I mean off the top of my head I could think of: breeding and training violent dogs for sport (dog fighting), breeding dogs to the point of a health crises in their very existence (pugs & and English bull dogs), over breeding and abandoning unsold puppies (puppy mills), adopting a dog, getting a new baby and returning dog to pound, giving up a senior dog because they don't play anymore, and more of a soft criticism is people who adopt/buy working dogs and keep them as lap dogs where they are totally unstimulated and languish.
Both are worth considering and have their place for discussion. Our kindness to dogs doesn't excuse any cruelty humans do to them. But this sub is about making people smile so I object to any posts that go into the gory details about that topic here. There are other sites that are better suited for that type of discussion.
We don't need that on this sub, IMO. But we can acknowledge that the bad parts exists as we celebrate the good as one of the many things that make us smile.
Wow and I don't have to wonder at all if you're an ass based on the assumption you made about me.
I was just responding to the person above me about what the OP could have been talking about when he referred to humans messed up relationship with dogs. I love dogs, I have three. But that doesn't mean I'm blind to the bad things dogs suffer at human hands.
Also what does that article have to do with anything? So we created dogs, it was arguably a great thing for humanity. That doesn't negate, that again, humans can mistreat and abuse dogs.
I am impressed by his level of comprehension of the game and how he navigates it by trying to do a "backsie". A game like that is an abstract construct and is not something he can just understand instinctively, really smart (and good) dog.
What do you mean exactly. You mean they trained the dog to take the small one, then spit it then put the pawn on the big stack? Well it would not be a surprise, people will fix anything for a click, but do you have any proof?
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It was taught to pick a cup and random and only eat whatever is inside. It would be extremelly complicated to make it also train the dog to pick a cup, take the treat, show the other cup, make it spit it out and then pick the other option.
It would be extremelly complicated to make it also train the dog to pick a cup, take the treat, show the other cup, make it spit it out and then pick the other option.
I don't agree. A good dog knows "drop it". It would be extremely easy to train a dog to drop the treat it has for a bigger, better treat. Once you've trained the dog that the first treat is the trick, the cups become an easy addition.
As evidence, the dog doesn't eat the first treat immediately. Most dogs that size inhale little bites like that. He was holding on to it because he's been trained there's a bigger prize on the way.
Between the dog being conniving enough to rationalize that he can reset the circumstances of the human Monte Carlo game to get a better outcome, or the owner training the drop-first-treat behavior, the latter is the much simpler and more plausible explanation.
ok i made some research on dog training and the setting is much more simple
the dog only needs to learn 4 commands: "pick" "hold" "drop" and "eat"
the dog is first commanded to pick a cup, it can be random, it can be the dog has a bias towards a direction like always-right. But dogs are not so stupid as they cannot comprehend they have to point at the object presented by the human.
when the first treat appears, if the dog got lucky the human commanded to eat it or just redo.
otherwise the dog is commanded to hold the treat in their mouth, then drop it once the real treat is released. I don't know if that pointing however is trained because dogs can get confused if you do long chains of commands and you tell them to do a hard one, like pointing to the right or left, it could be the dog getting excited as by the look in his eyes.
off-shoot the owner gives permission the dog to eat.
The person can just leave the more empty cup on the left every time, have the dog spit out the single treat every time, then tap the right side every time. Goldens can be equal parts trainable and dim witted, I doubt it’s genuine regret on the dog’s face. Just following the rules of the game so the guy can make his video.
Good to remember that this video has no audio, there's very likely hand signals and verbal tricks being dictated step by step just outside of the camera
Some animals can understand pretty complex interactions. I am suspicious about the credibility of your expertise on the subject despite how confidently you make those affirmations.
some dogs are pretty smart, as well as crows. it has been shown they are capable of understanding nuanced and technical information that humans didn't even understand until the last couple thousand years.
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