carguy123
carguy123 UltimaDork
7/17/13 12:59 p.m.

This is my son and his dog being guinea pigs for Petsmart

Dog toy testing

Edit: Link fixed

Sine_Qua_Non
Sine_Qua_Non Reader
7/17/13 1:02 p.m.

Link not working

carguy123
carguy123 UltimaDork
7/17/13 1:48 p.m.

I wonder why that is? It works when I click on the same link in my son's email, but it doesn't when it's posted here.

ransom
ransom UltraDork
7/17/13 1:51 p.m.

Huh... When I clicked on it, some more URL conversion happened, so what I got was a "%2520" everywhere that link has "%20" (%20 is the URLencode for a space)...

When I stripped out the extraneous instances of "25", it worked.

That's a funny one. Wonder what happened...

carguy123
carguy123 UltimaDork
7/17/13 2:49 p.m.

OK, so the trick is to watch what URL loads and once it loads the last 2 numbers should read %20. If it doesn't change them to that.

ransom
ransom UltraDork
7/17/13 3:44 p.m.

There are two places in your link that start as %20 and wind up as %2520. Change them both back to %20.

ransom
ransom UltraDork
7/17/13 3:52 p.m.

And I still have no idea why it's doing this here and now; It may have to do with GRM's forum software trying to URLencode something which has already been URLencded... Not sure whether it makes any difference, but did you use the "link" button, or just paste it in?

I just looked up a refresher, and %25 is the URLencode equivalent of a percentage sign.

A quick summary of what's going on:
" " <- that's a space
"%20" <- that's a space which has been encoded by replacing the space with the equivalent "%20"
%2520" <- that's the space after getting run through the encoder again, and thus having the percentage sign replaced with the equivalent "%25". The "20" remains because normal characters and digits aren't changed by encoding.

carguy123
carguy123 UltimaDork
7/17/13 4:02 p.m.

Dog toy testing

I just pasted it which usually works. Here it is in a link. Let's see if that works.

Yes, it did for me.

ransom
ransom UltraDork
7/17/13 4:17 p.m.

In reply to carguy123:

That new link totally works for me.

Lesley
Lesley PowerDork
7/17/13 5:28 p.m.

The old one worked for me too. Cute puppy.

stuart in mn
stuart in mn PowerDork
7/17/13 6:35 p.m.

I suppose they have to test the toys in the real world somehow.

Reminds me of a guy I knew who was an engineer for Tonka Toys - they had a big sandbox in the middle of their lab, and they would bring in little kids and have them play with the Tonka trucks to see how they liked them. Of course, the engineers had to get in the sandbox themselves once in a while too.

carguy123
carguy123 UltimaDork
7/17/13 6:59 p.m.
Lesley wrote: The old one worked for me too. Cute puppy.

He is a fetch freak! He will play fetch till he literally falls over. The pic of him in the water is how we see him at my place all the time. We throw things in the water for him to fetch because if the water is close by he will fetch things on land till he needs to cool off an then make a side trip to the water. He won't bring the toy back till he's cool enough.

First thing in the morning he's ready to play.

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
7/17/13 8:10 p.m.

Our dog Paige should test toys. She loves to squeak--often and quickly. Sometimes a toy will last just a few minutes. She's like the Terminator of squeaky toys.

MrJoshua
MrJoshua PowerDork
7/17/13 8:18 p.m.
David S. Wallens wrote: Our dog Paige should test toys. She loves to squeak--often and quickly. Sometimes a toy will last just a few minutes. She's like the Terminator of squeaky toys.

My former dog saw the squeaker as the enemy. He would tear the squeaker out of everything then run around knawing on the squeaker until it quit.

carguy123
carguy123 UltimaDork
7/17/13 9:01 p.m.

Ruffio, the dog in the video, makes his mission to tear up one toy when he comes over here. He won't tear them all up, his quota is 1.

He like to tear up something that allows him to artistically drape stuffing all over. I think he gives himself extra points for getting it in strange shapes, strange places OR, his favorite, to be able to do it right in front of us without us noticing.

mad_machine
mad_machine MegaDork
7/18/13 9:38 a.m.

we had Siberians... they just eat toys, and golfballs, tennisballs, Stainless steel dogbowls, Bicycle seats, dog houses, people houses, fences, cars... anything they can get their teeth around

carguy123
carguy123 UltimaDork
7/18/13 10:34 a.m.
mad_machine wrote: we had Siberians... they just eat toys, and golfballs, tennisballs, Stainless steel dogbowls, Bicycle seats, dog houses, people houses, fences, cars... anything they can get their teeth around

I've heard that about Siberians, but my Siberians never ate a thing, dug holes or ran off. Maybe it's because I wouldn't allow them to when they were puppies.

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