Animals, How to teach your dog to sit.

 Today I'm going to post on how to teach your dog to sit,
Some people already have, but if you haven't  taught your dog to sit, this is how.

How to teach “Sit”

• Take a treat and show it to your pet.
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• When your dog shows interest in it, he will follow it with his head, trying to get at it.
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• Hold the treat above your dog’s head so he looks up, then take it to just behind his nose so that he has to move his head backwards
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• The only way your dog can reach the treat is to put his bottom on the floor.
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• The moment he does so, press your clicker and give him the treat and lots of praise.
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• Within a few attempts, your dog will know how to earn his click and treat, and his sit response will get quicker.
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• When he fully understands what is expected, say "Sit" as he sits, so he learns to associate the word with the action.
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• Now you have added the cue, with practice you will be able to ask him to sit rather than lure him into position with the treat.

I hope that works well for you,I know I said that animal posts would be about the endangered list but thats next time, so next animal post will be about that list of endangered animals.

GUINEA PIG PICTURE OF THE POST!

Sorry,

OMG IM SO SORRY!

I forgot to do 3 posts...

Well I'm going to post today and not make that same mistake again, sorry about that

Fun, Viennese biscuits recipe.

This is the second fun post, not all of them will be recipes some of them will be craft, but this is a pretty cool recipe for some pretty cool biscuits.

Ingredients.

Makes 24 biscuits. (12 pairs)

For the biscuits:

175g unsalted butter, softened.
40g icing sugar.
1 teaspoon vanilla essence.
175g plain flour.
40g cornflour.

For the ganache:

75g plain chocolate drops.
4 tablespoons double cream.

Recipe.

1. Heat the oven to 190C. Grese and line two baking trays. Put the butter in a bowl. Sift the icing sugar over it. Beat the mixture until it's creamy.

2. Stir the vanilla essence. Sift the flour and the cornflower over the mixture. Stir them until they are smooth. Put a teasoon of the mixture onto one of the tarys.

3. Put more teaspoons of mixtue onto the trays, leaving spaces between them. Flatten each blob of mixture slightly with the back of a teaspoon.

4. Bake the biscuits for 12-14 minutes until they are plae golden brown. Leave them on their trays for five minutes, then use a spatula to lift them onto a wire rack.

5. For the ganache, put the chocolate drops in a heatproof bowl and add the cream. Then, pour about 5cm water into a saucepan.

6. Heat the water until it bubbles, then take the pan off the heat. Carefully, put the bowl inside the pan. Stir the chocolate and the cream until the chocolate has melted.

7. Lift the bowl out of the pan and let the ganache cool for a few minutes. Then, put it in the fridge for about an hour, stirring it every now and then, as it thickens.

8. WHen the ganache is soft like butter, take it out of the fridge. Use a blunt knife to spread some onto the flat side of the biscuit. Press another biscuit on top.

9. Sandwich the biscuits together in pairs until all the ganache and biscuits are used up. Store in a airtight container in the fridge.


 

THE GUINEA PIG PICTURE FOR THIS POST!

The first hybrid, Animal costumes.

This is the first hybrid post we have had on this blog!
Know what that means? This post is about pets (under animals) in costumes! (under fashion) So its a hybrid post! There's probably not going to be many of these hybrid posts because most of them only fall under one category, and the category for these is Hybrid, so lets enjoy Hybrid, Animal costumes!

This first picture is a guinea pig wearing a little hat, how cute!

As animal fashions go this guinea pig is super cute!

The next animal is going to make you LOL! (unless you've seen it before!)



Hilarious!

This animal is WAYYYYY to early for Christmas!



Its Santa-kitty!

Usually pigs aren't that cute (in my opinion, some people find pigs adorable, if you are one of those people, i'm sorry) but this pig is an exception!



Its a cowboy pig! :D How awesome!

I bet a few of you have seen this picture before, but its so cute I can't leave it out!



Awwww... It's so cute! And I think it's wearing a pumpkin costume...



Awwwww... ;3

Ok so thats all for now, there all so cute! which one is your fave? Also, not all hybrids will be this short, so don't worry about that,

Animals, Top 10 most endangered animals.

 Its no secret that a lot of animals are extinct, heres a list of the top ten endangered animals:

1 Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

 

A North American bird so endangered that it may actually be extinct.

2 Amur Leopard

 

The world's rarest cat: Only 40 left in Russia's Far East.

3 Javan Rhinoceros

 

No more than 60 of these swamp-dwelling Asian rhinos exist.

4 Northern Sportive Lemur 

 

Here's the scarcest of Madagascar's fast dwindling lemur species.

5 Northern Right Whale

 

 Hunted to near extinction, 350 right whales still swim the Atlantic

6 The Saola—An Asian Unicorn

 

So rare it is almost mythological, the saola hangs on by its hoof tips in a forest full of poachers’
snares

7 Leatherback Sea Turtle

 

The population of the world’s largest turtle is dropping at an alarming rate

8 Siberian (or Amur) Tiger

 

The world’s biggest cat weighs as much as 300 kilos (660 pounds)

  9 Chinese Giant Salamander

 

Humans are eating the world’s largest amphibian into extinction

10 The Little Dodo Bird

 

 Samoa’s little dodo bird is in immanent danger of following the large dodo into extinction.



Click the link for more information.


Also for those who dont know, The Saola looks like this:


Everything on this list I found here,


For the next 10 posts I'm going to do something about an animal on this list, so be paintent.


IMPORTENT: I'm going to post every 2 days, like: Wednesday Friday Sunday Tuesday Thursday Saturday Monday.
Just to let you know.


THE GUINEA PIG PICTURE FOR THIS POST!

Ignore the weird text thing from my last animal post, I tried to fix it, it didnt work.

Fashion, Some accessory ideas for winter.

Are those winter winds making you cold? You can stay warm and fashionable this winter with some cool accessorys, (pun intended)

Cute earwarmers.
Earwarmers are classic winter accessorys, warm and fashionable.

Fingerless gloves.
Fingerless gloves can keep your hands warm, and if your fingers get cold some fingerless gloves have a mitten part to them, so you can keep your fingers warm as well!

Boots.
From ankle boots to longer styles, boots keep your feet nice and toasty and keep your overall look cool.

Scarfs.

Scarfs come in all differnt colours and styles, so you'll always find you to match your style. One of the simplest accessorys for winter, but still pretty sweet.



Long gloves.
Think Elsa from frozen, the gloves she was always wearing? like them. Long and pretty, Gloves will keep your fingers warm too!

Theres some ideas for you, no more freezing fingers or toes with all the right accessorys.

And since I can't go a post without mentioning guinea pigs:

Animals, 6 unusal facts about guinea pigs.

1. Guinea pigs produce a white milky looking fluid at the corner of their eyes. It is used to help them groom and is completely normal. Typically the fluid goes unnoticed; they groom themselves very quickly! Pigs use their front feet to wipe the fluid from their eyes around their faces and over their heads when they bathe.

3. Guinea pigs have what are known as “open rooted” teeth, which means the teeth grow constantly throughout their lives. Pigs need unlimited access to foods, especially grass hays, to help grind down their teeth in order to keep them to the proper length and alignment. - See more at: http://www.guineapigtoday.com/2011/09/14/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-guinea-pigs/#sthash.z0zOaWSz.dpuf

2. Although guinea pigs don’t have great vision overall, they are not color blind.

3. Guinea pigs have what are known as “open rooted” teeth, which means the teeth grow constantly throughout their lives. Pigs need unlimited access to foods, especially grass hays, to help grind down their teeth in order to keep them to the proper length and alignment. 

4. Male guinea pigs can (and do) live together very happily. In the past it was a widely held belief that male pigs would inevitably fight if housed together, however piggy relationships are determined as much by personality as by gender.  Not any pair of males is compatible of course that that is true of any pair of guinea pigs.

5. Male pigs (and females in some circumstances) will “rumblestrut” as a sign of courtship and/or dominance toward another pig. A rumblestrutting pig will typically have raised or puffy hair, be making a “brrrrrr” vibrating sound and swaying their hips back and forth.

6. Baby guinea pigs are born precocial, meaning they have all their hair, their eyes are open and functioning and their teeth are fully developed. Within a few hours they can run and within a day they can eat solid food although they do need to nurse from their mother for a while.

1. Guinea pigs produce a white milky looking fluid at the corner of their eyes. It is used to help them groom and is completely normal. Typically the fluid goes unnoticed, they groom themselves very quickly! Pigs use their front feet to wipe the fluid from their eyes around their faces and over their heads when they bathe - See more at: http://www.guineapigtoday.com/2011/09/14/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-guinea-pigs/#sthash.wZkxmjqK.dpuf