Trick Ideas Please

[ZoesMomma]

Our homework assignment from Monday's Agility Class is to teach our dogs something that uses their back feet. I've racked my brain and come up empty! The only tricks I've ever taught any of my dogs are shake, high 5 and speak. Any ideas for a 9 month old Rottie girlie? We have almost 4 weeks to learn our new behavior.

Thanks!

[alice's mommy]

I wouldn't know how to go about teaching this, but how about wiping their back feet on a matt when coming in a house? :) Good luck! Sounds like a tough one!

[ZoesMomma]

Originally Posted by alice's mommy

I wouldn't know how to go about teaching this, but how about wiping their back feet on a matt when coming in a house? :) Good luck! Sounds like a tough one!

That would be SO nice, especially with "mud season" approaching! This is what happens when your instructor goes to Silvia Trkman (sp?) seminars! LOL

[hokisteph5]

One person in one of my classes said she had taught a dog to "salute left" and "salute right." The left or right corresponded to which back leg they lifted. I have no idea how you would teach something like that, though.

[Nishasmom]

How about "itch yourself"? Do you use a clicker to train with? If so, click while he/she is itching; actually, I think I will teach Nisha this one

[leanershnitzel]

teaching your dog to jump through your arms is a very entertaining trick, it also helps break the ice with people who might be afraid of rottweilers.

Punch in mayas tricks on youtube.

[lgslgs]

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

[Bosko]

I tried to teach the wipe your paws trick, but the best I ever got was he would lift his paws for me to wipe! I figured it would be fairly easy to teach considering that he tore my lawn apart kicking all four after he went to the bathroom, but no such luck....

[alice's mommy]

Haha....well, lifting his paw for you to wipe his foot with a towel would still count, I'd think! :)

[ZoesMomma]

Y'all have given me some really good ideas. I'll work out how to train for a couple and see which one works the best for showing my little girl off at graduation. Thanks SO much!