Each week we will be adding a new favourite trick you can train with your dog. We will publish a weekly step-by-step trick training video. This new website will be tailored to help you and your dog so we'd love to hear how you are doing on your trick training journey once you get started. Any questions? Just ask.
What you need before you start training:
- Lots of tasty treats. Use high value snacks you know your dog will love for the best results! If using something like cooked sausages (cocktail sausages are easy to start with) make sure you chop them into small pieces appropriate to the size of your dog.
- A fit and healthy dog. Nobody likes to do physical activity if they are in pain, or uncomfortable. The same goes for your dog.
Our first trick is the SPIN/TWIST
I am teaching my young German Shepherd dog Eddie all the moves as we go along. To be fair he knows a fair few of them already. He just loves to train! I’ve just loaded a pic of Ed for now in our website TRICK TUTORIAL section and I'll load a video of us training the trick when we've filmed it. We'll publish this blog when everything is in place!
Trick training is a great way to build on your relationship with your dog. Relationship is everything in dog training. If your relationship is strong you can achieve more than you ever dreamed possible. The video below shows me, my granddaughter Sienna Lee and our dogs performing at the Anvil Theatre in Basingstoke a few years ago in front of 800 people. I don't know how we got through this with only a few basic beginner moves, and our fantastic dogs Elsa and Tula of course! Anyhow, it was terrifying but somehow we pulled it off and the audience loved it! https://youtu.be/1FZVkzeFtD8
If want to learn the 'hug' pose that Tula and I did at the end of our Variety Show Performance we recommend this great video to show you how to train 'the hug' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBuzWFrApBw
Lucy Heath's YouTube training video with Trip Hazard shows how to train some of his amazing tricks.
https://youtu.be/40m9ye9Hvb4?si=1x4D84QhX71GdZJI