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Friday, February 26, 2010
Concepts that Dogs do not Understand
1) Personal space
2) Laziness
3) "No, thank you. I've had enough to eat."
8 comments:
Debs
said...
My dog understands the last one. If you give her a spoonful more food than usual, she'll leave it!
Yes really and she will even turn her nose up at treats half the time (especially when we're out). She's not very toy oriented either, so finding a training reward has been a challenge. She excells at not understanding the first two concepts though, so I know she is still a dog.
Autumn and Linden don't have any toys. What they love most in the world is to run as fast as they can! But they are very, very food-motivated, so training rewards in our house do not pose a problem. What about affection? You told me how sensitive she was. Both my girls and Sam, our friends' retriever, loooooove attention and affection and pets and pats. :)
Layla loves a good stroke now, but when she was new here she was very aloof. It's a good reward, though even the slightest pat can have her rolling on her back like a puppy lol
So don't Autumn and Linden like to play ball etc? We had to teach Layla what to do, but now she loves it - but running will always be her number one idea of fun!
When I first got them, my then-landlord tried to teach them to fetch with the toys he had gotten for his own puppy. He threw the toys and made enthusiastic noises, and they sat and gave him blank looks. :)
8 comments:
My dog understands the last one. If you give her a spoonful more food than usual, she'll leave it!
Really? That is amazing!
Yes really and she will even turn her nose up at treats half the time (especially when we're out). She's not very toy oriented either, so finding a training reward has been a challenge. She excells at not understanding the first two concepts though, so I know she is still a dog.
Autumn and Linden don't have any toys. What they love most in the world is to run as fast as they can! But they are very, very food-motivated, so training rewards in our house do not pose a problem. What about affection? You told me how sensitive she was. Both my girls and Sam, our friends' retriever, loooooove attention and affection and pets and pats. :)
Layla loves a good stroke now, but when she was new here she was very aloof. It's a good reward, though even the slightest pat can have her rolling on her back like a puppy lol
So don't Autumn and Linden like to play ball etc? We had to teach Layla what to do, but now she loves it - but running will always be her number one idea of fun!
When I first got them, my then-landlord tried to teach them to fetch with the toys he had gotten for his own puppy. He threw the toys and made enthusiastic noises, and they sat and gave him blank looks. :)
lol Just throwing the toys wasn't enough, I had to go chasing after them and kick them about too. Do they like chew toys though (rawhide things etc)?
Oh yes! They get a strip of rawhide every day after our morning run. They have the nicest teef I've ever seen on elderly dogs. :)
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