This wet horrid weather anyone fancy amusing your dogs by teaching them new tricks?

[SnoopyKnine]

As the title says:-

I am planning to teach my dogs 13 new tricks by this time next year - I may need to be motivated along the way so are any of you up for it?

I have taught mine this week to run underneath my dining room chairs

Sit on a low foot stool

I am working on getting them to skip through a hoop with me. I have started this off by getting them to jump through the hoop and that has gone ok. I am now working at getting to jump the hoop at an angles with me inside the hoop.

[PersonalClown]

I need to teach mine to wipe their paws when they come back in!

[ditavonteesed]

thats not a trick, thats magic.

[SnoopyKnine]

[TwllBach]

Bump because I would like to teach mine something new.

We are currently working on closing the back door after she has come in from the garden, but it's not going quite to plan! It's my fault for beginning by touching the door with my hand as she would then touch my hand and the door, so now if I point to the door and ask her to close it, she wants to touch my hand instead. I will be trying to remedy this though somehow

I watched a programme recently about dogs, where two British people were sent out to Australia to a farm and the farmer taught them to command his dogs. Those dogs were very cool. I want mine to be like that

[ditavonteesed]

right I am trying to teach the dogs to wipe their feet, what can I teach them after that?

[anchovies]

I taught our lab to crawl last week which is quite funny. This week he's learning to put his toys away basically cos I was fed up of them being strewn all the garden.

Have taught him to wipe his feet on the way in which has been quite useful in this weather.

[CalamityKate]

TwllBach - start again, this time teaching the dog to touch a PostIt note stuck to the door. Then gradually reduce the size of the PostIt. That worked for my dog :)

[kid]

I taught my dog to bow, to jump across the room on his back legs and his favourite trick is to run and hide when he hears ' Do you want a bath?'

[TeaTeaLotsOfTea]

I taught 2nd dog to high five this week. he's actually quite good at performing because he's a brown nose dog that loves to impress mummy.

1st dog can't be assed to impress with his tricks he's not a performing poodle you know

[belindarose]

Anchovies, how are you getting on with putting toys away? I've got as far as him touching the bones with his nose when I say 'bone', but he's not picking them up yet. I was trying to train with toddler around though, who
kept being 'helpful'.