Sun Dogs

These little guys need homes!!

comic for a little seattle anthology i did. this is my cat db cooper :)

And it glows in the dark!

Hopefully this video clears some stuff up about Jimothy! (There are captions for anyone who needs them)

When it comes to writing, I still have to work through some kind of outline to know where I'm going. The longer I write, the looser the outline has to be, because I'm familiar with where the bones of the story are supposed to be. A lot of the writers who made their entire career out of piles of books set in the same worlds (such as Ann Rice) stopped outlining all together once they were established. They didn't even want to know where the story would go, because they could feel it and know whether it worked or not using the instinct and skill that they already had.

When I'm teaching someone else how to train a dog scent articles, we start with imprinting handler scent and teaching retrieves separately. And there are dogs that I absolutely will still do that for. Valkyrie had both separate for months before I ever put them together into the same picture. But I can look at Fiver in his training journey, and know that the bones are already there for him to figure out how to scent what I'm looking for on a retrieve. So without ever doing the imprinting stage, we went straight from retrieves on flat to hidden or out of sight retrieves, which will then become scent articles. It isn't that imprinting is unnecessary. On the contrary, if you handed me puppy Valkyrie again, I would teach her articles exactly the same. Not to mention that most cases of article training gone wrong I've seen were a case of skipping imprinting. But I've done handler discrimination enough to recognize when imprinting is a necessary step, or just a useful game to strengthen what the dog already naturally understands the game to be.