!Resist

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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024
  • Nougat@fedia.iotomemes@lemmy.world•Allowed
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    13 days ago

    Yes.

    My experience with this one dog says that simplicity, consistency, and immediate reinforcement with rewards are absolutely necessary. We watched a whole lot of puppy training videos before bringing him home, they all said essentially the same thing.

    I have also come to know that in the early training process, if the dog even barely does what you want, treat shower. You’re not only training them “how to do the thing,” but that “this is how training works.”

    Arlo knows lots of words now, and lots of body language. Most of his communication to us is in the form of body language, and it can be very subtle. On the super obvious side, he has a mat/blanket in his crate, and he wants it to be straight in there. If it’s not, he’ll turn circles inside the crate for “fix it.” Or if we say “fix it” first, he’ll turn circles in response. That didn’t require any treat training, because he’s already self-motivated to have the straightening out of his blanket as the “reward.”

  • Nougat@fedia.iotomemes@lemmy.world•Allowed
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    13 days ago

    Ours has dogtism. He likes everything to be exactly the same every day. “Other people” are outside of that routine. I’m pretty sure that’s why he likes to do tricks for treats so much: because he knows what is expected and he knows what’s going to happen. I think that “packages” have become part of the “routine,” and that “barking until someone comes” is, too.

    I’m really glad that I immediately set the rule “don’t lie to the dog.” He gets confused and frustrated when you tell him something (by words or action), he responds how he should to that thing, and then you don’t follow that with your expected behavior.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotomemes@lemmy.world•Allowed
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    13 days ago

    We’ve got a few different words for “things that go on outside the window.”

    • Packages means someone has delivered something to the front door. Barking is desired until a human is present.
    • Neighbors means it’s just someone walking on the sidewalk in front of the house, or across the street, or across the block. Barking is not acceptable.
    • Are you tired? Because he loves his crate for a midday nap and going to bed at night (he gets to be off duty), this also works when we have visitors coming into the house. Being in the crate for a bit gives people time to come in and get ready for him to greet them. Adding some “do tricks for treats” after opening the crate gives him “good boy” things to do, which seems to keep him from being quite so jumpy on people. Then he gets to greet, and he’s pretty fine after that.

    These mostly work, though he does still occasionally need help with “neighbors.”

  • Nougat@fedia.iotoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•I hate guns. They are engineered from the ground up to take lives of other people. That is their sole purpose. To kill
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    1 month ago

    I hate people who treat them like some toys and fantasize about them.

    Agreed.

    I would still get one for safety …

    Firearms decrease your safety in any but the most dire situation. Unfortunately, those situations are nigh impossible to predict. This means that carrying a firearm incurs some additional risk right now as insurance against a future potential very large risk.

    They can be used to preserve something precious but at a price to pay.

    Also agreed.

    You might be suffering under a variation on the toupee fallacy, and some confirmation bias. You’re not going to hear a whole lot from responsible gun owners, because those people have an understanding of the risk and responsibility they are taking on, and part of taking that responsibility and mitigating that risk is not crowing like a knob about your guns.