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.
Anytime someone sneezes, he runs into the room, makes eye contact, and meows kinda loud once. If you don’t acknowledge him, he may continue ‘murr’-ing if he likes you, until you do say thank you or pet him. It’s really fricken cute. I think it’s because my wife sneezes a lot and we’re very consistent with ‘bless you’ and 'thank you’s ourselves. Neither of us are religious or superstitious, so it’s kinda silly, but it seems polite
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.
With my last dog, I would reward him with extra treats when the cat was also in the kitchen. The cat figured out he got treats whenever the dog and I were in the kitchen and now just joins me in the kitchen (on his stool) whenever I go there.
One of our cats somehow has learned to distinguish between someone cutting chicken vs. anything else from anywhere in the house.
I’m in the kitchen, cutting veggies, cat nowhere in sight. The second I start cutting up some chicken, she instantly materializes at my feet out of thin air. Not sure how she even does it, sound or smell or whatever. She could be anywhere in the house, she just instantly knows.
My cat is on a raw food diet that I portion out once a week. Anytime I go to portion it out, it doesn’t matter what I grab first she is immediately in the kitchen rubbing against the cupboards. (I let her lick out the empty containers).
Once I’m done and start putting things away she knows I’m done and wanders 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.
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.
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
I taught my half Maltese half shih tzu the command move over. Every time I’d take her for rides she’d sit in my lap and if I needed to go around a corner I’d say move over and put her in the passenger seat. Now if she’s in my spot on the couch she’ll growl if I try to move her. But say move over and she’ll go
Not quite a command, but I seem to have confused my oldest cat so that he thinks “excuse me” is a threat. He’ll be blocking a doorway, and if I say “excuse me” as I try to pass, he hisses and possibly swats, but if I just silently try to squeeze past, we’re all good. Currently working to undo that one.
I had a cat that would run away if you said, “what do you think you’re doing, sir?”
Most of the time he was actually getting himself into trouble. His fave thing was stealing slices of pizza, taking them to my room, eating all the cheese, then leaving the soggy, saucy crust right in the doorway. I stepped on it every goddamn time. Idek how he stole the pizza to begin with!
My dogs understand "Right" as we're going outside to wee, cause I'm like "Right, I'd best go to work" or "Right, It's time for bed" which is followed by letting them out and then doing whatever.
Cat gets treats when the dishwasher starts, not sure if I trained him or if he trained me but that is what happens 100% of the time or else he gets loud.
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