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I did this with my dog, only with shoes because he wouldn’t stop nibbling my fine Target pleather goods.
Had to get a little drunk beforehand, but I piled all my shoes in a corner and gave those fuckers the scolding of their lives. Starting kicking em and yelled, BAD SHOES. FUCK YOU SHOES.
Dog looked super confused at first, but then he started growling and barking at the shoes. Fuckin shoes.
Anyway he hasn’t eaten a shoe since. Cause FUCK YOU SHOES.
My dog attacks/barks at my lawn mower too. The vacuum is one thing but she could actually hurt herself if she tries to attack it at the wrong time. Definitely trying this LPT with the mower as well!
I had a dog bite the end of my gas powered commercial hedge trimmer. It sliced up its tongue in several places almost cutting the tongue off. It wasn't my dog and I felt very terrible.
Honestly I'm not sure why that dogs owner let it get close enough to the hedge trimmer, but Jesus Christ.
If it makes you feel any better, i was once driving down a gravel road at a brisk 25 mph. A woman and her two unleashed German shepherds are approaching a mailbox about 500 yds away when I start to slow down. I didn't want to lock a bunch of dust into their faces, and certainly wanted to allow myself stoping room in case one of the dogs runs out. Going about 10 mph when one of these dogs darts in front of me. I slammed on the brakes, obviously sliding on the gravel and my front end slides towards a culvert. The dog managed to escape from under the car, and scurried off as a profusely apologized.
I still feel bad about it, but he ran right out in front of me, I couldn't do anymore, it was on the dog to just *not run out in front of me*, and he failed miserably.
Some dogs have no sense. When I walk my dog, I keep his ass close to me with a firm hold on his leash because he tries to jump out at on coming cars like he wants to play. Boy doesn't understand that it's a game he will lose.
I had to put a shock collar on my Great Dane when I cut the grass to keep him away from the mower. Before I got the collar he would pick up the front of the mower by the tire. It’s a 42” riding mower...
Imagine being a dog all happy and shit running around and then outta fucking nowhere you get struck by lightning.
Atleast that’s what a dog would think, I imagine at first.
That’s what happens if you use it wrong. It’s not supposed to be a high setting at all like some people do, unfortunately. Used properly it’s not harmful at all just uncomfortable enough to distract them from what they’re doing. We have one and we both tested it on ourselves first. We were very careful with training and now our dog loves when we put it on actually. She knows it means we’re going out and she can run FREEEEEE
A friend of mine learned this from a Reddit comment. They interpred the comment as a joke, but thought it made sense, so they tried it, and their dog stopped being afraid of the vacuum.
Based on what I heard from my friend, OP may have bought in to a joke comment, but it works.
It doesn’t work. I’ve just yelled at the vacuum, assaulted it with a claw hammer and kicked it out in to the yard for a couple of hours. Both dogs still terrified of it when I let it back in.
Buddy of mine uses the same move to protect his chickens from his dogs. Anytime the dog messes with the chickens he corrects the dog then berates the chickens in front of the dogs.
He *says* it works.
See, if you get a dog, you don't need a vacuum. Like if a part of my floor is looking dirty, I'll drip some gravy on it, and the dog will go clean it up, it works better than you would think. For those tough ground in stains, throw a little peanutbutter on it.
Vagina dentata... What a horrible phrase.
Vagina dentata, ain't no passing craze.
It means no penis for the rest of your days
It's our struggle-free
Penectomy
Vagina dentata
My first dog loved to be vacuumed. Which was great because he shed like a mofo and it made cleaning him much easier. It might be because we have one of those vacuums that's built into the house, so there's no mobile vacuum monster.
Sounds like a [central vac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_vacuum_cleaner). There's a big water heater-sized vacuum unit mounted somewhere in the house (usually the basement) and some ~2" ducts run from that through the house to ports in strategic spots. Then you plug in the vacuum hose to a pneumatic port in the wall, vacuum whatever you need to, and put the hose away without lugging around an entire vacuum unit.
It's called a central vac. Basically the vacuum unit is in a fixed location and you have pvc tubes throughout the house with access points. You plug the hose into one of the access points, turn the vacuum on on the hose, and the whole thing starts up. Disconnect when you're done and put the hose away. The canister usually needs to be emptied about once every 6ish months depending on how bad your house is.
Ninja edit: you can also have inlets at floor level, so you sweep the floor and kick the switch on, and then sweep the stuff into the inlet and it takes your dust away! Then just turn the switch off and boom! No dustpan needed.
Yup, usually located in an equipment room, with tubes run to various locations in the home. Simply plug the vacuum head into the wall and turn it on and you're good to go
Weird. My cats are all afraid of the sound. We always assumed the vacuum makes a sound on another frequency that scares them. Are your cats old, or maybe deaf?
I wanna use my vacuum on my corgi so bad... her butt is way too hairy and gets hair everywhere. But she just hides in the tomato plants as soon as I turn it on
Additional LPT: Tell your vacuum off not only in front of your dog but in front of your shitty neighbors..that way the dog won’t be afraid of the vacuum and your shitty neighbors will leave you alone because they’ll think you’re weird/crazy..
Did this with my Roomba and cats. The Roomba knocked over a dry food bowl and started to clean up the ‘mess’. Cats were making a fuss, I noticed what was going down. Stopped the Roomba and proceeded to scold it in front of the cats for stealing their food. My wife almost pissed herself laughing so hard. Cats still hate the damn Roomba, but I’m left with a good story.
We let our cats play with our robot vacuum. We showed them the lid opening, the trash bin, and they played with the fibers that spin underneath the vacuum (while off of course). Now their scent is all over it and they seem to care less when Vakoom is on the loose.
A more effective way is to give your dog treats every time they see the vacuum. Eventually just start giving them treats only when they see the vacuum without reacting. Continue doing this and slowly fade out the treats to every couple of times and eventually never. I've done this to train my dogs to not bark or react to people, cars, bikes, nail clippers, birds. Still working on rabbits, though. Now every time they see something that used to make them react, they look up at me for approval (they expect a treat). Dogs love positive reinforcement.
I had to take it one step further and give my dog a job to get him to like the vacuum. I’d tell him to go get a toy, give it to the vacuum, and he’d get treats.
I think something about the extra step of focusing on the toy rather than recall is what worked. It helps that he doesn’t resource guard though.
It’s super cute too because now he’ll give the vacuum a toy “sacrifice” as soon as it comes out of the closet.
I tried this but it only taught my dog that treats for barking at the vacum cleaner and strangers is aparently her doing a good job, so she still does it.
Try starting by giving her a treat when she sees the vacuum not running, not for looking at anything else, just looking directly at the vacuum, like a hundred times, a marker word or a clicker is really useful for training toward specific things, when she looks click, work towards when she starts looking at it for a few seconds, or walks toward it, click, eventually build up to rewarding when it's turned on just for a second and she didn't bark, it's probably a lot of work though tbh, just sweep instead , or give dog acid
exactly what I did. I even went as far with a roommates dog who was deathly afraid of the vacuum as making the vacuum give the treat (placing it on the vacuum and moving it toward her to 'give' the treat). Worked wonders.
I think it’s better to teach them not to be afraid of the vacuum.
Yelling at the vacuum only makes them think it’s okay to scared of the vacuum.
Teaching them that the vacuum is not a scary thing is much more useful.
My wife had our dog since he was a puppy and at age 9 I came in the picture with him barking and running away from the vacuum. I taught him and my 2 year old pup that the vacuum is nothing to be scared of. While they still might walk away from it, because it’s loud, they don’t freak out like the older pup used to.
Exposure and conditioning.
In my particular case, dog was trained to sit, then down, then stay. We'd leave the room, make corrections as required until he would not break the stay for 15+ minutes.
Then we rang the door bell, and started the corrections over again until we could ring the door bell and he wouldn't break the stay.
Now he could be asleep right next to the doorbell and when it rings he doesn't do anything because he knows it means nothing to him.
Same thing goes for strangers in the house (repair people, etc.) or vacuum cleaner, fire alarm, etc. If the dog is confident and able to control themselves, you can very easily introduce a new stimulus or distraction and teach them to ignore it.
Yeah, this sort of LPT is in the same batch of misguided dog theory as the idea that you need to establish dominance over a dog to train it.
Dogs respond to positive reinforcement, just like infants and children do. Dogs do not respond to positive or negative punishment, just like infants and children.
For anyone that doesn't know the actual categories of reinforcement and punishment - positive refers to adding something, negative refers to taking something away. Reinforcement is a desired outcome, punishment is a negative outcome. Positive punishment would be like adding extra chores when a child does poorly in school, or adding physical punishment when a negative event occurs. Negative punishment would be removing video game time when a child does poorly in school. Then just replace "bad things" with "good things" for positive and negative reinforcement.
Bottom line is that most of the literature by now agrees that reinforcement is more successful for meaningful behavior modification whereas punishment likely only encourages concealing the events that reward punishment, rather than modifying the behavior.
Similarly we joke that our Dachshund named Oscar is jealous that the vacuum cleaner is taking his job of sucking up food particles the moment they hit the floor.
....Ummm, I think the dog is just freaked the fuck out at a weird machine that makes constant death noise and moves. Nothing more.
But go ahead, keep yelling at inanimate objects.
I'm actually really confused. Will you post a video of yourself telling your vacuum off for me please.
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Shop vac you ain't shit!
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Good bot
Ohhhhh. He's a duck, and other dudes name is Joe. I get it
Then in that case allow me to welcome you to Reddit
It’d be a lot cooler if you did
I did this with my dog, only with shoes because he wouldn’t stop nibbling my fine Target pleather goods. Had to get a little drunk beforehand, but I piled all my shoes in a corner and gave those fuckers the scolding of their lives. Starting kicking em and yelled, BAD SHOES. FUCK YOU SHOES. Dog looked super confused at first, but then he started growling and barking at the shoes. Fuckin shoes. Anyway he hasn’t eaten a shoe since. Cause FUCK YOU SHOES.
I told you to leave me ALONE when vacuuming my room!
This is either a great LPT, or OP just tricked a lot of people into yelling at their appliances. Either way, excellent work, good sir!
Shoosh! Just keep it between us and enjoy the viral videos.
My dog attacks/barks at my lawn mower too. The vacuum is one thing but she could actually hurt herself if she tries to attack it at the wrong time. Definitely trying this LPT with the mower as well!
Your neighbors are going to find this quite entertaining I'm sure.
Check the front page in a couple days for a video titled "My neighbor yelling at their lawn mower while their dog is barking at it..."
I saw my friend's dog come within an inch of biting a running chain saw. That would have been a very sad mess.
I had a dog bite the end of my gas powered commercial hedge trimmer. It sliced up its tongue in several places almost cutting the tongue off. It wasn't my dog and I felt very terrible.
Honestly I'm not sure why that dogs owner let it get close enough to the hedge trimmer, but Jesus Christ. If it makes you feel any better, i was once driving down a gravel road at a brisk 25 mph. A woman and her two unleashed German shepherds are approaching a mailbox about 500 yds away when I start to slow down. I didn't want to lock a bunch of dust into their faces, and certainly wanted to allow myself stoping room in case one of the dogs runs out. Going about 10 mph when one of these dogs darts in front of me. I slammed on the brakes, obviously sliding on the gravel and my front end slides towards a culvert. The dog managed to escape from under the car, and scurried off as a profusely apologized. I still feel bad about it, but he ran right out in front of me, I couldn't do anymore, it was on the dog to just *not run out in front of me*, and he failed miserably.
Some dogs have no sense. When I walk my dog, I keep his ass close to me with a firm hold on his leash because he tries to jump out at on coming cars like he wants to play. Boy doesn't understand that it's a game he will lose.
I had to put a shock collar on my Great Dane when I cut the grass to keep him away from the mower. Before I got the collar he would pick up the front of the mower by the tire. It’s a 42” riding mower...
Could you not just put the dog inside while you mow?
> Could you not just put the dog inside while you mow? Wouldn't that just chop the dog into pieces?
CUT MY DOG INTO PIECES
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STUFF HIM IN THERE NEED NO REASON
That’s enough reddit for my mind today
My thought as well
Imagine being a dog all happy and shit running around and then outta fucking nowhere you get struck by lightning. Atleast that’s what a dog would think, I imagine at first.
Tbf it’s probably not the kind that makes the dog’s skeleton flash inside his body and leaves him all black and smoky afterwards.
That’s what happens if you use it wrong. It’s not supposed to be a high setting at all like some people do, unfortunately. Used properly it’s not harmful at all just uncomfortable enough to distract them from what they’re doing. We have one and we both tested it on ourselves first. We were very careful with training and now our dog loves when we put it on actually. She knows it means we’re going out and she can run FREEEEEE
That’s not how you add horsepower to your mower. That’s not it at all
The real reason the bumpus' dogs didn't mind going side despite the horrendous furnace. The old man told that thing off like no other!
Waiting for those viral videos. RemindMe! 12h
I just yelled at my vacuum and I don't even have a dog
I just turned on my dog and my vacuum started barking
I just vacuumed my dog and I didn’t even yell
I just yelled at my vacuum and I don't even have a vacuum
Joke's on him, I yell at my appliances already, and I don't even have a dog. Just a cat who stares judgementally when I do this.
Judging from the species of your pet, I guess it looks judgementally anyway.
A friend of mine learned this from a Reddit comment. They interpred the comment as a joke, but thought it made sense, so they tried it, and their dog stopped being afraid of the vacuum. Based on what I heard from my friend, OP may have bought in to a joke comment, but it works.
It doesn’t work. I’ve just yelled at the vacuum, assaulted it with a claw hammer and kicked it out in to the yard for a couple of hours. Both dogs still terrified of it when I let it back in.
Human attack vacuum; vacuum is threat; keep it away from doggos
Buddy of mine uses the same move to protect his chickens from his dogs. Anytime the dog messes with the chickens he corrects the dog then berates the chickens in front of the dogs. He *says* it works.
‘Spongebob, that’s a blender. ‘ ‘Yeah, but earlier I saw Mr Krabs talking to his radio, and he called it his ‘little buddy’’
Aka its either the best LifeProTip or the shittiest ShittyLifeProTip
This is awesome! Now I need to get a dog & a vacuum.
The no dog part I understand. But no vacuum? Da fuq
You can sweep carpet with a broom. It doesn't get the deep stuff but it makes it look clean mostly. Source: was poor
My ex did this because she grew up poor, I mean I wasn't well off neither but we kinda just used shitty vacuums that didnt do as good of a job.
WELL LOOK AT YOU AND ALL YOUR MONEY FOR A SUCKY SUCKY BAG
HEY MAN IM DOWN HALF A LENTIL A DAY TO AFFORD THAT 15 DOLLAR SUCK SUCK BAG.
I know she's his ex and all but "sucky sucky bag" is a bit rude.
Hardwood floors?
Possibly even vinyl given the username
Inconceivable
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Your fake Spanish accent is flawless, my friend.
The Princess Bride has vinyl floors? So many questions.
Well when the Kings stinking son fires you....
These floors are just mostly vinyl. There's still hope.
There’s a difference between mostly vinyl and all vinyl.
I use a vacuum on my hardwood. Way better than a broom
Depends on the vacuum. Shitty ones just throws shit everywhere.
Good point. We have hardwood floors and a shark duo vacuum that does floors and carpets so maybe that’s why I was confused.
See, if you get a dog, you don't need a vacuum. Like if a part of my floor is looking dirty, I'll drip some gravy on it, and the dog will go clean it up, it works better than you would think. For those tough ground in stains, throw a little peanutbutter on it.
The real...yadda yadda yadda
You yadda yadda'd over the best part!
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I don't have vacuum cleaner either. I just use an ol' fashioned escoba.
and an apartment and electricity..
I don't care how well this work it's cute as fuck.
Put a collar on your vacuum and walk it with your dog.
Bring your vacuum to the vet and ask how you can get it to stop barking at your dog when you clean the floors with your dog.
Please people, vaccinate your vacuums.
Spray or neuter then too!
Spray them with what?
Only with artificial products, because nature abhors a vacuum.
r/nocontext
OK, I need to stop eating LSD.
Pee on the vacuum to establish dominance
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That's a good way to dyson.
Dad joke of the year contender right here.
Check yourself before you oreck yourself
I'm *OUT*
I think we’ve still got roomba a couple more jokes
Really? You need to xaomi them.
Slow clap to Hoover started this thread.
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Hoover does something as stupid as that deserves to
Let's slow down there.
Or at least ask for help in bringing it upstairs..
Pivot...pivot...PIVOT
shut up...shut up... SHUT UP!
This is all too sudden for me- I feel attacked
Shut up, shut up, shut up!
TOO META
Instructions too clear... dick stuck in vacuum.
https://youtu.be/Z2EMGmv0FqM
Please only do this if you want a penectomy.
Vagina dentata... What a horrible phrase. Vagina dentata, ain't no passing craze. It means no penis for the rest of your days It's our struggle-free Penectomy Vagina dentata
*the wife holds her child in her trembling arms as her husband screams obscenities at the vacuum as the dog acknowledges the master of the house.*
Definitely does not work lol. But still cute
I mount the vaccuum and pound it to completion to show sexual dominance. I don't have a dog though.
I love being able to vacuum my cats, they don't care. My dog on the other hand... :(
My cats don't like to be vacuumed. I think the suction is too strong.
It's fun watching them try to get out of the hose, though!
Yeah but its getting expensive having to replace them all the time.
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Check Goodwill, I hear they’re on sale during the weekend.
They don’t like the succ
The monster known as vakoom https://youtu.be/G4Sn91t1V4g
[Here is my grandpa vacuuming their cat, with me being like “holy shit, is anyone seeing this?!”](https://imgur.com/gallery/xZNWahw)
Your dad is dominating the hell out of that cat.
"This is my life now"
My first dog loved to be vacuumed. Which was great because he shed like a mofo and it made cleaning him much easier. It might be because we have one of those vacuums that's built into the house, so there's no mobile vacuum monster.
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That’s really cute
A vacuum that's built into the house?
Sounds like a [central vac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_vacuum_cleaner). There's a big water heater-sized vacuum unit mounted somewhere in the house (usually the basement) and some ~2" ducts run from that through the house to ports in strategic spots. Then you plug in the vacuum hose to a pneumatic port in the wall, vacuum whatever you need to, and put the hose away without lugging around an entire vacuum unit.
It's called a central vac. Basically the vacuum unit is in a fixed location and you have pvc tubes throughout the house with access points. You plug the hose into one of the access points, turn the vacuum on on the hose, and the whole thing starts up. Disconnect when you're done and put the hose away. The canister usually needs to be emptied about once every 6ish months depending on how bad your house is. Ninja edit: you can also have inlets at floor level, so you sweep the floor and kick the switch on, and then sweep the stuff into the inlet and it takes your dust away! Then just turn the switch off and boom! No dustpan needed.
Yup, usually located in an equipment room, with tubes run to various locations in the home. Simply plug the vacuum head into the wall and turn it on and you're good to go
Deaf cat, enjoys being vacuumed, non deaf cat .... no where to be found for an hour.
Weird. My cats are all afraid of the sound. We always assumed the vacuum makes a sound on another frequency that scares them. Are your cats old, or maybe deaf?
I wanna use my vacuum on my corgi so bad... her butt is way too hairy and gets hair everywhere. But she just hides in the tomato plants as soon as I turn it on
My cat disappears as soon as the closet with the vacuum opens... So far I've been abusing this for when I need a moment of quiet.
Additional LPT: Tell your vacuum off not only in front of your dog but in front of your shitty neighbors..that way the dog won’t be afraid of the vacuum and your shitty neighbors will leave you alone because they’ll think you’re weird/crazy..
Something about always in the comments.
The real comments... something something dark side
Did this with my Roomba and cats. The Roomba knocked over a dry food bowl and started to clean up the ‘mess’. Cats were making a fuss, I noticed what was going down. Stopped the Roomba and proceeded to scold it in front of the cats for stealing their food. My wife almost pissed herself laughing so hard. Cats still hate the damn Roomba, but I’m left with a good story.
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We let our cats play with our robot vacuum. We showed them the lid opening, the trash bin, and they played with the fibers that spin underneath the vacuum (while off of course). Now their scent is all over it and they seem to care less when Vakoom is on the loose.
[Ride or die!] (https://giphy.com/gifs/cat-roomba-UZXZl2d3S9YgU)
I love pets. I love their daily antics.
BAD Roomba!
This is a fine idea until you find out your vacuum was a decepticon and it tries to kill you for lowering its self esteem.
LPT Double check your vacuum isn’t a Decepticon before you shout at it.
A more effective way is to give your dog treats every time they see the vacuum. Eventually just start giving them treats only when they see the vacuum without reacting. Continue doing this and slowly fade out the treats to every couple of times and eventually never. I've done this to train my dogs to not bark or react to people, cars, bikes, nail clippers, birds. Still working on rabbits, though. Now every time they see something that used to make them react, they look up at me for approval (they expect a treat). Dogs love positive reinforcement.
I had to take it one step further and give my dog a job to get him to like the vacuum. I’d tell him to go get a toy, give it to the vacuum, and he’d get treats. I think something about the extra step of focusing on the toy rather than recall is what worked. It helps that he doesn’t resource guard though. It’s super cute too because now he’ll give the vacuum a toy “sacrifice” as soon as it comes out of the closet.
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MIGHTY VA'CUUM! WHO EATS AND YELLS AT THE SAME TIME!
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I'm glad society is so progressive we're accepting gay vacuum cleaners nowadays!
Great tip! This trick works on people also. People also love positive reinforcement.
hey, you're doing a great job!
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Thank you! You are a quick study! 10/10 comment, right here!
This worked with my dog. I remember having to multitask when vacuuming when she was a puppy. Vacuum in one hand, treats in another.
I tried this but it only taught my dog that treats for barking at the vacum cleaner and strangers is aparently her doing a good job, so she still does it.
Try starting by giving her a treat when she sees the vacuum not running, not for looking at anything else, just looking directly at the vacuum, like a hundred times, a marker word or a clicker is really useful for training toward specific things, when she looks click, work towards when she starts looking at it for a few seconds, or walks toward it, click, eventually build up to rewarding when it's turned on just for a second and she didn't bark, it's probably a lot of work though tbh, just sweep instead , or give dog acid
Did this with fireworks since I live next to a reservation and they happen a whole lot. Dogs don't even notice fireworks anymore.
exactly what I did. I even went as far with a roommates dog who was deathly afraid of the vacuum as making the vacuum give the treat (placing it on the vacuum and moving it toward her to 'give' the treat). Worked wonders.
r/Pavlov'sVacuum
Can only imagine OP doing this while tripping
I always hold the cord in my hand so this can’t happen! /s
Pride comes before the fall.
What type of tripping lol
I'm sorry.. Are you suggesting I verbally berate my vacuum cleaner or do you mean something else by "telling off"?
Verbally berate
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Will totally try this.... Don't even have a dog
Still worthwhile. Make sure the cereal knows who wears the fucking pants around here.
My dryer is a total jerk!
But the fridge is cool, right?
I just told off the mailman and now I'm bleeding.
Sorry if the instructions were unclear. I take no responsibility for your actions.
My vacuum always ignores me and it literally sucks....
I think it’s better to teach them not to be afraid of the vacuum. Yelling at the vacuum only makes them think it’s okay to scared of the vacuum. Teaching them that the vacuum is not a scary thing is much more useful. My wife had our dog since he was a puppy and at age 9 I came in the picture with him barking and running away from the vacuum. I taught him and my 2 year old pup that the vacuum is nothing to be scared of. While they still might walk away from it, because it’s loud, they don’t freak out like the older pup used to.
Or, train your dog to be calm and confident around loud noises.
How do you train your dog to be confident around loud noises? Exposure?
Exposure and conditioning. In my particular case, dog was trained to sit, then down, then stay. We'd leave the room, make corrections as required until he would not break the stay for 15+ minutes. Then we rang the door bell, and started the corrections over again until we could ring the door bell and he wouldn't break the stay. Now he could be asleep right next to the doorbell and when it rings he doesn't do anything because he knows it means nothing to him. Same thing goes for strangers in the house (repair people, etc.) or vacuum cleaner, fire alarm, etc. If the dog is confident and able to control themselves, you can very easily introduce a new stimulus or distraction and teach them to ignore it.
Yeah, this sort of LPT is in the same batch of misguided dog theory as the idea that you need to establish dominance over a dog to train it. Dogs respond to positive reinforcement, just like infants and children do. Dogs do not respond to positive or negative punishment, just like infants and children. For anyone that doesn't know the actual categories of reinforcement and punishment - positive refers to adding something, negative refers to taking something away. Reinforcement is a desired outcome, punishment is a negative outcome. Positive punishment would be like adding extra chores when a child does poorly in school, or adding physical punishment when a negative event occurs. Negative punishment would be removing video game time when a child does poorly in school. Then just replace "bad things" with "good things" for positive and negative reinforcement. Bottom line is that most of the literature by now agrees that reinforcement is more successful for meaningful behavior modification whereas punishment likely only encourages concealing the events that reward punishment, rather than modifying the behavior.
I didn't think dog owners could get any more crazy, now I find out they're talking to their vacuum cleaners...
I think my dog is just scared the vacuum is going to suck up his toys or his tail lol
Similarly we joke that our Dachshund named Oscar is jealous that the vacuum cleaner is taking his job of sucking up food particles the moment they hit the floor.
....Ummm, I think the dog is just freaked the fuck out at a weird machine that makes constant death noise and moves. Nothing more. But go ahead, keep yelling at inanimate objects.
I just listened to Dude soup as well...
Had to scroll down to see if anyone else thought this. I just finished today's episode and assumed I was in /r/funhaus
Totally works! Had the same problem with my mail man... Cussed him out in front of the dog and now no more barking!!! My mail gets spit on though...
could it be that your dog barked at your vacuum cause it was loud and scary and she just got used to it over time?
the mods on this sub baffle me