Dahlia learns her first "trick"

[crysania4]

So far all I've really taught Dahlia are the standard obedience things, the really important ones: like sit, down, stay, wait, and come. But I'm always jealous of people's dogs who knows silly tricks. So last night I decided to start teaching Dahlia to give me her paw on cue. And already she's doing it. She's still in that offer up the behavior all the time in the hopes of getting a treat, but she's also doing it on command. It's adorable and I'm so thrilled she learned it that fast.

Now I just have to figure out what else I can teach her.

Comments

[jeannekins.livejournal.com]

chase knows sit pretty, wave (which is a combo of sit pretty and shake or high-5), high 10, kisses, say bye/hi/'night (which basically run over to someone and give a kiss), crawl, and roll-over. he also know back/back up, which is more of a command than a trick. i was working on teaching him to weave between my legs, but i haven't had time lately... so there are some ideas for you. most of them are pretty easy ad the dogs pick them up pretty quick - especially if they're food motivated.

[shinoakkitenshi.livejournal.com]

i always enjoy roll over, or play dead.

[petulant.livejournal.com]

I think you're already a member of dogsintraining, right? Why not try the tricks miss_teacher set out for the monthly challenges next? There's always tons of advice and examples in the comments!

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

I know there is a web site where you can see all the different tricks you can teach your dog. I can't remember where I saw it, but it was on a positive training site. I is probably www.clickersolutions.com I am guessing it is there *grin*

[designed4living.livejournal.com]

Lucy (healer/collie/mutt) knows the following:

Sing (a aroooroooroo sound)
Speak (a bark)
Shake a paw
Waive
Be sad
roll over
bow
and she KIND Of knows how to play dead.

LOL

They were all really easy to teach...

[harro-der.livejournal.com]

Since D likes to use her paws, I'd think beg/sit pretty would be easy to teach, work her up from just rising up to the position to holding it. It was the first (and easiest) thing I taught Arya because of her predisposition to use her paws. From there, you can shape it into a wave very easily!

Arya won't "speak" either, we've tried for years with several different methods and she just flat out refuses to speak on command!