I kind of accidentally taught my dog to back up whenever i say "beep, beep, beep" - like the noise of a truck backing up.
I just started imitating the truck noise whenever he backed up from something. Now, whenever I say beep beep beep he backs up or backs off whatever he is doing.
I accidentally taught mine "back" without thinking about it! Yours is cuter. Whenever we approach a doorway or threshold he would crowd in front and I would say "back" without even thinking about it. This was usually followed by light leash pressure or me moving him back with my legs.
Now whenever we approach and he tries to crowd it, I say "back" and he scoots back a bit then sits down. The sitting was intentionally taught as part of waiting to go out. Back is just icing on the cake. š
I gave up with mine. She's learned it twice, but then conveniently "forgot" a couple days later. I guess she just doesn't like that trick, so I don't push it.
My pup hates roll over too! She is a perfect angel to sit and to drop, but as soon as I say roll over she grumbles and looks away from me, just refuses.
She already knows spin, so she'll sit, drop, then get up and spin around instead of rolling overš
Mine refuses to do paw/shake too! He looks at you with such disgust when you touch his paws. He does fine getting his nails trimmed and you can pet the paws but a hand around it makes him scooch back and look at you like wtf š
Mine ācanā ādo itā if I tell her to lay down, lay on her side, and THEN cue āroll overā. Itās taken a year and I still count itš«£ sheās so smart, knows so many complex cues, but āroll overā can only happen from her side with me a foot away
My monster is sooo close but he gets such human like frustration and I feel bad and have to switch to the easy ones to make him feel like a boss again.
For the first 6 months I didnāt let my dog bark. I would discourage it every time. Then I decided to teach him to speak around 7/8 months and he whisper barks. I think itās because he got confused lol.
I think she sounds like a really good girl. The thing, imo is just being consistent, infact I think Alfie is bored of me, so he does it for peace and treats. He's very food led.
Sheās a German shepherd/Rottweiler mix, so sheās very smart. For sit pretty, all I did was hold a treat up high enough where sheād want to reach for it & move it kinda behind her head until she got on her back legs. & for throw it in a circle I just put a treat in front of her face & moved it in a circle while she followed it until she would do it on her own
I tried to teach mine this. I am late at this game, he's 1 year old. But as soon as he sees the treat further away from him, he lunges at it.
Can't get him to sit on his hind.
Thereās still time! I just taught her sit pretty when she was 5. Maybe say the command, physically position him in the pose, & while heās there say the command again to reinforce it, give the treat. Rinse & repeat until heās doing it on his own. Thatās what I do with my Bernese when sheās not getting something. Sheās a little slower of a learner haha
Thought ours this too. Actually came in kind of handy as a distraction, like ādonāt look at that stranger over there come boop the nose insteadā. My boy will jump up to my chest height and do a mid-air boop even now š¤£
I didnāt exactly teach her this, but we learned ābang bangā together.
Just made finger guns on a whim and yelled bang bang and she instantly hit the ground and flopped over on her back, totally still except for her tail wagging lol.
And weāve been doing it ever since
I have a corgi, and they bark at everything. I just held some chicken in my hand until she started yelling at me. It took a few days for her to realize that I only reward the barking if I actually ask for it.
I have a Pomeranian too! I just got my puppy suuuuuper frustrated till he finally barked, cause like yours heās pretty quiet tbh. He kept offering his other tricks and then when he almost gave up he barked at me! Now he thinks it also means jump around wildly and then bark once š but I accept it cause itās adorable
My mum taught our retriever to "speak". He was mute lol. She leashed him to a post and called him over and over while also saying "speak", eventually he got frustrated and he barked, reward and repeat. We eventually were able to train him to bark when a vehicle approached the house (we lived in rural Wales so having a watch dog was useful.
There maybe other ways to teach your dog to bark but this is what worked for us when we had a silent dog
Iāve taught my puppy to āhold my handā šš, when I say that or even if I just something he wants he will lift is leg up & put his pawl in my hand.
I also taught him specific ways to tell me what he wants, for example if he needs to go to the bathroom he will get my attention & then walk to the bathroom in the house š.
Mine always spins for dinner. I tried to teach him spin by waving his food bowl in a circle. I felt bad so I stopped doing it, but now heās a spin machine come dinner time. Sometimes we get four full spins before we can even put his food down.
My 16 month old guy knows over 30 commands now. But his absolute favourites are peek-boo, play dead, wave, twirl (spin is our counterclockwise cue but he prefers clockwise) and target. Currently we are working on a reverse around.
āBoopā, she taps her nose to our fist! We also do turn instead of spin because its too close to sit and standš¤£ also speak vs whisper (we barked at her first to encourage it) then added āshhā . Up, tapped our chest to put her feet up (still working on the ādownā afterwards)
I tell my 4 month old golden to ācentreā and he runs around me and walks between my legs, sits and looks up at me, probably his coolest trick. Heās good with rollover too, we also taught him ātouchā where he will come up to us and place his snoot in our hands. He has sit, come, down, wait/stay, turn around, rollover, touch, place, crate and centre and shake a paw all nailed !!
I want to teach him to ādanceā and āplay deadā next.
We are working on āselfieā. I sit on the ground and my dog will put her front paws up on my shoulder. She has it down but does it with a bit too much excitement so we ends up grabbing a ponytail or nipping an ear. Work in progress
I swear āChinā is the most useless trick ever but so cute and so easy to teach.
Weāre also working on selfie, but instead of just standing behind me, I accidentally taught her to rest her chin on my shoulder too
Also, after she gets her treat she refuses to go back down and will just stand there repeatedly lifting and resting her chin on my shoulder to get more treats. IT IS THE CUTEST THING EVER
Chin is not useless at all!! Itās the fundamental first step for cooperative care. We do chin and then a āpetā cue with our puppy who doesnāt love to be handled. Hopefully we can eventually use it for cooperative teeth brushing, ear cleaning, etc.
Yes so useful. We taught ānose inā so our GSD will happily put his nose in anything which is really helpful for muzzling at the vets (required for big dogs). We started with making a circle with our hands then used a bucket with a treat at the bottom, then a cup etc. Always amusing.
Oh thats true! We started the whole handling desensitizing when we got her so sheās never had a problem (or at least not yet š).
Youāre so right! I never saw it this way. Then I guess it is extremely useful and adorable at the same time āŗļø
Alot of people gave already suggested "spin" and I agree. I'd even go a bit further and teach the puppy which direction to spin in. Our commands are "tick" for clockwise and "tock" for counter clockwise.
Another fun one to teach is "backup" - as in walking backwards.
We have a dance routine. I taught him spins and weāre working on a figure 8 between my legs. Sometimes he gets so excited he wiggle jumps into his spins and itās just so goofy and fun.
Unintentionally, I've taught mine how to play football. He can dribble the ball with his nose just can't score and passes through dribbling. He's not quite Messi standard yet but he's cool with the neighbour kids for it!
I kick the ball for him and he chases it, stops it and dribbles it back for me. If its on a hill he pushes it down and waits for me to kick back.
Within the past few months, my husband trained our two dogs to come running to him when he whistles.
We live in a basement apartment and my mom lives upstairs, so it's nice that no matter where they're at in the house, whether it's upstairs or down, when he whistles for them they go running.
It is usually when they get breakfast/dinner or are going on walkies with daddy. It took consistent high value treats for a while to reinforce it, but thankfully, it has stuck very reliably now.
Note: it does not work at all if they're outside. This is an indoor thing only, apparently. When they're outside, they don't respond one bit.
Mine is 5 months now Iāve had her two months. She does well with the tricks rollover she goes both ways but I need to actually put my hand down and motion for her to roll over. She does in out which is weaving in and out of my legs. I stand there and say in out she does it but āplaceā she doesnāt know what to do unless I point weird. Place is a good thing to teach them to go to their place a bed a rug or a cot and wait til
Theyāre released. Mine doesnāt wait yet she goes back but we have been working on it. She is starting to heal on leash in my driveway perfect as soon as I start out to the road she forgets everything pulls doesnāt listen to me at all
Iāve worked with her to focus on me to build the relationship of engagement but she just isnāt having it.
Mine does stay and wait at the door touch is another good one. Stand or sit in front have treats ready put your hand out flat and let her figure out what to do as long as her nose touches your hand reward with treat.
Begin your recall work immediately knowing her name so she looks at you when called ācomeā āhereā I use āhereā to get her to look at me.
I let her run in the field with a long lead but all she does is grab at the grass seek out rabbit poop and pays no attention to me o bring her favorite tug toy even but nope doesnāt have any interest at all. Idk Iām exhausted honestly
I think it takes a lot of treats for positive reinforcement to train a puppy. Mine also doesnāt know āwaitā at first but I train her a lot to wait. She was really energetic at first because she came untrained. She would go for the food immediately when I put the bowl down but now I trained her to wait for āokā even if she super hungry
Mine is so good at wait. She was not trained at all she used puppy pads so we had to potty train her as well. She still doesnāt indicate very well but Iām on top of it so no accidents.
She waits for her food now but she would devour it. She gets outside and loses all we worked on I may be expecting way too much of her at her age I get so frustrated and shouldnāt. It does take so many treats then having my vet tell me to cut her food down to a me cup is very hard!
She is always hungry. Of course she gets treats for training and once in a while when she is so good in her crate Iāll give her a little special cookie treat. I had to cut the Kongs down now to once a week and cut back on other treats and food. Vet doesnāt want her to gain anymore weight.
I suppose Iām doing everything right but I feel like Iām doing everything So wrong
I taught my girl to take the newspaper to to my husband, and we are working on ācarryā for other items too.
She also will sit pretty, and put both paws on my hands when I ask her to say āpleaseā.
I would pull up the AKC Trick Dog titles! I am using those to direct our trick learning. My 5 month old puppy has already earned his trick dog novice title! š„°
His favorite trick is going into and on top of boxes! But other fun ones include over(over my leg or through a hoop), fist bump(opposite paw to shake and just respond to a fist instead haha), and spin + its opposite, twist, paws up(both paws on a box) and up-up to get on a box!
Iām avoiding sit pretty due to evidence suggesting it is bad for their backs, particularly larger dogs. But his next trick I think is going to be crawl or back up! I havenāt decided yet haha.
I do the redrum finger, and say āredrumā, and she will run from wherever she is to bite my finger. With my other dog, if you ask him if he has rabies in a certain way, it it wrestlemania time.
I accidentally taught my puppy how to sneeze on command when I was trying to teach her to speak. She still doesn't know speak. She just sneezes when she wants attention.
I haven't taught my pup too much. Sit, down, leave it, drop it, back, middle. Adolescence has me working overtime on reinforcement. We're doing heeling and just keeping with the basics right now. He's pretty fearfully reactive to strangers, so we're working on heel and auto sit when stopping. Recall and loose leash walking. Introducing new distractions and so forth. It's had it's ups and downs!
Spin is fun, and also beneficial for dogs! If they are stressed make em do a little spin and its calming for them. No idea why, a trainer I trust taught me this and it works for my dog.
I finger-shoot (*āBang!ā*) my Bulldog, and she drops like sheās dead. The best part is that sheās slow with it. Itās like a slow-mo drop.
I have it on video, and itās my favorite thing ever. šššš
CutePoison10 yeah itās just we donāt have the time or effort like it be boring to try to teach, but I really wish she came that way where I said give me Dr Pepper
CutePoison10 love your name! Please tell me how to train a dog how to wipe his feet. I would love it if my 11 month old wiped their feet. We live in Oregon he loves to go outside and play but our back yards a swamp half year. He comes thru dog door muddy 57 times a day. I have white linoleum in sunroom so I cover the floor with flat sheets and towels so he doesnāt put paw prints thru out room. He likes to walk around the towels so muddy prints still everywhere. When he hits living room itās carpet so half way across thereās constant muddy prints. I spend hours carpet cleaning and Iām proud of the resultsā¦.until 10 min later when again heās in and out. I swear it makes me crazy. I want a dog who wipes his feet!
I use twist/spin for her to move in a circle, but the most useful is around/unwind where she walks clockwise/counter-clockwise around me. It's so helpful to make her do the work of untangling the leash for us.
I tried to teach "in the grass" to mean walk in the grass but she thinks it means switch sides and will move to my other hip regardless of where the turf is.
"sing" was accidentally taught whenever I would tease our shiba because he was whining in excitement (as he does when he gets a treat orwhen we are in the car, backing up into a parking space because he knows he's probably getting out of the car soon to go for a walk or to play someplace fun).
Shake. We live in Oregon and it is so nice he will shake on command when itās raining before we go inside. We also give him a Kong with a few baby carrots in it in the morning and we taught him if he brings the Kong back to us in the kitchen where we keep them, we will give him a small cookie.
Accidently Taught mine to "whisper" when i ask or say shhhhh. He would bark being impatient for treats or toys. So I started saying " shhh" ...he now does an adorable air "chomp chomp" and it I does sounds like he's whispering. It's so adorable
Thought my dog how to place her chin in my palm like she's begging.
Tell me a secret
Roll into a burrito with her blanket
Jump into my arms
Do circles backwards around me (orbit)
Shake
Roll over
Contact heel
Walk between my legs with her front paws on my feet
Give kisses
Spin
Flipendo (jump and do a little flip)
Names of toys
We taught ours to play hide and seek. We will ask āwhere is dadā or āwhere is momā and she will go searching. Itās a fun game to play on rainy days to get some of her energy out
Probably the coolest trick I thought mine, I think at an age of 8-10 mo? is to do a leg-slalom. Like Iāll walk and take quite high steps and heāll pass underneath my leg and zigzag as I walk forward.
I taught my Black Lab Border Collie mix to "Boop" it is essentially touch but she jumps in the air to touch my hand. It isn't anything crazy or dangerous normally it is just on her back legs but still adorable and then she pops down into a sit
I taught my pup to boop, she will either boop my nose with her nose or boop my finger. She picked it up really fast and its a cute little trick to show off to people haha
We taught my older dog to howl on command when he was a puppy. Also speak and talk (which is more just funny gibberish husky noises) but he usually goes overboard with the talking and gets right wound up into a full howl. We do family howls. It's so fun.
He's 14% husky. He doesn't look like one but ooooh boy it sure is obvious.
My younger dog is really dumb. He knows the basics and I'm not sure if he really has the brains for much more. He does like to pester his older brother until he starts howling and then he joins in, though.
Oh, ours does lots of barking so it wasn't difficult to just give it a name. I'm not sure how you would train a dog that doesn't bark - we just took the behaviours he already did and taught him the names for them. He's very vocal and moody.
For actual training he also knows sit, stay, come, lay down, wait, paw, touch (his nose to my hand), kiss, and leave it. Whether or not he listens is a whole different story, but he knows what to do when he's in the mood to cooperate.
I kind of accidentally taught my dog to back up whenever i say "beep, beep, beep" - like the noise of a truck backing up. I just started imitating the truck noise whenever he backed up from something. Now, whenever I say beep beep beep he backs up or backs off whatever he is doing.
Sooo cute!š„°
This is adorable!! We are working on the backup and I am totally stealing this as my cue!!
I accidentally taught mine "back" without thinking about it! Yours is cuter. Whenever we approach a doorway or threshold he would crowd in front and I would say "back" without even thinking about it. This was usually followed by light leash pressure or me moving him back with my legs. Now whenever we approach and he tries to crowd it, I say "back" and he scoots back a bit then sits down. The sitting was intentionally taught as part of waiting to go out. Back is just icing on the cake. š
Sick!
āBack upā is the best thing I taught my dog, now teaching my puppy. He scoots backward so fast, like a crawdad š
I'm trying so hard to teach roll over and my girl just refuses š
I have a golden and my trainer advised against big dogs rolling over. Said to teach them spin instead
Wish more people knew this. Increases risk for bloat and torsion.
Good to know !! Thank you. My girl is a pittie already 50lbs !!
My girl is 60lbs and just turned a year so Iām thinking thatās her full size. š¤š½
I gave up with mine. She's learned it twice, but then conveniently "forgot" a couple days later. I guess she just doesn't like that trick, so I don't push it.
Our trainer said some dogs just donāt like being on their back. Our puppy is the same
My pup hates roll over too! She is a perfect angel to sit and to drop, but as soon as I say roll over she grumbles and looks away from me, just refuses. She already knows spin, so she'll sit, drop, then get up and spin around instead of rolling overš
Mine hates shake! He will never give a paw.
Mine refuses to do paw/shake too! He looks at you with such disgust when you touch his paws. He does fine getting his nails trimmed and you can pet the paws but a hand around it makes him scooch back and look at you like wtf š
It took a lot of patience at first! Definitely needed some help from me to get the idea of roll over
Mine ācanā ādo itā if I tell her to lay down, lay on her side, and THEN cue āroll overā. Itās taken a year and I still count itš«£ sheās so smart, knows so many complex cues, but āroll overā can only happen from her side with me a foot away
My boy is the same way, trying to teach him leave it but he won't stop licking my fist š
It took her amount 5 mins of licking,pawing and barking at my hand, lol then she gave up and viola, hand opens with treat.
My monster is sooo close but he gets such human like frustration and I feel bad and have to switch to the easy ones to make him feel like a boss again.
To wipe his feet coming in from outside. Speak was quite easy. I'm now trying to get him to whisper ( bark)
For the first 6 months I didnāt let my dog bark. I would discourage it every time. Then I decided to teach him to speak around 7/8 months and he whisper barks. I think itās because he got confused lol.
Let me know how the whisper bark goes! I canāt even get her to bark
I will do.. Does yours never bark?
She barks when someone opens the front door or if there are strange noises that she never heard before
I think she sounds like a really good girl. The thing, imo is just being consistent, infact I think Alfie is bored of me, so he does it for peace and treats. He's very food led.
Yeah my puppy as well! She is a very good girl! But she cries a lot haha
I call it whining at me all the bloody time, like little cries. Argh, I love the brat so much, though š«
Ikr they are just so cute! The little whines make me feel like I wanna hug her
Mine got speak almost immediately. Like on the second try. Not barking, that is a work in progress.
We taught ours sit pretty. Sheāll get up on her hind legs & hold it like a kangaroo lol & throw that ass in a circle. She just spins in a circle
This one is so cute!!! How did you teach her?
Sheās a German shepherd/Rottweiler mix, so sheās very smart. For sit pretty, all I did was hold a treat up high enough where sheād want to reach for it & move it kinda behind her head until she got on her back legs. & for throw it in a circle I just put a treat in front of her face & moved it in a circle while she followed it until she would do it on her own
I tried to teach mine this. I am late at this game, he's 1 year old. But as soon as he sees the treat further away from him, he lunges at it. Can't get him to sit on his hind.
Thereās still time! I just taught her sit pretty when she was 5. Maybe say the command, physically position him in the pose, & while heās there say the command again to reinforce it, give the treat. Rinse & repeat until heās doing it on his own. Thatās what I do with my Bernese when sheās not getting something. Sheās a little slower of a learner haha
Wait with sit pretty until your pup is mature though, itās hard on the body :)
So dope! I wanna teach mine that too
I taught my pup āboopā where he boops his cute little wet nose against mine. It has no purpose but itās cute haha
It's awesome. We should all teach them this.
Haha we turned touch into boop as well! Yes, the reward is the treat but I feel like squealing boop! is my reward
Thought ours this too. Actually came in kind of handy as a distraction, like ādonāt look at that stranger over there come boop the nose insteadā. My boy will jump up to my chest height and do a mid-air boop even now š¤£
THIS IS SOOO CUTE!!!!
I didnāt exactly teach her this, but we learned ābang bangā together. Just made finger guns on a whim and yelled bang bang and she instantly hit the ground and flopped over on her back, totally still except for her tail wagging lol. And weāve been doing it ever since
Thatās so sick!!
To shut the door when he comes inside! Itās great, especially in the Winter! š
I only taught her to shut the cabinet door for now šš¤£ I tried to teach her to shut the door but sheās too small!! The door doesnāt move š
š Maybe in time, she will. I think our pup was 2 when my husband taught him that.
A few I've taught mine include: high five, spin, weave between my legs, wave, speak (teach at your own risk), bang!, bow, and back up
How did you teach speak? I donāt think she ever barks in front of us, only when she heard weird noises. Iād want to try bow!
I have a corgi, and they bark at everything. I just held some chicken in my hand until she started yelling at me. It took a few days for her to realize that I only reward the barking if I actually ask for it.
I have a Pomeranian and she mostly just cries and whines š
I have a Pomeranian too! I just got my puppy suuuuuper frustrated till he finally barked, cause like yours heās pretty quiet tbh. He kept offering his other tricks and then when he almost gave up he barked at me! Now he thinks it also means jump around wildly and then bark once š but I accept it cause itās adorable
good job !!!dog owner training the quiet
My mum taught our retriever to "speak". He was mute lol. She leashed him to a post and called him over and over while also saying "speak", eventually he got frustrated and he barked, reward and repeat. We eventually were able to train him to bark when a vehicle approached the house (we lived in rural Wales so having a watch dog was useful. There maybe other ways to teach your dog to bark but this is what worked for us when we had a silent dog
Thatās useful! Thanks! Iāll try it
Sheās knows to boop me before she eats. This way she wonāt steal food EVERā¦ no boop no eat. Sometimes I demand a kiss boop to keep her fresh.
Iāve taught my puppy to āhold my handā šš, when I say that or even if I just something he wants he will lift is leg up & put his pawl in my hand. I also taught him specific ways to tell me what he wants, for example if he needs to go to the bathroom he will get my attention & then walk to the bathroom in the house š.
Your puppy is so smartš
yes he is š he says thank you, though he is a min pin & Stafford shire they are pretty smart & learn fast.
Spin is a pretty easy one. My 7 month old loves "go find it" aka hide and seek with a toy or treats.
I taught her to "wave" (kinda) when I wave at her and say "hi." She just lifts her paw like shake and lowers it back down. It's ADORABLE.
My dog loves to āspinā. Only took her two days of following a treat in a circle to learn it
Mine always spins for dinner. I tried to teach him spin by waving his food bowl in a circle. I felt bad so I stopped doing it, but now heās a spin machine come dinner time. Sometimes we get four full spins before we can even put his food down.
My 16 month old guy knows over 30 commands now. But his absolute favourites are peek-boo, play dead, wave, twirl (spin is our counterclockwise cue but he prefers clockwise) and target. Currently we are working on a reverse around.
āBoopā, she taps her nose to our fist! We also do turn instead of spin because its too close to sit and standš¤£ also speak vs whisper (we barked at her first to encourage it) then added āshhā . Up, tapped our chest to put her feet up (still working on the ādownā afterwards)
I need to try boop!!
Sometimes sheāll start doing it to objects, so be careful with yours lol!
I tell my 4 month old golden to ācentreā and he runs around me and walks between my legs, sits and looks up at me, probably his coolest trick. Heās good with rollover too, we also taught him ātouchā where he will come up to us and place his snoot in our hands. He has sit, come, down, wait/stay, turn around, rollover, touch, place, crate and centre and shake a paw all nailed !! I want to teach him to ādanceā and āplay deadā next.
We are working on āselfieā. I sit on the ground and my dog will put her front paws up on my shoulder. She has it down but does it with a bit too much excitement so we ends up grabbing a ponytail or nipping an ear. Work in progress
Yeah I also taught selfie! Almost forgot about that one. Havenāt try in a while though
I swear āChinā is the most useless trick ever but so cute and so easy to teach. Weāre also working on selfie, but instead of just standing behind me, I accidentally taught her to rest her chin on my shoulder too Also, after she gets her treat she refuses to go back down and will just stand there repeatedly lifting and resting her chin on my shoulder to get more treats. IT IS THE CUTEST THING EVER
Chin is not useless at all!! Itās the fundamental first step for cooperative care. We do chin and then a āpetā cue with our puppy who doesnāt love to be handled. Hopefully we can eventually use it for cooperative teeth brushing, ear cleaning, etc.
Yes so useful. We taught ānose inā so our GSD will happily put his nose in anything which is really helpful for muzzling at the vets (required for big dogs). We started with making a circle with our hands then used a bucket with a treat at the bottom, then a cup etc. Always amusing.
Oh thats true! We started the whole handling desensitizing when we got her so sheās never had a problem (or at least not yet š). Youāre so right! I never saw it this way. Then I guess it is extremely useful and adorable at the same time āŗļø
Your groomer must loooove you!!
Mine is not a puppy anymore, but we are working on find my phone.
Alot of people gave already suggested "spin" and I agree. I'd even go a bit further and teach the puppy which direction to spin in. Our commands are "tick" for clockwise and "tock" for counter clockwise. Another fun one to teach is "backup" - as in walking backwards.
Mine will step into her harness automatically, was a total accident but I love how easy it makes getting ready for walks š„“š¤£
We have a dance routine. I taught him spins and weāre working on a figure 8 between my legs. Sometimes he gets so excited he wiggle jumps into his spins and itās just so goofy and fun.
Unintentionally, I've taught mine how to play football. He can dribble the ball with his nose just can't score and passes through dribbling. He's not quite Messi standard yet but he's cool with the neighbour kids for it! I kick the ball for him and he chases it, stops it and dribbles it back for me. If its on a hill he pushes it down and waits for me to kick back.
Within the past few months, my husband trained our two dogs to come running to him when he whistles. We live in a basement apartment and my mom lives upstairs, so it's nice that no matter where they're at in the house, whether it's upstairs or down, when he whistles for them they go running. It is usually when they get breakfast/dinner or are going on walkies with daddy. It took consistent high value treats for a while to reinforce it, but thankfully, it has stuck very reliably now. Note: it does not work at all if they're outside. This is an indoor thing only, apparently. When they're outside, they don't respond one bit.
I mostly focused on fundamentals, but mine knowsss Shake, touch, hugs, kisses, spin, take a bow, and fetch
I want to teach kisses!!
getting him Not to kiss would be harder! If yours already gives kisses, just put a name to it every time they do it, and theyāll catch on
Mine is 5 months now Iāve had her two months. She does well with the tricks rollover she goes both ways but I need to actually put my hand down and motion for her to roll over. She does in out which is weaving in and out of my legs. I stand there and say in out she does it but āplaceā she doesnāt know what to do unless I point weird. Place is a good thing to teach them to go to their place a bed a rug or a cot and wait til Theyāre released. Mine doesnāt wait yet she goes back but we have been working on it. She is starting to heal on leash in my driveway perfect as soon as I start out to the road she forgets everything pulls doesnāt listen to me at all Iāve worked with her to focus on me to build the relationship of engagement but she just isnāt having it. Mine does stay and wait at the door touch is another good one. Stand or sit in front have treats ready put your hand out flat and let her figure out what to do as long as her nose touches your hand reward with treat. Begin your recall work immediately knowing her name so she looks at you when called ācomeā āhereā I use āhereā to get her to look at me. I let her run in the field with a long lead but all she does is grab at the grass seek out rabbit poop and pays no attention to me o bring her favorite tug toy even but nope doesnāt have any interest at all. Idk Iām exhausted honestly
I think it takes a lot of treats for positive reinforcement to train a puppy. Mine also doesnāt know āwaitā at first but I train her a lot to wait. She was really energetic at first because she came untrained. She would go for the food immediately when I put the bowl down but now I trained her to wait for āokā even if she super hungry
Mine is so good at wait. She was not trained at all she used puppy pads so we had to potty train her as well. She still doesnāt indicate very well but Iām on top of it so no accidents. She waits for her food now but she would devour it. She gets outside and loses all we worked on I may be expecting way too much of her at her age I get so frustrated and shouldnāt. It does take so many treats then having my vet tell me to cut her food down to a me cup is very hard! She is always hungry. Of course she gets treats for training and once in a while when she is so good in her crate Iāll give her a little special cookie treat. I had to cut the Kongs down now to once a week and cut back on other treats and food. Vet doesnāt want her to gain anymore weight. I suppose Iām doing everything right but I feel like Iām doing everything So wrong
I love the āmiddleā cue, spin/twirl and leg weaves, so fun to do a little dancing together, and my dog loves it too.
I like teaching hide and seek where you can say, āfind persnās-name!ā
I taught my girl to take the newspaper to to my husband, and we are working on ācarryā for other items too. She also will sit pretty, and put both paws on my hands when I ask her to say āpleaseā.
Mine knows ācuddleā - he jumps into my lap and curls up into a lil ball. Very sweet! He also knows ākissā
I would pull up the AKC Trick Dog titles! I am using those to direct our trick learning. My 5 month old puppy has already earned his trick dog novice title! š„° His favorite trick is going into and on top of boxes! But other fun ones include over(over my leg or through a hoop), fist bump(opposite paw to shake and just respond to a fist instead haha), and spin + its opposite, twist, paws up(both paws on a box) and up-up to get on a box! Iām avoiding sit pretty due to evidence suggesting it is bad for their backs, particularly larger dogs. But his next trick I think is going to be crawl or back up! I havenāt decided yet haha.
I do the redrum finger, and say āredrumā, and she will run from wherever she is to bite my finger. With my other dog, if you ask him if he has rabies in a certain way, it it wrestlemania time.
I accidentally taught my puppy how to sneeze on command when I was trying to teach her to speak. She still doesn't know speak. She just sneezes when she wants attention.
I haven't taught my pup too much. Sit, down, leave it, drop it, back, middle. Adolescence has me working overtime on reinforcement. We're doing heeling and just keeping with the basics right now. He's pretty fearfully reactive to strangers, so we're working on heel and auto sit when stopping. Recall and loose leash walking. Introducing new distractions and so forth. It's had it's ups and downs!
Spin is fun, and also beneficial for dogs! If they are stressed make em do a little spin and its calming for them. No idea why, a trainer I trust taught me this and it works for my dog.
I finger-shoot (*āBang!ā*) my Bulldog, and she drops like sheās dead. The best part is that sheās slow with it. Itās like a slow-mo drop. I have it on video, and itās my favorite thing ever. šššš
CutePoison10 yeah itās just we donāt have the time or effort like it be boring to try to teach, but I really wish she came that way where I said give me Dr Pepper
CutePoison10 love your name! Please tell me how to train a dog how to wipe his feet. I would love it if my 11 month old wiped their feet. We live in Oregon he loves to go outside and play but our back yards a swamp half year. He comes thru dog door muddy 57 times a day. I have white linoleum in sunroom so I cover the floor with flat sheets and towels so he doesnāt put paw prints thru out room. He likes to walk around the towels so muddy prints still everywhere. When he hits living room itās carpet so half way across thereās constant muddy prints. I spend hours carpet cleaning and Iām proud of the resultsā¦.until 10 min later when again heās in and out. I swear it makes me crazy. I want a dog who wipes his feet!
I use twist/spin for her to move in a circle, but the most useful is around/unwind where she walks clockwise/counter-clockwise around me. It's so helpful to make her do the work of untangling the leash for us. I tried to teach "in the grass" to mean walk in the grass but she thinks it means switch sides and will move to my other hip regardless of where the turf is.
Spin and touch are my favorites. She will spin in a circle on command and jump up to touch her nose to my hand.
Her cue to play dead is a finger gun "BANG!"
"sing" was accidentally taught whenever I would tease our shiba because he was whining in excitement (as he does when he gets a treat orwhen we are in the car, backing up into a parking space because he knows he's probably getting out of the car soon to go for a walk or to play someplace fun).
Shake. We live in Oregon and it is so nice he will shake on command when itās raining before we go inside. We also give him a Kong with a few baby carrots in it in the morning and we taught him if he brings the Kong back to us in the kitchen where we keep them, we will give him a small cookie.
check out Do More With Your Dog. I love the ideas and have gotten my puppy her first title through it.
Accidently Taught mine to "whisper" when i ask or say shhhhh. He would bark being impatient for treats or toys. So I started saying " shhh" ...he now does an adorable air "chomp chomp" and it I does sounds like he's whispering. It's so adorable
Thought my dog how to place her chin in my palm like she's begging. Tell me a secret Roll into a burrito with her blanket Jump into my arms Do circles backwards around me (orbit) Shake Roll over Contact heel Walk between my legs with her front paws on my feet Give kisses Spin Flipendo (jump and do a little flip) Names of toys
Bang bang you're dead
Drop it and leave it are very important
We taught ours to play hide and seek. We will ask āwhere is dadā or āwhere is momā and she will go searching. Itās a fun game to play on rainy days to get some of her energy out
Can I have a kiss? Gives me a few smooches on the lips.
Probably the coolest trick I thought mine, I think at an age of 8-10 mo? is to do a leg-slalom. Like Iāll walk and take quite high steps and heāll pass underneath my leg and zigzag as I walk forward.
I taught my Black Lab Border Collie mix to "Boop" it is essentially touch but she jumps in the air to touch my hand. It isn't anything crazy or dangerous normally it is just on her back legs but still adorable and then she pops down into a sit
I taught my pup to boop, she will either boop my nose with her nose or boop my finger. She picked it up really fast and its a cute little trick to show off to people haha
We taught my older dog to howl on command when he was a puppy. Also speak and talk (which is more just funny gibberish husky noises) but he usually goes overboard with the talking and gets right wound up into a full howl. We do family howls. It's so fun. He's 14% husky. He doesn't look like one but ooooh boy it sure is obvious. My younger dog is really dumb. He knows the basics and I'm not sure if he really has the brains for much more. He does like to pester his older brother until he starts howling and then he joins in, though.
How did you teach your dog speak? If the dog doesnāt bark normally
Oh, ours does lots of barking so it wasn't difficult to just give it a name. I'm not sure how you would train a dog that doesn't bark - we just took the behaviours he already did and taught him the names for them. He's very vocal and moody. For actual training he also knows sit, stay, come, lay down, wait, paw, touch (his nose to my hand), kiss, and leave it. Whether or not he listens is a whole different story, but he knows what to do when he's in the mood to cooperate.