Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥
One of my biggest pet peeves when watching people with dogs is when people say things like "go away!" Example, person has food, dog is being a pest, person says "no go away." Unless you have trained "go away" as a cue under multiple types of distance, duration, distraction etc etc... the dog does not understand Go away! Actually tell them what they *can* do. Lie down, sit, kennel... Give them an actual task to complete. Also this shit is not the dog's fault. Thank you for coming to my ted Talk.
Jul 23 at 11:42pmMona for iPhone
Show threadPoopfairyJul 23

@Pawpower
Excellent explanation. Why are dogs expected to be smarter than people? Reminds me of reading reasons dogs are relinquished to our shelter.

Thank you for the TT.

Show threadHell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥Jul 23
@Headdogwrangler This is why I'm a shitty dog trainer. It's not the dogs, it's the humans who make me want to spit nails. Dog is jumping, I ask what the outcome is the person wants, they say something like "for her to stop jumping!" And it's like ok so... biting is ok? Chewing furnature, what do you *want* the dog to do FFFS! Half the time the person hasn't even thought about it and doesn't know. So is asking the dog to do something they can't even define. Ugh.
Show threadNapalousaJul 24
@Pawpower @Headdogwrangler Same with horses, people don’t know what to ask or how to be clear. They constantly bombard the animal with multiple commands. I don’t think they understand that the horse, dog, cat is trying to understand a foreign language.
Show threadMartinJul 24
@Pawpower Little dog goes after Almond today. Knowing there is an adult, I say. Hello puppy. Thinking that they might pull the dog away. Little doggy snarls like a deamon, I say: Be nice. Owner just laughs. Next time? I step on your dog. People are stupid.
Show threadAsia Quinones-EvansJul 24
@Pawpower Omg!!! Excellent Ted Talk. I taught Chance my husky that when I was eating he would go to the other room. I would say"Eating" and after a while of training he knew that when he heard it he needed to be out of the room. I have been being a little lax with Greyson since my thought is that he needs to be able to be around food without begging. I will tell him to lay down and then ignore him if he tries to beg. If I am cooking I will tell him "Place" so he can go to his bed while I move around the kitchen. My dad does better at this but the cats are supposed to know the same thing to stay out of the room while he is eating. I do not have bells on mine so I do not usually know.
Show threadDevin Prater :blind:Jul 24
@Pawpower My grandma does that a lot to her new puppy. I feel bad for him because he wants to chew on stuff and people, and all she knows to do is yell or swat at him with a fly swatter.
Show threadMariahLJul 24
@Pawpower So I'm guilty of this, sort of. I will say something along those lines but then I will give them a task right after or if I do say something along those lines I make sure to use a cue they know. An example I can give: My guide loved beef, particularly hamburgers, and would get his own patty when I was working my summer job at a camp for kids with disabilities. I would feed it to him by hand. If he started to nip, he knew what "easy." or "gentle." meant so if he decided not to listen I'd say something like "Huxley, that's not called for, you be easy and sit." Was it a lot of words? yes, but I also know that he knew what I meant. He acted dumb but he was not.
Show threadJamminJerryJul 24
@MariahL @Pawpower I use the word easy for athena when I don't want her pulling my arm out of its socket, or when we are doing down the couple of trailer steps. when playing, if she nips, or does the play biting, we just tell her no bite. we don't want her doing that if we can help it, because of the boys. poor Kalvin hasn't had the greatest luck with a cat or two we had, so he is really leary of almost any animal now. he is slowly getting better with athena, but we don't want that to regress.
Show threadSean RandallJul 24
@Pawpower I've often found it entertaining that "forward" is both the command to a guide dog to proceed and the name of the charities regular newsletter. Given that 1, text-to-speech voices are becoming more Human and 2, people use email whilst out-and-about more and 3, some people have their email read (abrasively loudly) on arrival, I wonder if a guide dog has ever decided to walk on because their handler received a newsletter at a very inopportune time?
Show threadCorvid CroneJul 24
@Pawpower we have a hand signal for our dog where we show her the front and back of our hands and say "all done" to tell her that there's no food for her.
Show threadMyotis Jul 25

@Pawpower i love how half the comments are “i do this/know someone who does”. I hope they see and start training better.

I just taught a solid “backup” cue and so I can say “hey, backup!” If she gets too in my face when eating xD i know how I am that ill be like eesh/hey/wtf but then the next word out of my mouth is the cue for what i want.

We also shaped from a puppy lying down while we ate. Kept treats on the table so whenever she was laying down she got treats. Like. Every 10 seconds at first then 30 then minute then minutes…because I don’t wanna cue my dog forever. The cue is we sit down to eat = she lies down patiently. At the end she can pre-clean the plates for dishwasher if dog friendly food, if not, treats. Makes mealtimes easy. Fuckin love shaping! If we have guests and shes too excited to think clearly (which isnt often but sometimes happens) we just crate her during the meal so theres no angst over food, bad practice around mealtimes, or annoyed humans. Why create strife when doesnt have to be?