The next decade....what's in store?

Pavlov's Subjects

Those of you involved in Education or Training may have heard of Operant Conditioning. This came from some experiments that Pavlov did with dogs which showed that they can be programmed so to speak, to operate in a particular way.

Well, we have these mutts as you know, and recently there was an addition to the family. See her here.



(She cute eeee?)

She's now graduated to being outside with the big dogs, who had settled into a routine. When I'm not here, Pops does them a certain way. When I first look after them on my visits home, they are so conditioned that it's hell getting them to do what I want them to do (which is run around outside the pen while I clean up their 'stuff'). Pops usually locks them up in the kennels while he cleans their 'stuff'.

So now along comes the newbie and things have to change again. Two kennels for 3 dogs and a pup means the feeding thing has to be carefully managed in order to avoid carnage. This morning, I was trying to get one of the big dogs into a kennel that she's not accustomed to being put in for feeding, and you should see, even with the nice food sitting in there waiting on her, how she backed out of going in there.

I tell you. If only children and adults could be programmed like dogs....

Posted by yamfoot at January 14, 2004 09:43 AM