Your Yorkies tricks

[Wend]

In addition to some of the already listed tricks, Maggie can

leave it
back (used around doors and cats lol)
touch (with her nose)
search (I direct her to an area to look for a treat)

Luna does

Prairie dog (stands up on hind legs holding front legs close to body)
through (tunnel)
and nothing else lol she is a stinker

neither do

get out of my purse!
stop begging!
go to bed!
come inside!
quit barking at the TV!
Don't dig!

[MommaTED]

WOW!! I have a lot of work to do. Tucket knows "down" and Ozzy knows "sit" and that's about all. I'm trying to teach Tucket "sit" but he can be very ornery sometimes. It doesn't help that he is not motivated by treats. I tried to teach him "come" (which still drives us crazy that he runs from us) but when I try to offer him a treat for coming, he turns his nose up. There's nothing negative that he could possibly associate with coming to us so I have no idea why he is so resistant. Like I said, he is one ORNERY boy.

[Martini19]

im sooo jealous!!! im having the hardest time teaching mine 'sit'..its like sometimes she gets completely and i think we're good..and then its like she doesn't know it again...she keeps going back and forth...how often do you guys train yours? and for how long at a time?

[Britster]

Originally Posted by Martini19

im sooo jealous!!! im having the hardest time teaching mine 'sit'..its like sometimes she gets completely and i think we're good..and then its like she doesn't know it again...she keeps going back and forth...how often do you guys train yours? and for how long at a time?

A good site is: Dog Tricks! Shake, Crawl, Beg, Kiss, Roll Over, Bow, and more!

I really don't work with him that long. It took him about 5 minutes to learn the
basis of "crawl" and then we work for another 5 minutes on "perfecting" it and
generally speaking, he can pick up a new trick within 5-20 minutes. We do some
tricks usually every night for about 10-15 minutes before bedtime just to make sure
he doesn't forget the old or the new. It tires him out too mentally! It's funny -
sometimes while teaching a new trick, he will do EVERY trick that he already
knows just to get that treat in my hand, LOL. Then it's like it finally clicks and he goes
"Ohhh that's what she wants me to do!" Once he does it once or twice, he catches on really quick.

Bang bang was probably the hardest, longest to teach. It took me about two weeks of
practicing it every night for minimum of 5 minutes, sometimes more. In order to teach him,
I would do the "bang bang" sound and a gun hand motion and then knock him over softly.
Well, he began to learn that when I said "bang bang" I would knock him over, so he'd jump
away from me! LOL. I thought he'd never learn that trick but with patience and time, one
day he just caught on!

Basically, I think it's all about patience and making it fun for the dog! If you or the
dog is getting too frustrated or stressed out, just stop and end the session on a good note.
Work with her in small time frames, like start off just doing it for 3 minutes or so and then just
end it while you're ahead!

[Dara311]

wow, you all have some smarties on your hands!
Fiona knows how to:
Sit
Stay
lay down
put her head down
wait for a treat until i say ok!
high five
sit pretty (on her hind legs)
and she will find you when you say HELP HELP!

[salazark]

One thing I've done with Sadie is take tricks she already knows and make them "crowd pleasers". For instance, she knows down and roll over so I taught her fire safety. I say to her (in a very animated voice) "What do you do if you catch on fire? Stop! Drop! and Roll! and she stops, does a down and rolls over. Then I say "but what if the building's on fire and you can't breath?" For that she does a skootch - crawls on her belly across the floor. These have been a lot of fun to show people.

One she came up with on her own - and she only does it with her daddy - For graduation at her classes they give them giant Milk-Bones. She doesn't eat them but likes to play with them. One day my husband scratched it along the carpet and hid it behind the door. She followed the scent and found it. Next thing we knew she had hid it in another room, behind a cabinet in the corner. She came back to daddy and looked at him like "your turn". They play that game all the time. Sometimes he thinks he's hidden somewhere where she'll never find it. He'll go look later and it's gone - she's found it an re-hidden it. One time she gave up on him finding it in the spare bedroom under a table with a table cloth on it. She came and got him and took him to it. She's a trip!

[cheryl19]

Mine know ONE trick... getting me to do anything for them They have me trained very well.

[katy-yorkie]

Do you find that your Yorkie knows/understands certain words? We have to spell a lot of words to keep Buster from going crazy!! When he was just a few months old, he would get his leash and and unroll it in the foyer and sit by the front door waiting for his walk. He knows some tricks, but the words that they understand amazes me. We have to be careful with what we say or we wind up with a real unhappy Buster. He even knows the names of friends and their pets, even though he is not around them that often. I don't know, maybe I'm easily amused but I really think a lot of people don't give this breed much credit when it comes to brains!

[salazark]

Originally Posted by katy-yorkie

Do you find that your Yorkie knows/understands certain words? We have to spell a lot of words to keep Buster from going crazy!! When he was just a few months old, he would get his leash and and unroll it in the foyer and sit by the front door waiting for his walk. He knows some tricks, but the words that they understand amazes me. We have to be careful with what we say or we wind up with a real unhappy Buster. He even knows the names of friends and their pets, even though he is not around them that often. I don't know, maybe I'm easily amused but I really think a lot of people don't give this breed much credit when it comes to brains!

I've had a lot of different dogs throughout my life - smart dogs, but Sadie is my first Yorkie. I swear - they are just different than any other dog. We call her a little person in a dog's body. If I'm getting my tennis shoes on for anything but taking her for a walk, I have to sneak them outside and put them on there. She knows tennis shoes means walk. She definately knows a ton of words. She also seems more in tune with our emotions and feelings than any other dog I've had. Like I said before - she's a trip!

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by salazark

One thing I've done with Sadie is take tricks she already knows and make them "crowd pleasers". For instance, she knows down and roll over so I taught her fire safety. I say to her (in a very animated voice) "What do you do if you catch on fire? Stop! Drop! and Roll! and she stops, does a down and rolls over. Then I say "but what if the building's on fire and you can't breath?" For that she does a skootch - crawls on her belly across the floor. These have been a lot of fun to show people.

One she came up with on her own - and she only does it with her daddy - For graduation at her classes they give them giant Milk-Bones. She doesn't eat them but likes to play with them. One day my husband scratched it along the carpet and hid it behind the door. She followed the scent and found it. Next thing we knew she had hid it in another room, behind a cabinet in the corner. She came back to daddy and looked at him like "your turn". They play that game all the time. Sometimes he thinks he's hidden somewhere where she'll never find it. He'll go look later and it's gone - she's found it an re-hidden it. One time she gave up on him finding it in the spare bedroom under a table with a table cloth on it. She came and got him and took him to it. She's a trip!

This is such a cute story!!!

[capt_noonie]

Uni knows the basics, but she also know a few funny ones. She faints upon sniffing our bad rum breath and promptly keels over. She even sticks her front paws straight out like a dead cartoon animal! or we can say "are you dead?" and she'll do the same thing.

She know "tap", I wish light switches were lower so she could turn on a light or two for me.

Throw, were in the process of perfecting this one.

Sneeze, she does it sometimes.

Growl, one of my faves, we taught her this at the same time as speak. When we wanted her to shut it, she would growl in protest, and we would say "good growl" when she did, and eventually clicked.

For any of you who want to teach basketball, you must must must teach drop it first. Drop it, you need a high value treat, and either say "drop" or "trade" and when they drop the item give the treat. Every time you say trade howver, you must give something, so that's why we do drop instead. She will just drop and not expect anything in return. So, get a mini basketball hoop and hang it at jaw level, no higher. Show them the ball and put it in the basket yourself and say "shoot it" or "slam dunk" or whatever. Have them get the ball and tell them to "drop it, shoot it" and keep at it. It took Uni well over a month to kind of get it. Now she plays like a champ.

Were also trying to get her to give money to the fast food drive thru people. Not too much luck yet with this one. Seeing as how often we go through the drive thru you'd think she'd get it by now.

[capt_noonie]

Oh yeah, i also love "stay". It's such a useful one. It means stay where you are, freeze, or stop running/jumping around so I can pick you up!

She also knows several spinning tricks and the difference between them. Up and spin is on her hind legs. Jump and spin is a jump from all four legs and landing on all four. Chase your tail is a fast walk around. All these she ONLY does them to the right. She can't turn left, she's not an ambi turner, just like Zoolander.

[polomysweetpup]

another thing Polo knows I just taught him today
he knows how to read a note card that says sit
and when I Show him the card he sits!
I also have another card that says Polo on it
and I will ask him what his name is out of two cards
and he picks the card with the name Polo on it

the website Below shows how to teach your dog to read!!!


Teach your dog to read - Tricks to teach your dog

[kristy47]

I'm slowly working with Sophie. She knows:
Sit
Down
Roll Over
Stay
Touch
Guess Which Hand
Wait
Drop it
Leave it
Off
Watch Mommy
Door (She will go to the door and wait for me to walk her)

I need to teach her some more!

[chloe n kaylee]

These are the tricks that Maddie knows....

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/my-...ht-maddie.html

I would highly recommend this book Amazon.com: 101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step... this book is how i taught maddie all her tricks....