Additionally, keeping things fun and rewarding the dog is important to keep the dog from losing interest from any activity. Also, motivating the dog makes all of the hazardous work seem like a game and not something dangerous that will scare the dog away. Rewarding the dog will want it keep training and following orders (puppy institute). Lastly, K-9 dog training never stops. Training is still essential to the dog because the officer and dog must be ready to help in any type of situation that could occur, which has shown amazing results when a K-9 Unit dog saves its officer's life, finds a bomb, or hunts down a suspect with its specialized knowledge and skills (puppy…
Have you ever quit something like a game or a work out because it was to hard? What about a hardship in life, you can't just quit life. Hardships show how strong a person is inside and out. So how strong are you when it comes to tough times?…
Journal 30 1. Recently I've felt emotionally overwhelmed with a grade I've received for a math test. I knew everything on the test and I studied the night before, but when I got it, it seemed like my mind went blank. When I got the test back I ended up getting a 51% on it and the test was worth 100 points. This ended up dropping my grade from a 98% overall to an 81% overall.…
Pitbulls.org continues and say, “The key is to begin rewarding before your pit bull's body language indicates aggression, while teaching him to keep his attention focused entirely on you.” Many people aren’t the best at training dogs but that is why you can hire professional trainers or go to dog training schools. They’re literally there to teach your dog how to behave…
The summer going into my junior year, I tried out for the summer baseball team. However, although I had never anticipated there would be a problem with my talent levels, considering I had played freshman and sophomore year, I did not make the roster. I was devastated. In the eight years of my baseball career, this was by far the lowest of lows. When faced with adversity and defeat many people decide to give up and quit.…
Baseball has taught me more life lessons than I could ever imagine. Baseball is one of the most challenging games due to the fact it is a sport of failure. How can one fail seven out of ten times and still be considered exceptional? A three out of ten in most applications of life is very poor, however in baseball, succeeding three times out of ten is considered excellent. However, one still manages to fail seven times!…
This passion for animals has not only maintained itself as I have grown and gained new experience and knowledge, but it has evolved immensely. When I was eleven, I began training in the sport of dog agility, where a handler and their dog run through a complex obstacle course. Being a young and nimble grade schooler, I quickly adapted to the sport and its challenges. Although my first dog, Dixie, had many training challenges, our abilities to work through them made us successful. My struggles with her training, accompanied by many tears, carefully shaped me into a better trainer and handler both in and out of competition.…
When I entered the seventh grade, I learned that there 's so many things that I could do with my life. There were endless amounts of clubs and activities to join. At first I found it to be immensely overwhelming, but then I realized that some activities seemed to really draw my attention. So I joined band and athletics. As a little girl band music and sports pretty much consumed me.…
It was the end of my sophomore soccer season on Junior Varsity. We didn't win a single game and got blown out by large margins game after game. It hurt me to leave the field on our last game with so little success in the entire season. I was deeply disappointed and wanted deep down to have more success . I knew next year was different I was going to pour my heart and soul and make the Varsity and move on from this year.…
October 25th is here, today’s the big day of the 2014 Beach District Cheerleading Competition. This is the one chance my team has to go to regionals. I woke up this morning with a knot in my stomach because I knew our time had come. We’ve worked so hard these past 3 months to perfect and clean our routine, we knew what we had to do to win. Waiting in the common area for our team to get called is very nerve wrecking, my heart is pounding in fear and excitement.…
Common App – Personal Statement Essay Prompt #1 There are two words that I can confidently use at any given time to describe myself. These two words are patient and optimistic. No matter how stressful or frustrating the situation you’re in, I think it’s so important to be able to remain patient and optimistic. These are traits that can get you far in life, and also shape you as a person. Being able to remain patient and optimistic in so many situations have helped shape me as a person, and these characteristics are now a part of my identity.…
Sure, other countries have football, but it’s just not the atmosphere as it is here in America where you have can have whole nation watching it with so much compassion. Football, a form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron. But if you ever see football on commercials, then you know that’s only the outline of the building. They’re so many different types of footballs’ atmospheres in America. High school level of football, when you have all your family or friends with you cheering on your team and their doing everything they can to make plays so they can on their highlight reels to achieve that underdog win, or college level football, you see people that you don’t even know from both outside…
Do you ever wish you could have a conversation with your dog? Well you can. Just not the way you think. Dogs will never be able to speak English, but you can communicate with them through their language, you just have to pay attention to their cues. Dog owners spend a lot of time trying to interpret what their dog is saying.…
Emotion has been a developing field in psychology for years now and recently expanded beyond understanding just human emotion. Years ago, animals were only studied to see how they modeled human emotion, but now these animals are not just lab rats but viewed as unique creatures with their own behaviors and feelings that compare to a humans, but are not the same. In fact the field of animal emotion is growing more and more as animal behavior becomes a popular profession and easier to research. This raises the question, how similar to human emotion is animal emotion? Are they alike at all and how much emotion do animals express?…
My Passion Throughout all my years of playing football, my passion for the game went undiscovered until my senior season. I’ve played football for as long as I can remember. From playing flag football in third and fourth grade, all the way up to my senior year of high school, it has always been a part of my life. I always found myself doing something football-related, whether it be playing with friends, watching on TV, or playing it on the PlayStation. To me, football is a way of bonding with friends and family.…