Any cool things you can make your dog (or maybe cat? can you train those
) and if so how did you accomplish that goal?
I'm currently training my dog to do the basics...
got "sit" down like a mother trucker,
kinda got "down" but sometimes only if there is a treat,
"leave it" is one of his best ones. this was done through a couple methods of positive and negaitve reinforcement, like walking past a pile of treats and giving a quick tug on the pinch collar when he makes a move for it, while giving a stern "leave it" verbal command. then moving to a treat based system where he doesn't get to eat the treat thats on the floor until he gets his release command "ok go."
"wait" - combo this one with sit before each and every door entry
"out" - GTFOOMR
"game-time" - thats the lingo we use for doin the potty business
"hurry up" - actually doing the potty business, now that i think about it i wish i used the word "hustle" instead to keep with the sport language. on a whole i should have thought it out and used frank martins playbook too name all the tricks. (mods feel free to move this thread to the "octogon of doom" if needed. tia)
"spin" - pretty simple, he just does a 360. usually have him sit and just make a circle with a treat on top of the verbal command. at first, just started off by slowly leading him around 360 degrees with the verbal. progressively got faster.
"come" - this ones still a work in progress, but he's got it pretty much down. starting to transition it to a specific whistle.
"roll-over"- thats a tough one, i'll give it a "work in progress." i was told to push with the treat towards his shoulder when he is in a lay position, and continue giving praise and treats while he makes his way over. he's kinda gangly though and he doesn't really seem coordinated (prolly me just being to easy on him).
"shake" - down like lindsay lohan at a coke party. have him start at sitting and then just place the treat between his neck and shoulder which causes him to automatically lift his paw. eventually it just turned into a verbal command.
"beg" - got it. started by having him sit down then bringing the treat just over his head, providing a little support on the backside of his collar to provide balance and direction and giving the verbal command. then just eventually the direction of the treat and verbal.
"give" - he pretty much has got this. he goes out and gives $1 to the first homeless guy he sees.
"bang & settle" - for the domination treatment of putting him on his side
"stay" - i feel like this is the most important one, and i think he's getting it, but not really sure. seems to forget about it pretty easily. really would like to prolong it to where he can sit, stay and i can go into the house and come back out without him moving an inch. it would be really useful for when going into stores and restaurants to order food. any tips??!!
walking and stuff he's pretty solid, but we have to use the pinch collar to ensure he isn't trying to lead us around. when its on he stays right by our side, doesn't pull at all, but when its off he generally tries to do what he wants. i try and give him quick tugs and give him a "heel" command but it doesn't really work with a normal collar. i would LOVE to do off-the-leash training but the dude has a very high prey drive and i don't know if its possible to overcome that enough to where i can walk him around without a collar on. i've experimented with it and he does pretty well, but he has yet to see a cat or duck (rough ridin' hatess ducks) when doing so. when i took him on a 26 mile hike he did pretty alright with it, but was having problems so i kept switching back and forth between pinch collar and off-leash.
problems: he gets pretty excited whenever he see's either the lady or me after a while. we exercise him every day, and don't make eye contact with him when we come in. then when we acknowledge him we make him sit for us. any tips on this one?!?! also when guests come through the door. i would like for him to not care, but i figure part of that is being a puppy. for the time being we try and get him to sit and stay before we open it up to let people in. but i also have friends who just waltz right in.
so far he's around 5 months old and doin alright. fully crate and potty trained and sleeping through the night. he's pretty vocal though which i don't understand. he gives us lots of verbal talk, and we usually reprimand with a stern "quiet" and (hopefully) a spraying from a water bottle. whats really strange is that his breed is usually very quite unless they sense danger. i'm hoping it will just get better with consistency and time.
i was talking with this German lady the other day about things of this nature and she said she just learned about the "like" command. in which you don't allow your dog to acknowledge another person or approach them unless you say "like." this seems like it could be incredibly useful.
any tips or trips would be amazing! also if i wrote all this out and don't get any responses i'm gonna blow this thread to high hell in bumppage. probably with pictures of the dog doing these tricks.
