101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog PDF
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101 Dog Tricks Step-by-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog Kyra Sundance and Chalcy Photography by Nick Saglimbeni He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. —Anonymous CONTENTS Foreword Authors’ Note Introduction 1 GROUNDWORK sit down stay come 2 TRADITIONAL FAVORITES shake hands—left and right fetch/take it drop it/give balance and catch sit pretty/beg speak roll over play dead 3 TIME FOR CHORES fetch my slippers get your leash walk the dog newspaper delivery say your prayers kennel up carry my purse tidy up your toys roll yourself in a blanket 4 FUNNY DOG honk a bike horn peekaboo! doggy push-ups act ashamed limp pickpocket pooch play the piano world’s dumbest dog 5 MODERN CONVENIENCES get the phone when it rings turn off the light open/close a door ring a bell to come inside pull on a rope bring me a beer from the fridge mail carrier find the car keys/remote push a shopping cart bring me a tissue 6 LET’S PLAY A GAME! soccer football basketball hockey goalie hide-and-seek go hide which hand holds the treat? easter egg hunt ring toss shell game dog on point 3-2-1 let’s go! 7 JUMPING AND CATCHING jump over a bar jump over my knee jump over my back jump into my arms summersault/handstand vault baton jumping jump rope beginning disc dog disc vault off my leg 8 JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS hoop jump jump through my arms double hoop sequence hoop jump over my back disobedient dog—under the hoop rolling hoop dive through a hoop lying on the ground paper-covered hoop 9 OBSTACLE COURSE tunnel crawl touch a target under/over teeter-totter weave poles climb a ladder roll a barrel 10 THAT DOG CAN DANCE! heel forward and backward back up spin circles take a bow place (circle to my left side) side (swing to my left side) leg weave figure 8’s moonwalk jump for joy chorus line kicks 11 THE THINKING MAN’S DOG my dog can count discern objects names directed retrieve directed jumping pick a card from a deck food refusal find the object with my scent contraband search track a person’s scent trail 12 LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG kisses paws on my arm head down cover your eyes wave good-bye Appendix A: Tricks by Skill Level Appendix B: Tricks by Sport About the Authors About the Photographer Acknowledgments What’s Next? FOREWORD By Bill Langworthy I first met Kyra and Chalcy while I was producing an animal talent show for television. One of the bookers announced she had found a dog who could read! In all my years of working with pet tricks, first as David Letterman’s Stupid Pet Tricks Coordinator then as a producer on Animal Planet’s Pet Star, I’d heard of some clever animals, but I had a feeling this one was special. Sure enough, Kyra and Chalcy promptly won the show, then came back and won in the championships! Two things about Kyra and Chalcy stand out in my memory: first, their big smiles; and second, they did everything together. The camera can make people focus on themselves, forgetting they’re only half of a team, but from the first rehearsal to the final championship round, Kyra and Chalcy did everything together. When Kyra phoned me and said, “Chalcy and I are writing a book,” I wasn’t surprised—my only question was, “Who typed?” 101 Dog Tricks is all about doing things as a team. Kyra and Chalcy use only positive training and motivational techniques to reinforce trick training as a fun way to play rather than a chore. The tricks are all designed to develop a particular aspect of your dog’s abilities, from the mental to the physical, while also developing trust and friendship between you and your companion. Kyra and Chalcy know every trick in the book; that is, they have practiced and performed all 101 routines, so 101 Dog Tricks is filled with firsthand advice. Kyra and Chalcy are equally adept in both mental and physical tricks, so you’ll find instruction on everything from teaching your dog to count to teaching your dog to play basketball. The instructions are clearly illustrated and easy to follow, but no detail has been spared. This is the one and only book every trick trainer needs, whether you plan to entertain yourself, your friends, or huge crowds and national television audiences like Kyra and Chalcy. Kyra Sundance and Chalcy are uniquely qualified to write the definitive trick training book. It’s every trick trainer’s privilege that Kyra and Chalcy took time from their performing schedule to share their secrets. So enjoy this book, then get outside and play. As Kyra and Chalcy always say: “Do More With Your Dog!®”
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