Scout goes to school at PetSmart, too. He's a baaad boy at school, though. All he wants to do is play with the girl dogs and show them his "stuff"...as in roll over on his back and open up his legs...he's pretty proud of it. It's getting embarassing! He won't do anything at school, but at home he's really good. He knows the basic obedience commands, but he's much better at tricks.
The cutest one I've taught him so far is "wave hi". He waves his little paw multiple times..it's too cute. I am going to try to video it and post it for everyone. The way I taught him was marking the behavior. At times during a sit he would get excited about a treat and lift up his paw. So I used the clicker, and everytime he'd lift his paw I would click and treat. He got it in about 10 minutes, then put a verbal command and hand signal with it: "wave hi" while waving with my fingers up and down. Now he does it without treats, using the verbal and hand signal.
He also does "talk to me"-a single WOOF, when asked. and "up-up": a high flying jump in the air. He delights the fellow schoolmates at Petsmart with his tricks...but try to get him to sit/stay and you got another thing comin! |