| Oddsock | 04-28-2014 11:36 AM |
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Originally Posted by AllDogBoots
(Post 4427970)
I had a little down time last night and Max was busy flipping over his food bowl begging for more to eat (about 1/2 hour after he ate) so I thought it was a good opportunity for some training. I also just finished watching a video of a dog "play dead" which I thought was adorable.
I brought out a little cup of food to the living room and proceeded to shoot Max with my fake finger gun. "BANG!!!" I yelled and pushed him down to a laying position with his head sideways on the floor. "BANG!!!" I did it about 15 times and he almost got it! "BANG!!!" He started rolling over a little bit instead, so we kept at it. "BANG!!!"
20 minutes later I realized Cooper was not around. I called him and he didn't come. Off I searched for Cooper. He was sitting in my bedroom closet shaking!! He was scared to death of the noise I was making!
Poor Cooper. I guess Max isn't going to be learning to play dead anymore:(
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aww poor Cooper. You'll have to be quieter..lol I've been teaching Caleb 'dead' too. I get him to do down first, then say 'dead' and lay him on his side. My Border collie kept running too his bed when I did it, seems 'dead' sounds too much like 'bed'. :rolleyes: All my past dogs have played dead, I always taught them with the word 'dead' while making the gun motion. Eventually we just had too do the gun motion. I expect Cooper would prefer that, in time. lol.
Today hubby said we're having 'fish' and Ish (Ishmael - border collie) came running thinking he was being called. It surprising how many words start or end in Ish, poor thing gets so confused. :p
Extra hugs for Cooper.
p.s You probably do this already, but I just thought I'd add.. When teaching a new trick to our dogs, we always do it only a couple of times, in between tricks they know, so they feel confident, and get lots of praise for doing things right. It also stops them being bored with repetitiveness.
Let us know how you do......any pic? | 