| Re: Trick Ideas Please
Walking upstairs backwards on command is a nice one.
\We taught that to our first rottie accidently. The house we lived in a the time had a long, very narrow hallway in it so Raunzer learned quickly to walk backwards on command to get out of our way.
We didn't specifically train him do do the same on stairs, but one day he was on the stairway as I was going up and he just re-applied his walking backwards trick - reaching out with his back foot to feel for each step as he went.
This was a good skill years later when we took him to a local festival and he went on a hayride with us. That time he stepped down the ladder as we got off the hayride. It was fun to see the looks of surprise from the other folks on the hayride as he stepped his way down each ladder step.
Lynda |