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‘Pugs are a HARD no’: Dog trainer lifts the lid on the breeds she’d NEVER want to own because they’re so impossible to train

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A dog trainer has candidly revealed the six breeds that she would never want to own.

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But her full list of those to be avoided, which includes chow chows and beagles, might surprise you.

Kiley, who owns Ki’s K-9 Dog Training, has been a trainer for more than three years.

Professional dog trainer Kiley, from Virginia Beach, took to TikTok to share her least favorite types of pooch as well as the reasons why

On Kiley’s no-go list is the Siberian husky (stock image), saying that training them is near impossible

Beagles (stock image, left) and Australian cattle dogs (stock image, right) were also named as Kiley’s least favorite breeds

In the clip, which has been viewed more than 440,000 times, Kiley faces the camera before launching into her list using a voiceover.

She starts with the Siberian husky, saying: ‘Please stop making noise. Training you is impossible.

‘No stop talking back please.’

Next is the beagle. Explaining the reasons why, the video reveals: ‘Mindless. Like trying to train a stuffed animal.

‘Just smell the ground to find a new owner.’

The Australian cattle dog is next on Kiley’s no-go list because they ‘infamously have many problematic behaviors and you need to work a lot.’

But she does not stop there.

Kiley then reveals that pugs are also on the list, stating: ‘You can’t breathe.

‘I can’t do anything with you – any small breed or dogs who have health issues from flat faces.’

Moving on to the Chow Chow, the trainer candidly reveals: ‘I’m just not a fan. Cat-like dogs are not my jam. You have a weird purple tongue lol.’

Last but not least Kiley turns her attention to the Akita.

Kiley reveals: ‘I just don’t like dogs who genetically have dog aggression. Too independent and cat-like.’

Kiley, who owns Ki’s K-9 Dog Training, has been a trainer for more than three years after ‘realizing that untrained dogs are the norm’

But Kiley’s full list of breeds to be avoided, which includes the pug (stock image, left) and chow chow (stock image, right), might surprise you

Last but not least Kiley turned her attention to the Akita (stock image) as she revealed: ‘I just don’t like dogs who genetically have dog aggression’

Anticipating backlash, she uploaded the clip alongside a caption that read: ‘Don’t get butthurt, my breed isn’t for everyone either. But Pugs are a hard no.’

In reality, the three least popular breeds of dog in the US in 2022 were actually the Sloughi, Norwegian Lundehund, and English Foxhound, according to the American Kennel Club .

Speaking about her career as a trainer, Kiley wrote on her website: ‘I have a rescue German shepherd who was rehomed three times before coming to live with me, and that was definitely a life changing experience that eventually led me to professionally training dogs, after fully educating myself on dog behavior.’

She added: ‘I started training dogs after working with them for years and realizing that untrained dogs are the norm, and trained dogs were few and far between.’

Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha shares secrets to slimmed-down figure – exclusive

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Loose Woman star Nadia Sawalha is loved for her upbeat personality and hilarious YouTube channel. In an exclusive chat with HELLO!, the presenter shares how she stays so positive

Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha is loved for her upbeat personality, hilarious social media videos , and open nature. HELLO! sat down with the 58-year-old to talk body acceptance, having a small circle of friends and how she winds down after a long day.

Anyone who follows Nadia on Instagram will be aware of her tongue-in-cheek lingerie and swimwear videos , in which she looks incredible and confident too. But she says this hasn’t always been the case.

“When I was younger, I appeared more confident,” she told HELLO! “I was cockier and louder, but it was all to hide the fact that inside I was absolutely horrible to myself. Nobody has ever been as horrible to me in my life as myself. Nobody can be as nasty to me as I have been.

“Trolls don’t bother me. I’ve had that argument with myself and now I’m at peace.”

Nadia Sawalha has reached a place of body acceptance

Nadia reached peace through therapy, mainly CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), which helped her come to a place of body acceptance, leading to self-confidence.

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“Confidence is an ever-changing thing. I say to my daughters: ‘You don’t wake up confident. You’re not going to suddenly feel confident, you can be confident in some things and lack confidence in others.’

“For me, it’s an ongoing conversation. Three days ago I might have felt really positive about myself and maybe in two days’ time, I won’t.

“It has come with age, self-reflection and a lot of brutal honesty,” Nadia confides. “When voices pop up in my head to tell me I’m not good enough, I try and rebalance them and it has made me so much happier because I’m not wasting time on negativity. I’m using that time for better things.

Nadia Sawalha credits CBT with helping her reach body acceptance

Nadia says that time with her two teenage daughters Maddie, 20, and Kiki-Bee, 14, keeps her happy, as does her husband  Mark Adderley, with whom she shares a YouTube channel , keep her happy. Working together even keeps their relationship alive.

“What I love about us working together is what I love about our relationship at the same time. We really challenge each other and we complement each other.

“We’re very smart people and he’s very highly educated academically, and there’s nothing he doesn’t know about, whereas I’m older and I’m a woman. I’m more emotionally intelligent so we balance each other well.”

INSIDE: Nadia Sawalha’s family home where she never makes her bed

“We still really fancy each other, and we find each other interesting and funny and that’s what also enabled us to make really good content together,” Nadia continues.

Having close relationships with her family, including her sister Dina, with whom she has recently launched a cooking series with on their YouTube , means Nadia doesn’t feel the need for a huge circle of friends.

Nadia and her husband Mark Adderley share a YouTube channel

“I don’t have loads of friends. People always assume because I’m quite out there that I’ve got hundreds of friends, but I only really see people that I really, really like, in a smaller circle.”

Nadia Sawalha’s workout routine

Nadia also credits her exercise routine for enhancing her upbeat nature, regularly sharing insights into her workout with her followers. She hasn’t always had a good relationship with exercise, though.

“I wasted so much of my adult life hating exercise,” she admits. “My main tip for enjoying exercise is to never think, ‘How is this going to make me look?’ Because I really believe as long as you’re concentrating on how it will make you look, you won’t enjoy exercise.

Nadia doesn’t think about how exercise will make her look

“Instead, think about ‘how is it going to make me feel?’ and then a side effect will be that it will improve the way you look. I wish I understood this 30 years ago.

“If I don’t want to go to the gym, I don’t think about how much worse I’ll look. I just think, ‘If I don’t go, I’m not going to feel as good as last week.

“Exercise can be anything, but you’ve got to enjoy it. If it’s just walking that you like, then walk. Don’t let anyone say, ‘Walking is not enough, you should be running.'”

Nadia lost weight during lockdown

Nadia Sawalha’s weight loss

Nadia also shared how she slimmed down unintentionally during lockdown, explaining: “At one point in the pandemic I used to go into the laundry room, put my Air Pods in, and dance for 20 minutes because it was fun, and I looked so slim because I wasn’t thinking about the way exercising made me look.”

Nadia Sawalha’s wellness secrets

As a busy mum, juggling two teenage daughters with a hectic career, me-time is vital to Nadia, who revealed she loves her infrared sauna blanket .

“I get into that blanket and nine times out of 10, I just drift off and nobody can interrupt me.

“I tell them what I’m doing, and occasionally they open the door and snigger because it looks so silly but I’m really, really loving it and it has loads of health benefits.

“The other thing that’s really become my thing to do during me-time is listening to documentaries on my AirPods .

“At one point last year, Mark said: ‘I literally don’t feel like you live here anymore,’ because I’d become obsessed and listened to them all the time.

Nadia uses her AirPods for alone time at home

“It truly is just for me because nobody can talk to me when I’m listening. It’s so wonderful because that’s your own time in the house.”

Watch Nadia’s YouTube channel here

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Google shares lose $100 billion after company’s AI chatbot makes an error during demo

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(CNN) Google’s much-hyped new AI chatbot tool Bard , which has yet to be released to the public, is already being called out for an inaccurate response it produced in a demo this week.

In the demo, which was posted by Google on Twitter , a user asks Bard: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” Bard responds with a series of bullet points, including one that reads: “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system.”
According to NASA , however, the first image showing an exoplanet — or any planet beyond our solar system — was actually taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope nearly two decades ago, in 2004.

Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet fell 7.7% Wednesday, wiping $100 billion off its market value, after the inaccurate response from Bard was first reported by Reuters.

Bard’s blunder highlights the challenge for Google as it races to integrate the same AI technology that underpins Microsoft-backed ChatGPT into its core search engine. In trying to keep pace with what some think could be a radical change spurred by conversational AI in how people search online, Google now risks upending its search engine’s reputation for surfacing reliable information.
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Like ChatGPT , Bard is built on a large language model, which is trained on vast troves of data online in order to generate compelling responses to user prompts. Experts have long warned that these tools have the potential to spread inaccurate information.
In an apparent attempt to address that concern, Google previously said Bard would first be opened up to “trusted testers” this week, with plans to make it available to the public in the coming weeks.

“This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing process, something that we’re kicking off this week with our Trusted Tester program,” a Google spokesperson told CNN in a statement Wednesday about the factual error. “We’ll combine external feedback with our own internal testing to make sure Bard’s responses meet a high bar for quality, safety and groundedness in real-world information.”
Shares for Google-parent Alphabet fell as much as 8% in midday trading Wednesday after the inaccurate response from Bard was first reported by Reuters .
Google unveiled Bard earlier this week as part of an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT, which has been used to generate essays, song lyrics and responses to questions that one might previously have searched for on Google. ChatGPT’s meteoric rise in popularity has reportedly prompted Google’s management to declare a “code red” situation for its search product.
On Wednesday, Google held an event in its Paris office where the tech giant detailed plans to use AI technology to radically change how people search for information online. Google’s event came one day after rival Microsoft announced a revamped version of Bing powered by a more advanced version of the AI used by ChatGPT. (Microsoft is investing billions in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.)
In the presentation Wednesday, a Google executive teased plans to use this technology to offer more complex and conversational responses to queries, including providing bullet points ticking off the best times of year to see various constellations and also offering pros and cons for buying an electric vehicle.

The executive said AI technology would pave the way for the “next frontier of our information products.”
— Anna Cooban in London contributed reporting.

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