| Britster | 01-30-2010 07:18 PM |
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Originally Posted by QuickSilver
(Post 2979829)
I'm so impressed with everyone's trick list!
I enjoy teaching Thor simple tricks, but after spending MONTHS AND MONTHS on Roll Over and Bang!, I don't think I have it in me to teach another advanced one.
I would love for Thor to have a "signature trick". He does two things really well that I have never put on cue: he "army crawls" all the time when he's excited, and he's really good at standing on his hind legs like a little person. He knows he's adorable when he does that one, so he always busts it out when he's begging for food from strangers.
Any thoughts on how to build on these and make them unique? One other thing I've thought is maybe "Sing". When he's disgruntled, he makes a long series of bizarre noises that are pretty hilarious.
| I'm so glad you've joined us in this thread! I've missed your training insight around here. :D
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. | 