Today is July 1 and the start of my new 30-day challenge. I am taking the ideas of others and plan on teaching my mutt five new tricks in 30 days. He knows all the basics, plus a few fun ones like speak and high-five, and a lot more beneficial commands such as drop, jump and climb it.
The five commands I will show Ace this month are bang (play dead), bucket (put his toy in a bucket), go long (run several yards out to receive a long pass), crawl and roll over.
Bang and roll over describe themselves. For crawl, I hope to get Ace to crawl across the room on his belly. bucket and go long will be used because my mutt is such a ball nut that I might as well incorporate some tricks into playing fetch. I have not thought out how I will show Ace some of these, as I’ve never known any individual who taught her pet dog to “go long.”
Anyway, I will paper Ace’s progress and how I show each trick. I won’t show them all at once or he will get too confused. often he already goes through and performs half the stuff he knows, hoping one is ideal when I ask him to do something. That is a sign that he is learning too much too fast. I will show one or two new tricks at a time and go from there.
Want to participate in this challenge? What five things will you show your pet dog this month?
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