#ask boops

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[rooniearts]

POV: you opened tumblr dot com on april 1st 2024

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[lexosaurus]

👻🎃💚 Trick or treat!💚🎃👻

TREAT! have a boop! or several!

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Progress update?

(On the boops)

please don’t judge, i’m really busy today okay😭

[wyervan]

👁️ 👁️ hey. I love your creepy moon

hey. i think he likes you too.

[jstor]

Please can I have a peer reviewed jstor boop?

[akanemnon]

*GASP*

I HAD A WONDERFUL IDEA.

EVERYONE, BOOP THE NUGGET

The boopening

[aspecbuddie]

Happy Halloween! 🎃

AROACE BOOP!!!!!

Happy Halloween to you too friend!!! 💚

[royalwhumpness]

Please trick or treat at my inbox cus I want to draw you a little character like this lonely boo

[daily-grian]

im booping him

egads he's been booped

[beansnpeets]

Thinking about human behaviour compared to animal behaviour again.

It's funny to hear people (the older gens) complaining that "kids these days are lazy, they don't wanna work, etc." What do we get for busting our asses? There is no reward. Many will never own homes. Many are unemployed, trying to find work, and nobody will hire them because they don't have a million years experience and a masters degree OR they want people to work for minimum wage??? People are giving up because there is no reward. Why would we do all this for nothing?

Same as a dog that won't recall when you haven't reinforced it with a reward. Your dog isn't going to do what you tell it to if there is no incentive. No, your dog SHOULDN'T listen just because you're boss and it should respect you. That isn't how it works. They don't think that way. And honestly neither do people.

When we went hiking Sprocket wasn't always taking treats gently from me when I recalled her or she checked in and I rewarded and my one friend told me to stop giving her treats. I told him I won't work for free so why should she. And he said "I do things for free all the time because I want to do them," and I didn't say it then, but I wish I had, but if you like doing it, that's the incentive. It's a self-rewarding behaviour. Just like anything else a dog does, like chasing a squirrel or sniffing things or getting into the trash. Heeling instead of going off to sniff stuff or recalling off of something they want to chase is something you have to reinforce. You have to give them something better so they make the choice you want them to make. They won't make it just because they *respect* you. They won't willingly recall off of exciting prey out of RESPECT. You need to give them a tangible reward for that. You cannot possibly expect your dog to listen just because and then punish them for disobeying you.

Yeah, Sprocket bit my fingers a couple times. The one time pretty hard. But she was excited. She knows how to take gently and I reminded her and she tried very hard to be gentle most of the time. I wasn't going to stop rewarding her for checking in with me and recalling while we were off leash hiking in the woods. I want her to know that coming back to me is good and in the event of an emergency I would like her to not blow me off.

[askinsufferableprick]

just gonna boop the shit out of Dave real quick-

sup?

[habken]

How is the boop war treating you?

in the trenches it's great :D

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

turn your boops on

THEYRE BACK

[waywardstation]

*Boops Ingo* 🐾

With no warning, the weird teenager runs up to you at the training grounds while holding up her baggy polecat so it can boop you on the nose with its paw. What do you do?