Teach Your Dog Tricks
Copyright © 2011 Kat Drew
Teaching your dog tricks can be really enjoyable for you and very rewarding for your dog. Helping and coaching him to do tricks can be a great playtime bonding activity.
As soon as your dog has learned his first trick, he will be beaming with confidence and want to learn more. He will be wagging his tail just waiting to do new tricks to please you. Enjoy the fact that he may turn into a bit of a show off in the process!
There are lots of dog tricks that you can teach your dog, but the main ones are:
To shake, to bow, playing asleep, playing dead, to spin, to beg and many more.
These are advanced tricks to teach your dog so it is a good idea that you have already taught them the basic obedience commands. These are: Sit, Down, Come, Stay, Heel, Fetch, Stand, Leave It.
Teaching your dog tricks is a wonderful addition to fetching a ball or a frisbee. Sometimes you want to do something different to mix it up a little bit. Dogs love to use their brains and learning new tricks is the perfect brain exercise. And these dog tricks can be performed indoors which is great when the weather is bad. Your dog gets to exercise indoors using his brain as well as his body.
Dog tricks can also be used as a substitute for bad behaviour and habits that your dog may have picked up. For example, if your dog runs out the front door at the slightest chance, you can teach him to shake when someone comes through the front door. He will look forward to being able to show off his newly learned tricks to the visitor at the door. Another fun example is if you meet a child, or even an adult, that is afraid of your dog, you can get your dog to perform a cute trick such as taking a bow. Your dog will seem less threatening and more interesting after the trick.
When you begin teaching your dog new tricks don’t make your training sessions too long, make them short and fun. Learning tricks is entertainment for your dog so you do not want to make it seem like work. Your dog cannot concentrate for long and he will get tired and not understand the training.
Once your dog has mastered one trick, you can move onto the next. Don’t be in too much of a hurry, through, as dogs rely on repetition to learn.
Special tools are not needed for you to teach your dog tricks. Just load yourself up with a few of your dog’s favourite treat and you are ready to begin. And you can come up with more tricks to teach him as you get better together. And remember this is fun journey for both of you and not a race to the destination. Your dog can keep learning tricks for years into the future.
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