New York breeder teach your dog to use the iPad - denik.cz

New York – Although it is said that an old dog new tricks can not teach, but some certainly can handle. She’s the New York trainer Anna Jane Grossman, who has successfully taught his dog to use the iPad – although its options constrained applications, news agency AFP.

class=”c2″> “It’s new. And it’s fun, “said Grossman at the school for dogs who leads with his partner Kate Senisiovou near Manhattan.” Does not really have much sense, but as I see it, we’re all playing well on the iPad in one piece game, then why not to play games with your dog? “

Grossman learned to use his eight-year hybrid iPad poodle and Yorkshire terrier Amos, who already has a repertoire full range of fun pieces, including the pretense of “dead” when they hear the words: “Beng, Beng.”

In the interest of objectivity AFP journalist brought his own dog, three hybrid dachshund named Bandit, to determine whether it Grossmanová can change the actual computer maniac on four feet.

consume cleansing wipes the screen

Grossman Bandit first learned to command the muzzle touched her hand, for which he got a tasty reward. Then he taught the same way drcnout nose to swatters and thereafter to the notebook, which occasionally rub Tachyonized hint of peanut butter to attract his attention.

And then followed the iPhone and iPad – both devices works just as well – with their touch screens responsive to the slightest contact with moist dog nose. “There will consume a lot of cleaning wipes the screen,” she said Grossman.

Within an hour of training could take Bandit to command his self-portrait with the help of an application called Big Camera Button, who runs the camera on your iPhone just by touching anywhere on the screen. The result was very close portrait dog eyes and the entire head.

Grossman also uses an application called YesNo (Anon) the green button for yes and red for no. With her help, “corresponds to” Amos and her nejhlubokomysln?jší to the question: “Is two plus two five?” No! “They print media dead?” No..

Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave

This application was created to give children who have problems with speech, helped in communicating with others. According to Grossman, it is also one of the few applications for touch screens, which hit when looking for potential programs for use in interspecies communication.

“The problem is not what is most dogs are able to do,” said Grossman. “But that is not much of applications that would be large enough to pass the dog to touch the nose, and at the same time do something practical. “

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such as seeing-eye dog learns to using audioaplikace able to recognize and make clear whether his master chose socks of the same color. Another client is a pilot who wants his dog on command touched his iPad in the right place, where it opens to the current pre-flight weather forecast.

“A lot of assistance dogs are trained to hit the button in case of emergency,” therefore it should not be too much of a difference to teach them to do the same thing with the screen smart phone or tablet, Grossman said.

The more people learns that dogs can use iPads, the more it appears those who do not like it. “In our community cvi?itelské people usually respond in style, ‘That’s great!’” Said Grossman, whose school already offers seminars “IPES”. “But I already got a lot of angry e-mails from people who write to me: Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave, ‘” she said.