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Cow Toilet Training

Doctor langbin developed a three stage process to do this. He confined the calves to the latrine, and he rewarded them with food whenever they urinated. Then added a choice to see if they had learned that the latrine was the right place. If they chose to enter the latrine to urinate, then they got reward. And if they urinated outside the latrine,. they were punished with a spray of water. It took only 15 days for those 11 out of 16 to be effectively toilet trained. This has so far only trained the cows to control their peeing habits. So doctor langban is hopeful that the method can be extended to train the cows to pooh in

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