3 Easy Dog Tricks

In teaching your dog, easy tricks,you need to prepare some small reward treats. Secure a training area that is quiet and suitable for training. You must limit the training sessions to 10 - 15 minutes or your dog will start to be exhausted. Keep in mind that when your dog gets something right, praise him and hand him a reward treat, just be careful not to get him over excited or he will not concentrate any further.

In training your dog to give you his paw, make your dog sit first then as you say the word 'paw' take your dogs paw in your hand, give the dog a treat,do this again, after a few times do not take his paw so quickly, say the word, count to one then take it, you should notice he is bringing his paw up as you say the word. Repeat the process a few more time then slow your response again. After 2 or 3 sessions, most dogs pick this one up quite happily.

The high five is like a lot of other dog tricks. It is a progression of an earlier trick, which is the paw trick. Hold a treat in your hand and raise your hand slightly higher than you would for the paw trick. You dog will think you want to do the paw trick and will reach for the treat with his paw as we taught him earlier, as he goes up you say “high five” and hand him the treat. Once your dog has completely remembered the paw trick this one should be very easy to learn and with just a few sessions he will be doing it on hand gestures rather than voice control.

Getting your dog to jump through a hoop, before you start this one I would just like to ask you to be a little sensitive and not hold the hoop too high as you do not want your dog to hurt himself while performing the trick. Sit your dog on one side of a hoola hoop, catch the dogs attention on your hand on the other side of the hoop hold a treat in your hand and give the dog the command to release him from the sit, at first he may attempt to go around or under the hoop, if this happens start again, your dog wants the treat and will soon learn that going around or under does not get it so he will soon start going through it, when he does say hoopla and give him the treat. Before long he will be jumping through the hoop on the command of hoopla. When I began doing this trick I had a medium sized dog (a Labrador) so I started with the hoop 6 inches from the ground and slowly raised it to waist height, if you have a smaller dog you might want to start with the hoop touching the ground so the dog just goes through the hoop and then slowly raise it as he gets used to the trick.

By: Nicole1121

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