Do your pets have any untraditional commands?

[cloverfdx]

Clover knows: "Back" back away from me, her dinner, when im getting ready to throw a ball etc.

"Turn" Flyball comand when we are doing recalls over the jumps and i want her to turn around and face the start finish line. (i can send her down to the Flyball box then tell her to "Turn" and "Sit" then recall her over the jumps)

"Hup" get up on your bed, get in the car, jump up on me (for cuddles) etc

"Spin" spin around in circles (Great for when im bored in an obedience class and we will be heeling along and i will say "Spin" makes it a bit more fun)

Penny knows: "Get your baby" go get a stuffy and stop whining.

Alot of tricks "Up sit" Beg, "Crawl" "Speak" "Bless you" Sneezing, "who's there" Jump up on the back of the sofa and look out the window, i cannot think of any more at the moment.

Oh Theo knows "Get your ball" "I cant reach it" when i cannot reach the ball he get for me, "Hup" same as Clover, "Puss Puss" Get the cat to play.

[Cataholic]

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

You know, he does love this toy that looks like a giant Jack. I call it Jacks (pretty clever, huh?). So, despite the fact it is as large as a basketball, maybe that will work. I will try that, thanks!

[aly]

Originally posted by Cataholic
You know, he does love this toy that looks like a giant Jack. I call it Jacks (pretty clever, huh?). So, despite the fact it is as large as a basketball, maybe that will work. I will try that, thanks!

Let me know how it goes It might also help if you put it away and only let him play with it during training sessions - that will make him that much more motivated to work for it if he hasn't seen it laying around on the floor.

[anna_66]

They all 3 know these:

"Are you hungry?" I say this and they all go running in the kitchen for their breakfast.

"Wanna treat" of course they know what this means!

"Who want to go bye bye?" I say this and they run for the front door.

"Do you need to go outside?" They all run to the back door.

Roxey and Angus know this one:
"Go get her/him" and they'll start playing with each other.

Angus knows these:

"Go to bed" he'll go to our bedroom.

"Go to your bed" he'll go to his bed in the livingroom.

"Go get your ball" and he'll get one of his toy balls, it never matters which one.

"Stop it" if he starts licking his feet he'll stop when I say that.

That's about all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there is probably more.

Now I know your thinking I didn't mention Huney much, but I think she has me more trained than I do her

[Glacier]

I have a lead dog in my sled team who came to me as a trail leader--she didn't follow traditional commands, but prefers to pick her own trail. I've spent tons of time getting Pingo to listen to me and follow directional commands. She always knew them, she just choose not to listen, as huskies will do! Over the summer and fall training, I taught her "Pingo Pick a Trail" I use it when we are having a good run, aren't in a hurry and I don't care where we go. Pingo gets to decide which direction we take when we come to a fork in the trail. She loves that command--her little ears come up, she wags her tail and she almost always picks the longer way home! I've seen some beautiful places that I probably never would have gone on my own and she always remembers the way home!

[Tonya]

Originally posted by Glacier
I have a lead dog in my sled team who came to me as a trail leader--she didn't follow traditional commands, but prefers to pick her own trail. I've spent tons of time getting Pingo to listen to me and follow directional commands. She always knew them, she just choose not to listen, as huskies will do! Over the summer and fall training, I taught her "Pingo Pick a Trail" I use it when we are having a good run, aren't in a hurry and I don't care where we go. Pingo gets to decide which direction we take when we come to a fork in the trail. She loves that command--her little ears come up, she wags her tail and she almost always picks the longer way home! I've seen some beautiful places that I probably never would have gone on my own and she always remembers the way home!

Wow, that sounds so cool! I would love to get into sledding. What an awesome hobby! You are a good fur mommy for picking up on her personality and giving her a little more control.

[primabella]

The most odd one we use is "puchyapaw"

When we play soccer outside, I tried teaching Mickey how to pass so I started off by saying, "Put your paw" or "paw" so he would use his paw to move the ball. Over time, he's just responded to me saying "put your paw" really fast, which becomes "puchyapaw" Lol.

[ramanth]

If someone says, "What are you doing up there?" then Kia will slowly slink off the couch.

When playing with her, we'll say "Where's Andy?" or "Where's Kimmy?" and she'll race off to find that person and jumps with excitement when she finds who she's asked to find.

[Tonya]

Forgot a few...

If I say "Get in there!" They automatically go to the office. That is their room. When they are causing trouble, I make them go lie down in there for a while.

If I say "goodnight!" Roxy gets in her crate and Dusty gets in his crate or the office, depending on where I point. I don't crate Dusty as much anymore since he's so good.

[Tonya]

LMAO, thought of one...We had this little dog, Scooter when I was younger. He was llapso alpso-poodle. He had short-man syndrome, he was always trying to fight bigger dogs. His thing was to sit on the back of the couch all day and look out the window for dogs passing by. He'd bark wildly if he saw a dog walk by the house. He'd growl and go all crazy....

Well, that evolved into the "Doggie!" command. If we said "Doggie!", Scooter would jump onto the back of the couch and go nuts. We loved doing the command when the curtains were closed. He would be so busy in his fit about a dog walking by that he wouldn't even notice the curtains were closed. He'd stare at the curtains and bark and growl as if he had Xray vision. lol.

[Amber]

One of Katie's is go get (blank)....

for example..when we had my parakeets, Maggie would try to climb the cage, and we would say go get her!! and Katie goes running up barking and getting the cat down It tought the cat good!

[dukedogsmom]

Duke knows night night. He'll walk back to the hallway where the bedroom is. I can see him from my recliner. He'll wait there until I say "night night" and then he'll go and jump on the bed. He also knows how to get his rawhide. I'll say "get your toy" and he'll go running off to the last place he thinks it is. Is really cute. He knows pottyturn. This is where I have him do a quick circle before I take him out to go potty. He gets all excited and I wind him up further by saying "on your mark, get set, goooooooooo" before I open the door. He does little wheelies(both front feet come off ground when he barks) He also knows "want to go for a ride?" He gets really nuts when he hears that one. KayAnn taught me to say that to get a good pic. I don't do it often at home though because I dont want to fool him.

[countrycowgirl]

LITTLE BIT KNOWS:
LETS GO NIGHT NIGHT- HE'LL RUN AND JUMP IN MY BED

HUNGRY- HE'LL JUMP UP AND DOWN WANTING FOOD

LOAD UP- LOAD IN THE TRUCK

BATH TIME - HE TRIES TO LOOK REALLY SAD SO HE DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE ONE

GO GET YOUR BABIES: RUNS AND GETS MY STUFFED ANIMALS

CHEWIE KNOWS:
WANNA PLAY- SHE GETS IN A POUNCINGPOSITION AND WAGS HER TAIL

HUGURY- FOLLOWS ME AROUND TILL I FEED HER


ROXY KNOWS:
LOAD UP- SHE'LL RUN TO THE TRUCK AND WAIT FOR YA

BATH TIME- SHE RUNS AND JUMPS IN THE TUB

TREAT TIME - SITS PERFECTLY AND WAITS FOR A TREAT

GO GET IT- GOES AD GETS HER BALL

[anna_66]

Walk Around...I have them do this before they come in if their feet are wet or muddy. Of course Roxey and Angus have it mastered, but Huney, she just ignores me

[slick]

Hmmmmm what untraditional commands do I know (since I'm the pet)????

Meeeeoowwwwwww! That means, feed me now.

Meeeeoowwwwwww! That means, rub my belly.

Meeeeoowwwwwww! That means, leave me alone. I want to sleep.