What is a command you accidentally taught your pet?
My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.
I didn’t teach her, but one of my dogs turns off the Roomba. She figured out that thwacking the light with her paw stopped it. So anytime it gets near her, instead of moving, she turns it off.
My dog gets a treat when I leave to the office, and my cat got wind of it. Now she beats the dog to the door every morning and is meowing until she gets a dog treat.
My dog learned the sound of the keyboard shortcut to put a windows machine to sleep: Win + X, U, S
He’ll be dead asleep on the bed next to me, but the moment those keys are hit he full sprints to the backyard for his final potty of the night while I brush my teeth.
My dog passed away many years ago now, but “Oops” is one that I hear really commonly because I would drop stuff off the counter when cooking. Just saying “Oops” would have the dog come running to see what good stuff hit the floor.
Also, not exactly a command, but that dog’s hearing was so exceptional that he could hear the jangling sound of me picking up his leash while I was inside the house and he’d come running from the back yard across the whole house.
Of course, his hearing was always selective. The things he loved to do he could hear perfectly, while things he dislikes such as obedience training it was like he was deaf lol.
Our greyhound knew what “road trip” meant. He LOVED going for rides in the car, and if he heard one of us say that then he’d immediately be at the door, jumping excitedly…
Cat screams constantly when he wants anything and he’s so damn cute we always give in. So it’s just screaming to wake up and feed me, screaming to scratch his bum while he eats (he LOVES that shit), screaming for attention, screaming to go outside. He’s so annoying but god damn do I love him.
Every time he farted it was awful so we’d shoo him out of the room. Eventually, he’d immediately walk out of the room right AFTER he farted.
We’d end the day watching TV in the living room. Eventually he learned that the click of the TV meant it was time to go to bed, so any time the TV got turned off, he’d get up and go into his bed in our bedroom.
When my GF started visiting she commented on how cute my cat was for quietly meowing for food. She said she had a cat that would rake his claws across the wall to get her attention, and demonstrated this just once in front of my cat. That same night the little guy started doing that whenever he wanted anything after just seeing her do it once.
I heard you could train your dog to tell you when they need out by putting a bell on the door. I didn’t have a bell, but did have empty beer can and random nuts and bolts.
She learned to knock over my beer if she wants out.
Incredible. I have bells on my doors, but my dogs don’t use them. They go to the door and stare at me when they have to go out. I’ve developed a sixth sense to tell when a dog is watching me lmao
You can train your dog to do way more than just ring when he wants out. I have a cat that I trained, he now has 12 buttons in the same location, with concepts like “later” and “now”, “yes” and “no” etc. The fact that I sometimes need to argue with my own cat that indeed he was fed already and treats are not an option is ridiculous to a lot of people. The cat gets incredibly excited once I get new buttons (but they’re expensive, so I don’t do that often). Some time ago a friend was teaching their maltese puppy to use buttons for a walk. I spent half an hour with it, got it to push buttons, got it to recognize that button = treat, later got it to recognize different buttons do different things. Training a dog is easy mode once you’ve trained a cat lol
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