The Far Side, October 25, 1983
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It's basically pointless to try to provide feedback to the dog if it's not immediately when the action you want to influence happened.
Make sure to provide direct feedback to the dog (food reward for encouraging behaviour, commands in negative tone when discouraging) immediately when it happens, and they will eventually understand, in my experience.
This is so wrong and how people end up with misbehaving pets that shit and piss all over. Dogs do remember things and using both positive and negative reinforcement is the way to go.
Trying to explain it in English is useless, yes. You have to communicate like another dog would.
The dog pees or poos on the floor? You take them to the pee, you point their face at it, tell them “no!” in a stern voice, then put them where they’re supposed to go.
Chewed up pillow? Same thing, but instead of putting them outside or whatever, give them something they are allowed to chew.
They’re not going to like it, but dogs nip at eachother to communicate when they don’t like what the other dog is doing. They’ll be fine.
But DO NOT hit your dog. You’re not punishing them, you’re giving them guidance. Dogs want you to be happy with them and you want them to trust you.
And also do the positive reinforcement stuff you hear about all the time, this comment is just not about that.
If you don't give the feedback immediately, the dog is not going to be able to properly connect to the action of peeing/pooping, but rather the existence of the urine/poo being agitating to the human.
You gotta catch them in the act and provide the feedback immediately for it to be effective.
You don’t. Thinking a dog doesn’t remember things is peak human arrogance. You’re just straight up wrong, dude.
This subject has quite literally been studied to death.
Effectiveness drops off a cliff after just a few seconds.
I think you might be anthropomorphizing dogs a bit too much here.
You’ve clearly never lived with a dog. Show me the studies
What an incredibly arrogant thing to say about someone you know nothing about.
Here are two to get you started.
https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/entities/publication/53d92eac-f423-4cc9-90e9-89ef437cb74c
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clare-Browne/publication/311405282_Delayed_reinforcement_-_Does_it_affect_learning/links/5844886808ae8e63e6271e8b/Delayed-reinforcement-Does-it-affect-learning.pdf
These studies are for teaching a dog to do something new, not for training them to stop doing something they’re already doing.
Two different things.
I have a neighbor who, when their dog barks, will respond with “Stop!” To which the dogs responds with “Bark!” So you get:
“Bark!”
“Stop!”
“Bark!”
“Stop!”
“Bark!”
“Stop!”
It’s incredibly effective.
Ah, yes, the only thing that makes dog barking more annoying is when the human is barking too.
“Bad Reggie! No! No!”
Not sure what he did wrong
Kitten mittens!
You’re sooooo stupid!
??? Is that a part of the episode I forgot? It's been a while.
Go watch the infomercial lol
Hahaha. I forgot. "THERE IS!" great episode.
A classic 😄
I read somewhere that they have the vocabulary of a toddler
Mine definitely understands; he just acts like he doesn't.
Is it the eye roll that gives it away?
That and the moving his front paw back and forth in the classic you-know-what gesture.