What strange commands have you taught your dogs ...

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... that are helpful and why?

This is where I walk my dogs regularly:


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As you can imagine, it's also a popular running/cycling/walking place (although not when it looks like it does in this photo
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). In order to manage three dogs - usually on the lead walking along here - when people pass us on the path, I have taught them the command "wall." When they hear this, they jump on the sea wall and sit to get a treat or two while the person goes by. This just gives everyone more room and stops my dogs being a nuisance.

So ... my dogs know, and respond (hopefully!) to, "wall" and it's one of the most useful commands they know. What strange command have you taught your dogs and why are they useful?
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I have a similair one. All the lanes around us are narrow, with steep banks topped by stone wall, so no room really if cars etc come along.

Have taught Tink "up"/"bank" and she hops up onto the bank off the road.

She also does Stop Look and Listen at roads
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Same!
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'Hup' means, get onto whatever raised surface is to your right and left. B LOVES to show off and often jumps up and runs along the wall/bank whether there is a car/person there or not
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B does 'hi five' which is not so much giving a paw as slamming it into your knee/face.

And 'seek' but it has a purpose, too
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And, how could I forget - 'What's in there?'
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Hup! Which means get onto to something or run up the stairs at work (they are spiral stairs, he loves running up them then peering round the corner at slow old me trudging up with all my stuff
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Go get it! Which is basically fetch
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Get in there! Which is 'go and hunt in that bit of cover I am pointing at, no not that bit, THAT bit....'
 
"Onyerbox" instead of "on your bed" - stems from a friend of mine who has a working cocker that lives outdoors, and who has to go and sit on his kennel before his food is put down. The phrase always made me smile and now it's stuck.
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Mine respond to 'Excuse me' so if they are somewhere I want them to move from - my seat - my bed, the front of the aga - they won't move until they are asked politely. It all started off with my old boy as a joke and sort of went from there. And it is so funny when people hear you saying 'excuse me' to a dog, especially as they can pick it up in a sentence . So 'excuse me would you mind moving over so i can sit down' and up they get.
 
Is it really awful of me that all my dogs have always known the command 'p*ss off'
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as in get out of my face/from under my feet/from on my sofa NOW...

They all do it really well too
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I taught Sam 'stop,' he'll stop dead on command (most of the time
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He also does 'car' which means he needs to go and it on the grass verge and wait for the car/lorry/bike to pass.

He also does 'bounce,' not useful for anything but is funny to watch
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My terrier rolls over onto his back and lies motionless with all 4 feet in the air when I point a finger at him and say 'Bang'.

Totally useless command...............
 
These are great! I'm tempted to try some of them. Mostly the p-off one which I think might work if I get the tone right.
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I thought of another one too - Bella beagle has also responded to "aye up" a number of times by coming back to me when off the lead. I'm not quite sure why - I've never taught her that at all!

3Beasties - I think "bounce" is useful for the laugh it probably gives you.
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kizzy knows 'come by' - go to the side of the track and run up the edge useful for passing bikes etc when shes off the lead, away- leave me alone or run out in front when coupled with a pointed finger when shes off the lead and she knows 'die for your country' she used to be a regimental mascot for the cadets my little sis used to teach, a novelty move which prompted people to donate when they were out fundraising.
chaos and kiz both know 'socks' which means pull my socks off cos im a lazy git and they both know 'hup' useful for getting them onto walls or anything raised
 
Hup to me means Hold Up/Sit, so you'd get a surprise if you tried to get my dog to jump on anything with a Hup
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Otto (in theory) knows...

Look in - that particularly thorny bush likely to be hiding several thousand Pheasant, shove your nose in and push 'em out
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Back - no, the ball/dummy/toy/dead creature is further away than that, get back.

Find it - it's somewhere around there, find it on your ruddy own!

Out (accompanied by a hand signal to show left or right) - no you prat that's the wrong way, out...

He also knows stop and turn, but they are whistles rather than voice commands.

There are plenty of words he has learnt the meaning of, but aren't actual commands. Plenty of them are swear words which he generally takes to mean run away
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Two odd ones we have are 'mind your head' which is when we are shutting the boot and they have a head/leg/tail sticking out!

We also have a particular whistle for Dom that warns him when Bes is running at him at high speed so he can get out the way - she thinks its a fun game to run at him but then is too stupid to realise she can't stop and quite often knocks him flying. We use the same whistle when a strange dog is approaching him from behind as he's nervous of new dogs
 
Pmsl, I read this thread earlier and could'nt think of any decent ones other than 'carry it home' which I use for the female terrier who will carry home for me anything I ask her to, including Floras dummy when I can't be bothered. She's also carried home her fair share of rabbits from ferreting, I tie them together and she will bring the lot on back!
BUT to my delight I have just found a new command that I have been using and just had the perfect desired effect...it was 'Flora stop being a slut!'
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She was (yet again) trying to wind up my stud dog and get him to mount her. That command made her give me a look and a half and flounce off to her bed by the fire!
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Barney had 'mind your head' in the car, for ducking when the boot was closed
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And 'shift your bum' to move him out of the way (Henry just gets trodden on
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Henry theoretically knows 'This way!' which is go the way I am pointing, no this way... THIS way... HENRY!'
 
I thought of another one I use, if I say 'see em off' or 'get em' Sam will run off barking (obviously wouldn't do it if people were around!). It does come in useful if I'm in the house alone and hear noises outside, no one would hang around once they herd Sam bark.

Sam also thinks that 'hello' is a command to bark, I tried it one day when I was walking him, I randomly shouted hello (no one was there) and he started barking
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Hulloo everyone - I don't post often but here goes:
Commands for spin/IWS cross with a brain bigger than mine... she mostly works off hand signals as I am nearly always on the phone or with a client outside but I swear her vocabulary is bigger than both nephews AND neice:

WAIT! - don't move until I give you the next command (brilliant for dangerous situations outside)

CAR! - vehicle/bike and get to the side pronto.

SHIFT! - get of the way NOW - handy for big things moving out of control

DOOR! - means turn around and close the door you just opened (this is backfiring on me so badly - she runs inn front of me to the lounge and excitedly bats the door in my face ... before I get through)

Birdie! - there is a pheasant in the vicinity

"hey" (said in loud whisper) - furry thing about - she goes into total hunting mode

SCOOT! (in high voice) - belly crawl on floor - good for fences.

MAT! - said as she goes in front door, means sit on the rug until I say otherwise - very handy in 10 weeks of snow and big hairy dog.

and most embarrassingly ...

BRACE BRACE! - lean in strongly as some muppet just pulled out in front of us and I am braking.

POLIS!!!!! - get off the landy passenger seat and sit in the back where you should be all the time.

I'm going to get into trouble now - sorry!
 
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BRACE BRACE! - lean in strongly as some muppet just pulled out in front of us and I am braking.

POLIS!!!!! - get off the landy passenger seat and sit in the back where you should be all the time.

I'm going to get into trouble now - sorry!

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Those are my favourite commands of the thread so far
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Oh I forgot, my dogs know left and right, I use it when walking and if they are a bit ahead and come to a fork in the path, generally they stop and look at me to ask which way and I will say left or right, sometimes they go the wrong way without stopping to ask so I have to shout 'wrong way, left' (or right obviously!) and they will trot back and go the other way. I remember my OH being quite astounded at that one the first walk he took with me and the dogs!
I use 'watch out' when shutting the boot or car doors.
Flora has stop now (on the whistle not vocally).
They all know 'find it', 'whereisit' - seek!, 'getouttoit' - fetch!, and the terriers; not sure how to write this one 'kkkktttssskkk'! which is latch on/draw out.
They all know 'kisses' as well
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Bear has been taught by O/H.......Flip flops
O/H is too lazy to fetch his own.
He knows "car keys" and "porty keys", again, to save O/H the walk to the table to get them himself.
And "Get on the board"......uhuh guess who is teaching the mutt to skateboard
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Scarey thing is he has only been at it a few weeks and he already better than the O/H
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Oh, my Dad's youngest Cocker has a huge voculary!

He knows...

'Where's my phone?'
'Where's my Blackberry?'
'Find my shoes'
'Fetch my Slippers'

And he is 100% succesful at getting the right thing, quite remarkable when you think how similar a mobile phone and Blackberry are, they can be next to one another an he will always get the right one!
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Who says Spangles are stooopid!?
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Thats a smart spangle! How will he differentiate next autumn when your dad wants him to go blackberry picking though?! Lol
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POLIS!!!!! - get off the landy passenger seat and sit in the back where you should be all the time.

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Welcome!
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I once got pulled over for speeding near my house and my dog jumped into the front seat while I was waiting for the cop to walk to my car (he is usually belted in - honestly!). He said nothing about the dog being there - he was too busy writing out my $180 speeding ticket. This was despite my dog doing his best to make friends with the nice police officer.
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Thats a smart spangle! How will he differentiate next autumn when your dad wants him to go blackberry picking though?! Lol
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I sense a confusing few moments while he searches the bushes for a small electronic device.
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