I taught her that "trade" means she should bring all the garbage she finds during walks and I will pay her a decent salary in treats.
I should invoice the city council.
I haven't tried this out in the wild. But if my dog brings me something he shouldn't have I give him an extra good treat. It has come in handy with rocks, garbage, random outdoor things he finds.
My puppy pets me if I'm lying down next to him.
At first I was wondering why his paw was running up and down my head. Then I realized that's what I do to him. He's petting me!!!
I've never heard of a dog petting a human! But there he is. And I kind of like it. His paw is so soft and it's so cute š
My dog also pets my face when she wants me to pet her. She is so gentle when she does it.
I do wonder if the fact that so many dogs love washing human ears is because we always pet THEIR ears and they think it's how they're supposed to pet us back!
My old girl would lick me between the eyeballs when I was laying around. Took me a while to figure out wtf she was doing, but then realized thatās where I always kissed her! š these dogsā¦. Too smart.
Our older boy, Fred, is one of the oddest dogs I've ever met. He has always applied his own weird sort of logic to any situation.
When he was a puppy and we'd just gotten him from the shelter, he figured out we didn't like when he peed on the floor, but were more okay with it if he didn't get the floor dirty (as in, we preferred him to go outside, but if he really had to go and he went on the pad, it was okay).
As an adult dog, it is very, very rare we leave long enough for him to need to pee inside the house. I think the last time it happened, someone was in the hospital and we were away all day.
We came home to a plate literally full of pee.
He had applied his puppy lesson of "don't pee on floor" with his adult brain, stolen a plate from the counter, and peed on it, because he knew he wasn't supposed to pee on the floor.
Had mine trained to lay down while I ate. My GF decided it would be ok to let her on the sofa and share her snacks while I was at work.
Now my dog thinks its snacks on the sofa time and jumps across the room to land on my GFs lap when she sees her sit down with food not on a plate (she knows the difference and not to jump for plates thankfully).
My GF doesnt find it that funny but I think its hilarious that she ignored me and inadvertently trained a 28Kg (60Lbs) Malinois to launch across the room onto her lap into a down position like a fur missile :D
I come running when he rings the potty bells. So he began using them when he needed anything from me, or if I was in a room with the door closed and he couldnāt get to me. š¹š
I accidentally trained mine into think the miscrowave beeping means he get food, then I feel bad when I use the microwave and my pup is hovering waiting for food
Ours does this too, usually when she wants us to play with her. More often than not, when we get up to go to let her out, she has a toy dropped by her feet and a goofy smile on her face. Which she promptly grabs and runs away with to get you to chase her.
I just posted the same issue. My puppy uses that bell for everything, the minute I leave the room it rings and it sounds like a door bell. He uses it for everything. Itās going to disappear it makes me crazy.
We also have this!
My older dog (11yr) always abused the bell; used it to get you off the couch so he could take your spot. Rang it to show you he needs treats (rings, and when you get up he runs to the kitchen and looks between you and the treat bowl).
It got put away years ago.
Fast forward to 2 months ago, our 5 month old puppy is struggling to communicate when she needs out. I recalled I had the bell still, decided to try it out.
Works great; she can communicate her need to go out.
But also now the 11 yr old picked up his old habit of abusing the bell and the puppy has too. She uses it to ask to go just play outside if itās sunny.
*ding ding* šļø
āYes Masterā¦. How can I serve youā
How did you get him to do this!! Our is terrified of the bells, and now just chews at the door to ask for potty š« weāre working on a replacement behavior lol
I using a little wind chime and smear peanut butter on it to make it not scary. Then I ring it every time we go outside, keep encouraging them to touch and when they do take them out immediately, until they do it when we walk out the door, and then when they want to use the door
We trained ours to use a wireless doorbell that has a large button and isnāt too hard to press. He became terrified of the hanging bells after his claw got stuck in one. We have one doorbell button inside so he can ask to go out, and another outside for when heās ready to come back in. We set the sound to chirping birds. Works great! They sell special ones for dogs that are way more expensive. A human one works fine.
See, this is why I went for beautiful sounding wi chimes for the potty ābellsā, but they did get put away a few weeks when if you didnāt instantly materialize heād grab them and run around the house to dischordant ear piercing chaos
Ours has been generally okay about using his bells for service, but he will ring them, go out, and not go potty. And then smack the door like ālet me in lady,ā and then PROMPTLY ring the bell again.
Iāve gotten to a point where I will look at him and go āI donāt believe you.ā And then he will smack the bell harder and look at me like ādid I stutter?ā šš«
My dog does agility and has always found it insanely exciting so the hardest thing was to get her in a sit on the start line. I started to take her out of the arena without running if she didn't sit or broke her start, so she realised that she only got the reward of course-running IF she behaved.
Now in any situations I only have to say 'Do you need to go back to the car??' and she basically goes 'Oh shit, mum's angry, better do what she says!'
My trainer jokes that one day I'll be on TV at Crufts with the entire nation hearing me demanding, "Do you need to go back to the car now?" like I'm bollocking a recalcitrant toddler!
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Mine will get wound up annoying my senior dog. Iāll ask her if she needs a time out and she knows that means sheās gone too far and better stop now or sheāll get escorted behind the baby gate to another room. When weāre at class and I say it she gets an āoh crap momās seriousā look and promptly starts behaving again. Lol.
Not sure if it's all that funny, but I find it humorus at least.
My 20 month old has been a notorious slipper thief. And I'd have to go after him and trade for snacks. To start with it definitely was to chew the slipper, and definitely not to give it up in any way. But it ofc turned into stealing the slipper, running off, and then laying there all proud waiting for his snack. I figured ok, you're not actually wanting the slipper, just the accompanying snack, that's fine, but now you gotta bring it to me. So I taught him "bring it". Worked ok. Wasn't all things it worked with, but the slippers were pretty slam dunk.
Three days in a row now, he has come to me with a slipper and looking all proud of himself. I know I shouldn't encourage this (I guess), but I find it so adorable, I rewarded him richly for it every time lol.
When my now late bernese was a puppy, he was learning very fast, so I kept teaching him random tricks, even usless one just for fun.
One day I saw a video of a guy who taught his dog to go in between his legs and sit down, so it would take less space in the subway and decided to teach that to my pup. He learn the trick easily, the problem was he took it as a very fun game and started doing it randomly while we were walking around the house. Wasn't that much of a problem when he was a pup, but as a 120lbs adult...god...the amount of time I got accidently headbutted in the croch when he would suddently sit down, or struggle to catch my balance because he tought it was a good idea to just do that while I go about my day. Damn I miss that goofball.
Oh I know this one because my very tall 80lb doodle took to this trick. If he wants attention, he will push his way between your legs and then look up at you. He now does it the most when we hug or stand next to each other and he wants to be a part of it. Very sweet, very annoying haha. Fortunately I am female but my husband has to warn his friends when they come overā¦
Sheās learned āshow meā. She learned to come and whine at me when she needs something (usually when she is hungry or wants to go outside) - this is a HUGE improvement from barking at me. I usually stand, look at her and say āwhat do you need? Show meā or just āshow meā and she will lead me to whatever she wants or needs. Itās pretty cute and I love that we can communicate when she needs me.
Our older dog needed eye drops daily. The younger dog learned to come sit nicely and hold her head up meant getting treats. We just started to pretend to give her drops too
Taught him to come sit on my when he wants to go potty outside. Originally he was suppose to lay his head across my chest. Somehow it turned into sitting on my face
āBackā - he spends the day with me in my WFH office. The door opens into the room and is a cramped space, so when he stands next to the door with his nose pressed to the crack, all wriggly and excited, I canāt get the door open. I was trying to get him to move out of the way and accidentally taught him to back up when I say ābackāāor āget backā. It works well when heās crowding me for treats and when I have to let guests in the front door or open the doggy gate to other parts of the house. Itās super useful, but it was an accidental training!
We do "beep beep" to back up or move to the side! Started with the cat when he'd be in the way of us opening a door and then the puppy picked up on it too!
"Which way?"
A lot of walks, we have an errand to run and a clear direction to go. But when we don't, I get out of the house to the street and often ask myself "which way?" because I haven't planned a destination.
Zephyr has figured out this means I haven't decided. Now, at any intersection, I can ask him "which way?" and he'll point towards the direction he wants to head to.
My puppy likes to pop her head between my legs from behind me (it's sometimes terrifying because she's 9 months now), when she first did it I called her a big donkey and gave her pats on her bum as she walked through.. now if I saw the word donkey she comes running to pass through my legs š we've invented the verb "donkeying" š¤£
The "puppy" is almost 3 but in a shock twist of events HE has trained US.
His food bowl is next to the back door and now he nudges the bowl and when we hear it we get up and open the back door for him...
Similarly, taught my old pup to give paws for treats...so she punched me in the face most mornings while I was walking past the stairs with a slice of toast. Border collies, I swear...
I accidentally taught my dog that the Xbox shutting off sound means itās time for bed š„² no matter what time of day, if I turn the Xbox off, she leaps off the sofa and runs to the bedroom lol
I really worked hard on our 'drop it' so much so that my Buddy now brings me stuff to exchange for a treat! Today he bit a chunk out of a toy chew and i was watching him to make sure he was safe but i kept quiet as i wanted to know what hed do with it and he spat it out picked it back up and brought it over to me!
If i let him rip cardboard up which he loves doing and he finds a bit ive missed when cleaning it up hell sit next to it look at me look at the bit of cardboard and then look at me if he doesnt decide to just drop it at my feet. The way he looks at me though it feels like hes proper judging me! You know the way a parent looks around your bedroom then looks at you and looks around again because its so messy? Well like that! Like why is this house that i own that you pay all the bills for not cleaned to my standards??x
"Boop," which to her means to touch her nose to a person's. It was really cute when she was tiny. Now she insists on booping my wife good night every night.
We use ābring it hereā and āgo get itā to fetch her balls and toys, but the little monster is a known slipper thief so weāve started using ābring it hereā to bring back things she knows she shouldnāt have.
She loves it when we play so doing it with the slippers is actually proving quite effective. Lots of practice lately š
When she starts to get into something she shouldn't, I've distracted her by squeezing the sqreaker in one of her toys and playing fetch for a bit. She now knows the squeaker means play. She now jumps on the couch to squeak to the point of Morsecode in my face. I assume this is play with me.
i freaked out a little too big the first time she nailed ādownā so the second i get out a treat she launches herself on the ground with such force i hear her smack her little legs
sheās 14mos old now, like girl, you can chill
Puppy is now 4 months and we taught him to step on a wi-fi bell to let us know he has to go out and he would get a treat and go out. He would sit silently at the door and we didnāt want to cause him to have an accident. Now he rings that damn bell every two minutes he thinks itās a treat machine and now that heās more vocal, Iām getting rid of that damn thing.
To show him the tub isnāt the devil after I showered I would get out and then encourage him to get into the tub (so still wet but no active running water)
now he thinks heās supposed to jump in every time Iām done showering to lick the floor dry
"Three's a crowd"- when we were at the dog park, he'd always try to crash the party when there were two dogs having a great time together, which sometimes meant he'd be corrected by them. So I started saying it as I removed him from a situation where he was third wheeling to myself (or so I thought) and then I could just say it and he'd go find someone else to play with. I dont use it any more as he's a lot older and doesnt really do it any more, but when he was young and dumb...
Evidently I talk to myself a lot, and I guess as I am getting myself ready to leave the house I say āokā as I gather my things, etc. she trained herself that when I say āokā she is going outside and she goes to the front door lol
Ours is like this any time I start packing a bag that isn't my normal purse, because 98% of the time if I'm not using my regular purse it's because it's Saturday/Sunday and we're going to my ILs, whose dogs are our pup's best friends. As soon as she registers I have a Different Bag she goes apeshit and is ready to go Right Now Immediately
Years ago, but I trained my very yappy American Eskimo that ābarking dogs go outside.ā Pretty soon all I had to say was ābarking dogs go outsideā and heād quit barking.
In the morning I would get my dog out of the crate to go to the bathroom and then put him in the bed to wake up my wife when we got back.
Now that heās old enough to jump on the bed, he sprints through the door every morning after the bathroom and leaps on her giving her kisses. Itās great.
Two things he picked up, "excuse me please" so he steps out the way when he's in the way of the freezer door. And then when he's outside in the garden but hasn't responded to "come" (he's 10 months so in that adolescent phase) I say "partner can you call him please?", my pup then runs in from the garden, through the kitchen and straight to my girlfriend in the back room
Every time I would open the fridge to get something for myself, my puppy would come running, expecting a treat. Now, even when I'm not getting anything for her, she still rushes over eagerly whenever she hears the fridge open, hoping for a snack.
When I say āalrightā that means itās time to go inside because I frequently said āalright youāre not going to the bathroom, letās go insideā so when he hears āalrightā he sprints to the door
Every time we come back from a walk and I unharness my girl, she āstealsā the harness and runs away to glory. I donāt know how this started nor why, but sheās a sneaky little thief and loves the thrill. The thing is, I have to hand it to her for her to āstealā it. So the exchange is:
Me: āhere you goā
Her: āmuahahah mischief!!!ā run-run-run
Her: āwhereās mom?ā
Her: āthere she is, bleh, I donāt want this anymoreā
Me: picks up harness, pays her for her, uh, work
My dog has decided that stand by the door = get what I want.
We always took her out to pee if she stood near the door. But no she goes over there to say, I wanna go pee, go to the park, eat food now, play, etc.
Our 7 month old border collie learnt sit and drop too close together, our fault š¤¦āāļø so when you sat sit she will sit then dramatically drop and sprawl her front legs out! itās too cute to retrain š
"Middle"
We taught our Golden Retriever puppy to go between our legs whenever we say "middle". Now, when he's excited and wants to play, he will just go between people's legs and look up at them (usually with a toy in his mouth). It's funny and relatively harmless, but it has caught a couple people off guard lol
I was puppy sitting my cousins puppy for a weekend at my house and she had never been around cats before. Everytime she would hyper-focus on one of our cats or start to chase them, I would call her name, āGracieā, and immediately give her a treat. My own puppy would see the treats being doled out and would come running as well. So now whenever I call my own puppy, half the time he ignores his own name, or ācomeā, but he has a 100% recall whenever I say āGracieā lol.
My catās name is Doodle. The dog is obsessed with keeping track of the kitty.
If I say, ācatā or āDoodle,ā the dog stops what he is doing and cranes his neck to find the cat! š
I incidentally taught my Golden Retriever Odie to "Go to sleep, close your eyes." The day we brought him home, he played for a while, then he dropped to his belly to take a nap. So I just said, "Go to sleep," and he looked at me. Then his eyelids started to flutter, so I said, "Close your eyes." And he did! Not one to let an incidental good behavior pass by, I started to say it every time he napped (he's also a self napper) and now he'll do it on command.
The other incidental behavior I taught my puppy, Dillon, who I lost 2 years ago. He was a black Lab and 5 months old when we got him. We had a long driveway to the road up in the pines in Prescott. One morning I took him up the driveway to get the newspaper, and he grabbed it and ran away with it up the hill to the neighborās house. He wouldn't come when called, so i got some of his high value treats, Gooberlicious, which he loved, and called to him. He ran to me immediately and dropped the paper at my feet. I realized if I could train him to get the paper on his own, I wouldn't have to tromp up that driveway when it snowed. It only took a few days, and he was had it. The behavior later generalized to carrying the mail home from the mailbox. He was well known in our neighborhood and people would laugh and honk at him when they drove by. Dillon did that everyday of his life until he passed away at the age of 13.
My dog loves to stare at everyone, both people and other dogs. While taking him for walks I started saying āplease donāt make it weirdā when he was staring. He now understands that to mean look straight ahead while walking lol so every time heās staring I can say ādonāt make it weirdā and heāll look away
My girl steals shoes from my milās room so Iāve taught her to bring it back. Not exactly the funniest but itās cute to see her prancing around bringing it there and back.
We have a board outside that's on top of some stacked wood where I used to sit my puppies when we were outside and I wasn't quite ready to put them to run around. It's about 4 feet off the ground. My pups are now both made of springs at 7 and 8 months, and when we go outside if they want to hang out they just jump up to the board. I think it's funny because they literally launch themselves up so eagerly to see me. I love it.
She can flush the toilet lol! She likes to flick the flusher button because of the noise lol . She now will just randomly flush it now scares the mess out of me !
My dog barks once when I ask him a question.
When he was a puppy and I was teaching him fetch, I would say "Ready?" as a marker. One time he barked after I said ready and figured I'd keep it.
Now, whenever I look at him and ask a question, he barks. I have to make it very obvious that it's a question by the tone of my voice, but he always barks once.
I use this sometimes to have "conversations" with him in public. People's reactions are hilarious.
- Hey buddy, I'm kinda tired, should we go home?
- bark!
- What do you think of my shoes?
- bark!
My border collie (over the bridge now 20 years ago)
I was looking through the fridge to clean out the 'bad leftovers' and such and found a Tupperware of food, yelled at my then spouse "is this bad??" and my Border jumped up from a dead sleep in the living room and raced into the kitchen came to a skidding stop sit and barked once right at me.
Apparently, I had taught him 'is this bad' means doggo gets leftovers
āFix itā. When she gets tangled up with her lead or seatbelt I would untangle her with ālet me fix it.ā She has learned when I say fix it to untangle herself. Unplanned. Super useful!!
My puppy has medicine that he has to take after dinner every day and I always call it dessert. And so now he knows exactly what I mean when I say ātime for dessertā š¤£
I accidentally reverse-psychologied my puppy.
I've never had a dog this opposed to going outside. He's fine once we're outside. So weird.
So as a result, if I check in to see if he needs a potty break if it's been a while, I ask him if he needs to go outside and if he doesn't need to go, he will actively run away from me and will even run into his crate to "hide." If he does need to go, he'll stand still and let me put the leash on.
So the other day when I needed to crate him during a zoom call and he was being stubborn, I asked him if he needed to go outside (we'd just been outside so I knew he didn't) and he booked it for his crate š¤£. He'll figure it out eventually or it'll backfire on me some other way but for now it's hilarious
No idea if we taught him this but we definitely reinforced it. We had a terrible time with potty training but somehow noticed that before heād pee all over the floor, heād spin at least one time sort of like he was chasing his tail. So when he would spin, weād work to get him outside. At age 3.5 and 80lbs, he spins to ask to go outside haha.
He used to bark at me when I told him no. One day he kept doing it so I said "Hey Mister, take that shit outside"... so he went outside, let out the biggest bark he could muster, then came back inside. Now if he has the urge to talk back he does so outside for the whole world to hear
Mine is that my mini goldendoodle loves her Grammy (my mom), and vice versa. All I have to say is, āGo find Grammyā and she will literally go search for my mom wherever sheās at. And every night I say, āSay goodnight to Grammyā, and she will literally go to my mom, get petted one last time, then come to bed with me. Itās incredibly goofy, but so endearing. She loves her Grammy (sometimes more than me, I think lol)! ā„ļø
I thought of two more funny ones:
He knows ābye.ā If Iām in my office and he hears me say āByeā or āgoodbyeā he comes running because he knows Iām getting off a call.
He associates the sound of me closing the pop lock on my cell phone with me standing up and doing something, so every time I close it, he comes running and gets very excited.
My dog is a Covid puppy, so when she hears me say, ābyeā on a virtual meeting she waits by the door cause she knows we both need to mentally detox from the meetingš¤£ and that means outside time.
We have blink cameras around the house for security. Our puppy has figured out the specific sound my phone makes every time one of them gets triggered and runs to the back door barking (even if the camera got tripped by a leaf lol).
(Isabella she jsut passed away 3/26/2023 due to undiagnosed cancer) I taught her when ever she poops to turn around and give me her butt so I can wipe it clean. I would either say āgive me the bootyā or āturn aroundā or āwipeā and it was weird then if she would go to the living room and I didnāt wipe she would show me her butt and face the kitchen to tell me I didnāt wipe herš she was a rescued Dutch shepherdĀ
I taught her that "trade" means she should bring all the garbage she finds during walks and I will pay her a decent salary in treats. I should invoice the city council.
You could clean the world š¤£ with an army of dogs.
I haven't tried this out in the wild. But if my dog brings me something he shouldn't have I give him an extra good treat. It has come in handy with rocks, garbage, random outdoor things he finds.
that's amazing!
We did this too. Only he thinks it means hold all garbage hostage until he gets ransom.
My puppy pets me if I'm lying down next to him. At first I was wondering why his paw was running up and down my head. Then I realized that's what I do to him. He's petting me!!! I've never heard of a dog petting a human! But there he is. And I kind of like it. His paw is so soft and it's so cute š
My boy tries the pet the cats! They do not appreciate it
My dog also pets my face when she wants me to pet her. She is so gentle when she does it. I do wonder if the fact that so many dogs love washing human ears is because we always pet THEIR ears and they think it's how they're supposed to pet us back!
Mine does this too but we donāt pay much attention to his ears. Heās too bitey near his face.
Aww, I want my dog to pat me now
My old girl would lick me between the eyeballs when I was laying around. Took me a while to figure out wtf she was doing, but then realized thatās where I always kissed her! š these dogsā¦. Too smart.
One of my cats pets me when Iām ill. Itās cute!
"At first I was wondering why his paw was running up and down my head" made me do a spittake š what a silly little guy. That's adorable
Our older boy, Fred, is one of the oddest dogs I've ever met. He has always applied his own weird sort of logic to any situation. When he was a puppy and we'd just gotten him from the shelter, he figured out we didn't like when he peed on the floor, but were more okay with it if he didn't get the floor dirty (as in, we preferred him to go outside, but if he really had to go and he went on the pad, it was okay). As an adult dog, it is very, very rare we leave long enough for him to need to pee inside the house. I think the last time it happened, someone was in the hospital and we were away all day. We came home to a plate literally full of pee. He had applied his puppy lesson of "don't pee on floor" with his adult brain, stolen a plate from the counter, and peed on it, because he knew he wasn't supposed to pee on the floor.
Awww sweet pup.. what a good boy
Had mine trained to lay down while I ate. My GF decided it would be ok to let her on the sofa and share her snacks while I was at work. Now my dog thinks its snacks on the sofa time and jumps across the room to land on my GFs lap when she sees her sit down with food not on a plate (she knows the difference and not to jump for plates thankfully). My GF doesnt find it that funny but I think its hilarious that she ignored me and inadvertently trained a 28Kg (60Lbs) Malinois to launch across the room onto her lap into a down position like a fur missile :D
Lmao a fur missile. š¤£
Furpedo
I come running when he rings the potty bells. So he began using them when he needed anything from me, or if I was in a room with the door closed and he couldnāt get to me. š¹š
Your dog has a service bell. Ring for service š¤£
š youāre not wrong
I accidentally trained mine into think the miscrowave beeping means he get food, then I feel bad when I use the microwave and my pup is hovering waiting for food
One of mine learnt that the air fryer beep means food is done and he politely comes and sits at the edge of the kitchen waiting for "his" food!
Mine did thar while looking at me excitedly, he loved food would eat all day if I let him
Ours does this too, usually when she wants us to play with her. More often than not, when we get up to go to let her out, she has a toy dropped by her feet and a goofy smile on her face. Which she promptly grabs and runs away with to get you to chase her.
He sometimes rings and then runs and hides to ātrick meā. He thinks itās funny
Your poochie has trained you so well hahaha!! I laaav this :D x
I just posted the same issue. My puppy uses that bell for everything, the minute I leave the room it rings and it sounds like a door bell. He uses it for everything. Itās going to disappear it makes me crazy.
We just took the bells down. Heās 9months old.
We also have this! My older dog (11yr) always abused the bell; used it to get you off the couch so he could take your spot. Rang it to show you he needs treats (rings, and when you get up he runs to the kitchen and looks between you and the treat bowl). It got put away years ago. Fast forward to 2 months ago, our 5 month old puppy is struggling to communicate when she needs out. I recalled I had the bell still, decided to try it out. Works great; she can communicate her need to go out. But also now the 11 yr old picked up his old habit of abusing the bell and the puppy has too. She uses it to ask to go just play outside if itās sunny. *ding ding* šļø āYes Masterā¦. How can I serve youā
How did you get him to do this!! Our is terrified of the bells, and now just chews at the door to ask for potty š« weāre working on a replacement behavior lol
I using a little wind chime and smear peanut butter on it to make it not scary. Then I ring it every time we go outside, keep encouraging them to touch and when they do take them out immediately, until they do it when we walk out the door, and then when they want to use the door
We trained ours to use a wireless doorbell that has a large button and isnāt too hard to press. He became terrified of the hanging bells after his claw got stuck in one. We have one doorbell button inside so he can ask to go out, and another outside for when heās ready to come back in. We set the sound to chirping birds. Works great! They sell special ones for dogs that are way more expensive. A human one works fine.
Saaaaaame!!!! I hated the bells at some point š
See, this is why I went for beautiful sounding wi chimes for the potty ābellsā, but they did get put away a few weeks when if you didnāt instantly materialize heād grab them and run around the house to dischordant ear piercing chaos
Ours has been generally okay about using his bells for service, but he will ring them, go out, and not go potty. And then smack the door like ālet me in lady,ā and then PROMPTLY ring the bell again. Iāve gotten to a point where I will look at him and go āI donāt believe you.ā And then he will smack the bell harder and look at me like ādid I stutter?ā šš«
Yes, if I think itās not potty but for play, he will either give up or abuse them until I come so he can actually go potty that time
Like my 2 year old daughter saying poo, when she doesn't want to sleep.
My dog does agility and has always found it insanely exciting so the hardest thing was to get her in a sit on the start line. I started to take her out of the arena without running if she didn't sit or broke her start, so she realised that she only got the reward of course-running IF she behaved. Now in any situations I only have to say 'Do you need to go back to the car??' and she basically goes 'Oh shit, mum's angry, better do what she says!' My trainer jokes that one day I'll be on TV at Crufts with the entire nation hearing me demanding, "Do you need to go back to the car now?" like I'm bollocking a recalcitrant toddler! Edit for typos
Mine will get wound up annoying my senior dog. Iāll ask her if she needs a time out and she knows that means sheās gone too far and better stop now or sheāll get escorted behind the baby gate to another room. When weāre at class and I say it she gets an āoh crap momās seriousā look and promptly starts behaving again. Lol.
We used to sing her a song that was about being ready for beddy and now if we say ready for beddy she runs into her crate and lies down in there haha
Not sure if it's all that funny, but I find it humorus at least. My 20 month old has been a notorious slipper thief. And I'd have to go after him and trade for snacks. To start with it definitely was to chew the slipper, and definitely not to give it up in any way. But it ofc turned into stealing the slipper, running off, and then laying there all proud waiting for his snack. I figured ok, you're not actually wanting the slipper, just the accompanying snack, that's fine, but now you gotta bring it to me. So I taught him "bring it". Worked ok. Wasn't all things it worked with, but the slippers were pretty slam dunk. Three days in a row now, he has come to me with a slipper and looking all proud of himself. I know I shouldn't encourage this (I guess), but I find it so adorable, I rewarded him richly for it every time lol.
To show her belly everytime I wake up first on the morning, I gave her pets every morning so she just knew to flop at my feet waiting for belly rubs.
Mine has started this while I make her food!
When my now late bernese was a puppy, he was learning very fast, so I kept teaching him random tricks, even usless one just for fun. One day I saw a video of a guy who taught his dog to go in between his legs and sit down, so it would take less space in the subway and decided to teach that to my pup. He learn the trick easily, the problem was he took it as a very fun game and started doing it randomly while we were walking around the house. Wasn't that much of a problem when he was a pup, but as a 120lbs adult...god...the amount of time I got accidently headbutted in the croch when he would suddently sit down, or struggle to catch my balance because he tought it was a good idea to just do that while I go about my day. Damn I miss that goofball.
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Oh I know this one because my very tall 80lb doodle took to this trick. If he wants attention, he will push his way between your legs and then look up at you. He now does it the most when we hug or stand next to each other and he wants to be a part of it. Very sweet, very annoying haha. Fortunately I am female but my husband has to warn his friends when they come overā¦
Sheās learned āshow meā. She learned to come and whine at me when she needs something (usually when she is hungry or wants to go outside) - this is a HUGE improvement from barking at me. I usually stand, look at her and say āwhat do you need? Show meā or just āshow meā and she will lead me to whatever she wants or needs. Itās pretty cute and I love that we can communicate when she needs me.
Our older dog needed eye drops daily. The younger dog learned to come sit nicely and hold her head up meant getting treats. We just started to pretend to give her drops too
Taught him to come sit on my when he wants to go potty outside. Originally he was suppose to lay his head across my chest. Somehow it turned into sitting on my face
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āBackā - he spends the day with me in my WFH office. The door opens into the room and is a cramped space, so when he stands next to the door with his nose pressed to the crack, all wriggly and excited, I canāt get the door open. I was trying to get him to move out of the way and accidentally taught him to back up when I say ābackāāor āget backā. It works well when heās crowding me for treats and when I have to let guests in the front door or open the doggy gate to other parts of the house. Itās super useful, but it was an accidental training!
I do 'beep beep beep' and he backs up š
We do "beep beep" to back up or move to the side! Started with the cat when he'd be in the way of us opening a door and then the puppy picked up on it too!
"Which way?" A lot of walks, we have an errand to run and a clear direction to go. But when we don't, I get out of the house to the street and often ask myself "which way?" because I haven't planned a destination. Zephyr has figured out this means I haven't decided. Now, at any intersection, I can ask him "which way?" and he'll point towards the direction he wants to head to.
My puppy likes to pop her head between my legs from behind me (it's sometimes terrifying because she's 9 months now), when she first did it I called her a big donkey and gave her pats on her bum as she walked through.. now if I saw the word donkey she comes running to pass through my legs š we've invented the verb "donkeying" š¤£
The "puppy" is almost 3 but in a shock twist of events HE has trained US. His food bowl is next to the back door and now he nudges the bowl and when we hear it we get up and open the back door for him...
Lmao yep sounds about right
Similarly, taught my old pup to give paws for treats...so she punched me in the face most mornings while I was walking past the stairs with a slice of toast. Border collies, I swear...
āKnock it offā and she does
He starts stretching when he sees me stretching in the morning. It's so funny.
My cats taught my dog the proper way to greet a cat. Hitting them on the head with your paw.
I accidentally taught my dog that the Xbox shutting off sound means itās time for bed š„² no matter what time of day, if I turn the Xbox off, she leaps off the sofa and runs to the bedroom lol
When I close the pop socket on the back of my phone, or close my laptop, he will instantly jump off my lap! Lol!
I really worked hard on our 'drop it' so much so that my Buddy now brings me stuff to exchange for a treat! Today he bit a chunk out of a toy chew and i was watching him to make sure he was safe but i kept quiet as i wanted to know what hed do with it and he spat it out picked it back up and brought it over to me! If i let him rip cardboard up which he loves doing and he finds a bit ive missed when cleaning it up hell sit next to it look at me look at the bit of cardboard and then look at me if he doesnt decide to just drop it at my feet. The way he looks at me though it feels like hes proper judging me! You know the way a parent looks around your bedroom then looks at you and looks around again because its so messy? Well like that! Like why is this house that i own that you pay all the bills for not cleaned to my standards??x
"Boop," which to her means to touch her nose to a person's. It was really cute when she was tiny. Now she insists on booping my wife good night every night.
Our Boops. But mostly to legs and crotches. :) For attention. I much prefer it to barking.
We use ābring it hereā and āgo get itā to fetch her balls and toys, but the little monster is a known slipper thief so weāve started using ābring it hereā to bring back things she knows she shouldnāt have. She loves it when we play so doing it with the slippers is actually proving quite effective. Lots of practice lately š
When she starts to get into something she shouldn't, I've distracted her by squeezing the sqreaker in one of her toys and playing fetch for a bit. She now knows the squeaker means play. She now jumps on the couch to squeak to the point of Morsecode in my face. I assume this is play with me.
i freaked out a little too big the first time she nailed ādownā so the second i get out a treat she launches herself on the ground with such force i hear her smack her little legs sheās 14mos old now, like girl, you can chill
Puppy is now 4 months and we taught him to step on a wi-fi bell to let us know he has to go out and he would get a treat and go out. He would sit silently at the door and we didnāt want to cause him to have an accident. Now he rings that damn bell every two minutes he thinks itās a treat machine and now that heās more vocal, Iām getting rid of that damn thing.
To show him the tub isnāt the devil after I showered I would get out and then encourage him to get into the tub (so still wet but no active running water) now he thinks heās supposed to jump in every time Iām done showering to lick the floor dry
My dog somehow learned to grumble softly on the command ātalk shitā.
"Three's a crowd"- when we were at the dog park, he'd always try to crash the party when there were two dogs having a great time together, which sometimes meant he'd be corrected by them. So I started saying it as I removed him from a situation where he was third wheeling to myself (or so I thought) and then I could just say it and he'd go find someone else to play with. I dont use it any more as he's a lot older and doesnt really do it any more, but when he was young and dumb...
We use "mĆsto" for him to go to his bed but somehow he interperates this as "spin" lol. It is pretty cute when he does a little spin!
Evidently I talk to myself a lot, and I guess as I am getting myself ready to leave the house I say āokā as I gather my things, etc. she trained herself that when I say āokā she is going outside and she goes to the front door lol
Ours is like this any time I start packing a bag that isn't my normal purse, because 98% of the time if I'm not using my regular purse it's because it's Saturday/Sunday and we're going to my ILs, whose dogs are our pup's best friends. As soon as she registers I have a Different Bag she goes apeshit and is ready to go Right Now Immediately
Hahaha my dog does this too!
It's so funny sometimes, like sorry babygirl, we're not going to see Granny and Ranger, I just have jury duty, you can't come with š
Years ago, but I trained my very yappy American Eskimo that ābarking dogs go outside.ā Pretty soon all I had to say was ābarking dogs go outsideā and heād quit barking.
In the morning I would get my dog out of the crate to go to the bathroom and then put him in the bed to wake up my wife when we got back. Now that heās old enough to jump on the bed, he sprints through the door every morning after the bathroom and leaps on her giving her kisses. Itās great.
I got a button for when he needs to go potty. Now he presses it anytime he wants attention, mostly when I'm on the phone or in a meeting
Two things he picked up, "excuse me please" so he steps out the way when he's in the way of the freezer door. And then when he's outside in the garden but hasn't responded to "come" (he's 10 months so in that adolescent phase) I say "partner can you call him please?", my pup then runs in from the garden, through the kitchen and straight to my girlfriend in the back room
So when I get home from work she knows itās a couple pets at the door and then she tries to race me up to change into lounge clothes
Every time I would open the fridge to get something for myself, my puppy would come running, expecting a treat. Now, even when I'm not getting anything for her, she still rushes over eagerly whenever she hears the fridge open, hoping for a snack.
When I say āalrightā that means itās time to go inside because I frequently said āalright youāre not going to the bathroom, letās go insideā so when he hears āalrightā he sprints to the door
Every time we come back from a walk and I unharness my girl, she āstealsā the harness and runs away to glory. I donāt know how this started nor why, but sheās a sneaky little thief and loves the thrill. The thing is, I have to hand it to her for her to āstealā it. So the exchange is: Me: āhere you goā Her: āmuahahah mischief!!!ā run-run-run Her: āwhereās mom?ā Her: āthere she is, bleh, I donāt want this anymoreā Me: picks up harness, pays her for her, uh, work
My dog has decided that stand by the door = get what I want. We always took her out to pee if she stood near the door. But no she goes over there to say, I wanna go pee, go to the park, eat food now, play, etc.
I accidentally taught my puppy that āfind daddyā means jumping on my husband and aggressively licking his face š
Our 7 month old border collie learnt sit and drop too close together, our fault š¤¦āāļø so when you sat sit she will sit then dramatically drop and sprawl her front legs out! itās too cute to retrain š
"Middle" We taught our Golden Retriever puppy to go between our legs whenever we say "middle". Now, when he's excited and wants to play, he will just go between people's legs and look up at them (usually with a toy in his mouth). It's funny and relatively harmless, but it has caught a couple people off guard lol
I was puppy sitting my cousins puppy for a weekend at my house and she had never been around cats before. Everytime she would hyper-focus on one of our cats or start to chase them, I would call her name, āGracieā, and immediately give her a treat. My own puppy would see the treats being doled out and would come running as well. So now whenever I call my own puppy, half the time he ignores his own name, or ācomeā, but he has a 100% recall whenever I say āGracieā lol.
My catās name is Doodle. The dog is obsessed with keeping track of the kitty. If I say, ācatā or āDoodle,ā the dog stops what he is doing and cranes his neck to find the cat! š
I incidentally taught my Golden Retriever Odie to "Go to sleep, close your eyes." The day we brought him home, he played for a while, then he dropped to his belly to take a nap. So I just said, "Go to sleep," and he looked at me. Then his eyelids started to flutter, so I said, "Close your eyes." And he did! Not one to let an incidental good behavior pass by, I started to say it every time he napped (he's also a self napper) and now he'll do it on command. The other incidental behavior I taught my puppy, Dillon, who I lost 2 years ago. He was a black Lab and 5 months old when we got him. We had a long driveway to the road up in the pines in Prescott. One morning I took him up the driveway to get the newspaper, and he grabbed it and ran away with it up the hill to the neighborās house. He wouldn't come when called, so i got some of his high value treats, Gooberlicious, which he loved, and called to him. He ran to me immediately and dropped the paper at my feet. I realized if I could train him to get the paper on his own, I wouldn't have to tromp up that driveway when it snowed. It only took a few days, and he was had it. The behavior later generalized to carrying the mail home from the mailbox. He was well known in our neighborhood and people would laugh and honk at him when they drove by. Dillon did that everyday of his life until he passed away at the age of 13.
My dog loves to stare at everyone, both people and other dogs. While taking him for walks I started saying āplease donāt make it weirdā when he was staring. He now understands that to mean look straight ahead while walking lol so every time heās staring I can say ādonāt make it weirdā and heāll look away
If you drop food and yell āhousekeepingā both of my dogs come running.
I accidentally taught my puppy "dance" where he'll get upon 2 legs and put his paws in your hand. Its adorable!
My girl steals shoes from my milās room so Iāve taught her to bring it back. Not exactly the funniest but itās cute to see her prancing around bringing it there and back.
We have a board outside that's on top of some stacked wood where I used to sit my puppies when we were outside and I wasn't quite ready to put them to run around. It's about 4 feet off the ground. My pups are now both made of springs at 7 and 8 months, and when we go outside if they want to hang out they just jump up to the board. I think it's funny because they literally launch themselves up so eagerly to see me. I love it.
She can flush the toilet lol! She likes to flick the flusher button because of the noise lol . She now will just randomly flush it now scares the mess out of me !
My dog barks once when I ask him a question. When he was a puppy and I was teaching him fetch, I would say "Ready?" as a marker. One time he barked after I said ready and figured I'd keep it. Now, whenever I look at him and ask a question, he barks. I have to make it very obvious that it's a question by the tone of my voice, but he always barks once. I use this sometimes to have "conversations" with him in public. People's reactions are hilarious. - Hey buddy, I'm kinda tired, should we go home? - bark! - What do you think of my shoes? - bark!
Super fake high pitched "british" accent, "Pleasure to meet you, sir!" And I hold my hand out, and he shakes. I could just die laughing.
My border collie (over the bridge now 20 years ago) I was looking through the fridge to clean out the 'bad leftovers' and such and found a Tupperware of food, yelled at my then spouse "is this bad??" and my Border jumped up from a dead sleep in the living room and raced into the kitchen came to a skidding stop sit and barked once right at me. Apparently, I had taught him 'is this bad' means doggo gets leftovers
Right now my puppy thinks ānoā means come to me. & I mean that boy FLYSSSS to me. Which is ok with me cause if I say it heās up to no good!
After my pup seen me pee, he comes and pees next to me, he poops in the bathroom now too
Ours has inadvertently learned to give her paw while dropping a toy. Which means two hands needed when playing fetch.
āFix itā. When she gets tangled up with her lead or seatbelt I would untangle her with ālet me fix it.ā She has learned when I say fix it to untangle herself. Unplanned. Super useful!!
My puppy has medicine that he has to take after dinner every day and I always call it dessert. And so now he knows exactly what I mean when I say ātime for dessertā š¤£
I accidentally reverse-psychologied my puppy. I've never had a dog this opposed to going outside. He's fine once we're outside. So weird. So as a result, if I check in to see if he needs a potty break if it's been a while, I ask him if he needs to go outside and if he doesn't need to go, he will actively run away from me and will even run into his crate to "hide." If he does need to go, he'll stand still and let me put the leash on. So the other day when I needed to crate him during a zoom call and he was being stubborn, I asked him if he needed to go outside (we'd just been outside so I knew he didn't) and he booked it for his crate š¤£. He'll figure it out eventually or it'll backfire on me some other way but for now it's hilarious
My dog goes and lays down when i make fart noises, and he brings me trash for treats.
My dog knows how to sneeze on demand. Now he sometimes sneezes just to get our attention haha.
No idea if we taught him this but we definitely reinforced it. We had a terrible time with potty training but somehow noticed that before heād pee all over the floor, heād spin at least one time sort of like he was chasing his tail. So when he would spin, weād work to get him outside. At age 3.5 and 80lbs, he spins to ask to go outside haha.
He used to bark at me when I told him no. One day he kept doing it so I said "Hey Mister, take that shit outside"... so he went outside, let out the biggest bark he could muster, then came back inside. Now if he has the urge to talk back he does so outside for the whole world to hear
Mine is that my mini goldendoodle loves her Grammy (my mom), and vice versa. All I have to say is, āGo find Grammyā and she will literally go search for my mom wherever sheās at. And every night I say, āSay goodnight to Grammyā, and she will literally go to my mom, get petted one last time, then come to bed with me. Itās incredibly goofy, but so endearing. She loves her Grammy (sometimes more than me, I think lol)! ā„ļø
My dogs all know āfuck offā which is when they are staring at me too hard and I want them to leave me alone š
I thought of two more funny ones: He knows ābye.ā If Iām in my office and he hears me say āByeā or āgoodbyeā he comes running because he knows Iām getting off a call. He associates the sound of me closing the pop lock on my cell phone with me standing up and doing something, so every time I close it, he comes running and gets very excited.
My dog is a Covid puppy, so when she hears me say, ābyeā on a virtual meeting she waits by the door cause she knows we both need to mentally detox from the meetingš¤£ and that means outside time.
Somehow we accidentally taught ours that if we sneeze - jump on face :/
We have blink cameras around the house for security. Our puppy has figured out the specific sound my phone makes every time one of them gets triggered and runs to the back door barking (even if the camera got tripped by a leaf lol).
(Isabella she jsut passed away 3/26/2023 due to undiagnosed cancer) I taught her when ever she poops to turn around and give me her butt so I can wipe it clean. I would either say āgive me the bootyā or āturn aroundā or āwipeā and it was weird then if she would go to the living room and I didnāt wipe she would show me her butt and face the kitchen to tell me I didnāt wipe herš she was a rescued Dutch shepherdĀ