Lori Hall Webboard User Reg: 06-12-2007
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Ok, now you're all gonna know how strange I am (although it might not be any worse than Mike loving to mow his lawn 4 times a day!)
Kasey is one of those dogs that's trained to go potty on command. And if he pees, but doesn't poop and we're heading out for a walk, I just say 'get busy' again, and he'll poop every time. Or if he hasn't pooped all day and it's time for bed at night, I'll tell him to, and he does.
How do dogs do that?! I mean how can they just poop on command? We've had several dogs in the past 20 years that did the same thing, so it must not be just Kasey!?
It is just constancy. When you say "get busy" and he poops or pees, you probably follow that with a "good boy", or something like that.
Just marking a behavior.
And, as long as you do this within reason(not having your dog commanded to poop 6 times an hour)its as basic as sit, or down.
Also helps with holding it while inside and waiting to be outside before using the bathroom.
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Quote: dave ferguson
My dogs have a trained bathroom command.
It is just constancy. When you say "get busy" and he poops or pees, you probably follow that with a "good boy", or something like that.
Just marking a behavior.
And, as long as you do this within reason(not having your dog commanded to poop 6 times an hour)its as basic as sit, or down.
Also helps with holding it while inside and waiting to be outside before using the bathroom.
Nice job.
It's not the fact that he will obey the command. It's that being a human, we couldn't go just because someone tells us to! I'm going to stop now - I'm sure I'm just making myself look more stupid with this topic!!
With my dog, even though I say "go potty" and he mostly does, its almost in the context of a more or less regular daily routine. I don't know what would happen if I took him out randomly during the day.
I also wonder what my dogs natural bathroom schedule would be if left to his own designs.
Lori, it's no mystery...it's classical conditioning .
If your dog hears a cue every time it does its business, the cue becomes associated with the action/behavior.
You've heard of Pavlov's dog, right? He rang a bell every time the dog ate, and before long, if he rang the bell but didn't feed, the dog would salivate from the simple association between the bell ringing and the food.
It's the same thing with paring elimination cues with...elimination .
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Lori, it's no mystery...it's classical conditioning .
If your dog hears a cue every time it does its business, the cue becomes associated with the action/behavior.
You've heard of Pavlov's dog, right? He rang a bell every time the dog ate, and before long, if he rang the bell but didn't feed, the dog would salivate from the simple association between the bell ringing and the food.
It's the same thing with paring elimination cues with...elimination .
I wouldn't have a dog without them!
Ahhh! That makes sense! I guess I never associated it with conditioning because you always think of that behavior as more of a physical need that's up their body to decide when it happens. But I guess there's not reason why it would be any different that salivating. Interesting. Makes me wonder what I could train family members to do!
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What Leih said XD
and the best part is for some dogs if they really don't have to go they'll fake it....both my current dog and my parents dog will do do this if they don't have to go XD give the command even after they're already empty and they'll both assume the pee position then look at you expectantly for praise when they're "done" XD
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