Snakeluvver2
Very Well-Known Member
Wait until you cat gets in the herp room
Wait until you cat gets in the herp room
lol you're ingenuity astounds me sometimes Guzzo. That sounds like it could work with a rat. Just a smaller puppet to dangle. You're right, if it's a smart dog it only takes one or two zaps to learn. We had an electric fence to stop the foxy escaping (digging and jumping over). After a couple of months it didn't need to be turned on any more
the dog will be sorry when i figure out how to punnish it without being too mean.........mabey give it a bath it hates those to shreds
Sounds like a lot of work to electrify a chook corpse for the sake of training a dog, haha.
I think it was better that it made it's own decision about the chook.....I am guilty of setting him up to fail though but the means justified the end in this case.
Well for what it's worth I copped a good zap setting it up haha
Agree. You have to assume that you will get visitors had have to plan accordingly. So far my rats have been visited by carpet pythons, goannas and cats. So far all the rats are safe (well.. as safe as a rat farmed by a python keeper can be ).. If YOU had a secure door, maybe it wouldn't have happened...
Standard aversion therapy . If done properly ( and it sounds like it was ) it can be very effective on dogs. Cats can be a different matter though, trying to teach the neighbours cat not to come into your yard in a non-lethal manner can be very frustrating... and got a ZAP!!.....the dog looked in disbelief at what had just happened he thought about having another go then i could see him make the decision not to try his luck again ....
trying to teach the neighbours cat not to come into your yard in a non-lethal manner can be very frustrating.
The dog needs to know not to do it again.
The same as kids when they do something wrong get punished (smacked or sent to room yada yada)...
The kids don't know what is right/wrong half the time growing up, how can you expect a dog too. you don't condition your kids before things go wrong, how can you expect to condition your dog as well. Everyone learns through their mistakes and misfortunes, kid/dog does something wrong they get punished and they learn not to do it again.
You can't always be pro-active about things and go oh I have rats, condition the dog now!...
Most of parenting/pet owning etc is re-active...
(I'm not comparing having kids to pets... well in someways I am )
You sure as hell can condition your dog and kids to not kill something before it happens. Training a dog to not kill rats and snakes and birds isn't hard. As soon as I got a bird, I trained my dog not to touch them (even though he previously liked to catch and eat them), same with snakes.
Whilst kids can be naughty, you can certainly try and teach them about things before they meet them without you around. If you don't teach you kids "don't go near snakes in the wild", then unfortunately you're doing it wrong.
Of course much of the education that goes in with animals and children are reactive, but to not include any kind of pro-active lessons (and teaching dogs to not do things before they do it is not hard at all) is totally incorrect.
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