Do your pets have any untraditional commands?

[Tonya]

I'm just wondering who has untraditional commands for their pets.

For instance, Dusty knows the command "No kitties!" When he hears that, he stops in his tracks and lays down.

Roxy, knows "Get up there!" She's climb up the ladder, bed, into the truck etc...

Ron's favorite command is "Want some food, kitty?" In Ronguage, that means "Come!".

My mom always lectures me that dogs understand one word commands, but I don't care! Whatever works. lol.

[binka_nugget]

We use "Go to bed!" for jumping up on things. It was originally just a command for them to go up on my bed but I started using it for other things. Kai knows "go find your toy" as well. It's alot easier for him to find it and bring it to me than for me to get up and find it LOL.

[lovemyshiba]

One thing I can think of off of the top of my head is "outside toy" Some of their toys, like tennis balls that have been outside for months, or rope tugs and things like that, they are only allowed to have outside--they stop dead in their tracks if we yell "outside toy" if they are barrelling in with it in their mouths.

I know there are a ton more, but I can't think of any right now.

[Kfamr]

Simba knows "Get in the truck", "Get in the tub", "Go night night", "Go to your room"(he walks to my room) and probably many more.. I can never think of all the commands he knows.


Nala knows "Get in your bed", which I just recently taught her when we bought her a big dog bed.



*Edit* I forgot, Simba knows "Get up here". He sits with my dad (or me) in my dad's lazyboy. My dad on one side, Simba on the other. When he says "Get up here" Simba sits up in the chair and leans back into my dad's arm and rests his head on my dad's chest. It's a bit hard to explain, so hopefully you got it.

[tikeyas_mom]

i will yell DEAD at tikeya and she will flop over onto her back wanting a belly rub ahahaha..

And with baby we will say "goto matt" and she will trott over to her matt

With oscar we will say Get your baby and he will go run and get a toy . also with oscar i can tell him to "roll up the rim to win" and he will growl hahaha

[Twisterdog]

My dogs all know, "Move!" .... which means go lay down out of the way so we can walk through the house.

They all know, "Hush!" ... although Basil chooses to ignore it sometimes.

Lucky knows the names of several toys, and brings the correct one. "Ball", "Rope", etc.

Georgie knows, "Get your baby!" ... which means that he is getting overly excited and mouthy, and needs to go pick up a stuffed animal and hold it in his mouth until he settles down.

Several of them know, "Where's your boy?", which means go find my son and get him to come to me. Lazy mom, aren't I?

[trayi52]

My Chihuahuas are all just so smart..when they are barking I can yell "Hush" and they just keep barking. Would you beieve I mean for them to do that?? Okay they bark at bugs. But sometimes I need to know when there are bugs outside don't I???...........

My husband says I have the dumbest dogs that ever walked the face of the earth..But what does he know?

Well anyway, I can say its bedtime to Buffy and she knows it time for bed. I think thats an accomplishment. Isn't it?

Willie

[Tonya]

Lol, Willie! I feel ya! I get so proud over the simple accomplishments while Mike is in the background going "God, they are dumb!"

I've been catching him snuggling and bragging about them more and more though. I think I am totally converting him into an animal lover!

[Crikit]

The goonies know quite a few, then again they have a reason for that.

Let's see there's "car" which means go to the car. "house" which means go to the house.

"jump"
"weave"
"frame"
"teeter"
"bridge"
"push"
"tunnel"
"stop"- the command I use so they'll get the contacts
"turn" and "spin"
"go"-take what ever is in front of them.
All of those are agility commands.

Winter is learning "ball" which is what her command to get the ball in flyball is.

"settle" it gets them to lay down on their side instead of in the sphinx position.

"back" they back up...not very far right now but they'll get there.

There's some others but i can't remember them right now.

[Nomilynn]

if I say "You wanna peice of cheese?" Nutmeg knows she will get a treat.

"Who wants fishies" means it's breakfast time (they all know that one).

"Do you see a birdie?" and they will look at the window and make that cackle noise (sometimes the noise, always look out the window).


They also all know stuff like "get down" "move" "no".. even though sometimes they ignore me

[Corinna]

Merlin knows a couple , whisper will bring the barking at the kitties to a low whine.
Going for pie or cheese while bring the dead dog to life and running to the fridge before his eyes are open.

[joycenalex]

night-night means get on the bed, it's time for bed
kitchen- very useful, not a room, it means get out from under my feet and wait in the next room until i call you back.
porch- means the same thing but when we're out of doors
go-to-your-room-means get in your crate
do-you-wanna-play-some-football- means wrestling time
he ignores off the counter very well

[aly]

I have a ton of untraditional commands, especially for Lolly. She knows so many, I can't even name them all. I will list a few though.

"put your head down" - when she's laying down but has her head up and is barking at the neighbor dogs, I tell her to put her head down and she'll put it down and go back to sleep

"get in the car", "get in the backseat", "scoot over", "go find reece/shiloh/skylar/grandma", "get in bed", "paws up", "put your head on me", "put your paws on me", "back up", "turn around"

Reece only knows a couple like "get in bed" and "get in the car", but Lolly knows all of the above and much more. She learns things very, very quickly. I almost really do believe she understands everything I say. I think she should go on tour with Skid Boot

[Cataholic]

LOL, Willie. I am sure your guys know exactly what they are doing!

Binx knows, thank God, "move move"...all he needs is that sound the trucks make when backing- beep, beep, beep.

Then, Binx also knows that "come" means totally ignore mommy, and keep after what ever he was doing.

How do I teach Binx to 'come'? Remember, I really cannot treat him as a reward.

My cats know everything, just not on my command.

My commands? Let's see...Mommy feed us NOW, Mommy, move your fingers NOW, Mommy, open the porch door, who cares if it is 2 degrees, Mommy, come find me in my hiding place, Mommy, turn on the faucet.

[aly]

Originally posted by Cataholic

How do I teach Binx to 'come'? Remember, I really cannot treat him as a reward.

Does he have a favorite toy or something he likes enough to be motivated for training?