He often jokes that men can be trusted, sows can climb trees, and many seemingly impossible things have finally become possible. Just like Murphy's Law says, what can happen will happen. Anything is possible! So something like dogs can count, nothing is impossible, and it is completely trainable.

Recently, two puppies who can count have appeared outside the Shenyang Forbidden City. When the puppy steps on the board, the copper cymbal tied to the other end of the board will ring. The number they calculate is a few times, and they will knock a few times. In fact, dogs don't really know how to do arithmetic, they just form a memory after repeated training and stimulation.

The reason why most dogs that can do arithmetic can only do simple arithmetic is because it is not that dogs really know how to do calculations, but because these simple calculations are relatively easier to train. It's easier for dogs to remember. The reason why dogs can calculate simple formulas is because after long-term stimulation, dogs have a certain memory of these numbers, and they can achieve the purpose of calculation with correct training. So if we use the right method, we can also train dogs that can calculate.

1. Passwords and Gestures

The training password is call. The gesture command is that the dog trainer stretches out the fingers of his left hand to command the barking of the dog, and secretly commands the dog with his left hand when performing. The training trick is to let the trained dog bark according to the number of fingers outstretched on the trainer's left hand, such as extending 1 finger, the dog barks 1 time; extending 2 fingers, the dog barking 2 times; extending 5 fingers , the dog barks 5 times. The dog handler writes on the blackboard with his right hand, so gesture commands for barking can only be issued with the left hand.

Second, training process and methods

During training, use your right hand to write some numbers or math problems on the blackboard, and use the five fingers of your left hand to command the dog , recognize the different gesture commands of the dog handler through the visual function of the dog, and bark according to the different gesture commands of the dog handler.

1. At the beginning of training. The dog handler issued the bark password, and at the same time issued a gesture command with the left hand to extend the thumb and curl the remaining four fingers, and ordered the dog to bark once. When the dog barks, immediately give routine rewards such as meat to consolidate the dog's conditioned reflex to bark according to the owner's gestures. Train 4 to 6 times a day, 10 minutes each time, for 2 to 3 consecutive days, and then proceed to the next training after consolidation.

2. The dog handler issues the bark password, and the left hand gestures with the thumb and index finger to instruct the dog to bark, commanding the dog to bark 2 times in a row. When the dog barks, immediately give the dog meat food and other routine rewards to consolidate the dog's conditioned reflex of barking twice by the dog handler's gesture. Then follow the above method to strengthen the training.

3. During training, the owner stretched out three fingers and ordered the dog to bark 3 times. The dog barked 3 times in a row, and immediately gave routine rewards such as meat to consolidate the dog's conditioned reflex to visually recognize the owner's barking with different gestures. Then carry out consolidation training according to 1, so that the dog can accurately bark according to the different gestures extended by the owner.

4. During training, the dog trainer stretches out the little finger, index finger, middle finger, and ring finger with his left hand, but the thumb is curled up, and orders the dog to bark 4 times in a row. The dog did it, and immediately gave the dog meat and other routine rewards to consolidate the dog's conditioned reflex to observe the owner's different gestures by visual observation. Consolidation training 1 is carried out. If a wrong bark occurs, it should be corrected with training.

5. Final training. The dog handler stretched out his five-fingered palm and ordered the dog to bark five times in a row. If the dog does, immediately give a routine reward such as meat.

6. Review and consolidate training. One is that the dog trainer constantly changes the gestures of extending different fingers to instruct the puppy to bark accurately; the other is that in this training stage, gradually cancel the command of the password, and gradually achieve the gesture completely according to the number of fingers extended by the owner, instructing the dog to bark , to prepare for performance training.

This approach may be suspected of cheating, and the calculation range is relatively small, but the effect is faster. If you only rely on stimulation training to force the dog to remember the arithmetic within 20, it may take a certain amount of time. But in the final analysis, the dog's ability to count is not a real calculation, but a habit usually formed by long-term training, or a conditioned reflex.