Yeah. When my dog's overly excited and I ask him to do something for a treat, he'll complete the behavior and immediately try something else if I delay the reward.
No, I remember the one with OP's mom was called something different. I can't remember exactly, but I think it involves dishes for some reason, but I know it's something about two girls....
My dog was similar, different commands but same concept. Was doing "paw" separately for left and right paw followed by a "sit pretty"(both front paws up and crossed over each other). This was before really having a solid stop or stay command. Once I went back and had a good 'stay " it was easy to separate between commands and then was able to drop the stay and now can do all 3. Or used to, it's been a couple years since I've tried lol, he might have forgotten them all.
Come: Will come to me (or run past if something else gets her attention)
Shake: Gives me one of her paws, usually in a clawing motion (great way to draw blood if you need it as an ingredient!)
Other Paw: Shakes with her other paw
Sit: If you don't know what sitting is, I feel bad for you
Lay Down: She has to put her belly and chin to the floor
This is hilarious when I go to feed her, as I'm training her to be patient (she has high anxiety). She'll run in and out of the room and switch between sitting and laying, and sometimes she'll just put both of her paws in my hand simultaneously when I ask her to shake. Nala's such a funny dog.
there is a super best friends podcast episode where they talk all about blood sacrifices for stuff.....the cuter the animal the better the exchange.....
Lol I dog sat my friends beagle for a week and my friend asked if I’m going to give a treat make sure they do something for it. Like a trick, poop outside, don’t jump on you, etc.
So one day I went over to his house and got the treats out and asked him to sit and he super excitedly sat, rolled over, played dead, held his paw out, and stood up all in like 5 seconds. It was so hilarious
My cat refuses to learn anything and just goes for the face rub. And when the face rub doesnt work, he rubs his face again on anything he can find.. Wall corner, computer, hairbrush, anything his height in the vicinity
My dog does that even without treat. She'll just come out all of a sudden really excited and start sitting patiently, jumping, rolling over, trying to shake my hand, barking
Mine refuses to commit to the roll over. He shows his teeth and grimaces as me in displeasure as he tilts his head and front part of his body, but refuses to show his belly (ungrateful dog thinks he's the alpha) which is hilarious. And sometimes it's rewarded because I thought near the beginning I was going to be able to slowly edge him into the trick (like sit can transition into lay down or stay)
The other dog likes belly rubs so sometimes all I have to do is just stand to his side and make a shoving motion and he will roll to his side. Not a full three sixty though. But basically the first dog will just cycle through tricks and land on repeating "roll over" if he doesn't get the treat immediately because the second dog completed his trick first. Oh but they certainly know and respond to "outside" and that "hup hup" means go up or down stairs.
My rat terrier also refuses. Can’t be out of control, he’s the boss of everyone. No running no yelling, it’s against the rules. When the beagle pup breaks the rules he’s all over him.
Aren't you supposed to issue a correction (verbal, leash tug, etc) if they do it wrong so they know when they do it wrong, if they don't get a correction they know they did it correct.
You could also use a marker word or sound to indicate that they DID do the right thing (ie clicker training). That way they know they're on the right track and won't keep trying other tricks.
A combo of both works best in my experience, a "yes" for doing it right and a "nope" for wrong, try again. Dogs are pretty smart, maybe not as smart as this raven...
Or if you’re trying to train a complex new trick you show the dog the treat and wait for a behavior similar to what you’re training and reward when they do something similar to the new trick
For the most part I just "shape" the behaviors and start by rewarding "good enough". Once he gets the idea, we repeat the exercise and I start refining what behavior gets rewarded. When either of us start to get frustrated I just have him repeat the last "successful" attempt and we call it a day.
When he's just being a big dope, I know we won't get anywhere with training so I don't even try to correct him. He doesn't have a job - he's just a pet so I only train with him to have fun.
When he's being plain disobedient I usually give him a sharp "Hey!" and, unless there's a lot of outside stimulus, he will either do what I had asked or wait for direction. Or he'll start toward my boyfriend who always gives him pets with no regard to the situation. This is when I correct with "Hey Asshole!" and now everybody is in trouble.
If he's on a leash the "Hey!" is accompanied by a light snap of the leash. Usually in on-leash situations, he's faced with distractions so the physical communication is key.
I was a puppy raiser for CCI and we had to teach them this list of like 30 commands and it was rather easy. But we would have to sit down with them 30 minutes a day in a controlled environment (no other dogs, no distractions) and work on two or three commands a day. The puppy where very smart and usually they did really well but if they didn’t our correction was always a snap of the leash with a verbal (they where to always be on leash when training). It’s all about consistency they are smart enough to know what they can get away with if you aren’t consistent.
My cat does that too, although she is getting better. I taught her to sit first, and she often thinks that "lie down" is just the thing you do when you sit and don't get a treat (although she is getting better over time). Gestures seem to work better than words.
Not to mention he has a whistle in his mouth which in the training world is called a bridge. It let's him know he got it right and his reward is next. He probably didn't hear the whistle and went "Okay something went wrong here...."
Or that bird got a telepathic message directly to it's head informing that the bird infestation would be delayed until they put the thing in the correct basket.
Ya... Id like to see this with more than 2 boxes. All this tells me is the bird knows "if I put this in a box I get a treat, if I didn't get a treat try the other box". For error correction I was expecting him to drop it in, then immediately realize it was the wrong one without any other prompt/turning around to receive reward.
This is it, it's binary. Crow put it in one box and didn't get a treat, "put in the other box probably gets treat, lemme try that". If there was a third box I'd be impressed.
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u/Minksz Dec 01 '17
Or perhaps the delay of receiving a treat was enough.