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Originally Posted by Oddsock  aww poor Cooper. You'll have to be quieter..lol I've been teaching Caleb 'dead' too. I get him to do down first, then say 'dead' and lay him on his side. My Border collie kept running too his bed when I did it, seems 'dead' sounds too much like 'bed'.  All my past dogs have played dead, I always taught them with the word 'dead' while making the gun motion. Eventually we just had too do the gun motion. I expect Cooper would prefer that, in time. lol.
Today hubby said we're having 'fish' and Ish (Ishmael - border collie) came running thinking he was being called. It surprising how many words start or end in Ish, poor thing gets so confused. 
Extra hugs for Cooper. p.s You probably do this already, but I just thought I'd add.. When teaching a new trick to our dogs, we always do it only a couple of times, in between tricks they know, so they feel confident, and get lots of praise for doing things right. It also stops them being bored with repetitiveness.
Let us know how you do......any pic? |
Nope, I had no idea that this should be done but i did go from sit--->down--->BANG and gave treats throughout. When Cooper was feeling better he just rolled and rolled over many times to get a treat. Cooper gets angry when I train him. I'll take a video once Max has it down.
Here's a pic just in case you want to see them doing nothing.
