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How about teaching her to retrieve items by name (i.e. slippers, newspaper, hat, etc)
You can lay them out across the floor and tell her by name which items to get and bring to you.
I'm trying to teach my cocker spaniel to "fist bump" with her nose....it's not working very well, but she's "special" in a "love me because I'm cute, but I don't want to understand what you're teaching me" kind of way :)
I taught my puppies to give me high fives. now if they want a treat, the sit next to me and raise their paws... its cute.
I agree on the high five. You can also do the "play dead" where you pretend shoot her with a gun and she rolls over. People love that!
I taught my dog how to bow - what about that? When you go to the different homes you can have her bow when she meets people.
I like the high five too. I totally want to teach my dog to do that.
We have taught our 18 month old shar peis to shake, high five and knuckles! It's all basically the same but you just hold your hand different when you say the command. The most recent was knuckles and we still giggle when they reach out and tap our fist with their paw! Aww- I miss them today!
Agree with the playing dead, that is so cute! I taught my dog how to do that when I was a kid. I would say "bang bang" and he'd lay down and roll over with 4 paws up.
We taught our golden to put a cookie on her nose... took forever but now we can walk into the other room and snap our fingers and she tosses it up in the air and catches it.
Our black lab can't do it :( she's blind in one eye so she can't see it when she tosses it up, she can do part of it tho!
For a twist on the playing dead trick: I'm not sure where you're located or if there are any stiff sports rivalries where you are, but I live in Gator country (ie; close to UF). I know a few people who have trained their dogs to play dead on the command "Would you rather be a dead dog or a Seminole?" The dogs rolls over and plays dead and it always cracks someone up.
I agree with the bow, so when you introduce them to the other people, your puppy can bow.
Gizmo can wave, he sits up on his butt and waves at you. That's a pretty fun one for when leaving the room.
We taught our dog turn around so when we say turn around he chases his tail in circles then stops and gazes at us lovingly waiting for a treat.
My SIL in law taught her dog to jump through her arms made into a hoop. So she holds her arms out and calls her name and she jumps through her arms!
Charlie likes to jump--sometimes I'll hold a treat up high and he'll jump and jump for it... he's added a little flourish where he kicks out his back legs like a dolphin--it's supercute.
I've seen dogs who have been trained to "say their prayers". They go up to a bed/chair etc, put their feet on it, and bow their heads. SO cute!
These are all such cute ideas!
She can already do high fives and knows her right from her left, so maybe I can show that. And bringing toys and having her pick them out by name might be fun. Since having a border collie I forget these things aren't natural to every dog lol. I always had normal dogs before hehe
Sheesh my dog must be really dumb compared to your dogs.
My dog used to be able to sit, but when we taught her how to "lay down" she gets the two cnofused now.
You know when cops ask people to lean against the wall and 'spread 'em'?
We taught our dog that. LOL.
I only have two, but one of them cracks me up that it works so well. Honk at him when he is doing something wrong, sounds crazy but the strange noise coming from you makes them listen. I got it from the dog wisperer lady and it totally works.
The other is soft peanut but treats, I get them from the dog gourmet place but there are a ton of recipes online. My dogs, literally, will do back flips for them. They like the meat ones but the peanut butter ones they will do anything for and always gets their attention right away.
A friend of mine taught his dog how to "smile." He would say, "Show me your smile!" and she would lift up her jowls to show her teeth. It was so goofy and adorable. (And didn't look anything like she was growling.) To this day I have no idea how he taught her to do it though!
I taught my dog to jump through a hula hoop. It was really easy and totaly hilarious! If you are interedted I can give you step by step instructions on how I taught my pup it.He figured it out in about an hour it was pretty awesome.
I also taught him how to work out on a step. I said one and he stepped up and on two he would step down. It was awesome!!!
Things I taught Junior Mink, a golden retriever:
-Paw, other paw (too easy for a border collie!)
-Turn around (he spins in a circle)
-Bow (front legs straight, bum in the air...taught it when he was stretching)
-Please (beg position...sitting on his haunches, front paws up like he's praying)
-Belly
-Sad (down with his chin on the floor)
I also taught him to bark on cue for the words "squirrel", "kitty cat", "Hokies" (rival team mascot), and "Michael Vick."
We taught our malamute how to "dance." It is super cute! He knows two different kinds of "dances", a "big dance" and a "little dance".
For a "big dance", he stands on his back legs and will rest his front paws on your shoulders and sway back and forth with you (think "junior high awkward first dance" style). He's as tall as my DH when he stands on his hind legs though, so we taught him a "little dance" for children. He sits on his haunches and puts his paws up in the air for you to grab onto and then he'll sway side to side.
It was a bit funny trying to teach him these things, but it always gets a laugh from people!
Our chihuahua/mini-pincher is special, he barely knows how to sit. But he's so freaking adorable, I don't care!
Our chihuahua though is pretty cool w/ the tricks. She's stubborn and only learns what she wants to learn, but she can sit, lay down, high five, shake, and spin in a circle when prompted :-)
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My dog just started working as a therapy dog. As part of the introductions at some of the homes they love to see the dogs do tricks.
Anyone have a great trick that I can teach my dog? She is an extremely inteligent border collie so it's not hard to teach her something, it's just hard for me to come up with what to teach her lol.
I love seeing furbaby pictures if you want to share :) Here is her being silly when I got home from work one day.