Comments on: Sven’s Training Continues http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/svens-training-continues/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:29:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Margaret http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/svens-training-continues/#comment-33776 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:08:18 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/svens-training-continues/#comment-33776 Did you ever see the Reynolds Wrap commercials where they trained a dog to take foil used for cooking and storing food to a faucet, rinse the food off, and then drop it in the recycling bin? It was really great. Then they trained the female dog to teach her puppies to take their lunch boxes off to "Puppy school," while she recycled the leftovers. Where did you get Sven from? A shelter? If so, it might explain his reluctance to take the newspaper. Did you ever see the Reynolds Wrap commercials where they trained a dog to take foil used for cooking and storing food to a faucet, rinse the food off, and then drop it in the recycling bin? It was really great. Then they trained the female dog to teach her puppies to take their lunch boxes off to “Puppy school,” while she recycled the leftovers.

Where did you get Sven from? A shelter? If so, it might explain his reluctance to take the newspaper.

]]> by: Margaret http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/svens-training-continues/#comment-33624 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:45:36 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/svens-training-continues/#comment-33624 Maureen, fantastic job for you and Sven! Maybe he didn't want to hold the wrapped newspaper because he might have associated it with negative training in his youth? Since people often use wrapped newspaper to make a loud noise to discourage undesired behaviors, maybe he made that association and wanted no part of it? He obviously prefers positive reinforcement and is a pro-recycler. Maureen, fantastic job for you and Sven!

Maybe he didn’t want to hold the wrapped newspaper because he might have associated it with negative training in his youth? Since people often use wrapped newspaper to make a loud noise to discourage undesired behaviors, maybe he made that association and wanted no part of it?

He obviously prefers positive reinforcement and is a pro-recycler.

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