diddy wrote:
FurPaw spoke these words of wisdom in
:

Horowitz had owners show their dog a
desirable treat and then tell the dog not to eat it. They would
leave the room and the experimenter would either give the dog the
treat or take it away. When the owners returned, some dogs were
scolded, even if they had not disobeyed.

I could NOT do this to Tuck. We have a contract. To do this to Tuck would
cut him so deep, it might profoundly damage our relationship.

No, you could not. I was thinking more of you showing them a
specimen of a dog with extraordinary cognitive capabilities. I
had selected those paragraphs because of the parallel discussion
of whether a dog knows what he's being scolded for (seemingly not).

When the new ESS puppy does something, and I say , "NO"
Tuck takes it personally and tries to crawl in my lap. (New puppies tend to
take a lot of direction. Unfortunately, Tuck takes seriously, that which
the new puppy ignores)

When we had four, all of them reacted to a "NO." For that
reason, we couldn't use a "no" to figure out who the culprit was!

Tuck is torn with this puppy. He knows he may not show aggression to any
animal and this puppy takes his things, and Tuck MUST say NO, but he will
not. The puppy is running all over him and his good nature. This causes
much internal stress in Tuck. Yet Tuck will not defend himself and his
things.

Sounds like the pup (what's his name?) has a pretty powerful
puppy license, as far as Tuck is concerned!

FurPaw

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