwon do classes at the ymca
what are yalls thoughts on that

so im home schooled and i want to go back to school for 8th grade and high school, but my dogs! i got them the summer before i was home schooled, they are 2 bichon frises. i wanted 1 but my little brothers found another bichon at the mall and begged for it, he was only $400! but somehow i got the responsibility of BOTH dogs which i feel is unfair. but the dogs aren’t poddy-trained and i don’t know what to do! one is going to be 2yrs in feb. and the other will be 2yrs in june. what to do with them 8hrs everyday?! they like my bedroom so im thinking of having them stay in there and ask my mom to let them outside every 3hrs…… any ideas, tips, suggestions?

My whole life i have been alone from the age of 7 all my friends, whenever i started to like someone they just moved away and i lost them. When i was 10 my mum got stressed out which led to anxiety and then to more serious problems, she eventually got medication for the problems and got addicted to it. She would go to the doctors up to 5 times a week and get as much medicine as she could. I think it messed with her head because she changed, never looked after the house or her children so it was left to me.
I was around 10 years old and i had to do everything from bathe to cook dinner for my 3 brothers (two of which are Autistic) normally having to steal money from my mum just to buy food for the house and supplies, my dad was never there to help, at the time i never knew why but he never came home he was always working and when he did come home he just yelled at me and told me how much of a failure i was and how stupid i am.
Then it got worse again and my mum started getting animals and she didn’t stop she just kept getting more and it was too much for me to do by myself so the house got really bad. I tried training the animals but nobody else helped me so the animals never learned, they just got scared of me and eventually people thought i was abusing the animals.
It was round about now i turned 14 and my dad got worse when he came home, he would yell at me more and sometimes he would hit me, I remember one Christmas when i asked for a fork and he chased me and pinned me to the wall, all the things at home stopped me form going to school when my mum told me if i dont stay at home she will take an overdose.. So i had no choice but to stay, soon enough the court got involved and she realised (for moneys sake) that i have to go but when i did everyone hated me, all the friends i had left thought i was skiving off school, i got a bad rep and people used to spit on me and hit me whenever they could so i stopped going.
When i was 15 my dad told me he was cheating on my mum with another woman, this added even more pressure to my shoulders. So for a week ever summer he would take us there and i had no choice but to go my mum wouldnt let me stay so i went. She was nearly as bad as my dad calling me lazy and spoiled, Life carried on like this for a while until my mum started going on dating sites and meeting guys.
There was one time she tried to take my brother (one of the autistic ones) to london to meet a guy with her, i had to lock my brother in his room and keep her away from him and even know my brother doesnt trust me and backs away and flinches when he is near me, a few months later my mum just walks out the house and leaves us, i didnt get a thank you or a bye. So when my dad came home after about a week and we barely lasted on the food we had. When he came home he started looking after us and he got rid of the animals which broke my heart i loved most of them like children. Soon my dad started making us go around his girlfriends (it was over 70 miles away in Liverpool) every weekend, my dad stopped hitting me now i guess because he was less stressed out and i forgave him for the hitting me after all he was just like me, alone and scared. He did realise he was wrong and realised how nasty she was to me and after many months of visiting her every weekend they broke up.
You would think i would be happy but i felt bad because she wasnt nice to me but she loved my dad and he loved her, it was wrong of me to break them up…
Later on we moved house and it was nice we all lived together we were happy, life was actually good. Then my dad got another girlfreind and at first she was nice and it was like having a real family, a mother and a father but soon she started taking him away from us.
Now im 17, 18 this year and my dad only comes to this house for 30 minits a day to make sure my brothers get on the taxi to school and to bring them home, the rest of the time he spends there with her, she refuses to come here because she hates my little brother (non autistic one). so im stuck always alone, my dad has found out he has lung cancer now aswell which scares me because i do love him and dont want him to go anywhere, the world just wouldnt seem right with no one to care for me, So im stuck here alone like before and im scared with no one to talk to or help me, i cant get a job and move out because i have no qualifications from school, i told him how i felt today and now he is angry and says he doesnt care how i feel i didnt want to stress him out either, i want him to be happy with her. I know what its like to be alone and i want him to have someone but i dont want to be alone either and i cant go there with them because i dont want to leave my brother alone.
I dont mean to ramble on but i just dont know what to do, it feels like my life is always going to get worse and im just scared and i feel stupid for saying this as an 17 year old guy but im crying as i write this i just dont know what to do anymore..

I know Active Duty is closed to all reservists, but does that include SF. I’m dying to go for 18x but i don’t know if it is closed to Army Reservists too?

I bought a 15 week old Italian Greyhound. Beautiful pup. BUT…
I have bipolar and I can’t help but feel that I have made a mistake in buying him.
I feel overwhelmed and because I have three kids aged 9,7 and 3 the pup is frightened and I am finding it really hard to manage a routine around a new dog and my kids.
All this plus he is REALLY hard to toilet train and wont do anything else besides sleep. I know this is a puppy thing.
I researched the breed and I do think this breed is great for our family but I am beginning to believe that when they say italian greyhounds do better in a house without children I’m seeing proof of that!
So my question is, should I place him back with his breeder ?… I seriously can’t cope with the shift in energy in my home.

My question is regarding dog stages. What can I expect as a dog gets older. I am a new dog owner and I have to admit I did not do much research on his breed before I saw him. I just fell in love with this little fellow when he was 6 weeks old on his way to the pound or worse and he has been a god send ever since! He is really playful and energetic, but is some what trained even though he is hard headed! I was told when he turns 1 he will calm down, but he is still obnoxious. Since turning one he has become more loyal and very protective, but he is not aggressive and any kind of way despite what many of you may think. He is WONDERFUL with people , especially children and I really think he thinks he is one! LOL! He is just part of the family. But again can you tell me what to expect as he matures and when do dogs mature? Oh side note he is not neutered …. I just cant bring myself to do it! LOL! I know bad owner ! LOL!
Thanks in advance.

A Golden Retriever is my dream dog. Soon, within the year, I’ll be moving into a basement suite with a large yard and a giant park that is a five minute walk away. I am used to small dogs and currently I own a Pomeranian. I love dogs. I love Goldens especially because of their temperaments and their beauty. I am just unsure if I will be able to handle a big dog. It will have the best possible life that is not the issue. I am mostly concerned (and this may seem silly, but) about big messes. My small Pom gets motion sickness and throws up often because of that. I am willing to do do anything to give my Golden the best life. But I am wondering if owners of big dogs can share their experience? Is there a way to completely avoid messes or train my dog to let me know so I can let him out (I don’t mean potty training, I am definitely going to potty train him like I did with all of my dogs)? WIll he let me know by instinct? As silly as this question may seem I am curious to know.
PS Please no rude answers.