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Re: How I taught my dog to text me selfies

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Post by Dewie »

gregorymichael wrote: post #25
anon4 wrote: post #23

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Parent has a point. If you can teach your dog that the button is a way to communicate with you when you're out of the house, that would be awesome. I suppose something like having a few signs it can hold when pressing the button, maybe? Training that would be incredibly hard, I'm guessing, but if possible, it would be amazing.

Great idea. My original plan envisioned something like: - I text into her number while out of the house - Twilio sends HTTP request to Arduino - Piezo buzzer sounds - Kaira has to hold the button for X seconds - Servo rotates auto treat dispenser In the end, simplicity won out. That said, those are far from insurmountable challenges.

> In the end, simplicity won out.

But the overly ambitious title remained.

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Post by ojilles »

sharkweek wrote: post #55
alexsb92 wrote: post #51

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How would one train a dog to do something like the Hands Up routine? I've never had a dog, so I'm not sure how I'd get the whole motion across to the dog.

You want to get the dog really comfortable with sit, stay and a "warm clicker" (Basically just get them used to the click noise = treat). Once they're good on those, have the dog sit as you hold the treat above them in a way that makes it so their nose is pointing straight up and they start to stretch their body to try and reach for the treat. Keep doing this until their paws start coming off the ground as they sit b…

It al reminded me a lot of programming in general. For example, unconscious assumptions:

Once saw a dog that only wanted to perform the tricks in the training ground but not for example at the owners home: the dog had assumed that the combination of (command for the trick && location+training ground) was the trigger. That was fun to see. Other examples included dog trainers that could only successfully give the command while wearing the red coat he was wearing while training the dog, etc.

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Post by runj__ »

xerophyte12932 wrote: post #65

A lot of comments about training dogs. Anyone has any experience training cats here? I have found them to be too moody for something like this.

Training cats is in my experience more about actually forcing the cat into a position with your own hands to get it to grasp what you're trying to do.

Cats are not as magnetized to treats as dogs are, they tend to want to keep their feet at the same place.

That said: getting a cat to roll around on command is a great feeling.

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Post by precisioncoder »

xerophyte12932 wrote: post #65

A lot of comments about training dogs. Anyone has any experience training cats here? I have found them to be too moody for something like this.

My wife has clicker trained our cats based on what she found on youtube videos. You need a smart cat (Ours are bengals) who loves treats and a lot of time but it's very doable. Our cats can both do the following tricks: Sit, Stand, High five, Turn around, Roll the ball, and Knock over the object

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Post by savege »

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