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So this week we’ve been visiting family in Dorset. We’ve had a few bumps and had to deal with a few uncertain staff in places along the way but on the whole it’s been really positive.
Main difference is walking around and leaving places such as park, soft play etc without total meltdown/ thrashing about/ bolting.
Trip also seems to have moved the bonding along another step.

I think if you can find a calm dog to try some desensitisation you’ll gauge pretty quickly if that has any mileage. This can work but I also know there’s absolutely no way to overcome some of H’s challenges with traditional approaches like this.
Is he verbal?
Where are you based?

We had the opposite H wanted to say hi to every dog and that lead to some awkward dog handler interactions.

So you could carry a lead, you could then take the dog away from your son. Probably going to annoy the owner, carries some risk like grabbing the collar from the dog too.

Carry high value dog treats. Scatter to distract dog away. FYI these generally stink, little cubes of cheese could be the simplest solution.
Could be paired with sit as most will know this command.

Another tip is I use makaton regularly in situations to flag to others that H is “different” even if it’s not really needed. You could do this if you have hold of the dog, signing to your son.

Lolz

I’m not that up on them can you elaborate?

Also…Bit confused by the top graph mainly because of the first column…

Dunno it’s crude but low implementation cost.

Seems to me that you can hypothesis to any possible scenario heavily biased by your own experiences and position.

I think it’s also significant to see this as a tax for fundraising purposes not just as a way to balance housing market issues.

If you are buying a second property to live in part time this won’t change much.

I also wonder the Airbnb/ holiday let boom effect on towns particularly in more desirable areas where local wages are out of sync with the property market Southwest England and parts of Wales seem heavily affected by this.

I’d be interested to know the distribution stats for 1 property, 2, 3 etc

I’d not say so. I do have a slight imposter syndrome at present and also feel like I represent assistance dogs when we go out and feel slightly on show.
We had a minor hiccough the other week off lead which has also knocked my confidence slightly.
All that said it’s been amazing the difference in H already, particularly calming her whilst walking and making her safer.

Just little things like choice of stitches. I’d be curious if using say flat lock creates more QC failures in production.

Apparently if they socialise with a lot of dogs they start to see dogs as fun and a bigger distraction when working.

Based on absolutely nothing but feels, I think some of her dog curiosity when working would vanish if it could be done when on exercise walks. IANAE!

Its good as it’s quite enclosed so was the first place I took her off lead but a lot just seem in their own world

Don’t call me I’ll call you ;-)

Hmm I have some Maap bits that I like, colour and fit wise but whilst no negative experiences, I’d say the shorts especially aren’t to the same level of construction.

Well she is only supposed to socialise with a very limited number. I’ve yet to work out how to make this a reality. I guess I could run a wanted ad but not sure that’s a great idea either 🤣

That park is both good and bad, number of dog walkers with 6 dogs and those that seem to want to be social seems high. The other day I was walking around and this guy basically made a bline for us, despite us giving off some pretty obvious cues. His dog seemed fine but not really cool with the approach off lead in the circumstance.

She’s well socialised and we may be on a lead but that’s fine to approach she might be interested but she’s pretty placid generally.

Yeah pretty regularly there, baseball cap blue jacket black lab is the usual get up.

Nope, here perhaps we didn’t

Ah ha!! I knew I spotted you the other day!

Also mass convergence it seems.

Ok I’ll stop the terrible memes now

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Not as such. It’s a pink Chris King one.
I’ve a Burgtec spacers and cap in Bronze that I could put on here.
The stock spacers don’t fill me with confidence on both but not sure why spacers need to be so heavily branded… so I’ve been reluctant to put them on.

Fair enough looked smaller to me.
What is it you like about it?

I don’t disagree but I think 7 years proves that it’s a fundamental flaw.
I’m not sure despite rapids selling rates that any of the companies really benefited from the pandemic, they still made a loss during that time.
I think it’s also evident that there was a bubble of demand from a brand vs brand with suppliers.

I’d love to hear some examples of brands that bucked the trend but I’ve not heard of any…?

And the other 6 preceding years?

Looks more than a 16 difference.
So do you like it?

Isn’t that a little simplistic given the case here.