Dog Blog

Yesterday was the last day of my 30-day challenge to teach my dog five new commands: bang, roll over, crawl, go long and bucket. Let me stress that although my dog is grasping these new commands, he is still learning. The biggest mistake I made with this challenge was to set a deadline. Dogs can’t always learn something new in a short amount of time, and one of the worst things to do is rush them. A better chal ...

Yesterday I began teaching Ace the command roll over. To teach this, I started with him in the down position. Then I held a treat over his head and moved it to one side so his body followed and he was on his side. I continued moving the treat and encouraging the mutt to roll onto his back and finally onto his other side. He doesn’t have this figured out yet and flops around like a dead fish when I try to get hi ...

Ace is working on learning the commands bang, crawl, bucket, go long and roll over. The video is of Ace and I practicing (pathetically) ...

Today is July 1 and the start of my new 30-day challenge. I am taking the suggestions 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 more useful commands such as drop, jump and climb it. The five commands I will teach Ace this month are bang (play dead), bucket (put his toy in a bucket), go long (run several yards out to r ...