Vizslak
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Lmao! Smart arse!
What strange commands have you taught your dogs ...
- Thread starter Galupy
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Happy Horse
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Gillie knows "Tail in" when he gets in the passenger footwell and I am about to shut the door. The most useful thing though is "do you want a biscuit?" if he is ignoring us for whatever reason, that gets an instant recall
nevis
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thanks - Hulloo too!
Poor thing has no undercoat and a sort of beard on her back that sticks straight up? Feathers, webbed feet, eyebrows and a beard at both ends (and they say owners get to look their dogs? eek).
I love the flip flops one!
Oh - I forgot:
AHEM (clearing throat noise) - wait up their missus you're goin a wee bitty fast (we never ever mastered HEEL...)
OTHER WAY!!! - very funny at a T-junction when speeding brown thing skites off to the left, gets the command and seconds later hares off to the right.
Poor thing has no undercoat and a sort of beard on her back that sticks straight up? Feathers, webbed feet, eyebrows and a beard at both ends (and they say owners get to look their dogs? eek).
I love the flip flops one!
Oh - I forgot:
AHEM (clearing throat noise) - wait up their missus you're goin a wee bitty fast (we never ever mastered HEEL...)
OTHER WAY!!! - very funny at a T-junction when speeding brown thing skites off to the left, gets the command and seconds later hares off to the right.
Galupy
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nevis - I think we need to see some pics of your pooch.
Solstar
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Willow does hi five- OH's mates think it's great!!
She also does 'what do you do now' which is Sitting at the roadside, useful because we have to cross 2 residential roads before we get to where we walk her and I don't put her on a lead last thing, and she also does 'where's your jacket' when it's raining- normally it's where I left it after I'd taken it off her the night before but occassionally, when I put it away, she'll go to the cupboard and sit at the door.
She also does 'what do you do now' which is Sitting at the roadside, useful because we have to cross 2 residential roads before we get to where we walk her and I don't put her on a lead last thing, and she also does 'where's your jacket' when it's raining- normally it's where I left it after I'd taken it off her the night before but occassionally, when I put it away, she'll go to the cupboard and sit at the door.
Cop-Pop
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'Tail' means Yellow Dog gets his tail out the way of the car door shutting - he sort of sits on it.
'Mices' means go sit in the barn and wait for something to move
'Snuggles' means come cuddle me on the sofa
'Mices' means go sit in the barn and wait for something to move
'Snuggles' means come cuddle me on the sofa
TarrSteps
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My current dogs are lurchers, so I'm lucky if they do the basics.
But they do know "wait" as in "stop and wait for further instructions", when we're out walking. They also know the sound "uh", said sharply, which means "think carefully about what you're thinking about doing because I suspect if you do it with me standing here you will be very, very sorry!" I'm embarrassed to say the older dog knows "binkie" as "lay down and someone will cover you with your blanket".
He would die of shame if I made him bring me something and the younger one would likely be up for it, so long as I didn't mind getting it a few minutes later, in little bits.
Not really a command but the spaniel I has as a kid knew "quiche" which meant "look around wildly". It started as a joke because she knew "squirrel" but my mother argued she only really knew the excited tone we said it in so we started using random words instead and "quiche" stuck. If you said it in the house she'd run to the back doors and stare at the trees.
Ah, dogs - hours of entertainment.
Not really a command but the spaniel I has as a kid knew "quiche" which meant "look around wildly". It started as a joke because she knew "squirrel" but my mother argued she only really knew the excited tone we said it in so we started using random words instead and "quiche" stuck. If you said it in the house she'd run to the back doors and stare at the trees.
JoG
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We have "toes and nose" for shutting the door of the jeep so they shuffle backwards
And Molly has "molly check" which means she has to run back to us then can go back to hedge bashing straight away - recall then send away was a miserable failure
And completely useless she also does "spin and drop" when you do a gun sign and shout bang bang
And Molly has "molly check" which means she has to run back to us then can go back to hedge bashing straight away - recall then send away was a miserable failure
And completely useless she also does "spin and drop" when you do a gun sign and shout bang bang
nevis
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oh Lordy - I was quite impressed I managed to log in - how on earth do I get a pic on??
Spudlet
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Do you have a photobucket account?
nevis
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*scurries off to google photobucket*
Spudlet
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You just need to set one up (it's free!), upload your photos, then cut and paste the IMG code onto your posts
CaleruxShearer
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Alongside all the usual, sit, stay, down, up etc Rosie also knows HOT! This comes in handy when she's in the kitchen, someone opens to the oven door and, being a labrador she tries to stick her nose in, you simply say HOT and she backs away pretty sharpish!
ETA: Forgot to add:
She also knows, Find mummys/daddys slippers! - She then gallops off to find the required footware! She believes it is her job to present mum/dad with their slippers AS SOON AS they walk through the door!
Wheres you collar?
This is before we go out and she will find her collar and bring it to you
ETA: Forgot to add:
She also knows, Find mummys/daddys slippers! - She then gallops off to find the required footware! She believes it is her job to present mum/dad with their slippers AS SOON AS they walk through the door!
Wheres you collar?
This is before we go out and she will find her collar and bring it to you
Galupy
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I love the "hot" command! That would be really useful with my three who like to get under your feet when there is cooking going on in the kitchen.
Galupy
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nevis - there is also a thread in Picture Gallery by JessPickle that explains how to post pictures.
nevis
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thank you all! (what a friendly bunch!)
i didn't want to (totally) hijack so I (hope) I put a new post in - introducing beastie - it's just a link tho, not the pic in the actual post?
Big step for this laptop!
i didn't want to (totally) hijack so I (hope) I put a new post in - introducing beastie - it's just a link tho, not the pic in the actual post?
Big step for this laptop!
monochroma
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Tessie knows 'findemout' for when we need her to look for something but when that fails it usually ends up 'get and bloody find it'. She also knows 'mind then' when she needs to get out the way.
Oh and 'gehouttamahseatyabugger' when in the car. She's a seat thief.
'Bugguroff' seems to work too
Oh and 'gehouttamahseatyabugger' when in the car. She's a seat thief.
'Bugguroff' seems to work too
nevis
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"Oh and 'gehouttamahseatyabugger' when in the car. She's a seat thief. "
LOL!
I forgot - "HEID" (as in Scottish for head...
RobinHood
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Being a lurcher Ped's vocabulary is generally limited to NO and LEAVE IT
They do have some others though
LURCHERS OUT - means just the lurchers have to exit the room for lurcher wrestling when they're meant to be lying quietly in the lounge (lab and yorkie just lie there looking smug
)
BEHIND - get behind the horses eg if a car is coming
NICELY - can you all just behave for once!
NO KICKING - if you kick me once more I'm going to shove you off the bed
They also know that "dogs come/dogs wait/dogs here" means all of them, or in ped's case it means all of them except him, apparently he is exempt
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They do have some others though
LURCHERS OUT - means just the lurchers have to exit the room for lurcher wrestling when they're meant to be lying quietly in the lounge (lab and yorkie just lie there looking smug
BEHIND - get behind the horses eg if a car is coming
NICELY - can you all just behave for once!
NO KICKING - if you kick me once more I'm going to shove you off the bed
They also know that "dogs come/dogs wait/dogs here" means all of them, or in ped's case it means all of them except him, apparently he is exempt
mainpower
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No unusual commands.... but my OH's brother asked me which one of my dogs was called "Basket", as that was what I always called when we had visitors and they got over-excited. And I have a habit of saying "stay there" when I get out of the car leaving the dogs in it (they can't exactly do anything but stay with the doors shut), a passing "comedian" once asked why I didn't use a handbrake like normal people....
MurphysMinder
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Didn't really think I had any commands to qualify for this thread, but on reading through think Evie has a few apart from the usual sit, down wait etc.
She has "football" to go and find one of the many footballs she leaves lying around. She will go and search the garden/field until she finds one, don't have to be in sight.
"Yellow ball" is for her ball on a rope.
Bed or kennel, depending on whether she is going in her cage or outside into kennel and run, she knows which on the one word.
And when we are playing with the clicker twirl, bow, paw, other one (left and right paws), and we are working on back through, which is reversing through my legs but got a long way to go yet.
She has "football" to go and find one of the many footballs she leaves lying around. She will go and search the garden/field until she finds one, don't have to be in sight.
"Yellow ball" is for her ball on a rope.
Bed or kennel, depending on whether she is going in her cage or outside into kennel and run, she knows which on the one word.
And when we are playing with the clicker twirl, bow, paw, other one (left and right paws), and we are working on back through, which is reversing through my legs but got a long way to go yet.
CorvusCorax
Deary me...
Just back, how could I forget 'SHUTYERFACE!'
Or
'SHUTYERF*CKINFACE' as I shouted to B as he grizzled at an akita crossing the road. Forgot the driver's window was open
Or
'SHUTYERF*CKINFACE' as I shouted to B as he grizzled at an akita crossing the road. Forgot the driver's window was open
Slinkyunicorn
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I didn't think I said anything unusual to my two other then the normal commands of sit, wait, come, comehereyoulittlesh*t
, get off, where did it say for labradors/spangles
? etc etc
anyway realised when taking them for a walk to day I too tell them to 'Stay there and be good' when leaving them in the car and also shout 'Scooby's' which is an intstant recall for Max as it means a snack
- as in Scooby snack.
Frankly now Sweep is as deaf as a post I could shout anything at him and he would just ignore me......
Frankly now Sweep is as deaf as a post I could shout anything at him and he would just ignore me......
Vizslak
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I always shout 'love you, be good' to my lot when I'm leaving the house
Only just realised I do that, without fail everytime!!
I also have been heard giving them an approximate ETA for my return, or telling them, 'I'll only be a few hours/10 minutes/20 minutes etc!' Totally useless, like they understand!!!
I also have been heard giving them an approximate ETA for my return, or telling them, 'I'll only be a few hours/10 minutes/20 minutes etc!' Totally useless, like they understand!!!
b0508
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Alfie knows loads of commands he will do anything for a bit of food...
Gerrrr Out ...When hes in the horses bucket eating the carrots with her.
Up-He will attempt to get up on anything that is point at
Give kisses-He will give you kisses on command
Say please Say thankyou.. He give one paw to say please before a treat and will then give the other paw after a treat to say thankyou
You STIIIINK ..This is when he is covered in mud or done a horribly smelling fart and will slump off to his bed.
Crawl .. He will army crawl around to this command
Ah Ah Ah -When hes into something that he shouldnt be or when he proceeds to try and jump on the horse and give her kisses
There are probably plenty more that I can't thing of atm
Gerrrr Out ...When hes in the horses bucket eating the carrots with her.
Up-He will attempt to get up on anything that is point at
Give kisses-He will give you kisses on command
Say please Say thankyou.. He give one paw to say please before a treat and will then give the other paw after a treat to say thankyou
You STIIIINK ..This is when he is covered in mud or done a horribly smelling fart and will slump off to his bed.
Crawl .. He will army crawl around to this command
Ah Ah Ah -When hes into something that he shouldnt be or when he proceeds to try and jump on the horse and give her kisses
There are probably plenty more that I can't thing of atm
Spot_the_Risk
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Gazehound - ours know F*** off I know, very unpolite and not said in public, they do respond to it rather well though!
They also know (well, some of them do!) In (the door, van, kennel) paws (as I'm about to slam a door on them!) git! (as in git out of my way, or git in there), and as we have four, they now respond to a general call of 'dogs!' as I can never get all their names right quickly enough if there's a car coming!
They also know (well, some of them do!) In (the door, van, kennel) paws (as I'm about to slam a door on them!) git! (as in git out of my way, or git in there), and as we have four, they now respond to a general call of 'dogs!' as I can never get all their names right quickly enough if there's a car coming!
dozzie
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My very first GSD as a teenager used to growl if i put my hand over his head. Difficult to explain but you just held your hand about and inch above his head and he rumbled. It wasnt taught per se. He just did it. He was an ex (failed) guard dog so may have been taught it before we got him.
It was great for getting rid of unwanted blokes in the pub! I would drop my hand and he would growl,a nd I would say " My dog doesnt like you, so go away!"!!! Or words to that effect.
He wouldnt have hurt a fly but they didnt know that! LOL!
It was great for getting rid of unwanted blokes in the pub! I would drop my hand and he would growl,a nd I would say " My dog doesnt like you, so go away!"!!! Or words to that effect.
He wouldnt have hurt a fly but they didnt know that! LOL!
Herbie31
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Apart from all the normal sit, down, heal, stay, wait, leave, basket commands Blue also knows:
'Round the back' - means round the back of the house to the back door.
'you can say hello' - when people come to our house I ask Blue to go to his basket until guests are seated (he's rather large and can be excitable which is off putting to some). He stays in his basket until I say 'you can say hello'
'out the way' - if he's in my way
'want to go to Grandma's' - I don't actually say this to Blue but to my son. Blue responds by runinng back and forth to the door and generally acting crazy
'Round the back' - means round the back of the house to the back door.
'you can say hello' - when people come to our house I ask Blue to go to his basket until guests are seated (he's rather large and can be excitable which is off putting to some). He stays in his basket until I say 'you can say hello'
'out the way' - if he's in my way
'want to go to Grandma's' - I don't actually say this to Blue but to my son. Blue responds by runinng back and forth to the door and generally acting crazy
Natch
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Not many of ours are very useful really!
We have:
Nose and Toes: Bracken get back a bit else be squashed by the boot lid.
High Five: Poppy would sit up and beg and enthusiastically high five your palm. Bracken has so far failed to grasp this, or beg, since both involve sitting square and not puppy sitting
Beanbag: Go to your bed, which hasn't been a bean bag for about 10 years
Puddles! Permission to go and play in the puddles/pond/lake/stream/river. Not always a command they waited for
Widgey Widgey: its the name of the local neighbourhood terrorist cat, and whenever they hear it the dogs bark and run around silly to scare him off!
We have:
Nose and Toes: Bracken get back a bit else be squashed by the boot lid.
High Five: Poppy would sit up and beg and enthusiastically high five your palm. Bracken has so far failed to grasp this, or beg, since both involve sitting square and not puppy sitting
Beanbag: Go to your bed, which hasn't been a bean bag for about 10 years
Puddles! Permission to go and play in the puddles/pond/lake/stream/river. Not always a command they waited for
Widgey Widgey: its the name of the local neighbourhood terrorist cat, and whenever they hear it the dogs bark and run around silly to scare him off!
millimoo
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I have a revolting one my mum used to use on her Rottie...... apologies in advance, but it was very useful for avoiding stains
'Lick your willy' - he would always get a big dribble on the end of it
My lab understands the basics, plus:
'off' - for when she get's on my bed uninvited
'crawl' - speaks for itself
'bedtime' - she shoots upstairs to my bedroom
'find it' - will go looking for anything, she used to get the post for me until she ripped it up one day
'where's your ball' - and will bring back one, leaving other play things alone
'where's bodger' - she gets very excited as she knows she's going to see Bodger, my mums bull Mastiff, she also has a similar command for Bea my brothers dog too.
'Lick your willy' - he would always get a big dribble on the end of it
My lab understands the basics, plus:
'off' - for when she get's on my bed uninvited
'crawl' - speaks for itself
'bedtime' - she shoots upstairs to my bedroom
'find it' - will go looking for anything, she used to get the post for me until she ripped it up one day
'where's your ball' - and will bring back one, leaving other play things alone
'where's bodger' - she gets very excited as she knows she's going to see Bodger, my mums bull Mastiff, she also has a similar command for Bea my brothers dog too.