Tutorial: How to train your dog

It's amazing the amount of people that gets a dog and they have no idea about how educate them, they have problems and they decide to abandone or give their pet. I have always had dogs, so I would like to make a tutorial with the techniques I used to educate mine.
In first place, we must be sure about what kind of pet are we getting. If you are a low-energy person or have no experience with dogs, you should get a calm and submissive puppy, or maybe an adult dog.
Puppies are cute and cuddly, but their education begins since they come in our home.
Even if they look cute, we must not allow them to bite anything, only their toys. We can do this just by saying 'No!' in a energetic way or using a soft 'touch' on their side. We can use this same technique if we observe a possesive or bad behavior.
  [Cesar Millán using his touch method to keep the dog calm and submissive during his rehabilitation]

The next step  is socializing our dog. Dogs are social animals, so they need to meet, walk and play with other dogs. To socialize our dog properly, we must walk him everyday and let him know and smell some dogs. If you know somebody who has calm dogs, it would be a great idea to wak them all together, like a pride. Doing this, we will have in the future a balanced and friendly dog, so we will avoid the fightings between  dominant and insecure dogs.

There are a lot of different dogs with different behaviours, and there are many different tips too, but I considered that these are the most important to educate our pet on an easy way.

Pokémon II

Let's continue with Pokémon. Today I am going to explain how does the game work and its evolution trough the years.
We call 'First Generation' to the games Pokémon Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Edition. In this generation there were 151 pokémon species, which could have one or two of the following types: Fire, Water, Grass, Bug, Ghost, Dragon, Psychic, Normal, Fighting, Flying, Rock, Ground, Electric, Poison and Ice. Each pokémon can have advantages or disadvantages over other types depending on its. For example, Grass type is strong against Rock, Water and Ground Types, but it's really weak against Ice, Bug, Fire and Flying types.

The Second Generation (Gold, Silver and Crystal Edition] introduced 100 more pokémon and new types Dark and Steel. It introduced more novelties as weather changes, time, days and nights and the chance to obtain rare pokémon with unusual colours, named as shinies.
Sapphire, Ruby and Esmerald form the Third Generation.
We have two important novelties in this generation: Nature and Ability.
Since this generation, each pokémon as a nature and an ability.
The Nature is some kind of personality that affects to your pokémon's stats. For example, a Bold nature will decrease your pokémon's attack, but it will improve its physical defense. There are some neutral natures too, like Bashful and Quirky,  that will not improve nor decrease any of the stats.
Each pokémon has an Ability too, that can be useful in or out of fighting and can develop a special skill or condition. For example: Eelektross is an Electric type, so he is  weak against Ground type. But Eelektross' ability is 'Levitate', so it never touches the ground and can't be damaged by this type.
Abilities can also modify some stats in special conditions. For example, Marvle Scale gives +50% pshysical defense if the pokémon is suffering poisoning, burns or it's frozen.
For me, the introduction of Nature and Ability is the most important change because from this generation, it's possible to build strategies using them or to catch special pokémon with unusual features.
The Fourth Generation (Diamond, Pearl and Platinum Edition) brings 100 new pokémon, new abilities, new moves and another important change: Moves do not depend of the type anymore.
Before, a water type move always was a 'special attack', but in this generation, water moves can also hit physically.
Pokémon Black and White Edition and Black 2 and White 2 (5th Generation) came out with a change in its story: for first time, the rival team, in this case, Team Plasma, asks for first time if it is ethical to catch wild pokémon and to use them to fight, and they pretend to release all pokémon in the world, no matter the bond that they had with their trainers.

The Sixth Generation is the most recent (2014). It's compounded by Pokémon X and PokémonY.
This generation introduced a new type: Fairy, which is strong against Dragon, which was the most powerful type until now. Old pokémon that were Normal type became fairy type, like Jigglypuff, famous befcause of  its appereances in Pokémon TV series.
Another interesting changes are the characterisation of our protagonist or visible haircuts in pokémon like Furfrou.

'Poké Recreo' is one of the new novelties. It allows you to feed your pokémon, pet it or to play. Eeevee evolves into Sylveon if we pet him in Poké Recreo and if we teach him a fairy type move.


Mega Evolution is an special evolution introduced in this generation that allows you to evolve your pokémon during a fighting using a special stone (not all pokémon can mega evolve)

This generation is one of the best for me because with Mega Evolutions, Nature, Abilities and a very big range og moves, it is possible to make wonderful strategies, train and breed a specific pokémon to make it perfect and fight with your team against people all over the world.

Comparison and Contrast paragraph: Reptiles and Mammals as pets.

There's a huge amount of people who is afraid of reptiles in general. In contrast, there is a lot of people who love them and have reptiles at home as pets.
The most popular reptile pets are pithons, geckos and other lizards like tritons. Snakes and lizards, such as iguanas, have to live in a terrarium enough big to allow them to move, with logs and earth to make them feel confortable, copying their habitats in the wild. They also need hot and humidity to stay healthy. They don't eat too much. Pythons eat one mouse a week, depending on the snake's size. Lizards eat some bugs and almost whatever you provide them. Reptiles are not loving animals. You can touch them, of course, but your pet will not bring that love back, and they must be used to pats if you do not want to be bitten.
On the other hand, mammals like cats, dogs and rodents are very popular as pets because they can live inside the house or a room, you don't have to worry about the humidity and it's easier to create a habit of feeding them everyday than feeding them just once a week, for example. Furthermore, they demand big part of our attention and affection to stay happy and healthy, and they will show you back their love.
Both reptile and mammals are good as pets, everything depends on our personal preferences and responsibility.

Pokémon I

Playing videogames is probably my biggest hobby since my childhood, when I used to play 'Bubble Shooter', 'Spyro', 'Banjo Kazooie' and 'Crash Bandicoot', exclusive titles for Play Station 1.

A few years after, Play Station 2 began to be sold, and I played superb videogames like 'Final Fantasy VII', 'Kingdom Hearts' or 'Van Helsing'. But today I'd like to focus on one of the most famous videogames saga, developed by Game Freak: 'Pokémon'

'Pokémon'  is a really popular videogame saga with six game generations. You begin as a trainer who must choose his/her first pokémon to start the adventure. After it, you travel through a region (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Teselia and Kalos, depending on the generation we are playing to) full of wild pokémon, trainers and a 'Team' with evil and selfish objectives that we must stop, just as 'Team Rocket', 'Aqua and Magma Team' or 'Team Galactic'.

There are two principal objectives: the first one is to complete the Pokédex, some kind of register of every pokémon that live in the region.

The second one is to pass eight Pokémon Gym to have the chance to challenge Elite Four and become the Pokémon League Champion fighting with your team pokemon, that have been by your side since the beginning of your trip.

But the game does not actually end if we become the Champion: there are more challenges after the League, and even if you complete your Pokédex, you'll be able to find more pokémon that you haven't faced before.

I'll write another post about 'Pokémon' next week, in which I'll explain some basic mechanics and explain why I disagree with people who think that 'Pokémon' is a children game.

Opinon paragraph: Bureucracy in Spain.

It is a fact that bureaucracy in Spain is inefficent and slow. A lot of paperwork is needed for simple procedures, so these kind of processes take too much time.
For example, when I finished secondary school, I expected to recieve my qualification, but when I asked for it, they told me that I had to wait four years to have it. This means that I will receive my diploma when I end up my degree at University.
In my opinion, paperwork shouldn't be hard to handle if we simplificated it, had better infrastructures like modern computers and hire qualificated and efficent workers.
In addition, people could help too making useful suggestions instead of just complaining about how bad is bureaucracy.
In conclusion, we should learn from countries that have better systems than us and improve our bureaucracy system.

Descriptive paragraph: Giant's Causeway

In the photo I can see Giant's Causeway, located in UK.
There are penthagonal grey stones and big waves hitting them.
When I see this photo I feel little and weak because of the strength of the Atlantic and stone's resistance and size.

Review: The Kingkiller Chronicle

'The Kingkiller Chronicle' is an unfinished trilogy that started to be published in USA in 2007.
 The author, Patrick Rothfuss, was a Literature and English Language teacher in University of Wisconsin.
His first publication is the first part of this trilogy: 'The name of the Wind'.
The protagonist is Kvothe (pronunciated as 'cuouz') a hero who hides and spends his time in a lost lodge, and whose past and truth story have been faded with lies, legends and rumours.
After years of silence, Kvothe decides to tell his true story in three days. The first day of this story is 'The Name of the Wind', about his childhood, his youth as a pickpocket and his arrival at University, where he'll try to find the answers that he had been looking for.
The second book is entitled 'The Wise Man's Fear'. It's a long sequel (1189 pages) published four years ago. It's the second day in wich Kvothe is telling the truth about his life, but still nobody knows why he decides to do this after years of releasing his own rumours and hiding behind the mask of a bartender.
Nowadays, Rothfuss is starting to check the third part, provisionally named as 'The Doors of Stone'. I hope it's published next year because I really like Rothfuss' style and the story line. This book will tell how Kvothe ended up being a hero and hidding in nowhere.