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Have you tried any repellant options? I know for cats there are sonic or chemical repellants as well as spikes like these

I use Visual Studio to make Windows apps. It kind of holds one's hand while developing a program. It has an emulator for Android apps, Android being an operating system that's used on a lot of mobile devices.

Pet ownership is very selfish sometimes.

I read a book recently Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You.

It's a good book; it has lots of interesting and useful descriptions of research that's been done on how dogs feel and think about their people.

But that title ...

"Dog is love" is an enormous elevation of this animal, which is a modified wolf - implicitly equating it to God, as in "God is love".

And at the same time, it's such a huge devaluing of this animal - reducing it to the emotional satisfaction it can give to its caretaker. As if there were nothing to a dog besides the meaning it can have for a person.

It makes dogs all about their significance for a human being. And they're a whole complicated ANIMAL, just as complicated in some ways as a human being.

And reading articles online about pets, so much of them are solely about the benefits pets can have for people. It's all about the human being in the person-pet relationship.

And these aren't even people who are going around saying "Animals good, people bad". Just regular pet culture.

The capacity to make choices evolved gradually. So humans can be described as horrible when they commit atrocities, but animals can make choices as well. There's a good book Freedom Evolves by the philosopher Daniel Dennett. He shows how the ability to make choices gradually evolved.

Humanity is both wonderful and terrible, and awesome in its variety. There are people who do incredibly bad things, and people who are wonderful and very good; idiots and geniuses ...

It reminds me of the speech in Hamlet,

>What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

except that the awful things about people aren't explicitly mentioned.

I love animals, but humanity is awesome.

Couple suggestions for those problems:

• There's a grooming tool called a Furminator that you can use to get the dog's loose fur out. That way it comes out in a large pile that's easy to clean up, rather than ending up all over the house.

• You can grind a dog's nails rather than clipping them. That's a lot less likely to be painful, so dogs tolerate it better