mehcoconut:

malibujojo:

lumos5001:

1nkblots:

spookymays:

That… actually seems like a really smart idea?

I bet you these dogs used to bark like crazy whenever someone approached the door. Training an animal to stop doing something is way harder than training an animal to start doing something most of the time. So, solution, train the dogs to start doing something like, say, picking up a pillow whenever someone approaches the door, and as a side effect, they don’t bark at the person because (a) they’re distracted searching for the pillow and (b) it’s kind of hard to bark when you’ve got a pillow in your mouth.

that’s seriously brilliant

My parents’ dog has a whole crate of stuffed toys, and he picks one for every visitor. The beagle toy is the default, but he will often dig through the box trying to find the right toy. He often brings me the crocodile which I bought for him, or a large frog. He also has four pigs, and those are for special friends. Only family members are greeted with the biggest toy he has, the Great Pig of Honour.

vacilandoelmundo:

Are you feeling overloaded by the recent inundation of “Where to Travel in 2015” articles? Skift (skift) prides itself in choosing just one “soul-satisfying” destination. And the Skift pick of 2015 is (drumroll, please): Oman!

Rafat Ali, Skift CEO, recommends Oman to “the progressive traveler of today looking for a more immersive experience and who wants to pack in a lot of diverse experiences in a week or two.”

With “desert, rugged coast and beaches, water sports and diving, forts-every-few-miles, green valleys, old school bazaars and old school Arabian hospitality” Oman offers a range of experiences in a “laid-back” Arab context.

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