How quick does your dog learn a new trick??

[milos_mommy]

I mean, i'm known among family for being able to teach dogs tricks fairly quickly...but Milo's kind of amazing me with the way he learns new tricks. In the past ten minutes we had a little training session. I taught him two tricks we had never even attempted before (stand up and crawl) and within ten minutes he's doing them with voice commands, totally by himself. Most dogs i've taught it at least take two or three short lessons to learn stuff like that by voice with no lures or hand signals...

I'm planning on teaching him an array of silly little tricks.

 

[ACooper]

I say one session is sufficient for Phoebe or Orson to learn 'tricks'.

Now learning important things I NEED Orson to do, say like LEAVE the trash can alone........well I will let you know the time it takes if he EVER learns it

 

[Toller_08]

Dance learns new things in about a half hour. Sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on what it is/the difficulty level. Never does she take more than 2 short training sessions though. It's usually one session to learn the trick, and another to perfect it. Sometimes we can do both of those in one session though.

 

[2BlackDogs]

Depending on the trick, Dixie can learn it in one short session. Bear, is not interested in new tricks. SO you can talk to him until you are blue in the face and he doesn't care. The saying you can't teach an old dog new tricks, fits him to a T.

 

[Spirit2010]

Hershey in an hour, and Whisper, catches on FAST! Within the first few minutes you teach her the trick. Hershey is intelligent, but gets really goofy when it comes to treats. lol

 

[mrose_s]

It depends.

Mac learnt flyball in 2 days, that is she learnt 2 milk crate jumps and grabbing the ball and bringing it back in 2 short afternoon training sessions.
10 minutes with a the real equipment and she was taking it out of the box, a couple of weeks later we went over that now are introducing her to passing the other dogs and she's coming along great. She's very easy to teach.

Buster can catch onto some things so fast and others so slow.
Rollover we've been working on for months, its slowly coming along but we're still not there.
I also decided to teach him to find my keys, within 10 minutes I had him running to them and pawing them on command.

 

[PixieSticksandTricks]

Depending on how hard the trick is Maggie can learn one from 1/2 hour- to an Hour and a 1/2 at the MOST. And people say Cockers are dumb!

 

[Miss Jack]

Scooby catches on pretty quick (he's still learning commands rather than tricks) Sit and Come took 1 short 10 minute session, Down and Wait took longer but that's because he didn't want to do it not because he didn't understand.

He knows Sit, Down, Wait, Out (he's not allowed in kitchen because it's the cats pup free zone) Off, Come, Watch, leave it, and he knows Aah aah means stop whatever you are doing. The kids have a list of tricks a mile long they are going to teach him when he has the basics sorted

 

[SharkBait]

Milos Mommy, how did you teach 'crawl??' i wanna teach Matisse that, it'd so cute lol.

 

[mrose_s]

I asked some RAAF people how they taught crawl to their dogs and I started teaching Buster. I've been very on and off with it so he's not reliable but

they said it helps if you have something low you want them to practice under to get the idea of it like low obstacles or a bed.
I mix that with asking him to drop then crawl to food in my hand. First quite close so its easier in his mind to crawl to the food instead of standing and walking then gradually increasing the distance.
Buster and I only go over it about once every few months. I might actually put them effort in and get him going with it soon.

 

[SisMorphine]

Weeks. Sometimes months. It takes a LONG time for anything to get through that puppy's thick bulldog skull. But once it actually "clicks" in her brain then she's a master at it!

 

[milos_mommy]

Sharkabait, i basically did what mrose did... started with a down and then basically just lured him forward. Do you use clicker training? That's what we're doing and it's really great. I started with the treat in my hand a few inches in front of him, as soon as he started to move forward i clicked and treated. Then got him going about a foot, and then stopped using treats.


He's better with hand signals, so what i did was put the treat in my fist put keep one finger pointing and ran it over the ground, then slowly moved my hand up, so now from a standing position i can move my hand with my finger pointing down.

Also, Milo just naturally didn't stand up to get the treat and wiggled on his belly, but i guess if Matisse tries to jump up and walk, either keep the clicker hand on his back or practice under a chair or something?

 

[smkie]

depends on the dog. BRonki learned everything..i mean EVERYTHING in one lesson. He was just that incredible. Victor was quick on the uptake too. CRawl came hard and reverse twist. Jingle bells he can do but doesn't want to so he cons me. Mary learned to shake at 7 weeks and refused to learn a dang thing after that trick wise until she was 8 when Bronki passed away suddenly she could sit pretty. SHe will never speak, she sneezes. It is beneath her dignity. SHaffer took if i put it all together weeks to learn to shake, but that was about once a week and that was why.

 

[RD]

Depends on the complexity of the trick. Eve learns simple behaviors in about 5 minutes, maybe 10 successful reps and she's got a very firm grasp of it. Complex or unusual behaviors take longer before she'll do them under most circumstances without luring. The only thing I wasn't able to teach her over the course of a day was her 'peekaboo' where she has to cover her eyes with a paw.

Dakota learns quickly too, but not quite as fast as Eve. Dash hasn't mastered being totally operant yet.

 

[Chikadee77]

With Rhea, I've pretty much hit a wall, I don't know what else to teach her! She knows so many commands and I can't think of much more to teach her. When we were training, she caught onto everything pretty fast. The hardest thing to teach her was to activate the life alert phone without me telling her to. But even that only took 3 or 4 sessions. (and it's of course disconnected during training, lol. She knows only to activate it if I don't wake up after a certain period of time)

Achilles not so much. Lol, he's a little slow and has the hound stubborness, but he knows the basics like shake and crawl (he taught himself that, lol hubby would tell him to go lay down and he'd crawl over to where he wanted to go. I told hubby he isn't breaking any rules, he's still laying down and wasn't told to stay!). He did also manage to pass CGC which is surprising

Qenna hasn't learned any tricks yet, but she does learn pretty darn fast so I think it's gonna be pretty easy.

 

[bitesizedpooch]

My old MinPin dog learned how to roll-over within an hour of teaching her. However, it took about a full two days to get her to do it consistently. She also learned how to speak in that same time-frame.

My lab, Chewy, he's a different story. He's more of an "extensive training" lil pup. Haha.

 

[chanda]

my dog doesnt know that much tricks... but i still love them especially when they just playing around just being silly and everything...

 

[Lilavati]

Tricks . . . 1 or 2 sessions of 15 minutes. On average. More complicated tricks take longer. Tricks that require she break a rule like jumping up, take even longer.

 

[houndlove]

Conrad picks stuff up pretty quick. He learned "bow" in about 3 short 10 minute sessions (fully learned, from the physical action to the cue to having it be reliable in low-distraction situations). He just likes to do stuff for me.

Marlowe can't really be bothered to do stuff just to please me so it takes longer to teach him new things and have them be reliable. He's still not 100% on "bow" because he just looks at me like, "wait, you want me to do what? why?!?"

 

[Sweet72947]

Daisy learns new things fairly quickly. When she was just a 10wk old pup I taught her "lay down" and "sit" in five minutes. Benji on the other hand takes a few months of repititions to learn things reliably. Its not that he's stupid, he just doesn't always care that you want to teach him something. Benji has learned sit, lay down, shake, and roll over.