Cats vs dogs

[SCWolf]

Re: Cats vs dogs

Dogs are bueno

[Syhto]

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I get it i think. Taco bueno LoL !?!?!?! ;b

[top]

Re: Cats vs dogs

i love em both.
german shepherds, huskies
calicos, coon cats

[Syhto]

Re: Cats vs dogs

torties : 3 sock feets

[Cavernio]

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So cats then?

I nearly missed this

Isn't training any animal essentially trying to trick it to do what you want through positive or negative reinforcement? They will never actually understand your request or actually want to do it.

I could say the same thing about training people to understand and use language, just that the specific training is far more nuanced.

If people have free will because they're capable of thought and therefore choosing their own actions, animals have free will too, just not as much as people do. At least, anything with a cortex has this.

Positive reinforcement for a dog can be 'omg such a good doggy! *patting and getting excited at what they did*. This wouldn't work if they didn't want human attention. And punishment for a dog can be you yelling at it. If they want positive human attention it follows, to me, that they want to please a human and actually want to do the request. Dogs are social and highly attuned to the actions of people in the way that I would say people can understand other people's body language. Everything about a person's interaction with an animal like a dog screams to me 'dogs can think and understand'.

Dogs. I like cats too though.

[Cavernio]

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I trained my cat to play fetch

checkmate

Does it seem like your cat enjoys playing fetch?

[Reincarnate]

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Does it seem like your cat enjoys playing fetch?

very much so

[Cavernio]

Re: Cats vs dogs

weird

[kommisar]

Re: Cats vs dogs

cats



they cuddle when they need it and are readily available when I do. they leave me alone otherwise and are independant


just my type.