resistance training. Just give him a treat every time he walks by them and leaves them alone. Take them away every time you see him going after them.
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Ah. That seems much kinder and better than the negative reinforcement I had in mind.
Negative reinforcement just trains dogs to be sneaky.
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There’s an old blog called Steve Don’t Eat It, where a guy would eat nasty things and then write funny posts about it. He ate a BLT sandwich with Beggin’ Strips instead of bacon, and said "Now I know why dogs lick their own assholes - it’s to get the taste of Beggin’ Strips out of their mouths."
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Our old family dog quite liked the fake bacon strips and the snausage type snacks as well, though he really loved the bacon ones. He was also really fond of bread, he’d beg for some if you were making yourself a sammich. I never gave him any but my parents had a soft spot for him so they’d sneak him when i wasn’t at their place.
I bet they’ve never seen an episode of Game of Thrones either.
I loved Don’t Eat It Steve! That’s where I learned about corn smut, and canned larvae, and omfg, the one about prison wine haunts me still…!
One of the dogs I sometimes watch has humans who smoke. She, and all her toys, reek of it. I suspect she’d eat a cigarette butt.
Growing up we gave my dog both snausages and beggin’ strips. My parents will sometimes give my dog a bag of beggin’ strips at Christmas time. They’re very well received.
Personally I use my dehydrator to make chicken breast jerky for the pets. One ingredient. Although I do know 2 dogs who are allergic to or unable to properly digest chicken, so they get other things instead.
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“What’s in the bag – I can’t read!!”
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As a youngster of 10 or 11 I walked around saying “snausages” over and over, just like the dog in this commercial.
Oh, you were THAT kid in school…
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“Snausages don’t grow on trees”
I think it’s the same stuff we gave to British children in the 1970s
which was then parodied by this
For anyone who doesn’t get the joke: Windscale/Sellafield is a British nuclear power plant with a dubious reputation.
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@jlw
No floofy white jumbo dog? I am disappointed.
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Or lettuce, oddly.
Used to have a cat that loved the Chuck Wagon & Gravy Train commercials.
also @jlw half the fun of when y’all mention some retro-Americana is watching how the eurousers get all mystified.
Come to think of it none of the europeans I’ve ever known have talked about old TV ads. Makes me wonder if “Worker and Parasite” was more true than not
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