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Your Yorkies tricks I'm wanting NEW trick ideas! Maybe some more unique ones. I'm finding that Jackson picks up on tricks extremely quickly and he's a very quick learner. So I think it'd be fun to have even more tricks to try and work with him on. But besides that, I wanna see what everyone else's Yorkie can do! I think people underestimate the breed far too much. They're smart little guys/gals! Jackson's trick list as of now: -Sit -Down -Stay -Come -Shake -High Five -Ten five (although get gets high 5 and 10 five confused sometimes lol) -Dance -Spin -Roll over -Bang bang you're dead -Crawl I've always wanted to teach him to put a ball in a little basketball hoop, but don't even know how to go about teaching it! Or when you sneeze, and they go get you a tissue, hehe. |
I've had Kaji for 3 whole months (OMG 3 Months already!!!) and he's a bit slow on the tricks. He's just not food motivated. But he does know: -sit -ven (spanish for come) -aqui (spanish for right here) -sube (spanish for up, but I use it when I want him to come sit with me on the couch) -down -up as in sit up, stand up, and up on his hind legs, or up to be picked up -bang bang -"give me paw" (handshake) -up and through an obsticle -through a tunnel -he kinda knows how to weave too. and he just learned shake, not handshake but like when they shake the water off after a bath. He doesn't do it 100% of the time but we're working on it! and these other commands he knows but they're not really tricks are: -"not too far" -"go home" -"all the way" (all the way up the stairs) WOW! He knows more than I thought! |
Hey Brit, we learned touch in obedience class and it's pretty neat. I've taken it and had them do other things with it. Such as as I have them jumping from one surface to another to "touch". Then I will tell them to go over and "touch" daddy and come back to me for their treat. So basically, you can teach them to incorporate their trick to do other tricks. lol In addition to your list: we do jumping thru a hoop, sit pretty, speak (only Hot Rod) ;), right and left paw. That's about all I can think of right now at this time of night. lol |
Wow, I`ve been so lazy with the tricks lately, I need to teach Bailey more too, you have impressive lists! |
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I usually ask him "give me paw" then I say "the other one." I didn't think he would do it but he does. |
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To add to the list: Fetch "Find it" (Hide and seek with a toy) - this is hilarious to watch and a great way to burn off energy. I will grab his fetch toy (once I've gotten tired of fetch), go into another room, pretend to throw it - he chases where he thinks it went and I then turn the corner and toss it in a different direction. When he comes back to me confused because he can not find it, I say - go find your toy - go look! And he takes off running through the house in search of it. And....he is just soooooo proud of himself when he does locate it :) |
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That is all so cool! I've been trying to teach shake (like after getting wet, but I've not been consistent with that :rolleyes:). I guess they do know, Let's go Home. I'll say that when it's time to head home on our walks and they turn around. I would like to start doing more of the agility type of training, but just haven't had the time or energy. Oh, and they do know, "want mommy/daddy to pick you up? this is mainly from when Hot Rod got real tired after his surgery as we started walking with him. When we ask, they will come right up to our legs for us to pick them up otherwise they will just stay as far as their leashes will go. lol.--But then again, who is the one being trained here? lol |
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I did that with Maggie and her whining. She is such a whiner and she was clicker trained so it was easier to get her to learn to stop whining. I've been lax with it but I can say to her 'ah ah' and she will stop for a short period of time. :) |
these are the tricks Polo can do sit down give me paw sit pretty take a bow say your prayers jump through a hoop run through a tunnel roll over target spin I plan to teach him many more!!! |
Laci knows: Sit down Rollover High 5 crawl dance right paw left paw got get it I want so badly to teach her drop it.. it drives me nuts we play fetch, she LOVES her ball but she wont drop it so its more like a game of mommy chase me!! |
Aww, I love seeing what everyone's Yorkies can do! :) |
Tricks Mine can: Sit Handshake, also with alternate paws when I say "no the other one" Sit pretty down spin imitate a bear (standing on hind legs, pawing at the air like a grizzly) high five Limbo walk (walking on hind legs, they bounce so it looks they're doing the limbo) Bang, you're dead Rollover Bow High ten jump through hoola hoop army crawl give kiss tell me a secret (come up & lick the inside of my ear) pretty touch (sitting in begging position but when I say "touch" they touch my hand gently with one paw) Wave bye-bye This is my all time favorite! |
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I really have been wanting to teach Jackson the "Bow" trick, too! I keep forgetting about that one! |
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! |
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. |
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? |
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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! :thumbup: 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! |
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! |
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! |
Mine know ONE trick... getting me to do anything for them:eek::animal36 They have me trained very well. |
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! |
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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. :D Were also trying to get her to give money to the fast food drive thru people. Not too much luck yet with this one. :rolleyes: Seeing as how often we go through the drive thru you'd think she'd get it by now. |
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. |
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 |
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! |
These are the tricks that Maddie knows.... http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/my-...ht-maddie.html I would highly recommend this book ![]() |
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