has your dog any learned behaviours that were unintentionally taught?

[Helen]

Jarv does 

It all started when I dog sat a Great Dane and walked into the living room to see 1 year old spaniel and Great Dane in hot pursuit of a half dead but very angry and very enormous hornet.

Yes, I was petrified one or t'other dog was about to be stung and yes, the V.O.D was employed....but little did I know what lasting effect that would have on the small brown dog 

Today I had a dog jump into my lap trembling, cos in the room was an evil buzzing.........


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bluebottle fly 

Sorry Jarv for making you scared of buzzy flying fings

My friend's Sprollie has one too - when he was young he was so so so bouncy and she taught him to sit while on the lead before greeting another dog in an attempt to have a less boisterous greeting....so now at 4 years old you see him tearing up to other dogs and doing a perfect 'sit' in front of them as his form of greeting    The other dogs look completely perplexed at this behaviour






anyone else unwittingly 'taught' their dogs anything?

[mcphee]

Jarv ma man, Ruf ere. Uze lucki man, ma wuman sez a cant lern nuffin intenchunly or uvawize. Dem buzzi fings not nice man! luv Ruf.

[Nicola]

Aww Jarv  

I can't think of anything that I taught mine in that way, they do plenty of things which I encouraged them to do which I probably shouldn't have   such as Tilly barking every time she hears the word 'cat' and Rodaidh's leaping up into my arms which he now does as a habit if he thinks I'm not paying enough attention to him

[Harveypops]

I tought Harvey 'wave' ages ago.

It's become his first trick of choice if he's after something. However, I got him waving at the sofa when I put one of his broken toys on it and OH caught him 'waving' at the back door when both of us forget to let him back in from the garden. 

[Sheryl]

Whining apparently   According the the trainer, it was me saying "Kali..be quiet, Kali shut up, Kali for the love of Pete, Kali put a sock in it, Kali eeeeenough, Kali will you just stop the screeching" that actually caused her to do it even more.  Seeing as the trainer said it was the worst case of attention seeking she had ever witnessed, I not only taught her unintentionally but made a great job of it too  

[SkyeSue]

hmmm...not sure...but when we're doing loose lead training, as soon as Chloe starts to pull, and I stop dead, she just sits, which is all very well, but then she starts pulling again as soon as we set off  (well, not all the time, we are seeing some improvements  )

[Harveypops]

hmmm...not sure...but when we're doing loose lead training, as soon as Chloe starts to pull, and I stop dead, she just sits, which is all very well, but then she starts pulling again as soon as we set off  (well, not all the time, we are seeing some improvements  )

Hey we must both have gone on the same course for teaching that one!  That's one of Harvey's well performed tricks 

[Crazy Cocker Gang]

Jack will change direction or at a fork in a path turn the right way from me tilting my head.
Its not deliberate so I must of been subconsiously tilting my head in whatever direction we were going when he was a pup.

It was my OH that noticed it one day.

[Victoria25]

hmmm...not sure...but when we're doing loose lead training, as soon as Chloe starts to pull, and I stop dead, she just sits, which is all very well, but then she starts pulling again as soon as we set off  (well, not all the time, we are seeing some improvements  )

Hey we must both have gone on the same course for teaching that one!  That's one of Harvey's well performed tricks 

Poppy does that too, over and over and over and over and over....etc.

[Steelygirl]

hmmm...not sure...but when we're doing loose lead training, as soon as Chloe starts to pull, and I stop dead, she just sits, which is all very well, but then she starts pulling again as soon as we set off  (well, not all the time, we are seeing some improvements  )

Hey we must both have gone on the same course for teaching that one!  That's one of Harvey's well performed tricks 

Poppy does that too, over and over and over and over and over....etc.

And Fred too, although he's much better than he was - finally feel like we're getting there.

The other one he does is steal things he knows i need (important paperwork, notes of cash etc) run off knowing, looking back of me, i'll call him back and swap him the important item for a treat (he doesn't give back unless there's something in it for him....) and then he'll spend the next 10 minutes trying to steal it back again.. little 

[smartietopdog]

If you say "whos coming" Smartie goes mad, tearing round the house looking for someone! She jumped over the gate last week, that will teach me to say it in the garden!!
Where's your pigs ear, the first thing she learnt!  You need a bath - cue dog jumping in bath!! Down the bottom - dog to bottom of bed!
All of these things she's just learnt herself, never an intentional thing!!

[supergirl]

Misha has a really good "wait" , which was taught intentionally.  Each time you say wait she will lie down.  However my over use of the word has had its drawbacks especially when we're running around an agility course.  As she is a speedy little madam, she frequently gets ahead of me to which I will shout "wait" and then Misha lies down - which is not quite what you want running around the course.

[Ben's mum]

I was treaching Ben 'stand' with a clicker, but must have got the timing wrong and clicked while he was moving backwards
Now when I say stand, he stands up and walks back about 5 steps before doing a perfect stand

[silly milly]

milly has a favourite toy - a squeaky chicken, which we call funky chicken.    whenever we say "where`s your funky chicken?", she runs back to where she last saw it and picks it up - if its still there!

rocky will look at the front door if we say "where is mummy and daddy?"

bianca can see when we pick up her eye drops and immediately goes into the hall and lies down for us to put them in!

but..........................try and get any of them to lie down on command................

[Sue67]

I discovered one yesterday, we went to the vets and Indy went in to the treatment room and sat down on the scales straight away without being asked!

Even the vet was impressed - but not with her weight, she's turned in to a bit of a porker!