That’s why it will always be one of my favorite infomercial clips.* Yes, lady, that is in fact what happens when you smash a wall with a hammer!

The way the woman in the first one looks at the hammer in confusion with a hint of betrayal cracks me up every time. Et tu, hammer?

They have horrible ratings on sites like Charity Navigator too. I think they’ve actually got a donor advisory warning on CN.

Yep. If you look at the higher up employees of the two organizations, there’s a lot of crossover. HSUS is definitely an animal rights group rather than an animal welfare group.

I don’t know much about orcas but from what I hear about the HSUS, this wouldn’t surprise me a bit. It seems to be how they do their “advocacy.” A friend of mine was a big supporter and worked with them rescuing animals after Katrina and was so bothered she quit supporting them entirely. Things like refusing to take a…

This is a really big question but I’ll do my best.

I’m with you. I’ve never actually vomited, but I’ve always felt a bit sick to my stomach after eating McDonald’s breakfasts. I don’t have this problem with their dinner menu (and in fact I love their fries so much that I get a burger meal from them like once a month as a treat). But their breakfasts...ugh. I liked…

Seriously, it was no problem. I can (and do) talk about dogs for hours. ;)

I have watched many of his shows.

You can think I’m willfully misinterpreting, that’s fine. But when you talk about a “positive experience” in the way he did in dog training, it typically means counter-conditioning. As I said, I’ve trained a lot of dogs to ignore their prey drive and tolerate livestock, and I would never phrase it in terms of…

I want to add to this that it’s not just okay, it’s actually a good and desirable thing in many dogs. Hunting dogs would be the obvious one, but many forms of work are based on prey drive. I train detection dogs (mostly SAR/cadaver) and we actively look for dogs with high prey drives. Herding dogs also work on a…

This is going to sound really flippant and I don’t mean it to be, but...yeah, that sounds like an anxious GSD mix. GSDs are notoriously vocal (I currently have three and while none are true barkers, my home is a constant concerto of groans, moans, sighs, howls, and yips).

No worries. I actually had a cancellation this afternoon so I’m replying earlier than I expected. :)

I’m a professional dog trainer who hates him, and a huge part is just that his whole idea of “dominance” and pack hierarchies is just bunk. I’m on my phone and don’t know how to link but just google “acvb dominance theory” for a position paper from the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists about why dominance…

Hey, I’m on my phone ATM but I’ll come back and answer this later. I do have some suggestions that may help but it’ll be a lot of work. If I forget and don’t get back to you today, comment again to nag me please. :)

I can’t believe this guy is even still on the air, tbh. His entire training philosophy is based on completely discredited science and is explicitly warned against by groups like the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists. He consistently provokes bites that don’t need to happen by continuing to antagonize fearful…

I love your interpretation of those braids. :)

It is illegal in some states, which I know you haven’t said it isn’t but I just want to clarify that. I know one of the lawsuits about this happened in New Mexico (with a wedding photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex wedding, IIRC), where sexual orientation is a protected class per the state constitution,…

1 Peter 3:3 is often translated/interpreted to explicitly forbid elaborate braids (among other external adornments) in Christian women as it’s a sign of wealth/vanity. And as a woman with waist-length hair who worked in agriculture for years...there are way easier and more practical hairstyles than that kind of…

No question that Santa would. He’s a big guy who does manual labor, while the Tooth Fairy has dainty little hands like the sprite she is. I mean, she might be able to use magic to win, but I think we can all agree that would be cheating.