Raggedcoyote - DOG DAYS

Five minutes of practice in 40 seconds, with my honorary bulldog. Look at those shoulders.

For our sport, the dog loses points in position changes if they move forward during the sequence. If they can't respond promptly and hold the cued position that is also a point deduction. In a sport where every point counts we try to build strong understanding of not just the verbal cue, but also how to transition into the position without extra forward movement. A dog can't do those transitions without proper conditioning, so there's lots of upkeep to keep positions trial ready.

Static positions are extra hard for a dog as dance-y and prone to vibrating as Cake but I'm not mad at this

when your dog is asleep next to you and you reach over and pet them and they do a little stretch and get cozier reblog if you agree

Our Planet - Forests (dir. Jeff Wilson)  African wild dog puppies

Toy Group winner!

As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, one thing that’s been helping me grapple with the intense shame I have over all my “wasted potential” is accepting that potential doesn’t exist and never did.

This sounds so harsh, but please bare with me.

I procrastinated a lot growing up. I still procrastinate today, but less so. And yet, I got good grades. I could write an A+ paper that “knocked [my professor]’s socks off” in the hour before class and print it with sweat running down my face.

I was so used to hearing from teachers and family that if I just didn’t procrastinate and worked all the time, I could do anything! I had all this potential I wasn’t living up to!

And that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s like saying if Usain Bolt just kept going he could be the fastest marathon runner in the world. Why does he stop at the end of the race??

If ANYONE could make their top speed/most productive setting the one they used all the time, anyone could do anything. But you can’t. Your top speed is not a speed you’re able to sustain.

Now, I’ve found that I do need to work on not procrastinating. Not because the product is better, even, but because it’s better for my mental health and physical health to not have a full, sweating, panicked breakdown over every task even if the task itself turns out excellently. It’s a shitty way to live! You feel bad ALL the time! And I don’t deserve to live like that anymore.

So all of this to say, I’m not wasting a ton of potential. I don’t have an ocean of productivity and accomplishments inside of me that I could easily, effortlessly access if I just sat down 8 hours a day and worked. There’s no fucking way. That’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s fine not to live up to an illusion.

And if you have ADHD, I mean this from the bottom of my heart: you do not have limitless potential confounded by your laziness. You have the good potential of a good person, and you can access it with practice and work, but do not accept the story that you are choosing not to be all that you are or can be. You are just a human person.

Etzel von der Ettersburg, german shepherd owned by Jubilee Farm Kennels, born 1920 and published 1922

witch hazel and pale-leaved sunflower

Another pet portrait for the wonderful hailey.m.c, thank you so much again <3

A feast for kings