Question

TRAINING YOUR DOG TO WALK ON A LEASH

Start with your dog standing at your left side. With several treats enclosed in your left hand, hold your left hand right in front of your dog’s nose (within 1 inch of it). Say “Let’s walk,” and walk in your intended direction. Every few seconds, pop a small treat into your dog’s mouth and praise her for walking along at your pace. You’ll need to frequently reload your hand with treats from your left pocket or from a treat pouch attached to your waist. If she pulls ahead or to the side, immediately stop. Get your dog’s attention by calling her name again. Ask her to sit, and praise her when she does. Then put the treat-loaded hand back in front of her nose and start walking again. Go a little bit farther every day that you practice. After at least a week of daily practice with lured walking, stop luring her along with your treat-loaded hand, and instead just carry your empty left hand in a natural position at your waist with elbow bent. Say “Let’s walk,” and reward her, about every other step you take, with a treat that you get from your left pocket or waist treat pouch. When she can walk along without pulling for several minutes, begin gradually increasing—over many daily training sessions—the number of steps you go in between treats so that your dog is walking longer distances between rewards. Reward her every other step at first, then every 5 steps, then every 10, and so on. Eventually, you should be able to walk with your hand comfortably at your side, periodically (every minute or so) reaching into your pocket to grab a treat to reward your dog.
According to the information in this list of instructions, which can be said to be true if things go according to plan?
A) The dog will grow more and more docile as her training progresses.
B) The dog will require shorter and shorter walks as her training progresses.
C) The owner will need to carry fewer and fewer treats, as the dog's training advances.
D) The owner will eventually not have to bring a leash at all, and the dog will learn to walk on her own.


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Answer 1

I would say it is C because the last paragraph says that the dog will only need a treat every minute or so and one of the first paragraphs says to give them a treat every few seconds

Answer 2

I believe the best answer to be indeed letter C) The owner will need to carry fewer and fewer treats, as the dog's training advances.

Step-by-step explanation:

This list of instructions is teaching readers how to train their dog to walk on a leash. It's not about the dog's docility, since even mild-tempered dogs may get too excited about going for a walk and end up pulling on the leash. The instructions do not say the dog will require shorter walks as training progresses; quite the opposite, longer walks will be necessary and possible. At no one point does the list say anything that may induce us to believe the dog won't need a leash in the future. From the title itself we can grasp that the purpose is to have the dog walk on a leash.

After eliminating letters A, B, and D, we are left with C) The owner will need to carry fewer and fewer treats, as the dog's training advances. According to the instructions, the dog will need to be rewarded very frequently at the beginning of training, as a means to encourage good behavior. As training progresses, however, the dog will be able to walk longer distances without receiving treats. That means, from a logic point of view, that the owner won't have to take as many treats as before, since the dog will be rewarded fewer times.