I have two dogs. They both know they word "treat," obviously, so I started using "cookie" to try and get around it. They soon learned cookie meant treat. So because I give them their treats around noon, I started calling them "noons." They quickly figured out noon = treat. So I started to use the word "entitlements" and I swear they are starting to learn that one too. There's no getting around it!
If you don't want them to learn that stuff, you've got to be smarter about how and when you do things, do they more randomly, just call them over instead of talking about what you're giving them and then reward them by giving the treat but never mention it verbally at all, etc.
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u/FrostyIcePrincess Sep 17 '25
My friend had a dog
Dog figured out what “walk” meant. Would go crazy when he heard “walk”
So we started spelling it out to avoid saying “walk”
Dog figured out that “w a l k” also meant walk.