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Question to dog owners: what kinda tricks did you teach your doggie?

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jinduy

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Any cool tricks you managed to teach your dog?


ps. how did you manage to potty train them (if you did)?
 
Sit
Lay Down
Roll Over
Gimme Five
Play Dead ...

Pretty much in that order. Now he knows speak, as well as some fetch commands he's learned from repetition ...

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The key is patience. I found that my dog learned best from a 1/2 hour session where I physically moved his body ... then the next night, a 45 minute session ... and he'd start to figure things out.

REWARD is key. Whether it be praise, food or both. It's key. If you give treats, give very little, so they have incentive.
 
Believe it or not, we're actually training our puppy to tell us when he needs to go. And so far it seems to be working. All you need is a bell and a bag of treats. When ever you go to take him outside so he can do his buisness, ring the bell and give him a treat. After he's done, bring him in, ring the bell, and another little treat. It's only been a week here, but already our puppy seems to understand what he's supposed to be doing out there. He used to just play around, rather than going; now he'll just go and then wimper to be let inside. I was really skeptical when my mom told me about this - she heard it from the vet - but like I said, it seems to be working. The point is that the dog should learn to ring the bell when he has to go out. We're using little cat toys that have a small bell in them so that he gets used to them and so that it's usable for him. A normal bell wouldn't work, obviously 😛.

Nate
 
Originally posted by: NTB
Believe it or not, we're actually training our puppy to tell us when he needs to go. And so far it seems to be working. All you need is a bell and a bag of treats. When ever you go to take him outside so he can do his buisness, ring the bell and give him a treat. After he's done, bring him in, ring the bell, and another little treat. It's only been a week here, but already our puppy seems to understand what he's supposed to be doing out there. He used to just play around, rather than going; now he'll just go and then wimper to be let inside. I was really skeptical when my mom told me about this - she heard it from the vet - but like I said, it seems to be working. The point is that the dog should learn to ring the bell when he has to go out. We're using little cat toys that have a small bell in them so that he gets used to them and so that it's usable for him. A normal bell wouldn't work, obviously 😛.

Nate
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wow that's a cool idea. makes sense. saves you a lot of trouble from having to pretty much guess when your doggy has to go.
 
Germen Shepherd (now dead but the only dog that was totally mine and not a family dog) - Sit, Down, Stay, Bark, Whisper (quiet bark), Come, Heel (as in walk around behind you and sit beside you), Heel (when walking, stay next to you and don't pull the leash) Front (go from heel position to sitting in front of and pointed at you), Open Door (if door isn't latched, put nose against and push), Roll over (only on side because he was too big to make rolling over comfortable. He was a 120lbs German Shepherd, and no that wasn't because he was fat), Go Get-em! (Play hide-n-go seek with him. Everyone would hide, and then when you said "Go Get-em" he would run around the house and find people. He would remember who he had found also😀 When he was done, he would come back and sit in the living room again), Fetch, Bring Me The Stick! (When he didn't bring it all the way back from a fetch because he was lazy), Bite-em in the Butt! (Could tell him this and he would give a small nip to somones butt. Didn't hurt, so it was just a fun game), Move (move from where he was to somewhere else), Go (with pointed finger. Go where finger was pointing), Wait (like when you held a treat in front of his nose, he would wait till you said OK), Shake (shake hands).

I'm sure I am forgetting some... he died a few years back. Best dog ever. All the above was very easy to teach him. He picked anything up really quick (even Whisper took him only about two days with about an hour or so each day of teaching).

Also, he taught himself a few things. This includes:

Walk - He knew what this meant, even when we spelled it.
Dinner - He knew what this meant (including spelling), plus he knew what time dinner time was (he would always look at his bowl around 6:00).
Treat - Knew this word
Go to the bathroom - He would always sit at the door and whine at us when he had to go pee. Self taught. So we never had to worry about taking him out. He would tell us when he needed too 🙂
Sit on the couch - He would sit on the couch like a person (butt on couch, feet on ground). A real crack up 😀. He liked to sit at the couch when we were eating at the dinner table like we were going to set him a dinner plate, or when we watched a movie.
 
I've taught mine to sit and to recognize their own names. And they're potty trained. That's about all I have the patience for. 🙂
 
I can attest to the bell being used as an alert. We have two small dogs, and whenever they need to go out back we hear the bell ringing from the den. However, one of them is smart, and now rings it whenver he wants attention and/or a treat.
 
When I was training my dog I didn't use traditional commands. The byproduct is that she pretty much responds to what I want while I speak to her in plain english...within reason of course. Makes life a lot easier.
 
Originally posted by: datalink7
Germen Shepherd (now dead but the only dog that was totally mine and not a family dog) - Sit, Down, Stay, Bark, Whisper (quiet bark), Come, Heel (as in walk around behind you and sit beside you), Heel (when walking, stay next to you and don't pull the leash) Front (go from heel position to sitting in front of and pointed at you), Open Door (if door isn't latched, put nose against and push), Roll over (only on side because he was too big to make rolling over comfortable. He was a 120lbs German Shepherd, and no that wasn't because he was fat), Go Get-em! (Play hide-n-go seek with him. Everyone would hide, and then when you said "Go Get-em" he would run around the house and find people. He would remember who he had found also😀 When he was done, he would come back and sit in the living room again), Fetch, Bring Me The Stick! (When he didn't bring it all the way back from a fetch because he was lazy), Bite-em in the Butt! (Could tell him this and he would give a small nip to somones butt. Didn't hurt, so it was just a fun game), Move (move from where he was to somewhere else), Go (with pointed finger. Go where finger was pointing), Wait (like when you held a treat in front of his nose, he would wait till you said OK), Shake (shake hands).

I'm sure I am forgetting some... he died a few years back. Best dog ever. All the above was very easy to teach him. He picked anything up really quick (even Whisper took him only about two days with about an hour or so each day of teaching).

Also, he taught himself a few things. This includes:

Walk - He knew what this meant, even when we spelled it.
Dinner - He knew what this meant (including spelling), plus he knew what time dinner time was (he would always look at his bowl around 6:00).
Treat - Knew this word
Go to the bathroom - He would always sit at the door and whine at us when he had to go pee. Self taught. So we never had to worry about taking him out. He would tell us when he needed too 🙂
Sit on the couch - He would sit on the couch like a person (butt on couch, feet on ground). A real crack up 😀. He liked to sit at the couch when we were eating at the dinner table like we were going to set him a dinner plate, or when we watched a movie.
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Wow that is a pretty smart dog.
 
All the basics - sit, stay, down, come, heel, shake hands

Plus I do dog agility so he knows the obstacle commands (jump, tire, weave, go table, scramble, etc...)

As far as potty training, do some google search on "crate training"...assuming it is a puppy.
 
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