This woman is so paranoid that she taught her dog not to take treats from Barack Obama. No, seriously.
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Who said there wasn’t any such thing as Obama Derangement Syndrome?
Yikes. From the way that dog looked away at the mention of “Barack Obama”, I have a sad idea of how they trained the poor thing.
It’s possible someone did something at those moments … out of sight of the camera, off to the left as you see the video … to cause the dog to look away in that direction. Just guessing.
Possibly but I haven’t seen many dogs who will be THAT interested in something else while someone is stuffing them with treats. It really looked like aversion to the term probably from negative reinforcement previously.
Why does that suddenly remind me of Glenn Beck?
Because he wouldn’t have a show without the Pavlovian response?
It would be pretty easy to teach a dog this trick, even without hand signals. Dogs can recognize your voice. When you say “Obama” and he tries to eat the carrot, take it away and say “bad dog.” When you give him the carrot in any other situation, he can take and eat it.
It’s somewhat cruel, but mostly just a waste of time.
The way that the dog looks away from the woman and starts closing its eyes means that it was almost certainly trained by spraying it in the face with a squirt bottle every time the treat “from Barack Obama” was offered. The dog learned that “from mom” and “from dad” mean that the treat is safe, while “from Barack Obama” means that the treat will be accompanied by a squirt. It’s classic discrimination learning and is very simple to do. It probably only took 6-7 trials to get the dog to do that.
This woman = average Republican.
Haha, it was pretty funny. Not because it was clever, just because anthropomorphizing prejudice or petty immaturity onto a dog makes me laugh. I have a feeling the duration of this video is about the same amount of time she has spent researching President Obama’s positions.
You are more charitable than I if you think she “researched” anything. ;)
You guys are all reading it wrong! She’s a democrat, it’s a satire. She even says at one point “it’s the same care you’ve been eating.” That or my stupid sensors were blinded by irony.
I heard carrot – as in the treats she is giving are carrots.
That would make sense. I was thinking health care, so that’s what I heard. Carrot makes more sense though.
There are stretches where the woman is just talking, not saying “Obama” at all, but the dog still looks away until the very beginning of her sentence where she stops talking about Obama. Why would the dog know if she’s talking *about* Obama? It’s obviously some kind of off-screen cue, or the dog is reacting to the woman’s facial expression, or something.
Hilarious that such a discussion is going on about this, but I’m involving myself so I’m guilty as well.
@Dan – Of course I don’t know if you have a dog (or some other trainable animal/child) or if you know about classic conditioning, etc…
She says ‘Okay’ to signal that the dog can take the treat. Anything after ‘Okay’ is fair game for carrot time, but until she says it: STAY. So -> Barack Obama = Leave it : Okay = Enjoy your treat puppet.
I wonder what she had to do to make the dog want carrots? These ‘treats’ are not something a dog should want,considering they are scavengers of sorts,or predators if you want to be generous to domesticated dogs. Getting a dog to eat them is worse to me than the whole Barrack thing.
Not that strange, really. Dogs are omnivores more than carnivores, and raw carrot is a bit unusual but not that far out of the normal range of diet for them. It’s generally easier to get a dog to eat vegetables than it is to get a child to eat them. I’ve never been able to explain the various strange foodstuffs my cats have chosen to eat over the years, though.
Always convincing: dog’s eat poop. They eat just about everything. The kibble that most dogs are fed are loaded with grains, which is something they don’t need and would be healthier without.
Also, this dog is not very close to its wild wolf ancestors – especially relative to other domesticated dogs out there. Looks to be more on the pointless, sausage-like, yippy, chihuahua rats.
I thought the same thing a few years ago when I saw someone giving their dog a baby carrot. So I tried it – our dogs LOVE them. And according to the vet, it’s a really healthy treat for them and their teeth. Go figure..
My brother’s little poo-tzu ~loves~ carrots. He thinks they are the Best Things Ever. (Well, except for Jerky Treats….) As far as I know, he’s always loved them; he loves cooked broccoli, too.
The carrots have to be shredded carrots, though; he doesn’t chew them thoroughly enough to digest carrot chunks or slices or sticks. But it looks like the carrot pieces in that video are pretty small….
At least the dog isn’t in a New Jersey public school, singing hymns about our Dear Leader.
Just because a song is set to a tune which is also used in hymns, does not make that song itself a hymn. Do you think any school ever did the same thing for GWB? Without a doubt. Was that considered worthy of broadcast on Fox Noise? Of course not, because he was white. Let’s not pretend the Reichpublitard bullcrap is about anything else, because it’s not. They’s all scared shitless that Obama has some kind of Black Panther meets Al Qaida revenge agenda for America’s past crimes. He doesn’t. Get over it.
Isn’t celebrating our president called patriotism? Isn’t patriotism something that Reichpublitards (love that term) always claim to have more of than Democrats?
As a libertarian and an atheist, I don’t believe children should sing praises to any individual.
Why? “Praise: the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.”
How does this have anything to do with being a libertarian or an atheist? You seem to have more of a Jehovah’s Witness stance, or possibly an anarchist view that nothing should be praised.
As a fellow libertarian and atheist, I think it is wonderful that America’s children can finally be proud of their president and should give him praise. The past 8 years we had a drunk/rich kid/failed CEO/puppet as a president and it shamed me to travel outside the country. Now I hold my head high because the rest of the world shows us a little more respect, where as previously they hated our president.
Well, I don’t think kids that young are informed enough to know whether they should like the presidents politics or not (A quick 1984 bio: agnostic atheist, social democrat a la Scandinavian model)
I wasn’t all too fond of the Jesus camp president Bush cardboard praying either…
Yep. Ridiculous nationalism and patriotism is as nauseating as fundamentalist Christianity, Mark’s got this one!
Plus…given the actual POLICY DIRECTIONS of Dear Leader…what exactly do we have to be proud of? Increasing troop levels in Afghanistan? Forcing people barely scraping by to buy useless “insurance” policies that do nothing but futher enrich the beancounters at Blue Cross and Cigna? The expansion of Baghram Prison? The appointment of right wing financiers and speculators to further damage the remnants of our economy? Hillary Clinton? I’m feeling such a glow of PRIDE about Obama, President Change!
Back to the lady. What a douche!