Sep 7, 2021
no recordings yet as i did it on a lark when playing around but both dogs can mimic their front limbs! but...differently.
with thyme if I wave my right arm he will mirror me back - waving his left arm in a reflection of myself. makes sense, this is prob how i would copy someone i was facing if they said “copy me!”
this same demo with thistle, wave my right arm - she waves her right arm back.
not sure yet if just happenstance, luck, a leg preference or more of the functional replication variations creeping through where thistle is just that more literal than thyme is
#copycat dogs#do as i do#dog training#dog mimicry#functional replication#discussed this before see thistle and the chair dilemma#where the lesson learned is i need to be more careful and mindful of how i demonstrate#to accomodate how different dogs interpret all the things you're doing#see also if i lean over to touch something#thistle who DOESNT need to lean over to touch#will mimic me by first doing a bow/stretch THEN touch#it baffled me for so long until i realised oh she's mimicing the lean in addition to the touch#so smart!!!#i know dogs dont have arms but the for sake of clarity of which limb they are mimicing with#im calling them arms#after seeing the cat mimicing rear leg button pushes im hoping to move into slowly isolating each limb seperately#that they can recognise#e.g. thyme can mimic a head drop but currently thistle cannot recognise this#and they both mimicing the drop dead pretty good right now i need to put it on cue#sequences are stumping them a little tho need to work more on those#browse the insta tag for ideas#that dont leverage off already know sequences