Author Archives: Jean Cote
Jean Cote is an animal lover and the founder of Success Dogs. For more than a decade, he has served as a coach to thousands of dog owners around the world to better train, communicate and forge a stronger bond with their dog using positive and force-free training methods.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
Taking a bow is a nice trick that you can ask a dog to do after performing any other trick or routine. It is easier to teach this with the aid of a treat to lure him into the position that you can reinforce.
Top tip; this can be a challenge to teach but watching your dog take a bow on command is rewarding and great fun, keep at it.
Dog trainers love this trick because it encourages intensive learning from the dog and also is a great addition to any other routine; the bow adds polish at the end of an already great trick.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
A trick that, carried out well, will give the impression that your dog is fast asleep when in fact he will just be laying perfectly still waiting for his release from the position.
Top tip; the amount of time that your dog lies still can be as long as you want it to be, providing you build it gradually.
Dog trainers love this trick because it enables the control within the home and encourages the dog to settle, this trick can be varied when teaching your dog to settle in his bed.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
Great and easy to teach telling your dog to go to bed looks extremely impressive particularly when your dog is sent across a large room to seek out his sleeping quarters.
Top tip; after teaching this trick you can move the bed around the room to ensure that your dog knows exactly what you mean when you say go to bed. This technique is called targeting.
Dog trainers love this trick because as well as looking good it also provides dog owners some control within the home.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
Waving goodbye to an audience is a great trick. Even if the audience is just you it will warm your heart to see your dog waving enthusiastically towards you. Waving is a great prelude to many tricks and wonderful when you are waving to departing visitors from your front doorstep.
Top tip; this trick works best if the dog is sitting down therefore only reward the attempts to wave whilst your dog is sitting on the ground.
Dog trainers love this trick because it is another way for the dog to greet people without getting too excited and jumping up. Whilst the dog is thinking about a wave he will be focused and concentrating on the trick.
A fun trick that involves your dog sitting and placing his front legs onto a prop before dropping his head in apparent prayer. Once the dog knows the position, from his trick entitled hands up, he will get the idea of this one perfectly.
Top tip; When your dog has learned his position then by gently withholding the treat a few seconds more each time you can teach him to hold completely still whilst he is saying his prayers. This gives an amusing and fitting solemn appearance to the trick.
Dog trainers love this trick because it looks great and is quite a unique position for the dog to adopt, which encourages thought from the dog therefore providing mental stimulation.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
Teaching you dog to fetch a particular item is pretty easy. It is just a case of showing him what the item is referred to as. In this case we will teach him to fetch a teddy bear but feel free to replace the bear with any toy that your dog may prefer.
Top tip; when your dog fetches his bear confidently you can add other toys into the training area and only reward him for bringing the one called bear back to you.
Dog trainers love this trick because teaching a dog the name of items and to bring them for a reward has so much potential. It can work on everything from general focus to recall at the park.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
Used to provoke a yawn the statement, are you tired, can give the impression that you are actually communicating with a sleepy dog. Surprisingly this is quite an easy behavior to reinforce during dog training sessions. A dog may yawn during a training session if he is confused or unsure what to do next.
This reaction is simply because yawning in the canine communication world is actually a calming signal which dogs offer when communicating with another dog or in fact any other creature at all, including human beings.
Top tip; it may take longer for your dog to offer the yawn than one of the other behaviors so patience with this trick will get you the best results.
Dog trainers love this trick because it is a great example of shaping a natural behavior to give the effect of cross species communication.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
A natural trick to teach a dog that is fond of barking. This can be taught directly after teaching your dog to bark or as a standalone trick for a constantly woofing dog.
Top tip; each time your dog pauses naturally during barking episodes throughout the day offer the command for quiet followed by a treat. He will soon learn to be quiet as it benefits him.
Dog trainers love this trick and often pass on the successful method to dog owners that are having trouble with a barking dog.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
Teaching your dog to bark on command is easy and even more useful because you can then teach him quietness on command too.
Top tip; move swiftly on to the next trick and learn how to make your barking dog stop.
Dog trainers love this trick and often teach it (and the next trick) in order to control a raucous barking canine.
This tutorial is part of The Ultimate List Of Dog Trick Ideas which contains 99 other tricks like this!
Hands up is a fantastic trick that looks great. The dog is taught to sit back and hold both front paws up simultaneously. Easy to reinforce by offering the word hands up and a treat each time the dog manages to get both front paws off the ground. The pure position of this trick makes it look like it was really difficult to teach but if you reward with good timing early on then the dog will perfect his position with little effort from you.
Top Tip Timing must be perfect when teaching tricks so pinpoint exactly what you would like your dog to do more of until his position is exactly what you would like.
Dog trainers love this trick because it teaches the dog focus and to concentrate on gaining a reward by getting into an unnatural position.
