Chapter 23: The Dogs' Self-Training

After seeing Sanyan turn around the dogs and make sure that all the dogs had seen the jerky, he walked away from the dogs, walked through the flower garden behind the dogs, and walked deeper into the yard. And at the same time as Three-Eyes left, under Haji's supervision, all the dogs turned their heads in the opposite direction of Three-Eyes, as if avoiding the position of not looking at Three-Eyes.

"This, this is, search training?" At this time, Dacheng and the others were completely shocked, they didn't expect Haji to organize the dogs to conduct search training. And this training is really like that, except that the toy props used by humans have been replaced with snacks that puppies prefer. However, it is clear that dogs of this age group obviously prefer this goal, and you can tell this just by looking at the excitement of each of them. It's just that a dog trained in this way is still a working dog?

There is no need to answer this question, and no one will answer it. I saw that after the three-eyed fart came back, Haji randomly pointed out a puppy. The puppy was so excited that he quickly followed the path that Three Eyes had walked. After using it for a short time, he walked back with the beef jerky in his mouth, put the beef jerky in front of Haji as if offering treasure, and then wagged his tail and looked at Haji as if he were meritorious.

I don't know what Haji did, but I saw that the puppy immediately lowered his head happily, picked up the beef jerky, chewed it and swallowed it. That look of satisfaction and happiness can be felt even by Dacheng and others who don't understand the expression of dogs.

Immediately after that, the second round of searches began. This time the difficulty increased, and Black Hood appeared in front of the puppies with a finger-sized stone, and then placed the stone on the ground. Then, the three puppies came forward and sniffed carefully. What surprised Dacheng and others even more was that the three puppies were shepherds, Kunming dogs and Labradors.

This is obviously to show that this is a challenge to exaggerate the race, and each dog breed will have a dog to participate, and this is to engage in competition! If this situation happens in human society, this is easy to understand, but when it happens in the case of puppies voluntarily and self-organized, Dacheng and others are a little unconvinced of their own eyes.

Soon, everyone saw that the black head had the stone in his mouth, and ran around the yard like crazy, and after a while he ran back to the puppies, and by this time the small stone in his mouth was gone. No one knows exactly when it was and where it hid the stone.

Then the three puppies set out together, and they searched carefully along the place where the blackhead had just walked, hoping to find the little stone that they had only smelled once. Dacheng and the others looked at it curiously, they wanted to know what the result of this challenge would be, whether all three puppies would be able to find the small stone at the same time. If that's the case, how will Hagi distribute the rewards? Inadvertently, a few of them have long forgotten about their puppies, and have become a few spectators.

Obviously, Dacheng and others have some experience in breeding working dogs, and they also have a certain ability in training working dogs, but there is a cognitive bias in training working dogs of this age.

A little more than a month and a half of working dogs for this kind of training is really too early, the puppy is not fully developed in all aspects, the perception of the external environment is also relatively poor, and it is not easy to search for a piece of smell source that has only been sniffed once. What's more, it is a puppy who lives with them all day long to hide the source of their smell, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it smells all over the yard, and it is still very difficult to find the path it has just walked. And the other party's mess is really deceptive, no one knows where it threw that damn stone, maybe let the blackhead guy find it himself, and he won't find it either.

Sure enough, after a few minutes, the shepherd dog and the Kunming dog were defeated one after another. The two little working dogs were not yet competent for the ability to search, and after a few turns in the yard, they were confused by the smell of blackheads all over the yard, and they couldn't figure out where the blackheads had just gone, and naturally they couldn't find the small stone.

The two little ones walked back dejectedly, and they were not even embarrassed to enter the circle formed by the puppies, and directly lay on the periphery of the puppy group in frustration. Obviously, because of this defeat, they have lowered their status in the group, and they have lost the courage to return to the group.

At the same time, the young Labrador shook its short limbs and chubby body, and continued to search the yard little by little. Obviously, this search is not easy, but this little guy doesn't seem to want to give up. Don't look at the Labradoodle's ability to pounce and fight a little worse, but that is only the result of a congenital gentle character, and the Labrador has an advantage in tenacity and patience that shepherds and Kunming dogs do not have. It's like a physically strong, but short-tempered person who certainly doesn't perform as well as an introverted and calm person when it comes to doing meticulous and patient work. This is true not only for humans, but also for animals.

After holding on for almost seven minutes, and even after the Labrador took two more turns, the little one finally found the inconspicuous little stone in the pile of fallen leaves. Apparently it was dropped by the black-headed guy during the run, which made it much more difficult for the little guy to find the stone.

Seeing this scene in front of them, Dacheng and others were both amazed and relieved. At the level of the little guy who is now showing up, it is unbelievable that he is capable of passing the search test of a working dog at such a young age. Although it is not yet able to train with humans because of the relationship between puppies and humans, it has shown the super qualification of a qualified working dog, and they don't have to worry about its future.

As for the problem of cooperating with humans, I am not in a hurry at this time, maybe I will try it after Xiaoyu comes back from school, maybe there will be a turnaround. In fact, there is not much difference between animals and humans, and forcing them to do something, or how to do it, will only make them feel more disgusted and resistant to humans, and on the contrary, the gains outweigh the losses. Maybe with a little tactfulness, maybe the relationship between people and the puppies will be repaired.

Seeing that the Labrador who had successfully searched for the item walked up to Haji proudly, and then calmly took a piece of jerky from the food pile in front of Haji and munched on it, Dacheng immediately reacted - hey! What other opportunities are there to repair, isn't this opportunity right in front of him? Haji has not much food left in front of him, and it seems that it is necessary to reward these little ones who train on their own.

Dacheng immediately asked someone to go to the barn and take out a box of canned food, and then opened it in front of the puppies. He then put the cans in a food bowl and carried it to the periphery of the circle where the puppies had formed.

At this time, a new round of search has begun, and the other puppies watching the game saw Dacheng coming over with a food bowl, and the little ones who were sleeping sensitively already knew what was in the food bowl. However, these little ones are not messy at all, even if some puppies show their appetite and swallow saliva, but the little ones still stay in place honestly, keeping the puppy circle unmoved.

Dacheng saw that the puppies didn't mean to give way at all, and Haji just looked up at him without any expression, but he didn't say anything, so he had to stop helplessly. He gestured to the puppies for the food in the bowl, then placed it on the periphery of the circle formed by the puppies, and turned to retreat.

Although Dacheng felt that he had raised a dog for so many years, it was the first time he had done such an aggrieved thing, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. But when he thought of Haji's meaningful eyes, he decided to respect the organization and choices of the puppies. After all, he is the contractor of the dog farm, and the future ability of these working dogs directly determines his future work performance, and he does not need to deal with a group of little ones who have just come to this world for only a month.

As long as he successfully sends this group of dogs out, successfully completes this year's performance tasks, and gets his share of the money, it is acceptable for him to give up contracting dog farms in the future. Anyway, he still has the relationships and connections he has accumulated over the years, so how can he raise his daughter and live his life well.

After Dacheng put the canned fish bowl away and left, several puppies came out and dragged the food bowl to Haji as if offering treasures. Haji didn't move when he saw the food, and continued to wait for the puppies to return from the search race.

After this round of the search contest was completed, Haji still distributed some food in the form of rewards. Next, due to the abundant food provided by Dacheng, the scale of search training for the puppies suddenly increased. Several puppies who had just completed their search training began to hide with a piece of canned fish in their mouths, which were then searched by other puppies. If the puppies that went to search were not found, the canned fish would belong to the puppy who hid the pieces of fish.

In this way, the puppies try their best to hide and find canned fish. However, due to the strong smell of canned fish, there are still more puppies who can successfully find canned fish in general. But it doesn't matter, soon the puppy who hides the canned fish and the puppy who finds the canned fish will switch roles, so that everyone will have a chance to eat the canned fish.

On the surface, the search training carried out by the puppies is the same as before, and even more lively than just now. In fact, in the eyes of Dacheng and others, Haji's move seems to have reduced the difficulty of the training just now, because canned fish with a strong smell is always more difficult to find than an ordinary stone.