*launches from the floor**bounces of the ceiling**spears into the depths of the smibble pile never to be seen again* Cantinanites, I just found this
guy on YouTube and him and his amazing music is everything I wish I could be, lovely beard and all.
Watch Jackson Galaxy for practical tips on persuading a cat to alter behavior - aka training. A lot of bad situations get worse, and many people and cats suffer the consequences, when you insist cats are incapable of being trained out of bad habits or they don't pay attention and hate you anyway or so forth...
Jackson Galaxy is super cool, a great guy.
Dogs can be trained because they like to see you happy, cats can be trained as long as there is something that makes them happy.
With all my recent crying lately, I've noticed that Minty will start doing things that I usually laugh at whenever I'm really sad.
You don’t train dogs by beating them or dominating them into submission. But if someone were awful enough to resort to such methods, I’d bet they’d work about as well on cats as they would on dogs.
Okay, so we can skip this, because I can see it's a bit of a closed subject and it's just awful for all our soft, animal-loving hearts, but... a lot of animals can actually be "trained" by being beaten into submission. The term "broken in" is still often applied to horses specifically because they were often just that, broken. Any actual trainer worth their salt would spit on such methods, either because of the cruelty or for the pragmatic reason that the results are worse. Xenophon, a Greek cavalry captain of some 2500 years ago who wrote
the book on horsemanship (still used by the Spanish Riding School), was of the opinion that the only way to get a horse you could trust to ride into battle with you was to train it kindly so it'd be loyal, and that a broken horse could and would decide that it was more scared of war than it was of you. (Sidenote: in the movie Spirit, they show a sanitized method of breaking a horse and something vaguely like the results)
But if all you want is machine obedience, then breaking gets some appealing results if you don't mind turning your soul to tar. *spits in disgust**wipes spit off keyboard* Breaking wouldn't work as reliably on cats, though, because they're much more likely to just skedaddle because their social instincts are so different.
Re Windows 10: I have it on my laptop and personally like it better than Windows 8. I do seem to adapt to new tech fairly easily, though, and figure out how to force it to bend to my will
so YMMV.
Windows 8 was awful. Having access to Windows 7 at my work I don't actually think that's as much better than 10 as many people want to claim, I'm not entirely sure how it's better at all. Maybe the visual design is better?
Totally unrelated question: Has anyone noticed whether or not their local theaters are moving Frozen II out this weekend?
It's not even out in my corner of the world, won't be until the 25th. I'm expecting to be going to the movies twice around New Year's, having also invited my stepmum to the new Star Wars as her Christmas present (it's becoming a tradition that I give her Star Wars...)
Ooh! Good luck! I hope to read some good news from you on that front soon!
All I really have to say today is that naming fantasy characters is hard sometimes and villain's name is being elusive. I did manage to name a previously unnamed henchperson, though.
I love that term, henchperson. I need more henchpeople in my work. They should come naturally as I seem to default to evil cults.