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Dogs?

  • Sit

    Votes: 41 16.5%
  • Fetch

    Votes: 45 18.1%
  • Belly Scratchers

    Votes: 79 31.9%
  • Dog Farts

    Votes: 68 27.4%
  • Leg Humps

    Votes: 28 11.3%
  • Cookie? Good boy..

    Votes: 56 22.6%
  • @Ceasar Milan, Fuck you!

    Votes: 101 40.7%

  • Total voters
    248

Minnegrowta

Well-Known Member
My aussie has a TFG handshake. I'm trying to teach him to offer his paw instead of a violent hook-pawed grab where he curls his toes and claws into the palm of my hand and yanks his arm toward himself. We're working on a "gentle" paw. Restraint/finesse is lacking with his deliveries, sometimes snappy is great, in this case it's a big detriment. Older people or younger people could easily be clawed or injured with this kind of delivery. Any thoughts on shaping a gentle offered paw?

 

Charles U Farley

Well-Known Member

Charles U Farley

Well-Known Member
My dog gives me the side eyes if I come home with Burger King and didn't bring him through the drive thru with me .
This story is no shit, honest to God it's true. We had a golden retriever many years ago that I used to take with me when I would take our trash to the dump in the pickup truck. The first couple of times after we went to the dump, I would stop at McDonald's and get something for lunch and feed her part of it. Later on as she got bigger, she started eating _most_ of my quarter pounder. So, I started giving her a Happy Meal all to herself. She absolutely loved the salty fries and the cheeseburger, but that pesky pickle she did _not_ like. She would spit it out on the floorboard, and then continue eating. Pretty soon, all I had to do was drive by a McDonald's and honest to God, she would start salivating and drooling all over the front seat of the pickup truck.

Talk about a Pavlovian Response.
 
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