how do pets obey a command?

Question

or i fact why do they obey a command??i wonder how sea lions n dolphins perform such splendid acts.how do they train them??

Answer 1

They teach dolphins, etc. with a clicker and treats. When they do a desired behavior, they click and treat it. The animal thinks, "hmmm, how do I get that yummy again?" Much repetition goes into this. A big behavior, is broken down into small smarts, with clicks and treats going to a small part at a time, then adding another part that must be done with it to get the treat. So, they obey because they get something they want in return. Works great for pets, too.

Answer 2

Nowadays the most common and effective way to train exotic animals (sea lions, dolphins, tigers) is called positive reinforcement training, and it is also now being used with a lot of success on dogs. It's actually incredibly easy to do:

Find some kind of noise-maker such as a whistle (most commonly used for dolphins and sea-lions) or a clicker (usually used with dogs). Get a whole bunch of the animal's favorite food and then just stand there and make the noise (whistle or click) and then give a piece of food. Noise-food-noise-food-noise-food until the animal realizes that when it hears that particular noise, food is on the way. Now you're ready to train. It is that easy.

To train, you can either wait until the animal does the behavior naturally (hey, everyone's dog sits down sometime) and then _immediately_ make the noise and give a piece of food. If you are fast enough with making the noise the second the animal does what you want it to, the animal will quickly realize that this behavior makes the noise happen which means I get food. They'll keep on doing it. Once that happens, you can begin to give the behavior a word or a hand-signal, at first as the animal is in the middle of performing the behavior, and then as a way of asking the animal to do the behavior. Once the animal learns that that word you use or the hand-gesture you make means that they should perform that particular behavior, which makes the noise happen, which means they get food, you have a trained animal.

The other way to do that is to somehow lure the animal into doing what you want it to do (putting a piece of food in front of your dog's nose and then lowering it to the ground to lure a "down" position, for instance) and then proceed as above.

You can also do something called "shaping". Say I want to teach my dog how to spin around (I actually did this): At first every time he looked to his left, I gave him a click and treat. After a while, I stopped giving the click just for a little look to the left but waited for a more exagerated leftward look over his shoulder to give him is reward. Then I stopped rewarding that and waited for him to actually start to move in a leftward direction to give the reward. Etc.... Finally he spun all the way around to the left and got a major big time reward. Now "spin" is one of his favorite tricks because it is very easy to perform.

Once a trick has been learned well, you can start doing what is known as an "intermitant reinforcement schedule". This means that the animal doesn't get a reward every time they perform the requested behavior, but sometimes they do. Think of it this way: if every time you touched your nose, there was a pretty good chance of you getting $1, you'd probably touch your nose a whole lot. Even if you didn't get $1 every single time you did it, you'd probably still do it just as much because every single time you did, there's a chance you'd get the reward. Once you get on an intermitant reinforcement schedule, your dog will perform the desired behavior even when there aren't treats involved, because he's pretty sure that there might be.

This is all well-established behavioral science. It works on dolphins, it works on dogs, it works on cats, and yes, it quite often works on humans (what's a lottery or raffle but an intermitant reinforcement schedule?). It's an excellent way to train dogs that leaves all that "I have to dominate and break my dog's will" BS in the past. Dolphins aren't trained by "dominating" them, and dogs shouldn't be either.

Answer 3

when u want your dog to obey u should always have a treat with u or a piece of his food so he will obey .u must show him what y want him to do and tell the order with an easy word like sit,bark no difficult because his ears must get used to it.don't forget that when hi obeys u must give him the treat and show your huppines this is the same for all the pets

Answer 4

Its called positive reinforcement. They show them what they want them to do with the verbal or sign command and if they do what they want they get rewarded with a treat/fish/toy/whatever. Usually with dolphins and stuff they already have one trained and then they try to teach the others to mimic and if they do they reward them.

Answer 5

Each breed of animal is trained differently according to their primitive instincts. But, just like people.....some are smarter than others. Training an animal takes alot of time and patience, especially for difficult tasks not highly instinctive to a particular breed or type of animal.
Hope that answered your question!

Answer 6

Dogs want to please their master. Repitition..consistancy..and positive rewards. You only reward when they follow through. But never hit or be aggressive when trying to train your dog. Pick up a book or look up on the net ways to positively train your dog. It isn't hard, keep it simple..start with one trick or one command and move on when they get the first one down. Starting with sit is a good one. Teach your dog the word no..a firm no....and very positive praise..good dog...will get your started.

Answer 7

My cats take observe of me once I say "careful", while they're approximately to bounce up onto something that they might knock off. They actual seem greater careful than bounding up and breaking something !

Answer 8

Traing dude
Keep them hungry

Answer 9

repetition and reward. It is the easiest, simplest and best way to teach any animal to do "tricks".

Answer 10

positive reinforcement. And thay want to learn