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.
My new pup is supposed to sit before getting a treat. So as soon as the seal of the treat bag crinkles, his butt is planted to the ground.
I think it’s delightful. My wife insists that we’re supposed to link sitting with the vocal sit command. (I want him to be friendly and well-behaved. She wants him to take orders.)
It’s not as exciting as an 80’s movie. She just was staring at me one day after she just came in from a walk, had food and water available so I just started saying random words until I got a reaction. It’s the only phrase that has no meaning to her to makes her speak out at all.
The only other phrase that makes her speak (and run away) is “bath time.”
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 beagle gets really upset when I tell him there are no more treats. I also have to keep anything resembling people food from him because he resource guards it. He’s the sweetest boi other than that lol
My partner and I bought these shitty squishy balls for our cats when they were kittens. They’re super basic dumb squishy bouncy small balls, we call them Regular Ball. Our cats are grown up now and, when snacky, will bring Regular Ball from WHEREVER THEY HIDE THEM to our room where we hang out, where I cannot resist giving them TREAT.
Other way round actually, I mentioned this I another comment about my neighbour’s geese
I pass them every day when I’m walking the dog and always give them dandelion leaves; it’s basically goose-crack. They go nuts when they see me, and will even let me pat their heads
My wife mentioned one day that when she’s walking the dog, if she passes the geese they go nuts and run up to the fence, honking like mad and it freaks her out.
Took us a few tries to figure out the geese think the dog is bringing the human with the dandelion leaves
“High five” instead of “paw” for two dogs which wasn’t the accident. The accident is they learned to associate high five with wanting something. When they want pets, food, bones, or toys they obsessively high five at you.
My cat does it now too. Maybe they learned it from the cat who saw they got treats for high fives. My wife hates it. I think its hilarious.
Slightly unrelated, but one time I let out an amazing belch and nobody was around to hear other than the dog, so I high five her. That alone was worth teaching her that trick.
My sister’s dog does “business deals” with me (offers a paw to shake) and it gets to the point where I have to tell him I don’t do deals on the weekend or I’m out of goods to trade. That little ferengi never truly believes me though he thinks I’m just trying to play hardball …
My mom’s dog will hold your hand when she wants something or is in trouble. She knows we think the gesture is adorable, so she tries to manipulate us with it. It never works lol.
My dog reacts very poorly to “Okay, Google”. I’m not sure if it’s because of the response from a person that he can’t see, or that in the past I’ve yelled at the phone to stop when it won’t stop listing. But every time I say “Okay, Google” now he gets up and goes into his crate. He does the same when I talk into my Google TV remote too, so I assume it’s the response from the Google Assistant that he finds so troublesome.
She was trying to teach the dog to lay down and stay while she backed away with the treat. Our dog figured that if she kept her belly on the floor and crawled over to the treat it should be fine…
So my wife said “Good crawl!”, and kept working on it with the dog. Now the dog crawls on command.
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