When my trainer taught us shake, she'd show the dogs a treat first and them cup it in her hand. After a while the dogs starting pawing at her hand to get the treat out. She's click and treat every time they lifted their paws, then every time they touched her hands. Once they get going straight to toughing her hands she started opening her hand and showing her palm. Once she has that down you can move her hand her up like a high 5 and she should still try to touch her palm.
If you look back I explained bang bang and roll over all out once. I don't know how far back in my posts you'd have to go though.
Another member once gave a goo idea to get them to learn kiss. Put a little bit of peanut butter on her cheek and tell her kiss and let her lick it off. I thought that was a great way to teach them, much easier than the way i did it
I don't know if you play catch with Bindi, but we're always playing with her. Before we throw the ball, we can Meeko do a trick. He's so excited to get the ball, he'd do anything for us to throw it. When I'm teaching him a new trick, I usually do that one and it reinforces quickly. If I'm not I just do sit and he like jumps down from a standing position. Maybe if you tried that, Bindi would start laying down from standing position. Now if you know how to get them to sit from a lay down position, I'm all ears lol. Hope i helped some
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