Yes, sheep can be trained. They are not dumb creatures which is how many people perceive them. This is probably due to years of television presenting them as automatons being chased around a field by a sheepdog. They are more intelligent than many people believe which allows them to be responsive to clicker training (positive …
I have seen quite a few videos of King’s Guard ceremonial horses, such as the horse carrying a Blues and Royals soldier, and another on Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, London, gently biting tourists while they capture their precious selfies in front of the horse and guard. It appears to be happening enough to come to …
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You can train dogs to be quiet when there is a knock on the door or the doorbell sounds. It’s useful to know why dogs bark under these circumstances. Dogs don’t bark to frighten the person knocking on the door. They bark as a canine alarm call for other members of the pack including the …
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Amazing or what? It seems extraordinary. It is hardly believable but it appears to be entirely genuine. Training comes to mind. Lots of it. This must be the result of a considerably amount of training by an experienced trainer. Do you think it is a bad thing for a person to train their dog to …
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APOPO, a non-profit organisation which uses animals and “scent detection technology” is training HeroRATs for search and rescue. And also, to detect landmines and sniff out illnesses such as TB. African giant pouched rats, almost the size of domestic cats, are being equipped with tiny rucksacks having been trained to search rubble for earthquake survivors. …
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A demonstration of total, cute obedience. His face is adorable when he looks up sheepishly waiting for the signal to start eating. It is a super demonstration of trained-in self-discipline. Below is a video from YouTube on how to train a dog to patiently wait for food and not bark. Note: These are embedded videos …
Good Boy! Cute puppy patiently waits for signal to eat. Read More »
SODERTALJE, NEAR STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN-NEWS AND COMMENT: Crows are being trained to pick up cigarette butts. The birds receive a food reward for every butt that they collect and deposit into a receptacle. My research indicates that this street cleaning method is being employed in other countries and other cities. The founder of Corvid Cleaning, Christian …
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This is a cute viral animal video on Twitter. It’s been converted to a .gif on the imgur.com website. It’s done the rounds on the Internet and so a lot of people have seen it. You might have seen it. The sea otter has been trained by its handler to have their temperature taken in …
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What can I say? It made me smile and even laugh. It looks like this is in Asia somewhere, perhaps Vietnam. The dog has been trained to go shopping for his or her human caregiver. And he does a good job of it. He strikes a good bargain and probably ends up with more produce …
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In this short video of 15 seconds a dog goes through the motions of eating nothing. But the dog thinks that he has been offered a food treat and that he has taken it. The person offers what the dog thinks is a food treat but there’s nothing in the person’s hand. The dog takes …
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The story of Peggy, a nine-year-old border collie is warming and highlights once again the intelligence of dogs. She had to be retired after becoming deaf but is now working again after learning sign language. Her handler couldn’t work with her anymore because they couldn’t communicate with Peggy so she was handed over to the …
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This is a good news story. A woman, Natalie Pasquantonio, failed to ensure that her dog, a husky, underwent obedience training. As a consequence, the three-year-old dog called Rocco attacked another dog and its owner when off the lead when walking on a tow path along the river Tawe in Morriston, Swansea, Wales. The woman …
Dangerous husky dog will be retrained and rehomed rather than euthanised Read More »
Some useful information mainly presented in videos on how to stop your dog barking at people passing the house which is certain to antagonise the neighbours at least
Sheepdogs rely on their wolf pack inherited ‘instructions’ to herd sheep combined with training by their owner.
