Any advanced tricks?

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I just went through Stella's repertoire with her, and I'd love to teach her new tricks. The smarty pants starts to guess ahead of time now, and gets impatient if I'm too slow. Beside basic commands, she can:

Rollover
Commando crawl
Wait with a treat on her foot (well, we can't use her "nose"

)
Shake paw
Sit pretty
High five
Dance

How do I teach play dead? Any other nifty little tricks?

 

[GinaB]

The Beast considers it below her to do tricks for her human minions. In fact, the minions should be doing tricks for her!

 

[DBrasnett]

a friend used to pretend to shoot and their dog would fall down and lay on his side totally still.

i always found it disturbing, but some how liked it too!!

 

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Stella is cheap

She will do *anything* for a speck of kibble.

 

[Skhosu]

'bang' =dog flat on side, having been 'shot'
Closing the door? We're still working on that!
Re: playing dead you need to work on her staying still whilst on her side/rolled over, I'm not sure if its a trait some dogs have, ours will pause if you use your voice to kind of still them if you kno what I mean?

 

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I see what you mean. Hmmm, might be tricky, but I'll give it a go. She already gets cocky when I ask for down and either tries to throw in a rollover or an army crawl.

 

[lynspop]

I have the same problem with my dog- he knows rollover, crawl and play dead so tries to do them all at once.
To teach him to play dead I got him to lie on his side, then held a treat closed in my hand in front of his nose. I then said "play dead" and if he stayed still for a second or two, gave him the treat and just built up from there. Everytime he did something else I just started all over again and rewarded him when he got it right.

 

[echodomino]

I could never get Millie to do 'dead' lol she'd either carry on rolling over or wag her tail!!

I taught Millie to walk on just her back legs, only a few steps but it was cute. She used to be able to stand on her back legs and "twirl" around on the spot but she's too portly now and had her cruciate ligament replaced so I don't ask her to do it now. Though if she's excited she'll do it of her own accord

 

[Pyrny]

Boston's love performing don't they ! Tilly does most things and can also wipe her paws when she comes in - sort of dancing with her front feet while sitting. The one I'm trying to teach is "put your toys away". I didn't succeed with my children but Tilly is a pleaser. I found a great book at Costco - 101 Dog Tricks !