Q&A: How do you teach your pet tricks?
Question by lioness9012003: How do you teach your pet tricks?
I’m wondering how people teach there dogs tricks. I saw a cool dog show on last night and it was very entertaining. I never had a dog I’ve always had a cat. But I’m wondering how you get your dogs to do that stuff. Does it take a long time?? How does the dog understand what to do and when to do it??
Best answer:
Answer by MissyE
It sometimes depends on the breed of the dog, how quickly or indeed if they ever will pick up tricks. I had a collie/German Shepherd cross and the only thing he would do was ‘sit’ or ‘lie down’, I tried to teach him to give a paw but he wasn’t interested. When he died, I got a Hungarian Puli, these dogs are like the Einstein’s of the dog world, they are very clever. I started as soon as he was a puppy, and just repeated commands using hand signal as well, so I would say ‘SIT’ and point my finger upwards, for a while he just looked at me, but when he eventually sat I gave him a treat immediately, I did this constantly until he realise that when I said sit, he done it and got a treat. I did the same thing with everything else. He does, DOWN, ROLL OVER, and as he has two different coloured paws he also does GIVE ME A WHITE PAW, GIVE ME A BLACk PAW.
He is still only 10 months old and I am trying to teach him new things all the time.
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