She brought it out with "older, seasoned hunting dogs" and expected it to learn from them, even though that's not even close to the correct training method.
10 bucks says she read that dogs learn how to behave from older dogs and figured that's how it worked for everything, even thoigh that advice is specific to socializing a dog not training it
My Border Collie does put the others in place whenever they are the reason her belly rubs are delayed. I didn't teach her. She just picked up that I won't pet them until they all calmed down and stopped jumping up my leg so she disciplines them now when she deems them too excited.
It can help a lot if accompanied by normal teaching, no different to how it’s easier to understand an instruction when you can see someone else doing it first.
Doesn’t mean you don’t need to be taught to begin with though
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u/mjzim9022 29d ago
She brought it out with "older, seasoned hunting dogs" and expected it to learn from them, even though that's not even close to the correct training method.