OK heres how i taught Simba the flip his treat off his nose and catch it. First of all the rules of doggie training is be patient. Make sure while your in the training process only have about 5 to 10 minutes a day teaching the trick because the dog will get bored easily and will not want to do it. When training a dog always have snakies on hand ( i found out broken up puporonis work best on Simba) and the most important thing is if they do it corectly praise them with a food reward and a nice pat on the head or scratch in their fav spot.
this is how i taught Simba the flip a treat off his nose and catch it trick:
first of all your dog need to learn how to stay and be somewaht under control. First u tell it to sit and hold its muzzle down so were it is at a straight line. place the treat on its nose and make sure it will not fall. Use wordas like "get it" "ok" or "go" for the dog to catch it. Your dog really needs to be a calm dog and tolerante enough to balance a snack on his or her nose.

It took me 2 days to teach Simba this trick becayse he is a very fast learner. Later i will post how to teach other tricks to you dog but in most tricks your dog needs to be tolerante and sorta calm. And you also need patients. i hope this helps out a lil bit

Ssimba also can lay on his back and I will put a snack on his lips and tell him to stay. I will say ok and he open his mouth the snack falls in and he rolls over and eats it. Like i said the dogs really needs to be tolerante!!!!!!! lol

[This message has been edited by *BaSim* (edited May 27, 2001).]