Thread: Teaching NO !

My understanding is that dogs do not generalise. Lets say your magic 'no' word works at home for your dog to stop jumping up. In another scenario, like at the park and you are holding up your lunch to eat it and your dog jumps up, you say "No!". I would say that nine times out of ten, your dog won't jump down immediately because he "knows what no means". He might get off you because of my last paragraph though....

If you really expect "no" to be a verbal cue for an action and you are chucking in so many other actions....wtf..! Comparable to "sit" means to sit when you are at home, but "sit" also means to roll over when you are out in the paddock. How insane is that???? You are using a cue for more than one action. That doesn't make sense to me.

What isn't insane though is that your dog will know when the boss isn't happy about something. I think this is what Tussock is explaining. The "ut!" or little growl or look or whatever. It works (if your relationship is clear with your dog).
I think you are talking about two very different things here. A cue, or 'command' as you are saying, has an action. ie you say "sit", your dog sits. "No" in the context that you are asking to use it is kind of irrelivant. You could say whatever the heck you want, different every time, but if you are truly emoting that fido isn't doing something you want, he'll know about it.

Does that make any sense? Tussock? Am I translating well here? I think you are the only one who knows what I am trying to say (with or without agreeing with it)

So I guess in short, nobody hear teaches their dog the cue "no". They simply communicate through both verbal cues (Fido, sit!) and also emotion (getting annoyed with your dog chewing your shoe, looking right at him but saying nothing and he gives up the shoe)