Dogs always go out to pick up something. Many pet owners have had problems like this.
For a dog, it's much more interesting outside the house than at home, and when it sees something of great interest to itself, it picks it up.
It's broken in the eyes of the master. It's probably a baby for the dog.
Let's see what's wrong with the feeder! He lived in a small town of four seasons, surrounded by a dense forest.
His dog's favorite is running into the woods, and the dog's favorite is wood, whether the bark, the trunk or the branch, which, if it finds out, is taken home.
The dog once even took a bark about his size, the master carried it with his hand, felt a few pounds of weight and had to admire his dog's teeth.
This dog was definitely a good helper in the family decades ago, helping the owner collect firewood, but who makes the fire of wood now uses gas and electricity.
What makes the master laugh is that this dog once came back with a piece of grass whose edge was so round that it walked from the flower pot of the family!
Even if the owner wanted to apologize, he couldn't find him.
And once again, this silly dog picked up an empty bag of dog food from the dump and put it in front of his master, as if he were saying, "I am not satisfied with the dog food now, so buy it from the dog food on this bag."
The dog didn't know where to pick up a brick, and then he took it as a baby, slept on a pillow, at dinner...
Until one day, the dog didn't know where to find a bear, the brick was immediately lost, and the owner washed it when he saw it clean.
Now the bear is the dog's favorite, and he sleeps with it every day.
The dog's owner feels so good and funny that he can open a junk shop and then ask for help.
It seems to me that if the dog's act of picking up things does not affect his or her daily life and that of others, it can do nothing. It will also bring different pleasures to the master's life.
But if the master thinks that the dog's behavior is already disturbing life, it is important to change the dog's habits as soon as possible. The fact that the bear the owner brought back is actually encouraging the dog to pick up.
In this regard, I have consulted a number of sources:
The problem with this dog is that the feeder is not trained in "strength control stimuli". In short, let the dog do something as soon as he gets your orders, and it won't do it if you don't send the signal, that's to match it to the act. What a feeder should do is re-establish a signal reflection.
This will be achieved by:
The master trains the dog to pick up, throws out a pre-prepared item, lets the dog pick it up, and if the dog picks it up, give it a reward;
If the dog picks up something that the owner throws out, take it off his mouth, but don't reward it.
When the dog calms down, throws what you didn't throw, but at the same time, stops the dog from picking up, and when the dog does not pick it up and sits still, please reward.
When the dog comes home from outside, the master does not act happy, let alone reward the dog, but throws out what he collects and lets the dog see what he throws.
So after training the dogs several times, they'll understand what the master means and change the habit of picking things up!