Tricks in Progress

[YorkieTherapy]

I watch Good Morning America every morning so I will keep a watchful eye when they announce Jackson the winner!

[Britster]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

ahh!! too cute! Way to go jackson! Everytime I turn around Jackson's got a new trick up his sleeve!

Thx!

Originally Posted by YorkieTherapy

I watch Good Morning America every morning so I will keep a watchful eye when they announce Jackson the winner!

Aw, thanks but actually we didn't make the contest! I totally missed the deadline lol. Maybe next year!

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Britster

Just checking in on this thread.....

Jackson had terrible balance when it came to "sit pretty" but he's finally gettin' it. He used to sit up in the position and hold his arms/paws straight up instead of curled over (if ya know what I mean...) but now he's finally doing it the right way, hehe I *even* got him to hold up a paper sign in his mouth in the sit pretty position since we're working on 'take it' and 'hold it' as well. It was about 2 seconds but better than he did before! I really want him to be able to hold up a sign in a picture or a video - I think that'd be the cutest.

My dad's dog does the sit pretty thing like Uni with his paws waving lol. He always does that.

Maximo... maybe try getting them to sit pretty with a wall behind them so they can get more balance?

And yay Katie on shake! Took Jackson forever too go figure, the dog learns how to play dead before shake!

LOL -- I can see Jackson holding a sign while sitting pretty, and I'm cracking up picturing Uni waving her paws.

Brit, I'm going to try your wall idea when we get back to working on new tricks. Max told me that I need to review the difference between "beg" and "sit pretty." He likes holding his paws curled over in general, so that shouldn't be a problem. If he could drink tea, I'm convinced he would put up his pinky finger.

[Britster]

Originally Posted by Maximo

LOL -- I can see Jackson holding a sign while sitting pretty, and I'm cracking up picturing Uni waving her paws.

Brit, I'm going to try your wall idea when we get back to working on new tricks. Max told me that I need to review the difference between "beg" and "sit pretty." He likes holding his paws curled over in general, so that shouldn't be a problem. If he could drink tea, I'm convinced he would put up his pinky finger.

I posted the vid on the previous page I think with Jackson sitting pretty and holding a sign. He barely does it but it's soo cute when he does lol.

Good luck with sit pretty! It's just so cute. Jackson had horrible balance too but hes gotten better. My dads 2 dogs can sit pretty for literally like 10 mins nonstop. When they beg for food that's what they do lol. They have amazing balance.

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Britster

I posted the vid on the previous page I think with Jackson sitting pretty and holding a sign. He barely does it but it's soo cute when he does lol.

Adorable! Very nice job. Jackson can put a smile on anyone's face.

Thank you for reminding me about the video. I usually wait to watch videos when I am sitting at my "real" computer and can really enjoy them. I have been so preoccupied that I have not gotten to see my real computer for a long time, until now.

[Britster]

So, I'm reviving this thread because now that it's been colder, I've been re-visiting trick training more again.

For the longest time, Jackson never understood the concept of going to get an object and then putting in a basket, or a box, or whatever. But last night, something in his head clicked when I decided to work on it again. So within 5 minutes he learned how to retrieve a sock and walk it over and put it in the basket. Yay! So now I'm planning on teaching him how to clean up his own toys. This could also be useful in aiding me with the laundry. Haha. Here's a quick cell phone video. http://s691.photobucket.com/albums/v...t=IMG_9475.mp4

Hmmm... what else have we worked on. Oh, unzipping my hoodie/jacket. He's learned how to tug on my zipper and unzip it (but I have to tie a shoe string to it - he still can't figure out how to grasp the zipper itself). That should be a cute one.

Also, turning on/off the light. I have him use a loveseat and nudge the lightswitch with his nose, but he seems to want to use his paws. He kept offering me his paws so I decided to work with it and think it MAY work better. We'll see. He has yet to actually flick the lightswitch but it's a start that he's bringing his paws up to it as well as his nose.

[capt_noonie]

I think he will get the laundry trick pretty fast since he's got basketball down now.

The lightswitch is waaaay easier to teach if you have those kind of switches that are the big and flat kind rather than the original little ones. I've taught Uni the "tap" command, which is basically I point or touch a surface or object and say tap and she will go over to it and put her paws or nose on it. If it's within reach she uses her nose. If it's up higher or far away she'll use her paws. Now if she was only tall enough to reach the switches.