Simple Tricks To Teach A Dog

 Simple Tricks To Teach A Dog

To train your dog lessons, even simple ones, you'll need some small reward presents, to be in a quiet convenient location, and to limit the training sessions to 10 – 15 minutes or your dog will get bored. Remember to give them plenty of attention and a reward treat when he does something right, but don't get him too excited or he'll lose focus.

To get the dog to give you his paw, then get him to wait, then take his paw in your hand while you say the word "paw," then give him a reward. After a couple of tries, don't take his paw too fast, say the word, count to one, and take it; if he doesn't, go back to saying it at the same time. Most dogs would happily pick it up after two to three sessions.

The high five is a continuation of an earlier trick, in this case, the paw trick, as is the case for many tricks. Lift your hand even higher than you can for the paw trick when holding a treat between your fingers. Your dog will believe you want to do the paw trick and will grab for the treat with his paw, as we told him earlier. As he goes for the treat, give him a high five and give him the treat. If your dog has learned the paw trick, this one should be relatively simple to teach, and after a few sessions, he should be able to do it without using his voice.

Until you start this one, I'd just like to remind you to be a little cautious and not keep the hoop too high, as you don't want your dog to get hurt while doing the trick. Place your dog on one side of a hula hoop, draw his attention to your hand on the other side of the hoop, hold a reward in your hand, and free him from the sit. He will want to go around or under the hoop at first, so if this happens, start over. Your dog needs the treatment and will quickly learn that going around or under does not get it, so he will soon start going around it.

On the command of hoopla, he'll be jumping through the hoop in no time. When I first started practicing this trick, I had a medium-sized dog (a Labrador), so I started with the hoop 6 inches off the ground and gradually lifted it to waist height; if you have a smaller dog, you would want to start with the hoop hitting the ground and gradually increase it as he gets used to the tricycle.