My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.
I taught my pet rock to “stay” in 1988.
It hasn’t moved since.
Thank you Mr. Wright.
Comedian Steven Wright, for anyone who’s unfamiliar with him, you should check him out
My cat thinks the sound of my Playstation powering down means “time for bed”. He’s not wrong…
My dog now knows she is “the dog”. Any time we say the word, she starts listening.
She picks things up that I never imagined a dog could understand.
Cat gets treats when the dishwasher starts, not sure if I trained him or if he trained me but that is what happens 100% of the time or else he gets loud.
Your halfway to teaching your cat to do the dishes
One of my cats will headbutt me if I say “headbutt”, he’s like a pokemon or something. Hard enough that I can hear a thunk.
One of mine would headbutt me right in the nose/lips (like “yes human kiss head here”) if I did the “smooch smooch” noise, every time. Pretty hard too in his younger years!
The beep one of my monitors makes at power off (at the end of my workday) catalyzes my three cats into immediate action. They could be passed out or hidden, and ignore me when I walk by (I’ve tested this), but the moment they hear that “beep-chime” they materialize.
They know it means I’m available for cuddles and snacks. Confuses the hell out of them on the occasional weekend when I take a Zoom call for one of my volunteer gigs. I’ll also use it to summon them when one vanishes for too long and I need to make sure they didn’t get out.
Kinda somehow trained my dogs to expertly remove socks from feet… Started as a puppy with an interest in toe biting, decided to try to mould it into something positive. Lots of "OWW"s later, she will delicately nibble the tip of your sock to seperate a bit of fabric from the toe, then grab on, and tug straight backwards (you gotta point your toe to help her out) and voila! Sock removed.
Thought it was dumb but 7 years later, my pregnant wife thinks it’s the fucking bees knees
Both of my cat’s think their names are “Hungry?”
I heard you could train your dog to tell you when they need out by putting a bell on the door. I didn’t have a bell, but did have empty beer can and random nuts and bolts.
She learned to knock over my beer if she wants out.
You can train your dog to do way more than just ring when he wants out. I have a cat that I trained, he now has 12 buttons in the same location, with concepts like “later” and “now”, “yes” and “no” etc. The fact that I sometimes need to argue with my own cat that indeed he was fed already and treats are not an option is ridiculous to a lot of people. The cat gets incredibly excited once I get new buttons (but they’re expensive, so I don’t do that often). Some time ago a friend was teaching their maltese puppy to use buttons for a walk. I spent half an hour with it, got it to push buttons, got it to recognize that button = treat, later got it to recognize different buttons do different things. Training a dog is easy mode once you’ve trained a cat lol
Not a command perse, but my dog has learned that “hey Google, what’s the temperature outside” usually means a walk is coming and gets excited.
My cockatiels have learned that “Hey Google, broadcast it’s dinner time” means it’s time to fly to the table and ambush the food as it’s delivered.
My dog reacts very poorly to “Okay, Google”. I’m not sure if it’s because of the response from a person that he can’t see, or that in the past I’ve yelled at the phone to stop when it won’t stop listing. But every time I say “Okay, Google” now he gets up and goes into his crate. He does the same when I talk into my Google TV remote too, so I assume it’s the response from the Google Assistant that he finds so troublesome.
Consider changing the voice, maybe that will help relax your dog
We accidentally made our cat yell when we point at her. Not even sure how it happened tbh; some combo of squirt-bottle-get-off-the-counter and very half-assed start to clicker training. At least we have a goofy party trick when we have people over I guess?
It wasn’t a command, but I distinctively remember the first time my cat growled at me for picking him up and I set him down immediately. Now it’s his way of telling me to let him down whenever. So I guess he taught me the command instead!
It’s nice to know when your pets are unhappy - they deserve respect too. However, my stupid dog growls when he’s unhappy and being picked up but also when he’s very happy being dried after a wet walk. So. Yeah. Not super helpful
My dog passed away many years ago now, but “Oops” is one that I hear really commonly because I would drop stuff off the counter when cooking. Just saying “Oops” would have the dog come running to see what good stuff hit the floor.
Also, not exactly a command, but that dog’s hearing was so exceptional that he could hear the jangling sound of me picking up his leash while I was inside the house and he’d come running from the back yard across the whole house.
Of course, his hearing was always selective. The things he loved to do he could hear perfectly, while things he dislikes such as obedience training it was like he was deaf lol.
We lived in a house with a bunch of roommates when we got our dog, and at some point “fuck off” became “go lie down on your bed and get outta my space”… So now if “go lie down” isn’t taking, then “fuck off” works…
I work from home and there’s daily shipping logistics involved. My dog knows the word “UPS” and will immediately alert and generally be insane.
