On the website engadget.com, an article titled, “CleverPet makes Every Dog Pavlov’s Dog,” in which the author, Daniel Cooper, explains how there is a new technology keep your our dogs engaged and occupied, as well as teach them using classical conditioning. The device is set up to play Simon with your dog in which after he pushes one of the buttons on the device a treat will dispense as a reward. Proceeding the tasks will get much more difficult. First the dog must press any button, the next level of difficulty is the dog is to push any of the buttons which lights up, and as the dog learns these tasks the new tasks will then get increasingly more difficult as to where the dog will eventually be playing a game of Simon with the device in order to receive treats. CleverPet advertises in the video attached to this article that the machine is a tool to keep dogs preoccupied while their owners are gone, they explain that it may help keep dogs from tearing up couch cushions. Not only will it keep them busy but it is also a tool to teach dogs as well as give them a rewarding game that will make them happy. When we look back at the work that Pavlov did when training his dog to salivate by the cue of a bell we can see that there are some strong similarities here. This new technology is teaching the dog that not only is there a reward for your actions but the onset of pushing the correct button will result in a treat just as the onset of hearing the bell for Pavlov’s dog resulted in food. We can see that this device CleverPet has produced is similar to Pavlov’s bell, as they are both conditioned stimulus. The dog learns to recognize the conditioned stimulus and as a result the dog’s unconditioned response becomes conditioned. For instance say a dog has never been introduced to the CleverPet device and randomly manages to push a button resulting in a treat, at first the dog will not know what triggered the reward. After much more tri