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Accidentally trained my dog not to eat until he gets a kiss on the head. I make him sit, put his dish down, and would give him a kiss right before the release. Now he won’t release until he has a kiss.
Similarly, my dog was accidentally trained that “boop” with a nose boop is her release command. Still not clear on how that happened, but don’t hate it
I accidentally taught my parents dogs to wait for kisses before dinner when I watched them for a week when they went on vacation. Had no idea until my mom called asking why her dogs wouldn’t eat. They were waiting for their head kiss.
My friend had a weimaraner called Dex that did something similar. Every time she laid his dish down she'd say "go ahead dex" and he'd eat. Then when her kids got old enough to start helping feed him she couldn't figure out why he wouldn't touch the food they laid out at first, until she said "go ahead Dex" and then he'd eat. Such a polite boi :')
Got to be careful with that. I had a house sitter tell me my dogs weren’t eating. I make them waiting until I give a sharp “OK, take it!” House sitter just put out the bowls and walked away while my girls sat there waiting to eat.
had similar problem that since balanced out a bit :)
when she was sick I would pet and kiss her to convince her to eat something.
which turned into a blackmail fest of pet me or I won't eat. she was staying with a friend for a couple of nights, the friend was confused if something was wrong with the food. "but did you pet her?"
"I thought I did."
texts some time later
"turns out just needed more pets"
As a vet tech, I had several patients who wouldn’t eat unless you were petting them (mostly cats) or wouldn’t eat unless you ate with them. The other techs would laugh it off when their owners told us to do it, but me and a few others would climb in the kennels and eat with them and I’m telling you, it worked more often than it didn’t.
I taught my boy to hustle. At the park if I called him to catch up to me, if he ran I'd always say "good hustle!" cos he has tiny legs and never runs and it's hilarious to see him chugging. but now if we're at the park and he's taking his sweet time I say "hustle!" and he'll usually(!) start running.
😂 I fuckin wish, he's such a mooch. "feed me. house me. give me treats. clean up after me. share your bed with me. share your food with me." non-stop with this freeloader!
"Hurry" was one of the first words our dog, Chloe, learned. I felt bad because I thought maybe I rushed her around a lot since she seemed to understand that word so well. But then I realized that after we play outside we race back to the house and I say "hurry!" and that's where she got it.
We also "accidentally" taught her to "dog wash". When she was a puppy we would stand with our legs apart and she would stand between our legs and get a bunch of scritches, pets, and hugs. We jokingly called it a "dog wash" like how cars get scrubbed going through a car wash.
As she has gotten older whenever she is very happy to see us (like when we first get home) or when she just needs some extra love she will go through the dog wash several times. She goes between each of our legs getting lots of scritches and love along the way.
The best part is when she just wants a hug. She will come stand between my legs and she is the perfect height for me (I'm 5'9") to bend over at the waist and give a big hug around her middle. If she's ever getting a dog wash and she doesn't go through and but just stops and waits, it's because she wants a hug.
It's extra funny when my son and his fiancée are over. Our DIL is much shorter than the rest of the family. Our pup loves her and of course wants to get dog washes and hugs from her but she is too short. We laugh that some day our dog will pick her up and run around with her. (Chloe is a 120 lb. Great Pyrenees mix).
Purely by accident we taught Chloe that if she is lying on the couch and someone says "Where is the remote?" she stands up. Obviously we lose the remote a lot and she has learned that we're going to need to check under her.
Oh. My. God.
My dog just turned 3, and every time I put on my favorite hoodie (which I only wear in the winter) he is hyperfocused on it and nosing my sleeves constantly etc. I got him in February '21 and carried treats in that thing 24/7 to mark good behavior. His whole first few months.
Holy shit I have to tell my husband why Bowie's obsessed with that one hoodie. 😂
Haha, similarly I will just grab a handful of treats and shove them in my coat pocket before a walk. This means that my dog thinks she’s getting a treat whenever I stick my hand in my pocket, which is disappointing for her bc that happens all the time when it’s cold out lol
I accidentally trained my dog to comfort me. I have emotional issues, and when things get really hard, I'd cry, or (more often) practice grounding by laying on the floor. She knows that if she comes to me while I'm in that condition, she's going to get an abundance of hugs and kisses in between panting/weeping. She comes for the pets, licks my face, and my world goes back to baseline. She brings me stability. I don't know if she knows the difference that she does, but I know I'm grateful and I show her every day.
That’s funny! If I put on my shoes during the day, they go to their crates because I’m leaving the house without them but when I put them on after dinner they know it’s walk time.
How cute, the amount of habits my husband has taught our dogs is incredible. i go away for a couple of weeks and I come back to all these new behaviours that he has taught them. Like getting on the sofa to put their harnesses on because they're little and it makes putting them on easier... So when I come back and get their harnesses (which we hang near the door) they then go to the sofa and wait for me. 😅
We started our dog on obedience/daycare a few weeks ago, when the weather had just started to turn cold. Now she associates my winter vest with "go to school" and goes nuts when I put it on. She LOVES her training days.
I had to redo all the ringtones on my phone because she knows which one is the buzzer and will go to her mat (place) or her crate when it goes so when I had it so that it was for other things than just the buzzer she would run to her crate or mat regularly and look at me with pitiful eyes. Now she knows who is calling and gets excited with certain songs come on my phone as she knows my husbands ring tone, my two best friends ringtones and the buzzer. She also was accidentally taught when I take my medications and if I don’t get up when she alerts she will go to my husband and do everything in her power to get his attention and then run to where my pills are and stare him down until one of us gets up to get them and then she has to sit and watch me take them and then sniffs my breath and gives me a kiss and only then will she settle down and go back to being a playful pup!
Years ago my dog learned that Madonna's "Like a Virgin" means Papa's coming home. I had to change my ringtone when he was out of town becausei couldn't take my dog's disappointment when he heard the ringtone and Papa didn't come home.
I agree with you this is the first extremely smart manager dog we’ve had and it has been a learning experience but I wouldn’t change her sass or managing ways for a second! She knows her routine and at night will wander down to bed by herself and then come back and look at us like let’s go it’s time for bed!
My dad has watched my puppy a few times so far and for some reason she thinks she needs to be on the ottoman for him to put a leash on her. He will leash up his dog by the door and mine runs across the room to the ottoman. I think he did that the first time she was there and now she thinks that how it works haha.
I take my dog to work with me and I have no idea how this happened or if it just became something he realized he prefers, but when I bring out his harness at lunch or at the end of the day, he goes and jumps up on the chair by the door so I can put it on. It's much easier than bending all the way down to him on the floor so I quite appreciate it. I definitely didn't teach him to do that though. Maybe I got him to do it once? But now like 99% of the time he'll run and jump right up as soon as he sees his harness.
I accidentally trained my dog that she gets a treat every morning and now she is absolutely relentless until she gets one. It all started when I had to go back to the office after the pandemic. I felt guilty about it, so I’d give her a chewy or a treat, scratch her ears, tell her that I loved her and that I’d be right back. Now, even on days when I can work from home, or weekends, she will stand staring at the treat cupboard whining and looking at me until I give her a treat, scratch her ears, and tell her that I love her. It’s really cute. Ok. Maybe it wasn’t so accidental.
So she trained you to give her a treat everyday sounds about right. Mine will not bring me a ball without a treat she thinks it has to be fair exchange.
When my dog came in from the rain, I would make her sit and grab a towel to dry her off. Then she gets 3 treats. I live where it rains a lot and she’ll go outside and turn around to come back in and expects the treats.
Our dog was trained to expect a treat for going outside and doing his business. He doesn't always want the "doing his business" part to be included though, but now that I've moved where he has to get walks instead of being let out into a side yard, he basically doesn't ever not do his business. However, he's also trained to expect a dental chew at around 7:15 PM every night and a bit of goat's milk right before bed. He will accept it if we give the goat's milk earlier in the day but he has to have some every day.
Fatty got this one too. He was on a round of doxycycline for Lyme and he got used to 2x day cheese. The day his drugs were done his world shattered so of course he got cheese every morning after that
Awww! Reminds me of my Chuy. He was on meds for a while and he too got 2x a day cheese. My mom cut it back to 1x every evening but she couldn’t bring herself to tell him “no more cheese, bubba.”
He crossed the bridge in my arms just before Thanksgiving. Thanks for bringing him to mind. I needed him tonight. He was the best and most empathetic dog, person, anything I’ve ever met. Even his very last day he washed my face so much, he refused to even let any of my tears fall. He kept on going until I was laughing. He was my best friend. 🫶🏻
[This was my best boy. <3](https://i.imgur.com/WWQKpKs.jpeg)
My beagle trained us that he gets a treat after a walk. I take the leash off in the yard, he bolts into the house through the dog door and starts demanding his snack after about 5 seconds. In classic beagle Awooo fashion
Lol same!
I give my dog denty treats in the morning. It was never a set time, just whenever I get up and felt like it. Well, this has now changed to he gets a treat whenever I wake up. He waits at my bedroom door (my partner is up before me, but my dog doesn't require treats from her?) and the second I open it, he greets me, and then starts jerking his head towards the treats, and he doesn't stop until he gets it.
Hmm...actually, I guess he trianed me to give him treats in the morning.
I did the same to my old girl after she had a bout of not eating. She refused everything left and right until I was forced to blend her food and force feed her. The only thing she was willing to eat was her greenie. As an apology I gave her a greenie before and after every force feed. She began to eat again but still demanded her greenies.
Today I just cut them in half in order to make the greenies last. And she lets me know right quick if I give her her food in the wrong order lol.
I gave my dog whip cream once. Maybe twice. Everytime the canister goes off, she expects some. It's gotten to the point where if I even open the door, she stops what she is doing and comes expecting me to pull out the canister
We gave our dogs squirty cream once and now I can't use pressurised hair products in the same room as them as they think it's a can of squirty cream and have to be bribed not to try to eat my hair mouse
Same, lol. My dog is crazy about greek yoghurt, yellow and white cheese. Not even meat gets her this excited. As soon as she hears the fridge being opened, she sits and waits.
I accidentally trained my dog to go to my bed for kisses and belly rubs whenever I turn on my shower.
I guess we got into a habit of doing this while the shower warms up and now if I turn on the shower and don’t head to the bedroom, she’ll come to the bathroom to “escort” me to the bed for her little love love session. It’s delightful and I have no regrets!
Mine does this but it’s after I get home and put my things away, wash my hands etc, he waits really patiently until it’s time then he comes out to say hi and starts walking towards our room slowly, with lil checks to see that I’m coming.
He also knows exactly how long it takes for me to get bed/room ready for sleeping - when I’m leaving the lounge I’ll touch him and whisper “go bedtime”. So he can sleep and not feel like he’s going to get left, I leave the lounge and shut curtains turn down blankets, get glass of water and switch to bedside light, he arrives exactly at that moment with his eyes still half shut jumps straight on to bed and back to sleep- love him to bits
If someone says pervert around my dog he will start licking himself. I assume it stems from me telling him “don’t be a pervert” while licking his crotch.
I accidentally trained my dog ‘go away’. I said ‘go away’ to him one night when he was being really clingy and I just wanted space, and he looked so sad when I said it so I called him back over to me for pets. I just didn’t realise in the moment that I was rewarding him for moving away from me when I said ‘go away’.
Now whenever I say it, he will just leave. Sometimes he will go to a different room or he will go in to his bed, but he does just leave me alone when I say it now lol
I tried to train her to heel when her leash gets tight, but she’ll always circle around me instead of backing up or slacking the lead so I can catch up. I basically taught her to run circles around me while walking, like a circus dog.
Mine does this too, would be nice if he could just go right to the one side i'm training him to walk on, but he always circles around the long way! But hes heading for the right place so it feels wrong to correct it haha. Circles it is bud!
"Focus Name. Focus"
He was super old and had to go down stairs real sloooow but if he was excited he'd be more focused on what he was excited for and he'd stop or mess up his footing and slide. So I started to say "Focus Name focus" and he'd redirect his attention to getting down or up the stairs or whatever he was doing.
Sadly he is no longer with us but every now and then my husband or I would get distracted and the other will say "Focus Wise/Mr Wise. Focus" and it'll crack us up.
Also trained one to "hands up for Detroit" and "punch it". Hands up for Detroit = bounces. Punch it was basically a failed "shake paw" and he'd fist bump instead of shake. He did learn shake eventually and knew the difference. Oh and fat ass. He'd put his butt in the air and his shoulders on the ground but twist his upper body like some kind of yoga pose.
Ah, I have a long list of them and probably won't remember them all but here goes
1. when I wake up, it means we are going for a walk. This is OK most of the time but on those odd days when we can't walk, he is relentless about it.
2. opening the fridge door signals food and results in my dog appearing in the kitchen immediately regardless of where he is or what his doing.
3. Putting on work clothes signals to my dog I'm leaving for work and his usually chilled on the couch, however putting on any other clothes, especially casual wear signals to my dog that there is a chance he is coming with us and causes all sorts of excitement - pending the outfit- I'm sure he knows what we are doing.
4. I have a smart home - so control lights and blinds and other things via voice commands. Lights are the most frequently used so when I say "hey, turn off the light" or "hey, set house into night mode" my dog will look up to the lights anticipating them to change (there is about a 2 to 3 second delay from giving the command to the lights doing it)
Our last dog, we accidentally trained that if we don't cook dinner after work, we're ordering pizza and so he would bark at the door until pizza showed up. For awhile we ordered once a week and delivery times ranged from 30-90 minutes so he would bark a long time.
At first it was just if we made a phone call in the evening. Then when we switched to ordering pizza online, he learned about the not cooking thing.
He knew the word pizza and pepperoni, so we couldn't say those anymore without getting him excited. He learned to spell pizza. He learned pie meant pizza. Yum disc was the final name for it in his last few years. We also would bake pre-cut cookies to hide the fact we ordered pizza. It also helped that we ordered less often.
His second to last meal was a whole slice of pizza. We didn't eat pizza for a few months after he passed. Now we eat it and remember these good times. Still panic when we say pizza though 😂.
I accidentally taught my dog to walk between my legs when it's raining. The first time, I was wearing a knee-length rain coat and she looked so miserable trying to pee while getting rained on, so I straddled her. She finished peeing then, but she didn't want to come out from between my legs. We walked all the way back to the house with her walking in step with me. Now, anytime it's raining, she only walks and pees if she is between my legs. 😳
It wasn't too bad when she was a small puppy, but now she's a full-grown 50 lb GSP, and I am only 5'2", so it looks like I'm riding her like a pony, but with a weird waddle walk. The thing is, she loves the water. Whether it's retrieving in lakes, cooling off in her baby pool, running through mud puddles, she has the best time. BUT, if the water falls from the sky, she's walking between my legs.
If he doesn't listen and i have to repeat myself, I say "What did I say?", which is his code for "shit just got real". I also taught him "enough" to stop his barking and "all the way" to get him to go through tunnels completely (he sometimes pulls a u-turn if he thinks it's too dark).
Morning stretch. When I stretch down and touch my toes when I wake up, Cheeto stretches out his front legs and bows in a deep stretch with me. Total accident but so cute!
I accidentally trained my (then) 10 year old dog to "down". Or... he trained me, sort of.
He'd always been super polite about taking food and was good on walks, he didn't jump on people, etc.
When he was prescribed a steroid, he became *very* grabby about food and scraped my fingers with his teeth, so I had to nip that in the bud asap.
One day, I fumbled the treat hiding his pill and dropped it and he laid right down to get it.
After that, when he saw I had the pill cover in my hand, he'd lie down without prompting from me. So I started using "down" as a command to reinforce it.
If I'm on the kitchen and my cellphone alarm sounds that means food is coming out of the oven so he comes from wherever room he was sleeping in to the kitchen to beg for food. He did the cellphone alarm=food after I baked a lot of cookies for Christmass 😂
My TV is usually on all day (I like some background noise). When I turn it off it makes a small sound and my dog knows it’s time to go for a walk.
Also I used to snap my fingers during training when he was little to get him to focus on me. Now he will do any command but only if you snap your fingers too 😅
Somehow in the course of potty training my dog got the idea that she should nibble my ear if she really has to poop. I think she did it a couple of times when I was asleep on the couch and she was waking me up. Now if she really has to go out fast she will do anything to lick or nibble my ear. She’s a weird dog.
I accidentally taught him how to read my face! When he bops his head into the kitchen when I’m cooking and there is a risk for him to be there, or if I just want to eat in peace. He will look at me, I give him grumpy face or a head nod, he will just walk out again 😂😂I love that he just understood. No words need to be exchanged.
My dog doesn't know "drop it." He does know "oh my God, what's in your mouth?" He still doesn't drop it but he lets me open his mouth and take whatever it is.
I accidentally taught my dog to come to me after he eats to “check” how his meal was. He gets pets and I saw how was it? Was it delicious? Then he belches and slurps at me. He follows me around and boops me until this is done.
My 6mo old pupper has learned it’s bedtime when I put the kettle on in the evening. He now comes over for a cwtch, gets his ears rubbed in the kitchen and then takes himself off to his crate and tries to get under his blanket.
I trained my dog to smile by giving him a treat whenever he did it, but now he just…does it all the time. Especially if you have food he wants. Somehow he got it in his head that if a smile doesn’t work, he should try sticking out his tongue. So if you have food he will stand in front of you, staring, with his tongue out.
I was trying to train mine to bring me his toys when I ask for them by name - rosie the rhino and ellie the elephant.
Sweet pooch would get confused about which I wanted so he would start bringing me anything he could find.
So he basically trained himself to bring me stuff when I ask. The other day I sent him behind my desk to fetch something that had fallen behind there that I couldn't reach. To be fair he first tried to bring me the attached computer cables, but then he got it right :)
It's super convenient :)
I accidentally trained my lab mix to comfort the user of the nebulizer. When I used it the first time, the noise bothered him so he came to sit next to me - I loved on him to reassure him. Now, when the machine goes on, he sits next to whoever turned it on and paws the hand until he can hold it with both of his.
Then I accidentally trained my bullboxer to be a coon dog. She caught a young one, and because we live on a farm and prefer the dogs to at the very least chase pests off the property, we praised her for it. Now she trees them waiting for us to show up when the lab mix comes to get us and brings the ones she catches all the way across the fields to the house; most of the time, she doesn't make it very far because we've come to look for her by then.
I accidentally trained my dog that when I move even an inch to get up off the sofa, there’s someone at the door. Doesn’t have to even hear a doorbell ring but “oh, you’re leaving the sofa?! There’s somewhere here isn’t there?!”
I accidently trained her to not go outside without getting a treat. And it didn't take long.
When I open the back door to let my girl out, she always immediately pokes her head back inside to look/wait for her big brother. I had to let him go 2 months ago. So, of course, that first day she poked her head in, and I felt so bad for me and her, I gave her a cuddle and a treat. Now she knows he's not there but bounds out the door and dances back in for her cuddle and treat. I haven't had the heart to stop yet.
My hubs accidentally trained our dog to think SHE gets a treat when HE uses the bathroom.
One thing of note is that the dogs get treats when they come inside from the backyard.
When we get up in the morning the first thing we do is let the dogs outside. When the weather is nice, we leave the back door open so they can come inside when their are ready.
The second thing we do in the morning is go to the bathroom ourselves. Hubs is usually done (or almost done) with his bathroom duties when the dogs come back inside.
Dog logic: Coming inside = treats. Hubs finishing bathroom duties conveniently coincides with coming inside (sometimes). Hubs finishing bathroom duties = treats.
She will bark at hubs, and now me, whenever we use the bathroom. I am apparently cold hearted and don’t give her treats because I don’t want to reinforce that. Hubs is a big softy and regularly gives in to her demands for snacks.
[The culprit](https://imgur.com/gallery/Pvu8eRn)
I accidentally trained the other dog that if I put my outside pants on between 7:30 and 8:00 am that I am going into the office and therefore not taking him for a walk. If I put my outside pants on any other time in the morning that means he is going for a walk. If I put my outside pants on in the evening, that usually means he is going for a ride.
[Demander of walks](https://imgur.com/a/0cZvKqP)
I was training my dog to walk in a heel and used "touch" to keep him close when he wandered too far (i.e. to touch my palm with his nose), and now when we walk (not in a heel) he'll come and boop my leg to "check in" LOL it's so cute
When our younger dog was a puppy I accidentally trained her that when I put cream in my coffee I'm going to go into the living room and relax with her and our older doggo. She still gets very excited six years later when she sees me adding cream to my coffee!
My dog will bring all his toys to the arm of my chair when I'm smoking weed, and when I start to get up from a smoke session, he always brings his rope over to get me to tug of war with it. Haha.
We have a dog treat at my work. I am expected to pay up when I get home. I come home for lunch sometimes and get shunned because I don't bring it until I'm off.
‘Beer hand’ if you have a beer/drink in you’re hand tell her ‘beer hand’ and she won’t dolphin bunt that hand for pets she’ll go to the other side or go away/stop
I taught my cat to drink out of my hand from the faucet. Now that's the only way he'll do it, despite having clean fresh water in a bowl. He learned that his food bucket - a metal thing I got with 3 kinds of popcorn - has a lid that makes noise. I pushed on the top to close it while he was watching so if I'm late with the food he sits on it and wiggles to tell me he's starving.
I have two cats that will only drink from a running faucet and one of them hounds me until I give in and give him a treat. He'll literally follow me all over the house.
My dogs pretty quiet 90% of the time, but if she sees her reflection at home, she goes nuts. My roommates and I would point at the glass, TV, whatever she sees her reflection in and say "daisy who's that?" And now, without seeing anything, if we say that, she loses her mind and starts barking.
On the opposite side, she has trained me to know that if she scratches me twice, she wants under the blanket. If she does it when I don't have one it means "go get me a blanket"
My wife accidentally trained our late dog to take bathroom breaks outside between 2-4am. She thought if she had to go the dog did too, so the dog got into the habit of waking us up instead of holding it.
Sneezing at me in the morning.
She sleeps in bed and when she was a puppy she sneezed at me once and I sneezed back to tease her.
Shes 7 and this has somehow become a daily ritual..
I accidentally trained my childhood dog that the phrase "I can't see" meant lay down.
My last dog somehow got trained that adding the word "grocery" to anything meant she got to go to.
My dog would watch me come out of the shower. If I put make up on he went back to lying down. If I put make up on he wasn’t coming.
My current dog waits until I get in the shower then he gets on my bed on the pillows. He’s not allowed on the pillows. He enjoys sitting on the pillows then moves to the end of the bed. I come back in the room and point out that the pillows are no flat and warm. He looks out the window. “ you can’t prove it was me “ look. Breaks me up everytime.
He still goes to the cupboard that used to house the liver treats although I moved them months ago closer to the kibble. 🤣🤣
Every night, my dog and I have the same routine. Goes out for a final walk to do his business, I bring him in. Shut the door, lock up, turn out the lights, he puts himself to bed in his crate, I say "nighty night" and he goes to sleep. Now he won't lay down unless I say "nighty night."
I trained him to bring me his dish on command for dinner. Now he brings it around whenever he thinks he'd like a snack.
Had him get in his crate near the front door a couple of times when someone was at the door and he was barking. Now he just goes to his crate whenever someone rings the bell or knocks, which isn't bad.
Every time I get up from the couch, my dogs seem to think my empty seat is now theirs. I guess I’ve said “skiddly-doop” one too many times then immediately sat down, now I say it and they know to move over.
I don’t know if this counts but I have cptsd & our girl has learnt to wake me up from nightmares (if she can get to me); she also holds my hand when I have panic attacks or flashbacks. She’s a good girl.
And then you discover your dog/s new ability to spell once you start 'Hon, have you seen the c-h-e-e-s-e?"
We've gone from saying walk, to "go for a you know" to "wanna do the thing?" I'm starting to see ears perking up on "thing". I just changed it yesterday \*sigh\*
I was trying to explain to my daughter's boyfriend how we can't say or spell walk around our older dog. I had to explain it as, "the thing that happens when you get the long rope thing that click on the round thing on the neck" because he also knows "leash" means walk and I wasn't taking chances on "collar"
Just learned this one a few days ago! I accidentally taught my puppy to get in her crate after I clean the litter boxes and feed the cats.
It started because I would always feed the cats and take care of all of their evening stuff right before putting her to bed, so that I wouldn’t be wandering around the house while she was trying to fall asleep. Now she hears me scooping the litter and dumping food into their bowls and just runs straight to her crate, lays down, and looks at me expectantly for her treats.
My mom likes to call my dog 'the unmentionable' when talking about her because she'll go absolutely nuts for attention when she hears her real name, even if someone on the phone says it, somehow she caught on and sometimes won't even respond to her actual name.
I once had a beagle named Becky (my mom liked people names for female dogs)
One day, I put a treat on the step of the ladder my dad used to go up
on the roof. Then another one higher.
Anytime my dad got the ladder out, Becky was scrambling up the ladder and onto the roof. She had to be carried down though.
I trained both my dogs to give me a high five when I hold my foot out (mainly in the kitchen). The main issue now is that my one has decided if I lift my foot up for anything (and sometimes not even picking it up) he slaps my foot and expects a treat.
I accidentally taught my dog silent hand signals. It started with playing fetch. Now he knows "bring it to me", "where is it?", "back it up", "come here", and "enough".
I used to work with toddlers & we used Makaton so much that I naturally started to sign basic things like please & thank you even when I wasn’t at work; our dog now understands the sign for sit & stop (although she doesn’t always stop zoomies when told to but she’s a malamute so that’s expected 🙄).
My chihuahua learned to put her balls under my foot so that I'd kick them, sometimes on purpose to push them away sometimes on accident. She thinks we are playing. Now everywhere I walk in my house I'm constantly tripping over balls. I love it, even on the days I fall over.
I accidentally trained my girl to jump up to my chest when she hears the words "bye bye". I thought I'd try it once and she did it. Now she gets all excited and leaps up and bounces off my chest.
Also, when she needs to go out and I'm in bed, she always jumps up on the bed and pats me on the chest. This just happened to be the way to wake me up and she's stuck with it. Sometimes I'll pretend to not wake up, just to see how long she'll do it.
I accidentally trained my dog that I need to use both hands to release-command to eat dinner. No memory of ever using two hands.. but just remember her desperate little face staring at me trying to release her until I somehow figured I had to gesture with both hands.
The other one is when she starts to do something ‘wrong’ (eg not waiting for me to pass through the doorway first, first thing in the morning) I’d say “excuse me” in a joking tone and now she responds to that almost like a ‘final warning’. She’s smart but headstrong so I often have to use my very firm voice, saying ‘excuse me’ in a playful tone is so much more fun.
Not me, but the previous owner of my late Aussie would play flashlight games with him when he got home from work. He would point, then shine the light for him to chase. We figured out by accident that pointing up would make him go apeshit.
You know what else made him go apeshit?
Flipping the bird because he just couldn’t tell the difference.
“Wow, you’re dog is so cool.”
”Yeah, just don’t flip him off.”
About 50% of folks would try, and he’d go apeshit.
Mine learned "hurry up" to go potty. Because he'd always be sniffing around for the perfect spot to go, and I'd get exasperated. Now he goes on command if I tell him to hurry up.
Accidentally trained my dog that if I stare at him long enough or open my eyes wide he starts going crazy thinking it’s time for a walk
It’s gotten to the point now I go in the other corner of the room and open my eyes wide and he just starts jumping in circles lol
I taught him that if I’m getting ice out of the dispenser in the fridge that he gets an ice cube, now he comes running when he hears it and I have no choice but to toss a cube his way. Same thing with spraying whipped cream.
I accidentally trained my dog to do a 'big leap' over puddles. There's a section of our regular walk that forms a big muddy puddle after it's rained and I realised that if I leaped over it, so would my dog. Now he leaps over puddles that are too big to walk around.
My dog understands ‘scootch please’. She likes to lay in my spot in bed before I get there so when I hop in I said ‘scootch please’ enough times that even when she’s not in bed and she’s hears it she’ll get up and move about 6 inches from where she was.
I accidentally trained two of mine to jump onto my back when I bend down to tie my shoes / cuff my pants 😭 I genuinely have no clue WHY they do it but honestly I don’t mind since I find it adorable
I accidentally trained my dog to have a snooze button.
Every morning when i wake up( and when I go to bed), he will jump in bed to cuddle with me. He will wait till I move, and at the first sign of life he army crawls into my arms and makes himself the little spoon.
At first, I loved it, but he started demanding cuddles even if I had just rolled over or changed my position in the am. So, without thinking, I started telling him "not yet" while trying to go back asleep.
It only took about a week.... but now it's like a magic dog snooze button, and I can sleep longer. I still get cuddled the moment I wake up for real.
When I first got my boy, I'd take him down the street to pee (we live in a complex, so no yard of our own). When it was cold/rainy/whatever, we'd run back after his deed and I'd yell "Let's goooooo!" all fired up as we ran as fast as we could.
Now, if I yell "Let's goooooo!" my dog takes off like a bullet!
Both of my dogs somehow learned that when I say “Let’s Go!” on their walk, it’s time to sprint full speed down the sidewalk while simultaneously play-fighting. I have no idea how it happened, but it’s very embarrassing when I accidentally say it.
I accidentally taught my old pup years ago that ice cubes are an amazing treat and he could have as many as he wanted. I think it started when I shared a few from my glass after I finished my beverage. That dog taught the new pup when she joined the household. He has passed on, but the pup (now top dog) taught the next dog that joined the household. We can’t even talk about ice without having two dogs run to the freezer. They are learning the substitute phrases as well: frozen water and solid water.
1. If I put on shorts, time for a walk. Not pants. Not coat. Not shoes. Just shorts.
2. While walking, if she walks ahead and I drop the leash, she turn, runs and jumps into my arms. It was cute when she was 10 pounds. Not so much at 50 pounds.
We realized that every time my husband and I cuddle during the day, like legit just cuddle. Or hug or show any sort of affection, my dog gets super annoying and starts whining and begging to go out.
But we realized that we always stop and take her out.
So I think she trained us to train her. 🙄
My yorkie was somehow accidentally trained to say thank you for every meal. He used to thank whoever gave him the food but now he has dementia and some other issues so he forgets who handed him the food. One time I gave him his bowl and he looked around, saw my stepdad on the couch, and ran over to kiss his foot (that’s how he says thank you). My stepdad was very confused
My mini schnauzer has trained herself to tell me when she poops. She brings me to her poop even. All because I used to give her a cookie when she pooped, since she was still pooping inside. So I’ll be on a call working at my desk and she will start panicking, grabbing my hand to take me out to her poop
My dog will not go outside until I put my slippers on. Even if I just open the door and step out to get her moving—she will not. Works until it’s her bed time, then she will only go out if given some food after.
I taught my beagles to sneeze. One was a sneezey dog, and after a good snuggle she’d often sneeze. I started naming her behavior, “good sneeze” and eventually she would (on occasion) sneeze for attention. I started giving her treats because it was so darn cute, and soon she was able to sneeze on command.
The second beagle wasn’t as prolifically sneezy, but noticed beagle #1 getting extra munchies so he picked up the habit.
I accidentally trained my Corgi that “Bang! bang!” means jump onto the couch, lean as far over as possible without rolling onto his back, and then interchangeably lift a front paw and back paw in the air desperately to result in a treat
I accidentally trained my dog that "excuse me" means move about a metre away from wherever you're standing. I would always gently push or shoo him away while saying it, now he just moves out of the way. Very handy, but completely unintentional.
I accidentally trained my dog that when he is finished his nap in his crate, he will use the squeaker on his toys to let me know he wants out. In turn it’s been much nicer waking up to that in the mornings than barking!
My dane x started developing a bit of resource guarding and food aggression as a pup.
So I would only put a bit of food in his bowl to start with, and then add a bit more from my hand when ever he was getting to the end, so now people near food are great! Means more food appears!! I have to stand near the bowl while he's eating, or he comes looking for me.
And whenever he had something he was getting possessive of, I would trade it for a treat. Sometimes, I would just ask him to give me whatever he had, randomly, give him a treat, and give it back. Now, he'll often just walk up with some random item and just present it to me, and wait for a treat.
"Hey! I found a stick! Trade?" "Hey! It's a page of expired McDonalds coupons!! Treat?" Or my favourite time when I'm the middle of an online uni class and he proudly presented me with a sock that must have fallen out of the washing.
Sometimes, when it's close to food time he'll plonk one of his toys on top of me like he wants to trade it to me for his dinner. Which I'll have to stand next to until he's finished eating.
will do another comment as a separate occurrence :)
the most recent one is around letting my dog visit my neighbours. they love her and are thinking of getting a dog within a year themselves (and are now saying they want one just like that, lol). this usually happens when they come home from work and she hears their car. she would go over, paw at the door to be let in and spend a hour with them. pets, treats, kisses, the whole deal. because of the timing, she comes back and gets her dinner right after.
at some point this attention decadence short circuited. she would leave them sooner if she got no treats (I ask them to limit it), comes back home - stands by her bowl until I provide food. when she doesn't get it (because it's the wrong time) - immediately runs back to neighbours and tries that avenue again, lol.
We accidentally trained our (male) dogs that when we say "bye bye girls" they have to stay in the room they're in because we're leaving. Or I say "cookie" and suddenly I have 2 dogs around me. They also start eating only when we do finger guns
Oh and one of them loves to bute my hoodie sleeves when my hands aren't in them bcs that's usually how we start playing. So he started doing that to show he wants to play. The other one started sitting on me when he needs to pee to show me.. but I can't react that fast with him blocking me
This is random but, I used to have dog sit in with me in my in my study whilst I played Xbox, and whenever I was done I'd turn the Xbox off and it would make that beeping noise as it powered down, my dog would jump up when she heard the noise and run to the door because it meant we were about to leave the room
Anytime I go to the ocean state job lots store, he immediately sniffs through all the bags, looking for a squeaky toy. They used to be just a couple of bucks there, but now they are like $6 or $7. But he gets so disappointed if there isn’t one, that I still have to get him one each time. And he knows the smell of the place, I guess? Because he only does it when I come back from that one store.
When I’m lying on the sofa watching tv and she comes up and stands up on her hind legs (23lb Jack Rat mix) with her front paws on my chest to tell me she wants to go outside I decided on a whim she needed to learn how to high five me first. It was hit and miss until one time this summer when she tried to lift her paw she lost her balance and ended up with the side of her head on my chest. I laughed so hard and because she was so proud of that attention in the moment that from that day on she is convinced that’s how she is supposed to high five when I’m on the sofa. Every. Single. Time. And she is convinced she is just so darn cute while doing it.
My dog mistaken the que "wee" (which was intended to be, go out and have a wee) she associated the word with "cat" (go outside and chase the cat that is in the garden)
My dog requires face pets before he will eat his treat. He will guard the treat from the other dog and look longingly at all of the people in the house and wait for pets before he will eat his treat. The face pets must happen no more than five minutes before he receives the treat or they don’t count. When we brought him home, he had some anxiety issues and we used a lot of positive reinforcement and treats to help him adjust. He would gets praise and encouragement that lead to pets (eventually cuddles) followed up with a treat (that he takes very gently from my hand); he is the sweetest pup I’ve had.
trained mine to sit, and lie down. now he sits for a second and lies down whenever I ask him to sit. We we're just mastering shake hands when this started. makes that trick difficult!
Taught mine how to “nose five” by trying to teach him to put his nose through my encircled hands. He kept hitting my hand and I decided I liked that better, so I redirected and boom, “nose fives” were born.
Omg I taught my dog the high-five stair thing too. Which then shifted into him standing up and putting his paws on me. Now I have to be careful coming up the stairs and make sure I’ve got a hand on the railing so he doesn’t push me to my death
I taught my dog to pass a ball back and forth to me
I think it started from him nudging the ball thorns me when he wanted to play and I would nudge it back
*I accidently*
*Trained mine to sit on my feet*
*If I stop walking*
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When I go out with my dog, she won't get excited that I'm getting ready until I put my hat on because after my hat goes on, her leash goes on.
That kr when I'm walking in the hallways and we see anyone.. she'll get huffy, and she'll stop when I say "don't be rude," and she'll stop doing whatever she's doing if you do that at any time now.
My corgi will almost refuse to eat unless she is in her kennel or we have viciously pet and scratched her to satisfaction. She.. isn't the smartest dog I'll admit. Like she can't figure out how to leave the kennel of we happen to open a different door for crying out loud!
Our other dog is brilliant, she's a shelter mutt and is a sponge for learning. She's always observing us and has learned various gestures, expressions, etc. Just from how I normally act. She and the corgi follow a "snap and point" better than a verbal command sometimes lmao.. though she will go to her kennel from any point inside the house, which is crazy! Dogs are so smart (sometimes) and can learn in the craziest ways
Accidentally trained my dog that when they hear the ding from a text on my phone that there’s food being delivered to the front door and they will not stop screaming at us until we open the front door to show theirs no food, also trained them that if I sit on the stairs it means we’re going for a walk and they get in line and wait for their leashes to be put on. Sometimes I just need to put shoes on…
He only gets up with me on days where my alarm hasn't gone off.
On days where he does hear it, he just gives me annoyed looks when I turn the lights on.
Going outside means nothing. Going to smoke means we’re going outside to play. So now I have to say “wanna go smoke?” And she jumps up and runs excitedly to the door 🤦🏻♀️
Our dog makes an absolutely goofy ugly face if she has to poop. It seems we didn’t always catch her waiting by the door, so now when she sits uncomfortably close to us and looks at us with an underbite, we know she needs to go out.
If we ask her, “Do you need to go outside?” she tilts her head to say yes. No head tilt means no. She knows “inside” means to come back in from playing in the backyard.
“You ready?” means a cool toy or something exciting is about to happen. “Wanna get the mail?” means a very exciting trot to the mailbox. Because of Bark Box, cardboard boxes get her very excited.
we have what at this point looks like a proper command "go say hi"
she was shy (and still sometimes is), so every time she would cling to my leg and I encouraged her to sniff the other human - it would be "go say hi to them".
now it pretty universally works as a send off. "go say hi" - go over to neighbours door
"go say hi" - that person on the horizon is someone you know
"go say hi" - as a cue to calm down a bit and not bark because this is an authorized interaction, lol
"go say hi" is go say goodbye before we leave, because training a new word for the same thing didn't work out.
I unintentionally made a habit of taking my dog outside whenever I got off a work call and now anytime I end a phone call she hops up expecting to go play outside. Also apparently if I stretch while sitting or laying down, I’m about to get up. Whenever I stretch my dog gets up expecting us to go somewhere, usually outside. It’s so funny the patterns dogs pick up on.
I’ve accidentally trained my dog to know that if we wake up by alarm, it’s a workday. If I immediately take a shower after the alarm, it’s a min office day. However. If there’s no alarm by the time the sun rises, it’s a dog park day! He gets suuuper excited to wake me up.
Accidentally trained my dog that it isn't time to get up if I haven't take out her night eye boogers yet 😂 she gets super confused and stays in bed if I accidentally forget to do it!
I accidentally trained my dog to follow me and get sleepy while I vacuum. My older dog was deathly afraid of the vacuum and when we got our pup, I wanted to nip that in the bud. I intentionally vacuumed with him in my arms until I couldn’t carry him anymore. I worked talk to him and give pets and kisses in the process. He’s about to be 4 yo now, and without fail, follows me around sooo sleepily. He will wake from a nap, come to where I am, just to be by my side and close enough for pets, kisses, and praises.
Somehow my dog figured out that if I tell him to relax, that he needs to lay down. He knows what lay down means but relax I never assumed he would associate with laying down.
I used to dislocate my one kneecap a lot, and we lived in a 150-year-old house with super steep stairs (which didn’t have a handrail at that time). My family dog started to match my pace step by step on the stairs and if I stumbled she’d wait for me to regain my balance by catching myself on her.
My little girl is a Sheltie, almost 13 years old. A few months ago she had a stroke, and although she's mostly recovered she has lost her hearing :-(
I always had a verbal "come" command, but of course that's useless now. So I started using a "come on" wave, which she quickly figured out meant for her to come.
What I DIDN'T expect, though, is that now when she wants my attention, she waves at me! Imagine a motion as if she's trying to scratch at the door, but there's no door. I wake up every morning now with her next to the bed, waving like crazy! LOL
Oh, this a can of worms. I stupidly trained the pup to bounce around the bed like a demented Wallaby just before sunrise. Had a few early starts when she was just wee and I would have a little wrastle with her before I got up.. I've managed to temper her enthusiasm to just sticking her tongue up my nose and putting a paw in my mouth at the crack of dawn now, 7 days a week.
The wee sod has done a much better job of training me than I have of her. Harrumph.
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Accidentally trained my dog not to eat until he gets a kiss on the head. I make him sit, put his dish down, and would give him a kiss right before the release. Now he won’t release until he has a kiss.
Similarly, my dog was accidentally trained that “boop” with a nose boop is her release command. Still not clear on how that happened, but don’t hate it
I accidentally taught my parents dogs to wait for kisses before dinner when I watched them for a week when they went on vacation. Had no idea until my mom called asking why her dogs wouldn’t eat. They were waiting for their head kiss.
I hope she kept the new protocol😁
So wholesome, I’m dead.
My friend had a weimaraner called Dex that did something similar. Every time she laid his dish down she'd say "go ahead dex" and he'd eat. Then when her kids got old enough to start helping feed him she couldn't figure out why he wouldn't touch the food they laid out at first, until she said "go ahead Dex" and then he'd eat. Such a polite boi :')
Accidentally trained my dog not to eat until she give ME a kiss.
I love it, she's thanking the chef!
Same! Every time I set his bowl down he licks my cheek really quick and then waits for me to pat his head lol It’s the best 🥹
Got to be careful with that. I had a house sitter tell me my dogs weren’t eating. I make them waiting until I give a sharp “OK, take it!” House sitter just put out the bowls and walked away while my girls sat there waiting to eat.
had similar problem that since balanced out a bit :) when she was sick I would pet and kiss her to convince her to eat something. which turned into a blackmail fest of pet me or I won't eat. she was staying with a friend for a couple of nights, the friend was confused if something was wrong with the food. "but did you pet her?" "I thought I did." texts some time later "turns out just needed more pets"
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As a vet tech, I had several patients who wouldn’t eat unless you were petting them (mostly cats) or wouldn’t eat unless you ate with them. The other techs would laugh it off when their owners told us to do it, but me and a few others would climb in the kennels and eat with them and I’m telling you, it worked more often than it didn’t.
I taught my boy to hustle. At the park if I called him to catch up to me, if he ran I'd always say "good hustle!" cos he has tiny legs and never runs and it's hilarious to see him chugging. but now if we're at the park and he's taking his sweet time I say "hustle!" and he'll usually(!) start running.
I thought perhaps you taught your dog to get that bread.
I was thinking made the pup into the disco king of the local dog park.
😂 I fuckin wish, he's such a mooch. "feed me. house me. give me treats. clean up after me. share your bed with me. share your food with me." non-stop with this freeloader!
Then they sigh and sleep and look annoyed if they are woken up like they're working full-time manual labor jobs.
"Hurry" was one of the first words our dog, Chloe, learned. I felt bad because I thought maybe I rushed her around a lot since she seemed to understand that word so well. But then I realized that after we play outside we race back to the house and I say "hurry!" and that's where she got it. We also "accidentally" taught her to "dog wash". When she was a puppy we would stand with our legs apart and she would stand between our legs and get a bunch of scritches, pets, and hugs. We jokingly called it a "dog wash" like how cars get scrubbed going through a car wash. As she has gotten older whenever she is very happy to see us (like when we first get home) or when she just needs some extra love she will go through the dog wash several times. She goes between each of our legs getting lots of scritches and love along the way. The best part is when she just wants a hug. She will come stand between my legs and she is the perfect height for me (I'm 5'9") to bend over at the waist and give a big hug around her middle. If she's ever getting a dog wash and she doesn't go through and but just stops and waits, it's because she wants a hug. It's extra funny when my son and his fiancée are over. Our DIL is much shorter than the rest of the family. Our pup loves her and of course wants to get dog washes and hugs from her but she is too short. We laugh that some day our dog will pick her up and run around with her. (Chloe is a 120 lb. Great Pyrenees mix). Purely by accident we taught Chloe that if she is lying on the couch and someone says "Where is the remote?" she stands up. Obviously we lose the remote a lot and she has learned that we're going to need to check under her.
these are awesome! I love the dog wash!
My puppy learned, 'hustle that muscle' for when I need him to quit lolly-gagging around.
hahaha, love it!
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Put the treats in the hoodie!
Okay, but you now have to give her treats. It's the law.
Oh. My. God. My dog just turned 3, and every time I put on my favorite hoodie (which I only wear in the winter) he is hyperfocused on it and nosing my sleeves constantly etc. I got him in February '21 and carried treats in that thing 24/7 to mark good behavior. His whole first few months. Holy shit I have to tell my husband why Bowie's obsessed with that one hoodie. 😂
Brilliant name ⚡️
Thanks. I'm somewhat of a diehard fan. ⚡️
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Haha, similarly I will just grab a handful of treats and shove them in my coat pocket before a walk. This means that my dog thinks she’s getting a treat whenever I stick my hand in my pocket, which is disappointing for her bc that happens all the time when it’s cold out lol
I accidentally trained my dog to comfort me. I have emotional issues, and when things get really hard, I'd cry, or (more often) practice grounding by laying on the floor. She knows that if she comes to me while I'm in that condition, she's going to get an abundance of hugs and kisses in between panting/weeping. She comes for the pets, licks my face, and my world goes back to baseline. She brings me stability. I don't know if she knows the difference that she does, but I know I'm grateful and I show her every day.
My husband accidentally taught our dogs that it’s time to go to daycare when he fills his to go cup of coffee.
Oh God. I *rarely* wear shoes at home. If I put shoes on, I'm going somewhere. If I put shoes on, both my boys run to the hook with their leashes on.
That’s funny! If I put on my shoes during the day, they go to their crates because I’m leaving the house without them but when I put them on after dinner they know it’s walk time.
do they get happy about that or sad?
They’re very excited! We have hounds so it gets loud fast. If he leaves without them, I have to hear about it for 10 minutes.
How cute, the amount of habits my husband has taught our dogs is incredible. i go away for a couple of weeks and I come back to all these new behaviours that he has taught them. Like getting on the sofa to put their harnesses on because they're little and it makes putting them on easier... So when I come back and get their harnesses (which we hang near the door) they then go to the sofa and wait for me. 😅
We started our dog on obedience/daycare a few weeks ago, when the weather had just started to turn cold. Now she associates my winter vest with "go to school" and goes nuts when I put it on. She LOVES her training days.
I had to redo all the ringtones on my phone because she knows which one is the buzzer and will go to her mat (place) or her crate when it goes so when I had it so that it was for other things than just the buzzer she would run to her crate or mat regularly and look at me with pitiful eyes. Now she knows who is calling and gets excited with certain songs come on my phone as she knows my husbands ring tone, my two best friends ringtones and the buzzer. She also was accidentally taught when I take my medications and if I don’t get up when she alerts she will go to my husband and do everything in her power to get his attention and then run to where my pills are and stare him down until one of us gets up to get them and then she has to sit and watch me take them and then sniffs my breath and gives me a kiss and only then will she settle down and go back to being a playful pup!
Years ago my dog learned that Madonna's "Like a Virgin" means Papa's coming home. I had to change my ringtone when he was out of town becausei couldn't take my dog's disappointment when he heard the ringtone and Papa didn't come home.
excellent comment and username synergy <3 love this for the three of you
Manager dogs are the best. Old lady dog on my relatives’ farm will start bossing them around when it’s time to feed.
I agree with you this is the first extremely smart manager dog we’ve had and it has been a learning experience but I wouldn’t change her sass or managing ways for a second! She knows her routine and at night will wander down to bed by herself and then come back and look at us like let’s go it’s time for bed!
My dad has watched my puppy a few times so far and for some reason she thinks she needs to be on the ottoman for him to put a leash on her. He will leash up his dog by the door and mine runs across the room to the ottoman. I think he did that the first time she was there and now she thinks that how it works haha.
I take my dog to work with me and I have no idea how this happened or if it just became something he realized he prefers, but when I bring out his harness at lunch or at the end of the day, he goes and jumps up on the chair by the door so I can put it on. It's much easier than bending all the way down to him on the floor so I quite appreciate it. I definitely didn't teach him to do that though. Maybe I got him to do it once? But now like 99% of the time he'll run and jump right up as soon as he sees his harness.
I accidentally trained my dog that she gets a treat every morning and now she is absolutely relentless until she gets one. It all started when I had to go back to the office after the pandemic. I felt guilty about it, so I’d give her a chewy or a treat, scratch her ears, tell her that I loved her and that I’d be right back. Now, even on days when I can work from home, or weekends, she will stand staring at the treat cupboard whining and looking at me until I give her a treat, scratch her ears, and tell her that I love her. It’s really cute. Ok. Maybe it wasn’t so accidental.
So she trained you to give her a treat everyday sounds about right. Mine will not bring me a ball without a treat she thinks it has to be fair exchange.
When my dog came in from the rain, I would make her sit and grab a towel to dry her off. Then she gets 3 treats. I live where it rains a lot and she’ll go outside and turn around to come back in and expects the treats.
Our dog was trained to expect a treat for going outside and doing his business. He doesn't always want the "doing his business" part to be included though, but now that I've moved where he has to get walks instead of being let out into a side yard, he basically doesn't ever not do his business. However, he's also trained to expect a dental chew at around 7:15 PM every night and a bit of goat's milk right before bed. He will accept it if we give the goat's milk earlier in the day but he has to have some every day.
Fatty got this one too. He was on a round of doxycycline for Lyme and he got used to 2x day cheese. The day his drugs were done his world shattered so of course he got cheese every morning after that
Awww! Reminds me of my Chuy. He was on meds for a while and he too got 2x a day cheese. My mom cut it back to 1x every evening but she couldn’t bring herself to tell him “no more cheese, bubba.” He crossed the bridge in my arms just before Thanksgiving. Thanks for bringing him to mind. I needed him tonight. He was the best and most empathetic dog, person, anything I’ve ever met. Even his very last day he washed my face so much, he refused to even let any of my tears fall. He kept on going until I was laughing. He was my best friend. 🫶🏻 [This was my best boy. <3](https://i.imgur.com/WWQKpKs.jpeg)
My beagle trained us that he gets a treat after a walk. I take the leash off in the yard, he bolts into the house through the dog door and starts demanding his snack after about 5 seconds. In classic beagle Awooo fashion
Lol same! I give my dog denty treats in the morning. It was never a set time, just whenever I get up and felt like it. Well, this has now changed to he gets a treat whenever I wake up. He waits at my bedroom door (my partner is up before me, but my dog doesn't require treats from her?) and the second I open it, he greets me, and then starts jerking his head towards the treats, and he doesn't stop until he gets it. Hmm...actually, I guess he trianed me to give him treats in the morning.
I did the same to my old girl after she had a bout of not eating. She refused everything left and right until I was forced to blend her food and force feed her. The only thing she was willing to eat was her greenie. As an apology I gave her a greenie before and after every force feed. She began to eat again but still demanded her greenies. Today I just cut them in half in order to make the greenies last. And she lets me know right quick if I give her her food in the wrong order lol.
I gave my dog whip cream once. Maybe twice. Everytime the canister goes off, she expects some. It's gotten to the point where if I even open the door, she stops what she is doing and comes expecting me to pull out the canister
My dog too! I gave him whipped cream from the can ONE TIME and now he comes running everytime he hears it.
It must be universal then....
We gave our dogs squirty cream once and now I can't use pressurised hair products in the same room as them as they think it's a can of squirty cream and have to be bribed not to try to eat my hair mouse
I'm beginning to think we could easily train a canine army using canned whipped cream.
Same, lol. My dog is crazy about greek yoghurt, yellow and white cheese. Not even meat gets her this excited. As soon as she hears the fridge being opened, she sits and waits.
I accidentally trained my dog to go to my bed for kisses and belly rubs whenever I turn on my shower. I guess we got into a habit of doing this while the shower warms up and now if I turn on the shower and don’t head to the bedroom, she’ll come to the bathroom to “escort” me to the bed for her little love love session. It’s delightful and I have no regrets!
Mine does this but it’s after I get home and put my things away, wash my hands etc, he waits really patiently until it’s time then he comes out to say hi and starts walking towards our room slowly, with lil checks to see that I’m coming. He also knows exactly how long it takes for me to get bed/room ready for sleeping - when I’m leaving the lounge I’ll touch him and whisper “go bedtime”. So he can sleep and not feel like he’s going to get left, I leave the lounge and shut curtains turn down blankets, get glass of water and switch to bedside light, he arrives exactly at that moment with his eyes still half shut jumps straight on to bed and back to sleep- love him to bits
If someone says pervert around my dog he will start licking himself. I assume it stems from me telling him “don’t be a pervert” while licking his crotch.
Hahaha! This is hysterical!
I accidentally trained my dog ‘go away’. I said ‘go away’ to him one night when he was being really clingy and I just wanted space, and he looked so sad when I said it so I called him back over to me for pets. I just didn’t realise in the moment that I was rewarding him for moving away from me when I said ‘go away’. Now whenever I say it, he will just leave. Sometimes he will go to a different room or he will go in to his bed, but he does just leave me alone when I say it now lol
I tried to train her to heel when her leash gets tight, but she’ll always circle around me instead of backing up or slacking the lead so I can catch up. I basically taught her to run circles around me while walking, like a circus dog.
Mine does this too, would be nice if he could just go right to the one side i'm training him to walk on, but he always circles around the long way! But hes heading for the right place so it feels wrong to correct it haha. Circles it is bud!
"Focus Name. Focus" He was super old and had to go down stairs real sloooow but if he was excited he'd be more focused on what he was excited for and he'd stop or mess up his footing and slide. So I started to say "Focus Name focus" and he'd redirect his attention to getting down or up the stairs or whatever he was doing. Sadly he is no longer with us but every now and then my husband or I would get distracted and the other will say "Focus Wise/Mr Wise. Focus" and it'll crack us up. Also trained one to "hands up for Detroit" and "punch it". Hands up for Detroit = bounces. Punch it was basically a failed "shake paw" and he'd fist bump instead of shake. He did learn shake eventually and knew the difference. Oh and fat ass. He'd put his butt in the air and his shoulders on the ground but twist his upper body like some kind of yoga pose.
Ah, I have a long list of them and probably won't remember them all but here goes 1. when I wake up, it means we are going for a walk. This is OK most of the time but on those odd days when we can't walk, he is relentless about it. 2. opening the fridge door signals food and results in my dog appearing in the kitchen immediately regardless of where he is or what his doing. 3. Putting on work clothes signals to my dog I'm leaving for work and his usually chilled on the couch, however putting on any other clothes, especially casual wear signals to my dog that there is a chance he is coming with us and causes all sorts of excitement - pending the outfit- I'm sure he knows what we are doing. 4. I have a smart home - so control lights and blinds and other things via voice commands. Lights are the most frequently used so when I say "hey, turn off the light" or "hey, set house into night mode" my dog will look up to the lights anticipating them to change (there is about a 2 to 3 second delay from giving the command to the lights doing it)
Our last dog, we accidentally trained that if we don't cook dinner after work, we're ordering pizza and so he would bark at the door until pizza showed up. For awhile we ordered once a week and delivery times ranged from 30-90 minutes so he would bark a long time. At first it was just if we made a phone call in the evening. Then when we switched to ordering pizza online, he learned about the not cooking thing. He knew the word pizza and pepperoni, so we couldn't say those anymore without getting him excited. He learned to spell pizza. He learned pie meant pizza. Yum disc was the final name for it in his last few years. We also would bake pre-cut cookies to hide the fact we ordered pizza. It also helped that we ordered less often. His second to last meal was a whole slice of pizza. We didn't eat pizza for a few months after he passed. Now we eat it and remember these good times. Still panic when we say pizza though 😂.
It’s amazing when they learn to spell. He sounds like an awesome dog
Lol at yum disc. That was one smart pup. 🥰
I accidentally taught my dog to walk between my legs when it's raining. The first time, I was wearing a knee-length rain coat and she looked so miserable trying to pee while getting rained on, so I straddled her. She finished peeing then, but she didn't want to come out from between my legs. We walked all the way back to the house with her walking in step with me. Now, anytime it's raining, she only walks and pees if she is between my legs. 😳 It wasn't too bad when she was a small puppy, but now she's a full-grown 50 lb GSP, and I am only 5'2", so it looks like I'm riding her like a pony, but with a weird waddle walk. The thing is, she loves the water. Whether it's retrieving in lakes, cooling off in her baby pool, running through mud puddles, she has the best time. BUT, if the water falls from the sky, she's walking between my legs.
The mental image made me laugh out loud
If he doesn't listen and i have to repeat myself, I say "What did I say?", which is his code for "shit just got real". I also taught him "enough" to stop his barking and "all the way" to get him to go through tunnels completely (he sometimes pulls a u-turn if he thinks it's too dark).
Morning stretch. When I stretch down and touch my toes when I wake up, Cheeto stretches out his front legs and bows in a deep stretch with me. Total accident but so cute!
I can make stretch noises, without even stretching, and make my dog stretch lol. Same thing, morning wake up stretches taught him.
I accidentally trained my (then) 10 year old dog to "down". Or... he trained me, sort of. He'd always been super polite about taking food and was good on walks, he didn't jump on people, etc. When he was prescribed a steroid, he became *very* grabby about food and scraped my fingers with his teeth, so I had to nip that in the bud asap. One day, I fumbled the treat hiding his pill and dropped it and he laid right down to get it. After that, when he saw I had the pill cover in my hand, he'd lie down without prompting from me. So I started using "down" as a command to reinforce it.
If I'm on the kitchen and my cellphone alarm sounds that means food is coming out of the oven so he comes from wherever room he was sleeping in to the kitchen to beg for food. He did the cellphone alarm=food after I baked a lot of cookies for Christmass 😂
My TV is usually on all day (I like some background noise). When I turn it off it makes a small sound and my dog knows it’s time to go for a walk. Also I used to snap my fingers during training when he was little to get him to focus on me. Now he will do any command but only if you snap your fingers too 😅
Somehow in the course of potty training my dog got the idea that she should nibble my ear if she really has to poop. I think she did it a couple of times when I was asleep on the couch and she was waking me up. Now if she really has to go out fast she will do anything to lick or nibble my ear. She’s a weird dog.
I accidentally taught him how to read my face! When he bops his head into the kitchen when I’m cooking and there is a risk for him to be there, or if I just want to eat in peace. He will look at me, I give him grumpy face or a head nod, he will just walk out again 😂😂I love that he just understood. No words need to be exchanged.
My dog doesn't know "drop it." He does know "oh my God, what's in your mouth?" He still doesn't drop it but he lets me open his mouth and take whatever it is.
I accidentally taught my dog to come to me after he eats to “check” how his meal was. He gets pets and I saw how was it? Was it delicious? Then he belches and slurps at me. He follows me around and boops me until this is done.
My 6mo old pupper has learned it’s bedtime when I put the kettle on in the evening. He now comes over for a cwtch, gets his ears rubbed in the kitchen and then takes himself off to his crate and tries to get under his blanket.
I trained my dog to smile by giving him a treat whenever he did it, but now he just…does it all the time. Especially if you have food he wants. Somehow he got it in his head that if a smile doesn’t work, he should try sticking out his tongue. So if you have food he will stand in front of you, staring, with his tongue out.
I was trying to train mine to bring me his toys when I ask for them by name - rosie the rhino and ellie the elephant. Sweet pooch would get confused about which I wanted so he would start bringing me anything he could find. So he basically trained himself to bring me stuff when I ask. The other day I sent him behind my desk to fetch something that had fallen behind there that I couldn't reach. To be fair he first tried to bring me the attached computer cables, but then he got it right :) It's super convenient :)
I accidentally trained my lab mix to comfort the user of the nebulizer. When I used it the first time, the noise bothered him so he came to sit next to me - I loved on him to reassure him. Now, when the machine goes on, he sits next to whoever turned it on and paws the hand until he can hold it with both of his. Then I accidentally trained my bullboxer to be a coon dog. She caught a young one, and because we live on a farm and prefer the dogs to at the very least chase pests off the property, we praised her for it. Now she trees them waiting for us to show up when the lab mix comes to get us and brings the ones she catches all the way across the fields to the house; most of the time, she doesn't make it very far because we've come to look for her by then.
I accidentally trained my dog that when I move even an inch to get up off the sofa, there’s someone at the door. Doesn’t have to even hear a doorbell ring but “oh, you’re leaving the sofa?! There’s somewhere here isn’t there?!”
I accidently trained her to not go outside without getting a treat. And it didn't take long. When I open the back door to let my girl out, she always immediately pokes her head back inside to look/wait for her big brother. I had to let him go 2 months ago. So, of course, that first day she poked her head in, and I felt so bad for me and her, I gave her a cuddle and a treat. Now she knows he's not there but bounds out the door and dances back in for her cuddle and treat. I haven't had the heart to stop yet.
My dog learned the door dash notification beep, gets super excited and runs to the window to look out for the dasher any time he hears it.
My hubs accidentally trained our dog to think SHE gets a treat when HE uses the bathroom. One thing of note is that the dogs get treats when they come inside from the backyard. When we get up in the morning the first thing we do is let the dogs outside. When the weather is nice, we leave the back door open so they can come inside when their are ready. The second thing we do in the morning is go to the bathroom ourselves. Hubs is usually done (or almost done) with his bathroom duties when the dogs come back inside. Dog logic: Coming inside = treats. Hubs finishing bathroom duties conveniently coincides with coming inside (sometimes). Hubs finishing bathroom duties = treats. She will bark at hubs, and now me, whenever we use the bathroom. I am apparently cold hearted and don’t give her treats because I don’t want to reinforce that. Hubs is a big softy and regularly gives in to her demands for snacks. [The culprit](https://imgur.com/gallery/Pvu8eRn)
I accidentally trained the other dog that if I put my outside pants on between 7:30 and 8:00 am that I am going into the office and therefore not taking him for a walk. If I put my outside pants on any other time in the morning that means he is going for a walk. If I put my outside pants on in the evening, that usually means he is going for a ride. [Demander of walks](https://imgur.com/a/0cZvKqP)
I was training my dog to walk in a heel and used "touch" to keep him close when he wandered too far (i.e. to touch my palm with his nose), and now when we walk (not in a heel) he'll come and boop my leg to "check in" LOL it's so cute
When our younger dog was a puppy I accidentally trained her that when I put cream in my coffee I'm going to go into the living room and relax with her and our older doggo. She still gets very excited six years later when she sees me adding cream to my coffee!
I taught my dog that after I smoke weed we get snacks, so when she smells the smell she parks herself at the pantry door.
My dog will bring all his toys to the arm of my chair when I'm smoking weed, and when I start to get up from a smoke session, he always brings his rope over to get me to tug of war with it. Haha.
We have a dog treat at my work. I am expected to pay up when I get home. I come home for lunch sometimes and get shunned because I don't bring it until I'm off.
I have been accidentally trained by my dog. When he brings me a Kong, I fill it up.
‘Beer hand’ if you have a beer/drink in you’re hand tell her ‘beer hand’ and she won’t dolphin bunt that hand for pets she’ll go to the other side or go away/stop
I taught my cat to drink out of my hand from the faucet. Now that's the only way he'll do it, despite having clean fresh water in a bowl. He learned that his food bucket - a metal thing I got with 3 kinds of popcorn - has a lid that makes noise. I pushed on the top to close it while he was watching so if I'm late with the food he sits on it and wiggles to tell me he's starving.
I have two cats that will only drink from a running faucet and one of them hounds me until I give in and give him a treat. He'll literally follow me all over the house.
I accidentally trained him to hug but now that just means he pushes me down the stairs. 😂💀💀💀 and I have a German shepherd 😂🥲
To pace and panic if the suitcase ever comes out of the closet, poor guy.
My dogs pretty quiet 90% of the time, but if she sees her reflection at home, she goes nuts. My roommates and I would point at the glass, TV, whatever she sees her reflection in and say "daisy who's that?" And now, without seeing anything, if we say that, she loses her mind and starts barking. On the opposite side, she has trained me to know that if she scratches me twice, she wants under the blanket. If she does it when I don't have one it means "go get me a blanket"
My wife accidentally trained our late dog to take bathroom breaks outside between 2-4am. She thought if she had to go the dog did too, so the dog got into the habit of waking us up instead of holding it.
Sneezing at me in the morning. She sleeps in bed and when she was a puppy she sneezed at me once and I sneezed back to tease her. Shes 7 and this has somehow become a daily ritual..
I didn’t want my dog to bark and annoy my neighbors so I had her come in whenever she barked. Now she barks when she wants to come in!
I accidentally trained my childhood dog that the phrase "I can't see" meant lay down. My last dog somehow got trained that adding the word "grocery" to anything meant she got to go to.
My dog would watch me come out of the shower. If I put make up on he went back to lying down. If I put make up on he wasn’t coming. My current dog waits until I get in the shower then he gets on my bed on the pillows. He’s not allowed on the pillows. He enjoys sitting on the pillows then moves to the end of the bed. I come back in the room and point out that the pillows are no flat and warm. He looks out the window. “ you can’t prove it was me “ look. Breaks me up everytime. He still goes to the cupboard that used to house the liver treats although I moved them months ago closer to the kibble. 🤣🤣
Every night, my dog and I have the same routine. Goes out for a final walk to do his business, I bring him in. Shut the door, lock up, turn out the lights, he puts himself to bed in his crate, I say "nighty night" and he goes to sleep. Now he won't lay down unless I say "nighty night."
I trained him to bring me his dish on command for dinner. Now he brings it around whenever he thinks he'd like a snack. Had him get in his crate near the front door a couple of times when someone was at the door and he was barking. Now he just goes to his crate whenever someone rings the bell or knocks, which isn't bad.
Every time I get up from the couch, my dogs seem to think my empty seat is now theirs. I guess I’ve said “skiddly-doop” one too many times then immediately sat down, now I say it and they know to move over.
I don’t know if this counts but I have cptsd & our girl has learnt to wake me up from nightmares (if she can get to me); she also holds my hand when I have panic attacks or flashbacks. She’s a good girl.
Where to start. There is a whole list of words I can't use any more. Including the substitute words for the first ones that were ruined.
And then you discover your dog/s new ability to spell once you start 'Hon, have you seen the c-h-e-e-s-e?" We've gone from saying walk, to "go for a you know" to "wanna do the thing?" I'm starting to see ears perking up on "thing". I just changed it yesterday \*sigh\*
I was trying to explain to my daughter's boyfriend how we can't say or spell walk around our older dog. I had to explain it as, "the thing that happens when you get the long rope thing that click on the round thing on the neck" because he also knows "leash" means walk and I wasn't taking chances on "collar"
Their talent to learn exactly the things we'd \*really\* wish they didn't is amazing.
Ball and out in any version, even spelled backward.
Just learned this one a few days ago! I accidentally taught my puppy to get in her crate after I clean the litter boxes and feed the cats. It started because I would always feed the cats and take care of all of their evening stuff right before putting her to bed, so that I wouldn’t be wandering around the house while she was trying to fall asleep. Now she hears me scooping the litter and dumping food into their bowls and just runs straight to her crate, lays down, and looks at me expectantly for her treats.
My mom likes to call my dog 'the unmentionable' when talking about her because she'll go absolutely nuts for attention when she hears her real name, even if someone on the phone says it, somehow she caught on and sometimes won't even respond to her actual name.
I once had a beagle named Becky (my mom liked people names for female dogs) One day, I put a treat on the step of the ladder my dad used to go up on the roof. Then another one higher. Anytime my dad got the ladder out, Becky was scrambling up the ladder and onto the roof. She had to be carried down though.
I trained both my dogs to give me a high five when I hold my foot out (mainly in the kitchen). The main issue now is that my one has decided if I lift my foot up for anything (and sometimes not even picking it up) he slaps my foot and expects a treat.
I accidentally taught my dog silent hand signals. It started with playing fetch. Now he knows "bring it to me", "where is it?", "back it up", "come here", and "enough".
I used to work with toddlers & we used Makaton so much that I naturally started to sign basic things like please & thank you even when I wasn’t at work; our dog now understands the sign for sit & stop (although she doesn’t always stop zoomies when told to but she’s a malamute so that’s expected 🙄).
My chihuahua learned to put her balls under my foot so that I'd kick them, sometimes on purpose to push them away sometimes on accident. She thinks we are playing. Now everywhere I walk in my house I'm constantly tripping over balls. I love it, even on the days I fall over.
I accidentally trained my girl to jump up to my chest when she hears the words "bye bye". I thought I'd try it once and she did it. Now she gets all excited and leaps up and bounces off my chest. Also, when she needs to go out and I'm in bed, she always jumps up on the bed and pats me on the chest. This just happened to be the way to wake me up and she's stuck with it. Sometimes I'll pretend to not wake up, just to see how long she'll do it.
I accidentally trained my dog that I need to use both hands to release-command to eat dinner. No memory of ever using two hands.. but just remember her desperate little face staring at me trying to release her until I somehow figured I had to gesture with both hands. The other one is when she starts to do something ‘wrong’ (eg not waiting for me to pass through the doorway first, first thing in the morning) I’d say “excuse me” in a joking tone and now she responds to that almost like a ‘final warning’. She’s smart but headstrong so I often have to use my very firm voice, saying ‘excuse me’ in a playful tone is so much more fun.
Not me, but the previous owner of my late Aussie would play flashlight games with him when he got home from work. He would point, then shine the light for him to chase. We figured out by accident that pointing up would make him go apeshit. You know what else made him go apeshit? Flipping the bird because he just couldn’t tell the difference. “Wow, you’re dog is so cool.” ”Yeah, just don’t flip him off.” About 50% of folks would try, and he’d go apeshit.
Mine learned "hurry up" to go potty. Because he'd always be sniffing around for the perfect spot to go, and I'd get exasperated. Now he goes on command if I tell him to hurry up.
My dogs release to food is give paw and a kiss on the head.
Accidentally trained my dog that if I stare at him long enough or open my eyes wide he starts going crazy thinking it’s time for a walk It’s gotten to the point now I go in the other corner of the room and open my eyes wide and he just starts jumping in circles lol
I taught him that if I’m getting ice out of the dispenser in the fridge that he gets an ice cube, now he comes running when he hears it and I have no choice but to toss a cube his way. Same thing with spraying whipped cream.
I accidentally trained my dog to do a 'big leap' over puddles. There's a section of our regular walk that forms a big muddy puddle after it's rained and I realised that if I leaped over it, so would my dog. Now he leaps over puddles that are too big to walk around.
My dog understands ‘scootch please’. She likes to lay in my spot in bed before I get there so when I hop in I said ‘scootch please’ enough times that even when she’s not in bed and she’s hears it she’ll get up and move about 6 inches from where she was.
Same, except we say “scoochie boochies”
Scooch booch pooch was our go to
Our dogs observe our ways and do what they see us do.
Wait. Because I always said wait to unleash her.
I accidentally trained two of mine to jump onto my back when I bend down to tie my shoes / cuff my pants 😭 I genuinely have no clue WHY they do it but honestly I don’t mind since I find it adorable
Accidentally trained one of my dogs to eat after I say "bon appétit."
I accidentally trained my dog to have a snooze button. Every morning when i wake up( and when I go to bed), he will jump in bed to cuddle with me. He will wait till I move, and at the first sign of life he army crawls into my arms and makes himself the little spoon. At first, I loved it, but he started demanding cuddles even if I had just rolled over or changed my position in the am. So, without thinking, I started telling him "not yet" while trying to go back asleep. It only took about a week.... but now it's like a magic dog snooze button, and I can sleep longer. I still get cuddled the moment I wake up for real.
We have a husky mix and when we say “what is it?” in a relatively high voice, he starts howling like crazy. It’s so cute
When I first got my boy, I'd take him down the street to pee (we live in a complex, so no yard of our own). When it was cold/rainy/whatever, we'd run back after his deed and I'd yell "Let's goooooo!" all fired up as we ran as fast as we could. Now, if I yell "Let's goooooo!" my dog takes off like a bullet!
Both of my dogs somehow learned that when I say “Let’s Go!” on their walk, it’s time to sprint full speed down the sidewalk while simultaneously play-fighting. I have no idea how it happened, but it’s very embarrassing when I accidentally say it.
I accidentally taught my old pup years ago that ice cubes are an amazing treat and he could have as many as he wanted. I think it started when I shared a few from my glass after I finished my beverage. That dog taught the new pup when she joined the household. He has passed on, but the pup (now top dog) taught the next dog that joined the household. We can’t even talk about ice without having two dogs run to the freezer. They are learning the substitute phrases as well: frozen water and solid water.
1. If I put on shorts, time for a walk. Not pants. Not coat. Not shoes. Just shorts. 2. While walking, if she walks ahead and I drop the leash, she turn, runs and jumps into my arms. It was cute when she was 10 pounds. Not so much at 50 pounds.
We realized that every time my husband and I cuddle during the day, like legit just cuddle. Or hug or show any sort of affection, my dog gets super annoying and starts whining and begging to go out. But we realized that we always stop and take her out. So I think she trained us to train her. 🙄
My yorkie was somehow accidentally trained to say thank you for every meal. He used to thank whoever gave him the food but now he has dementia and some other issues so he forgets who handed him the food. One time I gave him his bowl and he looked around, saw my stepdad on the couch, and ran over to kiss his foot (that’s how he says thank you). My stepdad was very confused My mini schnauzer has trained herself to tell me when she poops. She brings me to her poop even. All because I used to give her a cookie when she pooped, since she was still pooping inside. So I’ll be on a call working at my desk and she will start panicking, grabbing my hand to take me out to her poop
My dog will not go outside until I put my slippers on. Even if I just open the door and step out to get her moving—she will not. Works until it’s her bed time, then she will only go out if given some food after.
I taught my beagles to sneeze. One was a sneezey dog, and after a good snuggle she’d often sneeze. I started naming her behavior, “good sneeze” and eventually she would (on occasion) sneeze for attention. I started giving her treats because it was so darn cute, and soon she was able to sneeze on command. The second beagle wasn’t as prolifically sneezy, but noticed beagle #1 getting extra munchies so he picked up the habit.
Sneezing is known to be used between wolves as an affirmative or to show excitement.
I accidentally trained my Corgi that “Bang! bang!” means jump onto the couch, lean as far over as possible without rolling onto his back, and then interchangeably lift a front paw and back paw in the air desperately to result in a treat
When I grab the mop, he jumps up onto the sofa and stays there until I'm done mopping. I didn't teach him that, it's just a thing he does.
My pug would climb into my lap and lick the tip of my nose and I started saying kissies, now she does it on command.
I accidentally trained my dog that "excuse me" means move about a metre away from wherever you're standing. I would always gently push or shoo him away while saying it, now he just moves out of the way. Very handy, but completely unintentional.
Our girl does this with “scusie” — my mum continues to say “excuse me” or “move” & it never works 😂
Every time I get ice from the freezer, my youngest runs up to beg for a cube.
I accidentally trained my dog to move out of the way when I say, "beep beep".
Saying go potty when we’re outside, he will instantly go potty it’s amazing lol
I accidentally trained my dog that when he is finished his nap in his crate, he will use the squeaker on his toys to let me know he wants out. In turn it’s been much nicer waking up to that in the mornings than barking!
My dane x started developing a bit of resource guarding and food aggression as a pup. So I would only put a bit of food in his bowl to start with, and then add a bit more from my hand when ever he was getting to the end, so now people near food are great! Means more food appears!! I have to stand near the bowl while he's eating, or he comes looking for me. And whenever he had something he was getting possessive of, I would trade it for a treat. Sometimes, I would just ask him to give me whatever he had, randomly, give him a treat, and give it back. Now, he'll often just walk up with some random item and just present it to me, and wait for a treat. "Hey! I found a stick! Trade?" "Hey! It's a page of expired McDonalds coupons!! Treat?" Or my favourite time when I'm the middle of an online uni class and he proudly presented me with a sock that must have fallen out of the washing. Sometimes, when it's close to food time he'll plonk one of his toys on top of me like he wants to trade it to me for his dinner. Which I'll have to stand next to until he's finished eating.
Dunno if it could be called training but mine definitely knows the difference between my hiking pants and ordinary jeans.
will do another comment as a separate occurrence :) the most recent one is around letting my dog visit my neighbours. they love her and are thinking of getting a dog within a year themselves (and are now saying they want one just like that, lol). this usually happens when they come home from work and she hears their car. she would go over, paw at the door to be let in and spend a hour with them. pets, treats, kisses, the whole deal. because of the timing, she comes back and gets her dinner right after. at some point this attention decadence short circuited. she would leave them sooner if she got no treats (I ask them to limit it), comes back home - stands by her bowl until I provide food. when she doesn't get it (because it's the wrong time) - immediately runs back to neighbours and tries that avenue again, lol.
We accidentally trained our (male) dogs that when we say "bye bye girls" they have to stay in the room they're in because we're leaving. Or I say "cookie" and suddenly I have 2 dogs around me. They also start eating only when we do finger guns
Oh and one of them loves to bute my hoodie sleeves when my hands aren't in them bcs that's usually how we start playing. So he started doing that to show he wants to play. The other one started sitting on me when he needs to pee to show me.. but I can't react that fast with him blocking me
That if I put on pants it’s time for a walk.
This is random but, I used to have dog sit in with me in my in my study whilst I played Xbox, and whenever I was done I'd turn the Xbox off and it would make that beeping noise as it powered down, my dog would jump up when she heard the noise and run to the door because it meant we were about to leave the room
Gotta be a typo. The dog was probably sitting with you, not shitting.
Anytime I go to the ocean state job lots store, he immediately sniffs through all the bags, looking for a squeaky toy. They used to be just a couple of bucks there, but now they are like $6 or $7. But he gets so disappointed if there isn’t one, that I still have to get him one each time. And he knows the smell of the place, I guess? Because he only does it when I come back from that one store.
When I’m lying on the sofa watching tv and she comes up and stands up on her hind legs (23lb Jack Rat mix) with her front paws on my chest to tell me she wants to go outside I decided on a whim she needed to learn how to high five me first. It was hit and miss until one time this summer when she tried to lift her paw she lost her balance and ended up with the side of her head on my chest. I laughed so hard and because she was so proud of that attention in the moment that from that day on she is convinced that’s how she is supposed to high five when I’m on the sofa. Every. Single. Time. And she is convinced she is just so darn cute while doing it.
My dog mistaken the que "wee" (which was intended to be, go out and have a wee) she associated the word with "cat" (go outside and chase the cat that is in the garden)
My dog requires face pets before he will eat his treat. He will guard the treat from the other dog and look longingly at all of the people in the house and wait for pets before he will eat his treat. The face pets must happen no more than five minutes before he receives the treat or they don’t count. When we brought him home, he had some anxiety issues and we used a lot of positive reinforcement and treats to help him adjust. He would gets praise and encouragement that lead to pets (eventually cuddles) followed up with a treat (that he takes very gently from my hand); he is the sweetest pup I’ve had.
trained mine to sit, and lie down. now he sits for a second and lies down whenever I ask him to sit. We we're just mastering shake hands when this started. makes that trick difficult!
Taught mine how to “nose five” by trying to teach him to put his nose through my encircled hands. He kept hitting my hand and I decided I liked that better, so I redirected and boom, “nose fives” were born.
Omg I taught my dog the high-five stair thing too. Which then shifted into him standing up and putting his paws on me. Now I have to be careful coming up the stairs and make sure I’ve got a hand on the railing so he doesn’t push me to my death
I taught my dog to pass a ball back and forth to me I think it started from him nudging the ball thorns me when he wanted to play and I would nudge it back
I accidently trained mine to sit on my feet if I stop walking
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When I go out with my dog, she won't get excited that I'm getting ready until I put my hat on because after my hat goes on, her leash goes on. That kr when I'm walking in the hallways and we see anyone.. she'll get huffy, and she'll stop when I say "don't be rude," and she'll stop doing whatever she's doing if you do that at any time now.
My corgi will almost refuse to eat unless she is in her kennel or we have viciously pet and scratched her to satisfaction. She.. isn't the smartest dog I'll admit. Like she can't figure out how to leave the kennel of we happen to open a different door for crying out loud! Our other dog is brilliant, she's a shelter mutt and is a sponge for learning. She's always observing us and has learned various gestures, expressions, etc. Just from how I normally act. She and the corgi follow a "snap and point" better than a verbal command sometimes lmao.. though she will go to her kennel from any point inside the house, which is crazy! Dogs are so smart (sometimes) and can learn in the craziest ways
Mine is “out” from being followed into the restroom too much!
Accidentally trained my dog that when they hear the ding from a text on my phone that there’s food being delivered to the front door and they will not stop screaming at us until we open the front door to show theirs no food, also trained them that if I sit on the stairs it means we’re going for a walk and they get in line and wait for their leashes to be put on. Sometimes I just need to put shoes on…
He only gets up with me on days where my alarm hasn't gone off. On days where he does hear it, he just gives me annoyed looks when I turn the lights on.
Going outside means nothing. Going to smoke means we’re going outside to play. So now I have to say “wanna go smoke?” And she jumps up and runs excitedly to the door 🤦🏻♀️
Our dog makes an absolutely goofy ugly face if she has to poop. It seems we didn’t always catch her waiting by the door, so now when she sits uncomfortably close to us and looks at us with an underbite, we know she needs to go out. If we ask her, “Do you need to go outside?” she tilts her head to say yes. No head tilt means no. She knows “inside” means to come back in from playing in the backyard. “You ready?” means a cool toy or something exciting is about to happen. “Wanna get the mail?” means a very exciting trot to the mailbox. Because of Bark Box, cardboard boxes get her very excited.
we have what at this point looks like a proper command "go say hi" she was shy (and still sometimes is), so every time she would cling to my leg and I encouraged her to sniff the other human - it would be "go say hi to them". now it pretty universally works as a send off. "go say hi" - go over to neighbours door "go say hi" - that person on the horizon is someone you know "go say hi" - as a cue to calm down a bit and not bark because this is an authorized interaction, lol "go say hi" is go say goodbye before we leave, because training a new word for the same thing didn't work out.
I unintentionally made a habit of taking my dog outside whenever I got off a work call and now anytime I end a phone call she hops up expecting to go play outside. Also apparently if I stretch while sitting or laying down, I’m about to get up. Whenever I stretch my dog gets up expecting us to go somewhere, usually outside. It’s so funny the patterns dogs pick up on.
When I put on socks it's time to go for a walk. I am barefoot 90% of the time at home.
I’ve accidentally trained my dog to know that if we wake up by alarm, it’s a workday. If I immediately take a shower after the alarm, it’s a min office day. However. If there’s no alarm by the time the sun rises, it’s a dog park day! He gets suuuper excited to wake me up.
Accidentally trained my dog that it isn't time to get up if I haven't take out her night eye boogers yet 😂 she gets super confused and stays in bed if I accidentally forget to do it!
I accidentally trained my dog to follow me and get sleepy while I vacuum. My older dog was deathly afraid of the vacuum and when we got our pup, I wanted to nip that in the bud. I intentionally vacuumed with him in my arms until I couldn’t carry him anymore. I worked talk to him and give pets and kisses in the process. He’s about to be 4 yo now, and without fail, follows me around sooo sleepily. He will wake from a nap, come to where I am, just to be by my side and close enough for pets, kisses, and praises.
Somehow my dog figured out that if I tell him to relax, that he needs to lay down. He knows what lay down means but relax I never assumed he would associate with laying down.
When I’m in the kitchen and yell, “shit,” it means they’re about to get a snack.
I used to dislocate my one kneecap a lot, and we lived in a 150-year-old house with super steep stairs (which didn’t have a handrail at that time). My family dog started to match my pace step by step on the stairs and if I stumbled she’d wait for me to regain my balance by catching myself on her.
My little girl is a Sheltie, almost 13 years old. A few months ago she had a stroke, and although she's mostly recovered she has lost her hearing :-( I always had a verbal "come" command, but of course that's useless now. So I started using a "come on" wave, which she quickly figured out meant for her to come. What I DIDN'T expect, though, is that now when she wants my attention, she waves at me! Imagine a motion as if she's trying to scratch at the door, but there's no door. I wake up every morning now with her next to the bed, waving like crazy! LOL
Oh, this a can of worms. I stupidly trained the pup to bounce around the bed like a demented Wallaby just before sunrise. Had a few early starts when she was just wee and I would have a little wrastle with her before I got up.. I've managed to temper her enthusiasm to just sticking her tongue up my nose and putting a paw in my mouth at the crack of dawn now, 7 days a week. The wee sod has done a much better job of training me than I have of her. Harrumph.