Trick of the Week: Hug!
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Hahaha, the "Meerkat" thing is Zooms fault. She's the one that started calling Indy a "laser eyed lemur/meerkat cross" I believe, so when we started working on her core, I just called it meerkat.
Wait til you hear her play dead command
Everyones doing really good with this one! We've got a lot of people participating in this trick, that's awesome.
I'm trying to teach all of them to perch on me/backstall. Not going so well, akshully.
Wait til you hear her play dead command
Everyones doing really good with this one! We've got a lot of people participating in this trick, that's awesome.
I'm trying to teach all of them to perch on me/backstall. Not going so well, akshully.
Sorry about the PJ's, but that seems to be a common theme here
She looks good!Onyx is catching on fast!
Feist can't hold a sit pretty on her own yet so we are working on hugging my leg
Not-training greyhound is filled with woe.
I'm impressed with sit-pretty greyhound.
Not-training greyhound is filled with woe. I'm impressed with sit-pretty greyhound.
I'm impressed with sit-pretty greyhound.
When I was teaching Squash to sit pretty, one tip I got that helped a LOT is that it can be harder for big dogs to build duration so can help them by standing BEHIND them sort of bracing their back with your legs, and lure backwards over their head. You're essentially spotting them, and that way they can learn the balance without being afraid of falling. Then you can slowly move to the front.
It worked great for Squash. I never had to do it that way for Maisy because she's so little.
It worked great for Squash. I never had to do it that way for Maisy because she's so little.
Well, not working as well as I had hoped. She will not let me stand behind her and brace her. Also, standing behind her presents an unforeseen complication: It's really hard for me to tell if she is sitting on her haunches or half standing up on her back legs. It's sort of a matter of degrees since they don't really sit anyway.... I have two options the way I see it. Go back to the old method and work at it slowly. She often tries to put one front paw on me for balance... so maybe allowing her to do that now while she works on her strength and balance and then discouraging it later (but I worry it will become a problem to phase out later). Or... work with her on allowing me to stand behind her and brace her.
Decisions, decisions. I am undecided as of right now.
Decisions, decisions. I am undecided as of right now.
Krissy, I don't know if you've tried it or if it'll work but one way I've had good luck with is by holding all the treats in one hand and taking one out at a time very obviously and giving it to them while they are in the sit pretty and very obviously immediately going back to the hand holding the treats (That you have over their head) and getting another one and feeding it from the hand without the treats. Then you can slowly start making your hand go slower to get the treat.
I made a video of it with Didgie since what I just tried to explain makes, like no sense.
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I made a video of it with Didgie since what I just tried to explain makes, like no sense.
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I haven't exactly tried this because I can't get enough time. I've basically been doing it so that so long as she is up she is able to nibble the treat. As soon as she loses it the treats disappear. I definitely don't have enough time at this point to be moving treats from one hand to another. I tried having her come up to my hand with no treat (I pretended there was a treat) and then once she was up giving her a reward... but that didn't work so well.
I may very well have to start letting her use one paw to help balance for right now.
I may very well have to start letting her use one paw to help balance for right now.
