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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gadersd via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] How to open a blocked door<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…And some people think only dogs are smart enough to be trained. Cats can learn just about anything dogs can learn if they are given enough motivation…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gadersd, you hit it right on. Cats can be trained, but the critical difference is that dogs will do what humans want, in order to please the human, which is their reward. Dogs love humans. In order to train a cat, he must be motivated by a reward the cat wants. Cats tolerate humans but don’t really give a damn about whether we are pleased. They tolerate us because we feed them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you get a chance, go watch a good dog handler training police dogs. Watch for a while, notice that the dogs don’t get treats for doing their routine correctly, they get a single word from the trainer which they understand means “good job.” Watch how the dog carries himself after getting that good job vs one who screwed up. At the end of the training session, watch the trained dogs’ attitude toward the local pets: the police dogs just seem to carry themselves as if to say to the pets “You lowlife animal, perfectly useless you are. But I have an actual JOB because I am smart enough to be trained by an actual HUMAN as opposed to lowlife YOU who can only walk on the end of a rope.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is most educational to watch dogs being trained for a job.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>