http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaA4k4SdTg

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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:49:56 -0400, Janet Boss
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaA4k4SdTg


hey Janet can we teach Harley to do this???



NOT!
Best Wishes,

Nessa
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"Janet Boss" wrote in message
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaA4k4SdTg

Interesting...not sure if it was meant to be the humping was the reward, or
if it was the behaviour? or?

Dale

Dale Atkin wrote:


"Janet Boss" wrote in message
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaA4k4SdTg

Interesting...not sure if it was meant to be the humping was the reward,
or if it was the behaviour? or?

It looked to me like she was using humping as a reward (like
others use playing tug as a reward - Premack principle, using a
highly probable behavior to reward a less probable behavior).

I'd be a lot more impressed if the video showed how to train your
dog NOT to hump your leg.

FurPaw

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FurPaw wrote:


It looked to me like she was using humping as a reward (like
others use playing tug as a reward - Premack principle, using a
highly probable behavior to reward a less probable behavior).

I'd be a lot more impressed if the video showed how to train your
dog NOT to hump your leg.

I think her choice is bizarre to say the least. The "reward" seems to
have few limits and is just very odd in so many ways.

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In article ,
FurPaw wrote:
It looked to me like she was using humping as a reward (like
others use playing tug as a reward - Premack principle, using a
highly probable behavior to reward a less probable behavior).

She said that she had trained the dog to do that. Do you
think that's not what was actually going on? I couldn't
tell so I took her at her word.

At any rate I thought it showed kind of poor judgment,
either way. I get the impression that Donaldson is a really
smart person with crappy social filters, and working in the
tech industry that's pretty familiar behavior.
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In article ,
(Melinda Shore) wrote:

I get the impression that Donaldson is a really
smart person with crappy social filters,

aka fruitcake?

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In article ,
Janet Boss wrote:
In article ,
(Melinda Shore) wrote:
I get the impression that Donaldson is a really
smart person with crappy social filters,
aka fruitcake?

"Hi, my name is Melinda Shore and I'm a fruitcake."

It all seems kind of normal to me, even recognizing that
it's not appropriate to teach your dog to hump on queue (or
allow humping to be used for a reward, or insert long, long
list of inappropriate things I've seen nerds do, so I guess
I tend to see it as not right but not surprising.
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(Melinda Shore) wrote:

so I guess
I tend to see it as not right but not surprising.

More surprising that she chose to Youtube it?

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In article ,
Janet Boss wrote:
More surprising that she chose to Youtube it?

You need to hang out with more nerds!

(Or maybe not.)
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