List of tricks

Hi everyone, I previously posted a thread about my dogs behaviour. She's been getting a whole lot of play and training today and it's been a rather calm day. Anyway, she knows the tricks "sit" "stay" "down" "spin" "roll" and "paw" and the difference between her right and left paw, right now I'm working towards teaching her to "crawl"
She's 6 month old border collie and I'm looking for more tricks and training to help keep her mind occupied and test her intelligence.
Any suggestions

Nose targeting - really useful for luring your dog into a position too - hold a treat in one hand, as soon as she touches with her nose, click if you want to use a clicker or say a marker word like "yesssss" and release the treat. Once she has got that use an empty hand, as she touches use your marker and give the treat with your other hand.

You can progress this further by using a cue word like "nose touch". Then if you want, train the touch on to a target like a post it note. Once she has got that you can put the post it note on a door and teach her to close doors with her nose. You can do exactly the same teaching a paw touch instead of a nose touch if you like.

I taught Harri to "High 5" for a bit of fun

We taught our poodle to bark on command, to turn 180 degrees when he is in the shower (so I can wash his other side), to fetch a specific ball not any old ball, to stand from sitting or lying down, to take a few steps on his hind legs, find a family member, go get the hound when she goes off on a walk, to jump into OH arms when he is standing. Also hand signals instead of voice commands, and to go where I was looking without any command. As well as the usual sit, roll over, lie down, up, down, give, stay (never thought of crawl, I'll try that one this weekend). He is 8 and is still keen to learn new tricks.
He will do anything if he is the centre of attention so all this was done with fusses as reward rather than food treats.
The hound will sit for a biscuit and thats about her lot.

He sounds amazing - poodles are so smart and sadly underrated. I am very poodle broody!

JoanneF said:

He sounds amazing - poodles are so smart and sadly underrated. I am very poodle broody!

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He is a bit too clever for his own good. No matter what we do he knows walk time is approaching and gets so overexcited. I think its the pompom cuts that people dont like? Ours gets grade 2 all over Army cut about every other month, he just looks like a very small sometimes fluffy retriever really.

Thats him in my profile pick with the stupid beagle

Hide and seek: I show Jasper a toy, or a sock or similar, tell him 'Hide and seek,' and tell him to wait. Then I go into another room, hide the toy, and call, 'OK, find it!' He comes in, finds the toy, then gives me the toy in exchange for a treat. This works on several useful skills (such as wait & give) and though it has to be taught in stages, he picked it up remarkably quickly.

'Out of here': leave the room you are in. When I'm about to start cooking, he now waits just inside the kitchen in the hope I'll ask him to leave and then reward him for it. He hates being 'manhandled' and is collar-shy so it's helpful to be able to 'move' him by command alone. I did make a start on 'dining room' with the idea of teaching him to go to any named room when asked.

'Back', i.e. walk backwards. It's a useful skill for a dog so long that he has to do three-point turns in corridors.

'Shuffle', i.e. do a commando crawl. I thought this was 'just for fun' and never really worked on it much but it came in useful when he got himself on the wrong side of a barbed wire fence and I wanted him to stay low as I lifted the bottom strand as high as possible.