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Originally Posted by YorkieTherapy  1. Yawn on command.
How do you teach this? 
2. Pick a shell and choose the correct hand.
He already knows these tricks.
3. Eat like a redneck. 
I couldn't stop laughing when I read this one. Oh please! please! please! Could you post a video of your boxer? I know everyone would lve to see this.
Thanks for the tips chattiesmom! |
Teaching a dog to Yawn on command is easy, Easy EASY. It takes some time, but not much effort. To begin, start praising the heck out of him each time you see him yawn. Tell him GOOD yawn and point to your cheek -- you are actually teaching the verbal and hand signal at the same time. That's all there is to it -- you just catch him yawning and praise him. DO NOT ask him to yawn until you have "caught him in the act" enough so that he associates the word/hand signal with the action. To hurry the trick along a bit you can gently push the area where his mouth ends. This encourages them to open their mouth and many times to yawn.
You can also teach sneeze using the same basic idea, in fact, look for things that are a bit unusual that your dog does naturally and then take them a step further by teaching him to do those things on command.
I will try my hardest to take some videos of Boo doing the redneck thing. She is almost 14 years old and she has become selectively deaf - she hears what she wants to hear
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