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Old 04-22-2008, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos View Post
I wonder if we could train the dog to stand at the window only when it feels that its master is on the way home? We could punish the dog if it stands at the window when its master is not on the way home, and reward it when its master is. If, in fact, the dog is sensing its master coming home, it should learn from this punishment/reward training by association. If it is not sensing anything, no learning should take place.

Of course, we'd have to be careful not to train it to recognize some other pattern.

~~ Paul
We've talked about doing something like this, but we just don't have a firm enough handle on the phenomena at this point... need a lot more dogs... a lot more video.
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