FurPaw spoke these words of wisdom in
:

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

Tuck has adjusted. We had to step in and set limits, because Tuck will not.
Tuck is used in the reactive dog classes as the dog that will tolerate
anything. He may not react, and this pup is mild compared to the snarling
hateful dogs that Tuck is passive to.

Tuck and the pup (Chief) go out and PLAY! and Tuck rolls on him and sits on
him, or squashes him if he gets too rough.


Tuck has to be the most tolerant dog on earth, because the pup comes up and
takes his food right out of his mouth.

I saw all those individual thank yous regarding Oppie. That must have been
painful to do. I just can't imagine.