20. Pick up his toys
Getting him to put them back again is a completely different issue. With a little patience and determination, you will eventually be able to teach your dog to clean up after himself.
Sit on the floor with your dog’s toy basket in front of you. Choose one toy, and throw it to the other side of the room. Once your dog chases after it, hold a treat over his toy basket, and call him back to you.
If he drops the toy before returning, remove the treat from his sight, and command him to fetch the toy. It may take a while for your dog to get the hang of this, and it is much easier if he already knows how to fetch.
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Once he returns to you with the toy in his mouth, hold the treat directly over the toy box, and command your dog to release the toy. When he drops it into the box, give him the treat and lots of praise. Repeat these steps, and slowly begin to move the toy box away from you. Hold the treat over the box by extending your arm, and work up to simply pointing towards the box.
Tricks?…..we have dogs that can unlock and open kennel doors, and all of the dog gates in the house have had to be modified as they had figured them out in days.
What type of dogs?
Miniature Bull Terriers…
Miniature Bull Terriers…
Miniature Bull Terriers…
american bullies
I most certainly will NOT teach my dogs how to open the fridge door. All I need is for them to clean it out while I’m away or just not paying attention. They are very good at noticing when my back is turned when they are attempting to get away with something anyway. At least my Golden is….
Lucky for you, all of these tricks are optional. 😀 You don’t have to train any you don’t want.
Attach a rope to it for the pup to pull it open, so without the rope attached he/she wont know how to open it 🙂
well it be good if mine can pick it poo up
I love my dog but sometimes she does not listen she lays down a sleeps
Terrible methods. Dogs do NOT speak English. Yelling unknown words at them stresses them out becasue they do not understand waht you want, they need to be taught the action first, then the word once they fully understand the action.
I just want to point out that dogs recognize the tone of your voice and other sounds. And we arent yelling at them, we are talling as we are doing the activity or action. You can use other methods also. Just saying.
Before teaching your dog any of this I suggest getting your dog used to the sound of the piano first, then after that if its small have them in your lap while you play a song or two if they are larger sit them next to you(:
What if someone doesn’t play piano? 😀
I need one of those for my great dane.
hes a babby but a big one.
I jest had to stand out side in a cold wether.
and I am a girl I am 8 years old.
and my dog is not putty traind my puppy is a great dane .
for some reason she doesn’t want to do these tricks, I thinks its because she doesn’t want to eat
There’s one big mistake this article makes: you should always say the command WHEN the dog is doing it, not before. The dog needs to know that the command is linked with the action, so saying high-five before having him do it might not link the action to the word for him, as he will have forgotten the word already. Wait till he does it, then simultaneously say the command, and reward him, for him to learn the connection.
I love reading your posts, very light dialogue. Nice.
awesome dog tricks
i know exclusive only 3 steps and teach your dog properly.
I took my puppy from a dog foster home about a year ago. I love him to bits; he has a great personality, and I feel that he loves our family so much. BUT, he bites a lot. How to stop it?
My husband and I were thinking about taking him to ‘doggy school’, but then again, it’s extremely expensive, and the nearest ‘doggy school’ is far away from us. Maybe you have some advice? THANK YOU!!!!
When your dog bites you, you need to make a high-pitched squeal and immediately cease anything you are doing with him, turn your back to him, and walk away. This shows your dog that he’s hurting you (even if the bites don’t hurt, this is important) and that biting won’t get him anything he wants.
If the bites are hard enough to bruise or draw blood, then ignore what I’ve said and seek professional help.
I have a new lab puppy terrible biting and nipping. We tried flicking nose, slapping lightly, time outs ( put in laundry room for a few minutes and the Owee that hurts and ignore routine. None of that worked. I started with treats and holding my hand out, if he licked I said ” good ” and rewarded and said ” kisses as he licked” . It only took a few times and he is now kissing instead of biting!
Oh also, walking and exercise will help with his energy level and help …
These are such fun tricks! How difficult would it be to teach my dog something like “dance?” I have been able to teach her “sit” over the past couple months, but it seems like it takes a long time. It also doesn’t help that I have a very busy work schedule.
My dog picked it up in seconds, he’s a beagle. what breed of dog is yours? You literally get a nice treat and raise it above their head until they jump.
You’ve made the investment in owning a pet, make it a priority to spend time training it. I have a 10 week old Lab pup that sits, stays, rollover, leave it ( anything I don’t want him to have) walks on leash, lays down, knows get out of the kitchen and stays out and shake. Took me a few minutes a day with treats as motivation and he now does these things for praise and the occasional treat as reinforcement . He is the best trained dog I’ve ever had and I’ve had dogs all my life. Positive reinforcement training… Read more »
Nothing wrong with some negative reinforcement too. At the age you mention, sure. But once you hit teenager you need more structure and a sharp “no!” – and on hard pups, you need a good jolt.
I train with positive, and reinforce with negative when I know he is refusing to do something he knows (and only then – with 2 exceptions. Fluff eating – which I am sure is like bacon cotton candy, and cat chasing. Those get high electric stimulus for safety reasons).
your dog is very smart and well motivated to please. That’s awesome.
Piano, Piano, Piano.
I took my puppy from a dog foster home about a year ago. I love him to bits; he has a great personality, and I feel that he loves our family so much. BUT he barks A LOT. . So, leaving home is always a challenge for us.
My husband and I were thinking about taking him to ‘doggy school’, but then again, it’s extremely expensive, and the nearest ‘doggy school’ is far away from us. Maybe you have some advice? THANK YOU!!!!
I have to say that it also dependents of what type of breed is the dog some of them might be very energetic and distracted while you try to teach them something so you need to be extra patient and start with something easy..don’t yell at your dog … Like someone said already they only recognise the tone of your voice. I got a collie which is 4months old I was told they are very smart and love to play a lot.I only have her only for almost week and she already call me to go out, give kiss, sit… Read more »
I was using justin boldoni technique from facebook and it work greats.