Mcmann she only has two real friends in the world. Myself and the guy who lives out of state. He calls me and I call him and we work on her. Sometimes it feels like we are doing good cop/bad cop. Azzalea I have already broached the attorney idea. Her son had one so I suggested she talk to him about his experience with the system. She will be seeing her DS today or tomorrow. Hopefully she will follow through. Alot of her problem is her pride which leads to hiding her disability and secrecy. I had a serious heart to heart with her the other night. I told her as much as I understood it hurt her pride it was very important to start showing her weaknesses instead of her strengths in order to have any chance of getting the services she so badly needs or will need in the near future. I also focused on telling her that now was the time to accept help from those who care about her while she still can make informed choices. I told her she had to stop hiding and learn to trust the people who have her best interests at heart and quit being so gullible to smiles and a friendly demeanor from those who don't really give a rat's patootie. She "gets" it but then gets frazzled and slips back into her doormat ways.

I have stopped and asked a homeowner for the paint color of their house, but I also tell them that my house is several blocks/miles/towns away. I would never ask a direct neighbor, or someone on my block, what color they used so that I could copy it. As far as asking a designer on Houzz to share where something was bought ... some of the items are custom, but most are brands listed as "to-the-trade", that are now, with a bit of searching, also available online. Just like realtors used to have a lock on housing information and designers had one on to-the-trade items, that is no longer true for both industries. When I'm browsing photos I will add in any products that I recognize from my visits to the design center and online searches these last few years.

Bestyears, I was keeping it vague because discussing dog training methods can be equal to politics! Try telling some of the militant rescue groups that you will be using a different training method than the one they strictly follow ... you will never get a dog from them! Here are two articles from two opposite theories that gives you an idea of how they think. 1) https://positively.com/victorias-blog/balanced-dog-training-theres-nothing-balanced-about-it/ 2) https://www.nitrocanine.com/blog/2015/06/12/in-defense-of-balanced-training/ With my rescue I started out with a purely positive trainer. It worked great in the house and yard as the dog is very food motivated ... BUT outside none of the training made a difference. Critters and the chase were a much higher reward than anything I could offer. I even tried carrying filet mignon! I was being dragged around town by a crazy dog ... even with the easy-walk harness the positive trainer told me to buy. The dog just walked sideways and pushed into the harness. The last straw was when on a walk the dog nearly knocked me, and my father, to the ground when trying to get a squirrel. I had to kick the dog to stop her lunging and get us untangled (my Dad also had our smaller dog on leash). I looked for a different approach and found "balanced" training. The trainer I found is slightly different from #2 above in that they do use food rewards. Happy to message you a link to the training program website and the actual trainer I used. We now go on off leash hikes and I get stopped regularly by people who comment on her behavior and level of training. I got so many questions that I started carrying business cards for the trainer!! One of those people actually contacted and used my trainer, even thought she isn't local. Do your research and choose the trainer and method that best works for you and your dog. The best method will most likely be a combination of several different ones.

" For an audience that's 90+% American, your citing dollar figures without clarifying "which dollars" they are is misleading. " They shouldn't be - not with a handle that identifies my location. " your amounts on their face sounding like high prices, are actually low prices. " No, they're actually high prices. In Canada. Where I live and shop. If some Americans can't think that someone from outside of their country is using the Internet and has taken the step to put their location in their handle, I'm not going to do a bunch of mathematical conversions to make their understanding easier.