Dog Tricks

Philippines
June 18, 2008 9:36am CST
Our pet dog at home learned how to balance and walk with just his two hind legs because we frequently give him treats that he has to reach by standing with his two hind legs. We started doing that when he was still young and that time we were just playing with him and teasing him. We realized one day that we were actually training him to stand up and was surprised to see him improve with his balance and the length of time that he can hold the position standing with his two legs. Teasing him made his two hind legs stronger, and since then, we show off the trick our pet dog can do to people coming over our house. What tricks can your dog do and how did they learn it?
1 response
@sameroad (3179)
• United States
18 Jun 08
That is pretty cool! dogs are so smart. Its really cool how they pick up on things we don't even realize until they do it. My dog knows the basic command stuff, sit, stay, come, lay down. He also knows "kisses" but when I was teaching him this I didn't want him to lick me in my face. So I got him to give an actual kiss! he touches you with his nose/mouth. He knows how to crawl. First I get him to lay down. Then i would get in the floor with him and would put a treat in my hand and move it away from his face a little bit making him crawl to it. He knows jump and shake (he can shake with either hand) or he can give you a high five. This is really easy to teach. You just take there hand and shake it while saying shake and then reward them after.. only took him maybe 10 mins to learn that trick lol He can turn on light switchs. This one I didn't teach him. He picked it up on his own by watching me. He noticed that by hitting that button it turned on the light i guess.
• Philippines
18 Jun 08
That's a very smart dog you have there. :) I have always wanted to learn how to train a dog to do tricks, but i always fail. I really don't know how to train a dog, our pet dog just learned the trick by accident. hehe. Is there any special method in training a dog?