How to teach my puppy new tricks?
Question by olympic_night: How to teach my puppy new tricks?
I have a 3 month old puppy.It’s a jack russell-spitz.I wanna teach him some simple tricks, like sitting.And then rolling over or hand shaking.But he’s just too playful to learn any of these.Of course, he’s learned how to pee outside the house and how to fetch ( I used treats ).But not sitting and other things.Should I wait till he’s older?? What can I do??
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First off, its a good idea to play with your puppy beforehand so he won’t be so hyper. Then, take him into a quiet reserved place where there are no toys or distractions.
For sitting I recommend holding the treat in front of him and repeating the command “sit” while gently pushing on his rear end. Never push on his hips when he’s a puppy-he’s still developing and it could hurt him.
Repeat this over and over again (but not too much because it’ll tire him out) and sooner or later, he’ll obey.
Good luck
Noooo…our puppy had all of those down before he was three months old. Its not too early.
Dogs do well with training when they are tired, after exercising. So, I would recommend taking him for a long walk and wearing him out first.
You can also train them with their food, as in when you are getting ready to feed him, he needs to “SIT” before you give him the food.
hes a good age to train start first week with the sit command use your hand and sit him down while saying sit and praise him give treat and praise. do it for about 5 mins a few times a day following week try the lay down command and treats then the stay and he’ll get the idea. try using hand signals at the same time
DON’T WAIT! Dogs are like people it will lear more when they are young and it will help set a base line for training when they are older, just like children. THe best advice I can give you is to go find a puppy obediance class and enroll…. there you can get all the help you need!
hello!
i see your problem.you dont know what to do.
i think that you really should teach him/her the new tricks ow, rather than later. it’s harder for them to learn stuff once theyre older, cause they get more tired then.
i have a dog that can do all sorts of tricks, and i tought her when she was like areound 3 months too.
my dog can roll over, give high-five, shake oaws, and ALOT more.
dos are better when they are younger( what i mean by better in more actife), and so that’s a good time to teach them the triks.
i think that it’s really great that you have allready trained your dog to pee outside, cause it’s really hard for me to train my dog. . good job.
good luck in whatever you chose to do.
Sara
well, my boxer was really playfull. If you are serious about teaching the tricks you should try after hes been to sleep but before he’s had dinner. Ok, take some fresh chicken and put it in a sandwhich bag in your pocket. Give him one piece and he will follow you into the garden.If he is standing , push his bum to the ground as his bum hits the ground say sit. reward him with a piece of chicken. Keep repeating till he gets the hang of it. eventually just say sit and he shall sit.
Paw!
Do the chicken thing but ask him to sit, then take and shake his paw, but at the same time say paw, keep repeating it and eventually he will be able to give you his paw. My boxer learnt this when he was 9 weeks.
Lay down!
ask your puppy to sit, then take his front paw and lower them to the ground so that he’s laying. as he hits the floor say lay down. and reward him with the chicken. keep repeating, him will eventually get it.
Roll over!
get him to sit, lay down then roll him to the side gently and say roll over, reward him. he will get the hang of it .
hope i helped you
suzie x
remember, the dog has to know what you want it to do, before it can do it. you have to show him. ;D
it is very hard to train a hyper puppy, but sitting and shaking are 2 of the easiest tricks to teach. It sounds like your pup is very food motivated, so try to teach him to sit by holding a treat above his nose and tilt it back over his head until he sits. Give him the command “sit” or whatever you want to use and then give him the treat. It shouldn’t take very long for him to learn this way, but it really depends on how fast your dog learns. Teaching a dog to shake hands is very easy too, but it helps if your dog already obeys the command “sit” most of the time. Make sure you dog is sitting and then hold a treat in front of his face then grab a paw and hold for second, say “shake” or whatever your preferred command is, then let him have the treat. Once he’s learned to shake, be careful not to always say shake right after sit every time. This will result in your dog always associating sit with shake immediately after, so every time you say sit, he will lift his paw to shake even if you didn’t give him the command. Wait until he older to teach him harder tricks like playing dead or rolling over, just stick to the basics for now. If you have trouble teaching him tricks yourself, take him to an obedience class at pet co or wherever they are offered where you live. I have found these very helpful!
Any behavior the dog does naturally can be turned into a cued behavior or trick, with clicker training.
The idea behind the clicker is as a marker, a noise that tells the dog “I like what you were doing at that split second, keep doing it and you will get rewarded.”
The point is to use it for things that are *new* — things the dog does *not* already do when asked. So, if your dog knows that “sit” means “put your bottom on the ground” you don’t use the marker noise for that.
If your dog *doesn’t* know to sit when asked, you use the marker sound when you see him sit, the split second his bottom touches the floor, and deliver a tiny treat.
After some repetitions, the dog will start offering the behavior — looking at you and deliberately sitting, clearly expecting the click and treat.
After that, you start substituting your cue for the click, then back up the timing of when you say it, until the dog does the behavior whenever you say the cue.
This is a simplified description — you can find out more here:
http://www.clickersolutions.com/articles/index.htm
http://www.clickertraining.com/
http://www.dragonflyllama.com/%20DOGS/%20Dog1/levels.html
One of my favorite behaviors to teach, after attention to name, and coming when called, is a nose touch. It can lead to lots of fun tricks, since it enables you to direct the dog’s nose somewhere, and the rest of the dog follows the nose!
For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgefxJAjXSM&feature=channel_page