Ever regret teaching your dog a trick.
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Not that I really regret it but we taught Ollie to sit pretty and "swim" (move his paws up and down while sitting up on his bum).
Now he does it every time he wants something (mostly food). It works for any guest in our house as they can never resist. The problem is he has good balance and can stay in that position for 15-20minutes at a time an eventually everyone gives in. lol
Now he does it every time he wants something (mostly food). It works for any guest in our house as they can never resist. The problem is he has good balance and can stay in that position for 15-20minutes at a time an eventually everyone gives in. lol
Yes, that helps a lot....and reinforce ONLY the cued behaviors. Ignore the speaking or shaking/high fives when you didn't ask for it.
I sort of regret not teaching enough tricks and being lazy with some other things with my Chi's...like teaching them to stay back from the door and simmer down when people come and knock on it. Lyric got that. But I just haven't spent the time with the Chi's on that one. I guess I could still, if I really cared a whole lot. Plus, I hardly ever have anyone come to the door.
I sort of regret not teaching enough tricks and being lazy with some other things with my Chi's...like teaching them to stay back from the door and simmer down when people come and knock on it. Lyric got that. But I just haven't spent the time with the Chi's on that one. I guess I could still, if I really cared a whole lot. Plus, I hardly ever have anyone come to the door.
There was a time I regretted teaching Mick to crawl. Most of you probably aren't aware of how insecure he was, especially when he was young. Anyway- we were doing stays in class one night. New place for us, lots of dogs and sounds bouncing off the walls. Mick had rock solid stays, but that night it was just too much for him. By the time I got across the ring, he had crawled half way to me. BTW- that was the only time he ever did that.
Someone mentioned paw slappping. Way back when I had my first Siberian, I thought it was cute when he put his paw on my knee if he wanted something. So I taught him to do it when I said "Say please". Only problem- once he caught on, he was raking his nails down your leg if you had something he wanted.
Someone mentioned paw slappping. Way back when I had my first Siberian, I thought it was cute when he put his paw on my knee if he wanted something. So I taught him to do it when I said "Say please". Only problem- once he caught on, he was raking his nails down your leg if you had something he wanted.
Easier said than done. :lol-sign:
I've been ignoring Tyr's spin for a year and it's just as strong a behavior as it was when I first taught it.
Especially when you teach "speak" to a young herding breed ~ who tend to be vocal anyway and now they've been given the go ahead to make noise and it's been reinforced. Or teaching shake paws to a boxer, who naturally wants to use his feet like that. Or teaching a breed whose own standard calls for them to "show a marked tendency to move in a circle rather than a straight line" how to spin. Unless someone is seriously skilled at training stimulus control, it's not so easy to unteach certain behaviors and might be better to not open that door in the first place.
I've been ignoring Tyr's spin for a year and it's just as strong a behavior as it was when I first taught it.
Especially when you teach "speak" to a young herding breed ~ who tend to be vocal anyway and now they've been given the go ahead to make noise and it's been reinforced. Or teaching shake paws to a boxer, who naturally wants to use his feet like that. Or teaching a breed whose own standard calls for them to "show a marked tendency to move in a circle rather than a straight line" how to spin. Unless someone is seriously skilled at training stimulus control, it's not so easy to unteach certain behaviors and might be better to not open that door in the first place.
Teaching Kaylee to touch things with her nose and then close doors.
She loves more than anything to poke things with her nose and once I taught her how to target like that and close doors she went around the house closing doors in people faces, closing laptops if you were on them, closing the toilet seat lid and then since she loves poking people if she wants something she will poke you repeatedly until you look at her and her hello to people is a really hard poke in the crouch because it's the perfect height. She's taken my dad down many times
Actually, I don't really regret it
Still makes me laugh
I am NOT going to teach Traveler to bark, he does it all the time now and I can't even imagine what it would be like if I rewarded it just once
She loves more than anything to poke things with her nose and once I taught her how to target like that and close doors she went around the house closing doors in people faces, closing laptops if you were on them, closing the toilet seat lid and then since she loves poking people if she wants something she will poke you repeatedly until you look at her and her hello to people is a really hard poke in the crouch because it's the perfect height. She's taken my dad down many times
Actually, I don't really regret it
Still makes me laughI am NOT going to teach Traveler to bark, he does it all the time now and I can't even imagine what it would be like if I rewarded it just once
It's not so bad, but I wish I hadn't reinforced "sit" so much when Millie was a puppy. That was the first thing she ever learned. So when I'm trying to take a picture of her standing and she sees me kneeling at her level she sits. I try to teach her to back up and she sits.
Then there was the time when I taught her to roll over. She's gotten over it now, but there was a period whenever she was unsure, the only behavior she would offer was to roll over. Repeatedly.
With Lucy, sometimes I regret teaching her to crawl. When I try to get her in a down stay a lot of times she keeps crawling towards me.
Fortunately these "problems" don't happen all the time. And it's not so bad. It's not like they're getting "down" mixed up with an attack command or anything.
Then there was the time when I taught her to roll over. She's gotten over it now, but there was a period whenever she was unsure, the only behavior she would offer was to roll over. Repeatedly.
With Lucy, sometimes I regret teaching her to crawl. When I try to get her in a down stay a lot of times she keeps crawling towards me.
Fortunately these "problems" don't happen all the time. And it's not so bad. It's not like they're getting "down" mixed up with an attack command or anything.
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Cadey it would be sit she think if she sits she will get food or whatever she wants if that don't work she will start slapping you. The worst thinks to Blue is Cadey's talking she is the drama queen it sounds like chewbacca/bird in my house. There is times she will not shut up it drives me nuts I thought Blue was bad, but she is so much worse. I miss the quiet dog I first got that only made a sound if she heard someone or something outside.