Every dog is different when it comes to playing fetch. Some have zero interest in playing, while others are obsessed with the game and won’t stop playing until their human friends force them to stop. There are a lot of reasons why dogs love to play fetch. First, most dogs are genetically predisposed to chasing after objects that move, whether it’s a car or a squirrel. They also instinctually bring back prey to their dens.“After a hunt, sometimes the wolf will carry the prey back to the den to be consumed safely with the pack, essentially ‘retrieving’ dinner for the family,” Katelyn Schutz, Certified Professional Dog Trainer of Wisconsin Pet Care, said according to BarkPost. “The game of fetch in our pet dogs is suggested to be a simple variation of this ‘prey-carrying’ behavior.”Fetch also stimulates the reward centers in a dog’s brain, so once they get started playing they don’t want to stop. Bounder, Brittney Reynolds’ black Labrador, can’t get enough of catching and retrieving a tennis ball.“He’s obsessed,” Reynolds told The Dodo. “He will play fetch until I make him stop.” @brittneygoes He brings it back to the edge of the fence. #blacklab #doglover #SeeHerGreatness Bounders' obsession with the game led him to ask Reynolds’ neighbor to play fetch with him when she wouldn’t. She discovered the game had been going on in secret one day when she went outside to see why Bounder was barking and discovered he was asking the neighbor to play with him.“The neighbor was sitting on his back patio with the ball gun on the table, and Bounder was staring him down and barking at him wanting to play,” Reynolds said. “I tried to tell him to stop barking, but the neighbor got up and started shooting the ball gun for him. It was just so cute. I went and thanked him for playing with my boy and found out that they had been doing this for a while.”The neighbors had a ball gun to play fetch with their dog, Layla.Reynolds shared a wholesome video of Bounder and the neighbor playing together and it went viral receiving over 6.8 million views. “Just found out my neighbor and my dog have been playing fetch together over the fence,” she captioned the video.Some commenters thought the game was great for the dog and the neighbor, too. "I just watched all your videos on this and I'm in love with this story! Your dogs have new grandparents and they have a reason to stay active," Monica wrote."I hope that you know that allowing this is making that man’s day. You are a great neighbor and humanitarian. Thank you," another user wrote. @brittneygoes Caught the neighbor playing with a Bounder again. He looks forward to this. #goodneighbors #doglovers #Totinos425 “I am a huge dog lover, and it always makes me happy to see others treating dogs so well,” Reynolds said about her neighbor.“Our dogs are our family, and I think you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat animals.” Reynolds shared a follow-up video that showed the over-the-fence fetch game is still happening.This article originally appeared on 5.2.22

It’s back-to-school time and that means new school supplies, a trip to Target for clothes and social media channels flooded with photos of kids holding chalkboards. Over the past decade, back-to-school photos with kids standing on their doorsteps with signs with their name, grade, year and teacher have been ubiquitous on social media.There’s nothing wrong with the photos, they’re a cute way for parents and kids to mark the passage of time. For most parents, it’s a way to remember that it all goes by way too fast. However, for the “perfect” parents out there who like to flaunt their Instagrammable lifestyle, they’re another way to show off their “flawless” first days on social media.In an attempt to show parents they don't have to fall for the myth of perfection on social media, Jeni Bukolt—a mother of two boys age 8 and 12 from Waxhaw, North Carolina—posted a first-day photo of herself looking burnt out and wearing sunglasses. School hadn’t even begun yet."Mom's first day of school,” the handmade sign read. "I am 42 years tired. I'll probably miss a school 'theme' day. I really like sleep. Please don't ask me to volunteer. But I will buy you supplies." See on Instagram "I make signs for my kids each year but lately I've thought about how I always feel behind, as though I'm failing (in some way)," Bukolt told Today. Clearly, other parents feel the same because it was a hit with a lot of them on Instagram.A lot of comments were from parents who thought the photo was a breath of fresh air during a stressful time of year. "Brilliant, you speak for millions!" cathycole wrote. "May we all survive the drop off/pick up lane," merakifitnessandpole added."I thought maybe if I can create a lighthearted moment, some other moms will laugh and understand we're all in this kind of struggle together. Like, let's have empathy for each other," Bukolt told Good Morning America.Bukolt hopes her post builds an “empathy bridge” between parents. She’d also like to shine a little reality on the parents who feel judged on social media."I also feel like when you look at social media, there's all these, [picture perfect] worlds,” she added. “It's not the true story. And some people think like, 'Oh, they have it better or they're perfect,' and this is an opportunity to say no, we're all real human beings ... we're all in the struggle together."But of course, there were some humorless parents who thought her post wasn’t supportive of teachers or her two sons. So Bukolt made a follow-up where she explained that she was just having fun. “For the keyboard warriors… yes I do have a job, yes I love my kids and no, I don’t hate teachers. Back to work. Have a great day!” she wrote. See on Instagram Parenting is hard and we all fall short of glory at times. Kudos to Bukolt for making us feel a little less alone and letting us know that some folks have already accepted their imperfections on the first day."If other moms can get a good laugh about it, then that makes my heart happy," she said.This article originally appeared on 9.2.22

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The date: Oct. 27, 1964. The 1964 presidential race between incumbent Democrat President Lyndon Johnson and the GOP’s “Mr. Conservative — Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater — was racing to its end. Poll after poll showed Goldwater so far behind LBJ that his task was seen as hopeless by political observers of the day. And then. And then something decidedly unexpected happened.  Actor Ronald Reagan, the longtime movie star and then the television host of Death Valley Days and, previous to that, General Electric Theater, appeared on the nation’s television screens to give a speech. A speech that was seen at first as merely a pro-Goldwater speech — but turned out to be oh so much more than that. Goldwater would go on a few days later to lose in a landslide. But to the amazement of some and the horror of others, Reagan’s speech launched him into the beginning of one of the most momentous and historic careers in American history. The speech was quickly dubbed “A Time for Choosing.” Among other things, Reagan touched on issues that today — a full 60 years later as America goes to vote in another presidential election, this one between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris — are decidedly still relevant. Among the things Reagan said were these, bold print for emphasis supplied:  Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.” And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.  And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.   You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down – [up] man’s old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.  Yet anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we’re denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we’re always “against” things – we’re never “for” anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so. ….You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. Everything Reagan said that night in October 60 years ago applies today as Americans choose between Trump and Harris. And note well: As Mark Levin has noted, the Democrats Rep. Jamie Raskin has: ….already said they are not going to sit still if Donald Trump wins the presidency. They are talking about using Jack Smith’s filing in front of the radical left judge in Washington, D.C., as a basis for impeachment. …They are plotting right now how to cripple a Trump presidency right out of the box.  These people are the revolutionaries whether it’s revolution by immigration or revolution by law and law fare. These people are trying to turn this country inside out. They are a grave danger to our way of life, our prosperity, peace and security and our family. That’s why this election, every thing is on the line.” Exactly. So this Election Day, it is more than worth remembering the wisdom of the man who went on to become one of America’s greatest presidents.  And remember that yes, Nov. 5, 2024, is in fact a time for choosing.  Here’s to hoping Americans choose well. The post A Time for Choosing — Again appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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HUGE ? James O'Keefe just EXPOSED an NGO telling illegal migrants TO VOTE THIS IS A SWING STATE “They are telling people to vote.” Philadelphia City, Pennsylvania “Whether you have a social security number or not, you can vote. Yes.” pic.twitter.com/zY5Gl84994 — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 5, 2024