Roxy Lady Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 A mate tried to tell me the other day that a dog can only 'master' 5 commands. He can still learn other stuff but won't be 100% on those other commands.... Apparently he has an uncle who is a dog trainer and he took his rotti for a 6month obedience/guard dog training course (not thru his uncle) and says that they told him that. I reckon hes full of it ;) Am i wrong or is he?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopuppy04 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I don't believe a word of it. I think dogs can understand (quite well) a whole array of commands! Don't know where they pulled that from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffo Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 he's full of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Lady Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Thats exactly what i thought and tried to tell him. Just needed someone to back me up ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Full of crap Ask him how would we train out dogs for obedience competitions if they could only understand 5 commands ;) Or how do the scent dogs work, and other sporting, working dogs obey on only 5 commands etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Q Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 damn... sit, stay, drop, sit up and come... well busters done. I guess "high five" and "stand up" "leave it" "hup", "through" "weave"and "out." are me pretending he's doing them. Maybe thats why he's only hal got roll over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 There are 6 commands in the novice obedience ring alone, then from open up you start to add retrieves, scent discrimination, seek back, send to the box, directed jump, food refusal/speak on command....have I missed anything? Plenty of UD and UDX dogs around who need to know more than 6 commands...then some of these dogs also compete in other sports. Then there are informal commands...outside, in the car, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lablover Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 There was a study........5 years ago??? (I can look it up if interested), where a dog knew 50 commands.........abet a very smart dog. More often that not, people speak in sentences to their dogs. One word, commands/cues are best. Not ............darling, foo foo, sit, sit, please sit...........or you will not get the special chicken treat. Please darling.............SIT SIT SIT. Sit............make it simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCNTC Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 I recall an anime when I was younger...the little animal creature things could only master 4 things, as soon as they learned another they lost a prevous one. I think your friend is confusing real life with a cartoon lol. alot of my dogs know upwards of 30-40 commands. I think someone must has forgotten to tell them that they cant know more then 5 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 A mate tried to tell me the other day that a dog can only 'master' 5 commands. He can still learn other stuff but won't be 100% on those other commands.... Apparently he has an uncle who is a dog trainer and he took his rotti for a 6month obedience/guard dog training course (not thru his uncle) and says that they told him that. I reckon hes full of it Am i wrong or is he?? I wonder if this could be true depending on the training/method style being used? For example, if its a really harsh training style that lacked reward, maybe the dog can only cope with 5 commands before it starts showing avoidance to the training and then its ability to learn drops. Dependent on the nature of the dog in question too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chloebear Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 When taking my previous dog to the vet, I was told that she had special needs "she would be a puppy for life" if she mastered sit, come and stay I would be lucky. Yes it took a lot of patiences and a few years but she turned out to be an amazing dog. If my daughter was in the paddock, I could tell her to round her up, and she would. In the end she gave her life to protect the kids from a snake which was where the kids where playing. We miss her greatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Lady Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 Full of crap Ask him how would we train out dogs for obedience competitions if they could only understand 5 commands Or how do the scent dogs work, and other sporting, working dogs obey on only 5 commands etc There are 6 commands in the novice obedience ring alone, then from open up you start to add retrieves, scent discrimination, seek back, send to the box, directed jump, food refusal/speak on command....have I missed anything? Plenty of UD and UDX dogs around who need to know more than 6 commands...then some of these dogs also compete in other sports. Then there are informal commands...outside, in the car, etc. I said all that to him plus about guide dogs and special needs companion dogs. He still tried to tell me that they can learn other thing but are not 100%, he reckoned only 5 commands are actually mastered meaning obeyed and completed 100%. Don't worry hes a bit of a know-all-know-nuthin ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arya Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 I've heard this before... it's the biggest load of old cobblers and I nearly fell over laughing when I heard it. Perhaps the person who first made that up only had five neurons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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