Do you consider yourself an expert at anything?

I'm An Expert At Detecting Trolls And Spammers, In

99% Of Cases I Can "Sniff" Them Out On Their First Post, Long Before They

Make A Post Containing A Link, I'm What You Call A "Trolldog"....



Cheers Glen.

 

After reading all of these posts I'm sure people will think negatively of me because I'm not making a joke or something. But I like discussion so I'll be truthful.



Not sure about expert, but I've been studying dogs, specifically the 500+ purebreds in the world, since about age five. I used to work in a shelter and was the person that was asked to try to determine what breed(s) a dog was if it wasn't apparent. As I got older, I got more into the biology of canines and then very into behaviour as I had wanted to become a trainer (no dominance training; The Dog Whisperer is probably my least favourite person on television, cannot stand how much disproven information he spews and how often he resorts to dangerous methods to 'rehabilitate' dogs and he has really done a disservice to the pit bull breeds with how he portrays they 'should' be). More recently, in the last five years, I've been researching into canine and feline nutrition after learning how unhealthy the commercial pet food brands really are, and how amazing the difference is when you put obligate (felines, ferrets) or opportunistic (canines) carnivores on a biologically appropriate diet, be it a high-quality kibble with low-to-no grains and real meat instead of meal, or a completely raw prey-model diet with respect to whether the animal is obligate or opportunistic.

Unfortunately, this is also often difficult for me to talk to some people about, because I am not a veterinarian and have never wanted to be one. I would love to go back into school for various things such as animal behaviour and mammalogy, but unfortunately I am in no position financially, with immigrating to a new country, to afford such a venture. And nobody really cares about certificates from things like Coursera. I do intend to become a humane educator to teach children the proper ways to act around the animals that so many of us spend our lives with; specifically I believe that we should be teaching kids the basics of canine body language, and we need to stop teaching them that sticking a hand in a dog's face is the way to introduce yourself (this is the most common scenario where children get snapped or nipped at, and most bites are on children, and the vast majority of bites/attacks are not unprovoked even if you didn't see anything obvious that the victim did). But this doesn't stop me from at least leaving the advice around when I see someone in need, even if some people don't agree with me for whatever reasons.

I have been studying more heavily into felines as of late and I've spent a good amount of time for the past ~10 years studying exotic pets. I grew up rescuing stray and feral dogs, sometimes cats, and doing some wildlife rehabilitation and rescue. I spent a lot of my childhood on a farm learning about livestock and animal husbandry.

All that aside, I really wish I'd become obsessed with some other things at the same time and studied them as well. I've always wanted to be able to garden and do it successfully. I also wish I had the patience to really get into computers and learn to build and fix them.

 

I always thought Cesar was a bit off the mark with bigger dogs, but He really nails the small dog problems. Don't treat a dog like a human. Treat a dog like a dog.

 

I loathe people that buy tiny dogs as accessories (then complain and are confused when the dog costs them thousands in vet bills).

Cesar bases his training on the disproven wolf pack theory which was obtained through a study that was super botched. Behaviourists have been trying to correct this for a while, since new studies revealed that wolves do not do 'alpha rolls' and they don't put the rest of the pack in a place of power (or lack thereof), but in fact they operate as family units. The 'alpha' wolves are not the strongest or the most aggressive, they're the parents. The rest go from there. They eat together, and they share responsibility rather than look to one or two wolves as leaders that do the work. Cesar does alpha rolls way too obsessively. He will spend hours flipping and pinning a dog to the ground, and the reason they eventually calm down is because they are tired and stressed.
I remember seeing him trying to deal with a dog that had very bad anxiety towards the family's lawn mower. It would try to attack it even when it was off, but it wasn't aggression, it was clearly fear-based. His way of 'fixing' the problem was tying the dog to the mower and turning it on. Such an incredibly stupid and dangerous technique.
I've heard about his seminars too and what goes on there. He is notorious for dodging questions by making jokes, laughing and quickly asking for other people to come up with their questions or statements. The questions are usually ones any positive trainer would have no trouble answering or at least giving some advice on, like fear-based anxiety manifesting as what people take as aggression.

I'm just really not a fan of him, or of dominance training in general. Considering what we have learned about canine psychology and behaviour since the disproven study done in the 50s, it just really confuses me that people still want to shove their dog's nose into its own urine or shit, or throw it to the ground to show it that you're 'alpha' (people still even bite their dogs on the ears!). And this whole obsession he has with making sure your dog doesn't walk in front of you or go through doors ahead of you, something that goes directly against the instincts of many breeds because we purposely bred them to help protect us.

 

True.

While growing up my family bred and sold beagles because we lived in a good hunting community. We kept them in pens most of the time, but i always had my favorite. He went with me everywhere.. The worst part about owning a dog you fall in love with, is they usually die and teach you about accepting death. Know what I mean? You always outlast your dog. dog ownership is a great way to learn responsibility... and life.

 

I am truely an expert in everything about Mick Jagger.

 

Rolling blunts.

 

What are his lip dimensions? I don't want any damn metric system bullshit either.

 

im an expert at fixing things

 

Please teach me.

 

The Exception Being Ceiling Fans....



Cheers Glen.

 

Plant Systematics

 

the kind of world i might have lived in before i was born into this one, and the kind of world this one might become, if people would ever get of pretending they can't ever change they claim to be their nature, usually as excuses for coming up with complete nonsense.

i may be something of an authority on the parallel universe i visit in my dreams, although i could be mistaken about that too.

possibly some of the things i've experienced in this life before a majority of the people who are alive now were yet born.

certainly on some of the things i would like to see and how i would like to see them.

 

i'm an expert at surviving in life

 

Hmm.
Martial arts and mainly Chinese related energy arts.
Financial analysis/ certain businesses.
Conspiracy theories, esoteric arts, and the basics of some sorts of science (eg weird ones)etc.
Chess
Maybe 1 or 2 other things.. I dunno..

 

Im an expert in Jim Morrison trivia.

 

So where does he live nowadays? :sunny:

 

A master of none