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In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)

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Re: In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> professionals like Cesar Milan The man is simply harmful, tho [1]. His methods promote aggressive approach where you take control by threatening your dog with your body language. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppLnTlF8s0k (huge number of dislikes, but talk to anybody who works with dogs professionally)

We were very surprised that my (reluctant first time dog-owner) parents were told to physically pin their dog down as a way of asserting dominance. It’s weird to see that this might be “a thing”. It just seems like it is likely to make the dog see that as a way of trying to assert dominance, whereas in almost all other cases positive reinforcement (and negative attention from undesired attention) seems to be perfectl…

The pinning is something dogs sometimes do. We have fostered dog moms with puppies and sometimes the mom would put an unruly puppy on its back and grab it by the throat. It seems to be last resort when the usual communication like growling doesn’t work.

Re: In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)

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Why not put the seeds in the Water that is being used by the planes to extinguish the fires? Maybe not in the first run/flight, but in the later ones, when a fire has been taken out almost completely. And even when not using the fire fighting planes I think spreading the seeds with a helicopter would be much faster and more efficient.

Most trees cannot grow immediately < 1y after a fire, but they put sometimes fertilizer in the Water.

Ah, did not know that! Thanks!

Re: In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)

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Planting new trees where the old ones were intentionally burned, both for real estate projects and/or the new batch of fresh pines grown for fast manufacturing.

Animals are the center of the article, but there's a reason why Chile is loosing every year more and more its resources.

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