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I need to teach my German Shepherd how to use curl so she can also use this method.

GSD owner here, but her and all of our dogs in the past we've taught to ring a bell hanging from the back door whenever they need to go outside. Great alternative if you don't need/want a dog door.

It’s super easy to teach too!

We also have voice recorder buttons they can use to ask for certain things like brushes, treats, play time etc. but those get much more annoying :)

The run.py script indicates this is running on a Raspberry Pi to read GPIO pins i.e. you could literally just hook up a button to a GPIO pin and train your dog to stomp on the button.

It was meant purely as a joke. Even if I built the most elaborate notification system in the world - she basically runs the show. I did a doggy version of 23andme, she is 30% Siberian Husky and 6% Belgian Malinois so the line is blurred between sweet loving companion and psychotic girlfriend.

Was this meant to be cute, or are you actually just telling the world you have a large, therefore dangerous, sled dog, and you haven't trained her? She "runs the show"?

The "psychotic girlfriend" side of untrained large dogs has been known to maul children.

That is quite a conclusion you’ve leapt to. Meant to be cute here. Obviously I run the show, I’m the one who pays the bills and feeds her. But she’s surely not afraid to let you know when she wants something, and doesn’t particularly care if you’re busy with something else.

For the record, most sled dogs are not very large and not particularly aggressive.

I dislike seeing this trope about women being brought into, of all things, a discussion about a dog.

Don't worry, I didn't take you too seriously. But seeing as this is HackerNews, IMO half the fun is coming up with solutions to 1st world "problems" ;)

Any chance you could share the name of the doggy 23andme service? I looked and there are quite a few, but wouldn't know where to start.

We've been meaning to find out what one of our dogs actually is since we've been asked so many times and we have no idea.

Wisdom is the name of the service that I used.

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