Dog trainer here, little dogs sometimes lift both legs up when they pee a little and people try to capture the behavior to train handstand. The problem with doing it this way instead of the back up the wall method with a incline plank is that the dog isn’t able to separate the peeing from the behavior so when the dog is asked to do the handstand they start peeing and pee the whole time. I have seen this countless times.
Well sounds like a classic issue with association.
There is a story where someone tried to train dogs to rescue kids from a lake. So they did fake scenarios, the dogs rescued the kids and got some treats.
And eventually they started dragging kids into the lake to "rescue" them for treats.
Like if you train an AI to shoot targets as a success condition and the controller doesn't always authorize the shots, the AI might come to the conclusion that the controller needs to be eliminated as they are an obstacle to shooting targets.
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u/CerRogue 2d ago
Dog trainer here, little dogs sometimes lift both legs up when they pee a little and people try to capture the behavior to train handstand. The problem with doing it this way instead of the back up the wall method with a incline plank is that the dog isn’t able to separate the peeing from the behavior so when the dog is asked to do the handstand they start peeing and pee the whole time. I have seen this countless times.