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Be creative and have fun Remember training is simply two way communication. You can teach your Max anything that he does naturally. Watch him for things that he does that make you smile - yawn, stretch, sneeze etc. Then every time he does it praise him. Yawn -good boy! Stretch -good boy! Sneeze -good boy! These are very easy things to teach, but it may take some time for Max to "figure it out". My daugher taught Boo the Boxer (RIP) to ride piggy back and she loved it. Boo was willing to ride on your back as long as you would carry her. LOL (she actually held on by wrapping her front paws around our neck). You are to be commended for your dedication to keeping Max occupied with new things to do. |
We also taught Boo the "show me" command. This was more of a way for her to communicate her wants and needs, but what it actually did was teach her to think. Short Story - One night we were having beef stew for dinner. Boo was "telling" us that she wanted something. I gave her the "show me what you want" command and she went straight to the counter where the crockpot full of beef stew was and looked at the crockpot. We were amazed. We also taught her the shell trick. Using three small plastic containers (not clear) we would let her watch us put a treat under one of the containers. Then we would switch them all around and tell her to "show me" which one she wanted. She had to put her paw on the container she wanted. At first she always got a treat, but after she learned the game she only got the trick if she picked the container with the treat underneath. It was a great game to play when we had visitors! |
Captnoonie has given awesome advice!!!! :) Uni is incredible! Mike - I LOVE the sneeze trick. Eddie looks so awesome doing it. I taught that to Jackson a while back but haven't done it in a long time. Thanks for the reminder to do a refresher! This was when we first started it: Here's some of Jackson's tricks: He's got a FEW more since then but I haven't made a new video. If you need any help or advice, I can try to help. :) I typically advice youtube channel kikopup- she's awesome! Trick training is really so much more than just showing off flashy tricks- the bond you create while doing them is amazing. People are always amazed at the connection that Jackson and I have but really it was just a matter of listening to him, finding his likes, his motivators, what scares him, etc, tricks are a great tool in learning to communicate with your dog even better! |
Love Jackson's sneeze trick, Brit! He's so gentle! Eddie is manic. If he can't get a single tissue, he brings the whole box :O |
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I just realized how long I had let his hair get in that video.... lol. |
Finally you show up Brit! Jackson has Uni beat with all the tricks he knows now! I haven't taught her anything new in a long time! We never got the "limp" and we still haven't tried the sneeze trick with the tissue. And she never quite got the weave poles either. =/ |
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Now.... Can anyone tell me about agility and yorkies together? I know they have to be older than a year to start... I'm interested but someone I met said Lilo couldn't do it since she looked like she would be too small. I was so disappointed... We tried weaving with my friends agility kit and it was so much fun... On a side note.... We're having success with rollover and left and right! Ahh... We were so excited! She finally did a full roll in one move on the grass... Leave it is going well too. She just stares at me then walks away until I say to come back. We need work on drop it still... She thinks we're playing tug of war if I touch it.... But we've incorporated the suggestions into our daily life :) |
I've never heard of a dog being too small to do agility. Alaskayorkie does agility, and Jillie is pretty dang tiny. |
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Nope! Both Eddie and Jillie do the see saw, and it just takes a bit longer for their weight to make it move, but I've seen them do it. Alaskayorkie has a bunch of vids on youtube of them doing agility. I've always wanted to enroll Uni but classes are a bit expensive. |
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Little dogs can definitely do agility! Eddie competed one summer in NADAC (North American Dog Agility Council), which offers different types of courses than just the standard course run by AKC. And NADAC doesn't do the teeter, which was Eddie's nemesis. He can do the teeter on my wooden teeter at home, but he freaks out with the heavy metal teeter at trials. In NADAC, they run a standard course that includes everything but the teeter. But they also have some fun courses: jumpers, tunnelers and weavers. It was a LOT of fun. Eddie competed in the 8" class against mostly Dachshunds. He won every race he completed (the Doxies were slow!), and he met the qualifying standard in Novice eight times out of about 15 races. He was supposed to do 8" jumps based on his height, but there was a category that allowed him to jump 4", so I opted for that. He has bad knees and I didn't want to push it. In fact, he since has had surgery on one leg and I pulled him out of agility altogether. The surgery was for a snow-related injury, not agility itself. Jillie took one class in agility and was shaping up to be my shining star, but she too has leg problems. She was diagnosed with Level 1 LP, so I pulled her out of agility. Vet and fellow competitors all said she could still compete, but I opted against it. I want her as healthy as she can be for as long as she can be. Here are a few random vids: Eddie running a weaver's course Eddie's first trial (jumper's course and tunneler's course) Eddie running standard course (this was his crowning achievement) Jillie's one class: |
haha. Jillie is so funny! Now I didn't brag you guys up that much. :rolleyes: |
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