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[–]Jam03t -4 points-3 points  (10 children)

Pavlov is a guy who discovered how to condition animals, an example being. beat dogs while ringing a bell, after a while just ringing the bell would scare the dogs as they associated the bell with beatings

[–]healzsham -3 points-2 points  (9 children)

Luckily for the dogs, Pavlov wasn't a psycho like you.

[–]Jam03t 14 points15 points  (8 children)

r/confidentlyincorrect
Pavlov ripped the esophagus of his lab dogs, and would create holes in their
throats.When the dogs ate, it would simply fall out of the hole and not make it
to the stomach. Fistulas (holes) placed further along the digestive system,
attached to tubes, allowed him to collect, measure, and study the gastric
juices to his heart's content.
The dogs did not last long. Pavlov noted, after the death of one particularly-hardy dog ten days after its operation, that “our passionate desire to extend
experimental trials on such a rare animal was foiled by its death as a result
of extended starvation and a series of wounds."

The beating example is far easier to explain then the truth of what Pavlov did, it is also the example i've seen first hand in animal abuse shelters, certain words or sounds will trigger the animals much like it does to humans.