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Originally Posted by Sadie's Mom How do you teach sneezing on command? |
I'm afraid I can't take credit for teaching her, I just got lucky really. Before I "taught" her I was teaching her to speak well when she was getting warmed up she would sneeze instead of bark then after a little bit she would do a full bark. Like I said I was lucky because I just changed to command from speak to sneeze and pointed to my nose when I said it. She's recently gotten to where she can distinguish between sneezing and speaking and will 90% of the time do the correct one when you ask.
I have read, I believe, that one way to teach them is to get some water in a spray bottle and tell the dog to sneeze and mist the water towards their face then when they sneeze praise them. I don't really know if water will make them sneeze though, I can say that febreeze made my bloodhound sneeze yesterday but I don't think spraying febreeze in their face would be a good thing. Maybe if you found something that made them sneeze and just misted it in their general direction not actually in their face?
I found this website it tells a way to teach them down towards the bottom of the page....
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/L...44/TRICKS.HTML
This one tells another way....
http://articles.pointshop.com/pets/49253.php
Good Luck...it really is a pretty good trick, most people who see it are fairly impressed