don't say the noise, because i remember one occasion i was in my friends house and the dog started chasing me.so i ran round the table and reached for the vacuum (which wasn't on) and it immediately started to back off. now before you say something like it knows the noise....this Dog was a huge puppy.so i doubt MEMORY would have been great.
haha omgg ..... my rotti is 4 months old and she is scared of those hugeeeeee trucks...She would jump in the back seat of the car and when ever she see my dad cutting grass in the backyard with the machine then she would hide under the deck or she would stay with me like a glue..... Today she got her 3rd vaccination done+rabies soooo now she's sleepin...
If a puppy experienced a big, scary, loud vacuum cleaner just once, I'm sure it would be enough to make him back off. If not, than maybe it was because when the vacuum moved, it seemed to move on it's own, like it was some strange animal it had never seen.
Why would you use it to scare away a dog anyway? If anything you'd want the dog to associate it with something good. I guess the dog just disliked the noise and the way it moved about when its seen it before, it remembered this 'bad' experience and now dislikes the vacuum, thats why it needs to be assoicated with good things. Or just ignoring the dog until it is calm then praising...
Some dogs are some aren't. My dog doesn't mind the vacuum cleaner at all. I'm always telling him to move when I'm cleaning or I'd have to run over him.
A dog's short-term memory may be crap, but their long-term memory is not. Important things are committed to long-term memory, things like repetitive habits (training, etc) and traumatic or particularly frightening or exciting experiences, like their first encounter with the vacuum cleaner. It is, in fact, the noise that bothers them. They are loud and have no respect for the dog's boundaries :P
