bbrag about your dog skills at tricks!!! :)

[BoxerLover]

Ok, whoa! I did not mean that sit, down, stay, etc. was not an accomplishment! Where did you get that idea from! I did not mean to insult anyone or there babies! I was simply correcting you on term ussage (or if thats even a word). Lizzy, I think you took my comment the wrong way. My dog can only sit and lay down and stand and stay and shake with both paws. Even though most of them are not called tricks, they are acomplishments and I love her very much for them. She is one year old (we think, because we rescued her). We correct each other all the time on this site but we never insult each other.

[BoxerLover]

Thats ok I guess, just try not to let it happen again!

[Karen]

Lizzy, sorry, I accidentally deleted your post. Please re-post the apology part, without the rest that confuses the apology.

[*BaSim*]

Sorry to say but sit stay lay and things like that are tricks to me. Most animals cant do anything!! If someone my age (13) can teach a dog with out no obedience school or training school or dog pros or anyone that knows about dogs and Simba being my first dog I have taught him more tricks than the average dog I think he is the best dog in the world!!!

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[JKRJG24]

*BaSim*- are you 13 too?

[*BaSim*]

ya... is that bad??

[BoxerLover]

Basim, I am 13 too and Nikki is my first dog, too. I am not insulting anyone at all. Sit and down and stay, etc. are MAJOR ACOMPLISMENTS. They are more needed in your dogs life than tricks. Tricks are cute and funny. Training aids like sit could save your dogs life. It is REALLY good if you taught your dog these important skills without aid. I know because I taught Nikki all by myself, too. No one should take my comment offensively!

[jackiesdaisy1935]

Lizzy2689, I read your apologie and thought that was the right thing to do. I think it would be nice if you put it back on the board so everyone could see it. You have a lot of great ideas to share with everyone.
By the way, do you know where Woonsocket, R.I. is? I came from there, before I moved to California.

[JKRJG24]

Originally posted by *BaSim*:
ya... is that bad??

No way that's just cool!!! I'll be 13 in 13 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[*BaSim*]

oh... cool.. i guess i just didn't relize people my age on here...

[ilovehounds]

Hi, I love teaching my three year old beagle tricks she knows alot but the one I like most is delivering the mail. She takes a letter walks over to the mail box (the ones that are posted on the side of your house,and open like a jewlery box) opens it with her nose drops the letter in and closes it with her paw. Then when asked to get the mail she will get it the same way she put it in. Everyone say's "you can't teach a hound anything" but when they see this trick they are speachless. I suggest you try it it's really cute to see.

[annibale16]

First of all, according to the book:Teaching Tricks to dogs for dummies, all tricks and commands are the same. so everyone is right.
My dog is a silky terroist( I got that from someone on this site) and he can do:
among sit, stay,beg, etc.
he can roll over, shake hands, shake on command( his body)dances, gives kisses. He can take a bow. but, his two specialities are:
he does a show trick where if you put say a $1 bill in one hand and a $20 in the other and ask him which one he wants, he always takes the higher amount. I don't know how he does it!
Also, (I taught him as a pup to "sick" roaches.) I was living in Charleston, SC at the time and the Palmetto bugs are horrible. Now,( he is six years old) all I have to do is scream and he comes running, catches the bug in his mouth, carefully takes it "outside"(command) and "drops it" (another command). He is my best buddy!!!