Does Your Dog Do Any Tricks?

[gaddylovesdogs]

My girls know sit, stay, down, come, heel, paw, up, and fetch. Colby also knows speak, balance, say your prayers, paws up. Can't remember any others but I know there are more.

 

[Love4Pits]

Oh definatly lol. All of my dogs are trained in general obedience through their puppy years it helps once i start training for the sledding. So yeah each and evey one of my dogs can sit, stay, lay down, and stop when ask to and a good few can speak on command. But thats not so special huh. Well I do have some personal achievments some have made.

Well lets see here lol Hitch can climb ladders lol
Stinker can chew through gates
Buck will jump up into my arms if i pat my shoulders and say up (something he never grew out of so now when I say up to him im usually going down lol)
Tracker will howl on command which is really cute lol.
Shady will beg on her hind legs on command if i say Please
Rajah will run to the door and look out when I tell him to go watch for company and will not move until they get to the house lol.

And of course my poor forgotten pitties
Both Zeus and Tundra know the general tricks and each can also speak, shake, roll over, and beg up on command. If I tell Zeus to get a toy he will and brign it to me to play with. And Tundra does a little dance which i turned into a trick after she did it for so long she used to spin in circles when she would get excited when she was a puppy and I just kept on saying Dance when she would do it and give her a treat to where now i can say Tundra dance for me she will have a couple times asking for it and its really cute lol.







and of course you know Zeus and Tundra

 

[Sakasha]

Dutch knows all the basics - sit, down, over (roll over), paw, high-five, wait (stay or stop), come, drop it, up (if he's sitting/laying down and I need him to move), and off. He does "leave it" so well I can put cold cuts on the floor infront of him, tell him to leave it, walk out of the room, and when I come back, he's still sitting there, staring at the cold cuts with a puddle of drool between his paws. "Take it" is his release from "leave it".

He also knows "jump" for the hurdles in agility, "through" to jump through hoops, "weave" to walk between agility poles/my legs, "spin" to spin in circles, "inside" for either going in his crate or getting in the car, and "find it" for playing games of hide-and-seek .

Yes, I spend a lot of time training my dog.

 

[fennash]

My boys can do all the basics, I am training them in obedience but they do have a couple of unusual things. When they have been in the river or the sea I can tell them to 'shake' and they will. It's good cos I don't get drowned. Also Fenn my 2year old collie is facinated by torches and lights. He will chase a torch beam anywere, even up the wall, he was about 12" off the celing last time.
Lynn

 

[smkie]

Victor knows all the basics..Mary on the other hand had pups when most dogs are learning the fun stuff. She just refused for so many years. Now that she is 10 she has suddenly learned to sit pretty! Horaaay for Mary. She won't speak yet, but she sneezes instead. So when we "pratice" I tell vic to speak and Mary to sneeze! We allow old girls shortcuts don't we?

 

[AndrewF]

Jake has sit, stay, come, lie-down, up, down , paw, and we're working on roll-over here and there. We're also working on when he's told to stay, doing so as a piece of kibble skips across the floor in front of his nose and other distractions....however, I'm not at the point of leaving him to guard a plate of roast beef yet

 

[declansmom]

My sheltie loves showing off his fancy tricks, so he knows a few.
"Bang" -roll over and play dead (although he pops up too quickly for it to be "dead")
Shake, other paw, both paws
Roll over
Speak
Pick a hand (show him two closed hands, he will sniff & pick the one with a snack in it & put his paw on it)

He will also balance a treat on his nose and wait until you tell him ok, then flip his head a little bit and catch it in midair. We've timed him at 3 minutes of waiting with it on his nose, then I felt sorry for him & let him have it. Usually I just do 5 seconds.

He is working now on "leave it, come" -throwing a frisbee across the lawn, then telling him to drop it, leave it where it is, and come back. He has issues with that, he'll come halfway back to me, then loop back to pick up the frisbee. He loves his frisbee too much to leave it 20 feet away!

 

[smkie]

I have never been able to teach a dog to do the nose balancing flip trick...i always thought that was cool.

 

[declansmom]

It's hard!

You don't want to know how long it took.... 5 months of trying it 3 times in a row almost every day. He is a master at "stay" (I can leave him in a down stay and leave his sight or walk more than 50 feet away and he'll stay put), which helped. When we practiced, I put the treat on his nose, said "stay... stay..." and held my hands around his nose, then kept loosening them a little. He would wiggle his head and it would fall off, and I would put it back twice, then make him do a shake hands or something & give him the treat.

It was mostly hard getting him to follow what was going on. Once the lightbulb clicked, at 4 months 6 days, we were golden.

 

[Gustav]

Gus can do all the basics, shake paw, other paw, both paws, stands up on hind legs, crawls, speaks, dances (really funny! if you ask him to dance he jiggles about all over the place!!), Sings, gives kisses on demand, he does the leave it come, also when I throw something and tell him to stay he waits till i tell him to go get it, get the keys! he finds the keys when they are hidden or lost, he will get a toy by name if you ask for it (go get your rope tuggie he gets it!)
Oh yeah and he speaks English, French and Flemish!
He's a real smarty!! And likes to show off!!!
Problem is he learns things in about an hour and then gets bored again!

 

[Gustav]

Don't know if anyone watches Crufts, but he does the send away and lie down at distance as well! You send your dog off about 20 meters or so and tell them to lie down and they should (and I mean should!!) lie down where they are! We've not got this perfected yet but i'm working on it!!!

 

[Debi]

Both do sit, lay...and will give a paw when asked......that's it. When I tell Ham to 'stay'.....he usually will decide I must mean for him to stay with me. He will always insist on first seeing if I'm serious before listening...I always give the command..like 'sit'...but always have to follow with 'what did I say'...then he'll do it. I've never seen him do anything....even when telling him to 'settle' when he is being a maniac......he will after I add 'what did I say' lol Addie listens immediately....then she'll look at him with that smirk that says 'see, I'M the good one'.

 

[smkie]

I think ham is smart..if i had to stay.. i would want to stay with my friend too and I think he likes to hear your voice so he waits until you say it again he is the good one!

 

[shredhead (DOG LOVER)]

So far I've taught Boomer Jumping, Hugging, Shaking, Walking Upright, Sit, Stay. He also does little things that I never taught him.

 

[oriondw]

my pup crawls and bows. thats about it.


Well he can jump ( with grabbing by the shoulder), he can put his feet on your shoudlers, but thats not tricks thats work

 

[Sunnypup]

lets see, since he's only just over 3 months we are far from perfect on these but Sunny knows sit, lay down, paw (shake), highfive, wave, dance (sort of a twisty, jumpy circle motion until I say to stop), crawl (only for a few feet then he gets annoyed and walks upright), stay(only from a few feet away yet), touch (hold my hand out as a target and say touch, bumps his nose to it), come, wait for me (if he gets ahead of me on the trail he'll sit down and wait until I'm there then keep walking), off, jump, down (as in don't jump on me), go say hello (waits until I give a cue to greet people at the door, has been very useful in curbing excitement peeing ) we are working on free-shaping with a clicker to get him to shake on command, like he does when he has had his bath or was just out in the rain. I just think that would be a cute alternative so when someone says "shake" he actually shakes off (I know, I'm goofy) and pottys on command (most of the time...okay, who am I kidding, when he feels like it ) yeah, that's about it. He's pretty bright and when he wants a treat (like anything I happen to be holding in my hands that is a food-like substance) he'll run through most of his tricks and try to get it silly baby. yeah, I do sound like a disgusting "my child is an honor student and your child is just plain dumb" kinda mom don't I ? Sorry, I have no life so I have lots of time to train my puppy (ooh and also we are teaching him to put his toys away...okay, really done now)

 

[smkie]

I taught bronki, and am now teaching Victor to say thank you...first i taught them speak by pointing to my ear..now when someone gives them something nice, all i have to do is "say thank you Victor" and point subtly to my ear and he does. Just a little thing but we try to be polite

 

[Gustav]

I taught bronki, and am now teaching Victor to say thank you...first i taught them speak by pointing to my ear..now when someone gives them something nice, all i have to do is "say thank you Victor" and point subtly to my ear and he does. Just a little thing but we try to be polite

My Mum would love you Smkie! She was always getting us to say please and thank you as kids! But you know what they say! Manners maketh the man!

 

[mrose_s]

buster can
sit
drop
sit up
stay
go get it
leave it
find it
"what do you do?" and he drops from whatever hes doing, and looks right at you
come here
"give me a hug", puts his arms around your waist
down!
spin
crawl
drop it, he puts down whatever he has istentley
look away - hes still learning
he does some agility work (jumping through and over things etc)
im teaching him to go get his leash when i ask him if he wants to go for a walk

I think thats it, he also goes swimming in our pool, but thats just to cool off.
hes about 2 years old, we founs him in a carpark

 

[scob89]

Brenna at the shelter I go to has found out that if she sits on my lap I can't go anywhere and knows how to get into anything. She is so smart!