This Dachshund's Reaction To Being In 'Time Out' Isn't What You'd Expect

When cats and dogs are fighting like cats and dogs, what's an exasperated pet owner to do? The owner of a dachshund named Archie and a cat named Peaky got so fed up one day when Archie wouldn't stop bothering Peaky that she placed the dog in the cat's window perch. 

In a TikTok video that's been viewed more than 296,000 times and racked up over 38,000 likes, Archie sits contentedly in the perch, seeming transfixed by everything happening outside the window. Text overlaid on the video reads: "I put him up here as timeout so he'd stop being a pest to his cat brother but I fear he might actually love it."

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Viewers were instantly enamored with the diminutive doggo, calling him a cutie and an angel, and agreed with Archie's owner that her intended punishment seemed to actually be a reward for the dachshund. "Air jail with a view 😆," joked one, while another wrote, "Sentenced to the time of his life." Several people shared stories of their own petite pooches who love watching the world outside the window, including one from a cat tree and one from a baby bassinet.

A few viewers of the video pointed out that Archie's owner unknowingly employed redirection, a proactive training technique that works equally well on dogs and children. One person wrote, "You redirected him. That's just good parenting."

Redirection is part of positive reinforcement training, which involves replacing a bad behavior (such as bothering the cat) with a good behavior (such as quietly looking out the window), instead of punishing the bad behavior. Redirection sets the dog up for success by making it easy for the dog to do the right thing. If you'd like to start training your dog using redirection, be sure to speak to your dog in a pleasant, happy voice whenever you redirect the animal away from a bad behavior. The technique works well if you redirect the rascal immediately after (or, even better, just before) the naughty behavior begins. Waiting too long allows the bad behavior to be reinforced.

Want to see another doxie being delightful? Check out this dachshund hilariously spinning into tornado mode after catching its own tail.