[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by Britster

I'm so glad you've joined us in this thread! I've missed your training insight around here.

The standing on hind legs thing is so cute! That's how I taught Jackson "dance." He would do it by himself and eventually I just started moving my hands up and down and telling him to "dance" and he taught himself that trick, really. Maybe every time Thor displays this behavior, just say the cue and add a hand signal. I tried this method with teaching Jackson to take a bow and I think it helped him catch on faster. He often did the bow position by himself while stretching, etc, and whenever I'd catch him doing it I'd say "take a bow!"

As for making it unique, maybe when he's on his hind legs, get him to do a little twirl or a spin while standing by luring him with some food.

Singing would be adorable. It's funny (I think I've stated it in this thread before) that Jackson seems to take sooo much longer to learn simple, easy tricks and he still won't "speak" on command.

Uni runs on her back legs and resembles a drunken sailor, so we call it the "Jack Sparrow run".