Lots of people say that their dogs are dumb, but then they never make the connection between their dog putting a paw up on your leg and getting a treat. The dog is deliberately doing something to get himself a treat, and how dumb can that make him?
One of the reasons why the thousands upon thousands of years of love between people and dogs has lasted so long is because we communicate in a way that they understand. When a dog comes to you with his frisbee and drops it at your feet, you know without being told that he thinks it's time to play fetch.
These are just two ways that your dog can tell you what he wants and what he is thinking and this shows that indeed, he can learn!
Remember that just like we do, dog can see and remember a lot of language and posture, but they process it very differently from the way that we do.
Remember that your dog's eyes will respond very differently to color, and they can see very well in low light. They can turn their ears around very quickly and accurately, which lets them figure out where sounds come from, and don't forget that famous sense of smell.
These basic differences will tell you a lot about how different their mental functioning is. They understand cause and effect, but it's much different from how we understand it.
When it comes to classic consideration, where the subject figures out the connection between cause and effect, we can beat it pretty easily if it was just a coincidence. On the other hand, dogs create a very persistent relation between cause and effect.
Operant conditioning is where we learn about cause and effect through positive and negative reinforcement and is something that is even more different between humans and dogs.
Consider the fact that I always go out the back door with my Golden Retrievers when we are going to play fetch. Whenever we go out that door, we play fetch. On the other hand, when I let them out the side door, I don't go with them; I just leave them for half an hour or so. Of course, they always go to the back door when they want a game or see one coming.
When I train my dogs, I use a very specific tone and hand gesture to go along with the command. This gives them all kinds of cues and I can expect them to sit, stay down, no-bite, fetch, release, come and even eliminate at a single command.
However, on the other hand, I still cannot prevent them from eating something off of the floor because they cannot connect the bellyache a few hours later with the food that they ate before. This is just something that takes too much time.
Whether your dog is a Retriever or a Shepherd, a Basset Hound or a Dachshund, you'll find that you can get him to learn a lot of different things, as long as you know what is possible and what to expect
For instance, one fairly well-known woman has taught her dogs how to dance on command for the show circuit, and rescue dogs can locate children and pull them out of dangerous situations. Service dogs are incredible when they can do things as different as opening a door, pulling a wheelchair or even fetching a container of water without spilling a bit of it.
Just keep in mind, though that they are not people, and that there are some doggy activities that you cannot train out of them!
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