Post by Aussienot on Mar 17, 2004 16:39:55 GMT -5
I saw this on a purely positive board and thought it was kind of cute. This trick uses food treats.
Teach Your Dog to Walk Backwards on Command
1. Start with your dog and you standing facing each other. Dog is off lead and in a hallway, or you can set up some chairs or boxes to make a narrow chute. We want the dog to learn to walk backwards in a straight line and we need the barriers for guidence to set the foundation.
2. Take a small step towards your dog and he should move backwards, if not take another little step. Don't say anything. Give him a reward. Hold the reward low enough so he does not confuse it with a sit signal but not too low that he thinks he has to drop.
3. Then take a step backwards yourself so that the dog comes forwards and set up to do another time
4. Do this about 10 times, then add the word "back" and start saying "Back" before you move toward the dog. Once the dog has the idea he should start moving back, before you move toward him. Introduce a hand signal, which is both of hand at your sides, at waist height moving together with palms facing outwards.
5. Now gradually increase the number of steps that the dog takes backwards before rewarding him. If the dog starts to go crooked, you have pushed him too far and need to back up a step. It takes a while for the dog to learn to coordinate their hind feet.
6. Use the guiding chute for quite a while before changing the context of the training to another place.
With Sailor, I needed to touch her hind hip to get her to move backwards the first couple of times - I got the impression she would have let me step on her otherwise.
Teach Your Dog to Walk Backwards on Command
1. Start with your dog and you standing facing each other. Dog is off lead and in a hallway, or you can set up some chairs or boxes to make a narrow chute. We want the dog to learn to walk backwards in a straight line and we need the barriers for guidence to set the foundation.
2. Take a small step towards your dog and he should move backwards, if not take another little step. Don't say anything. Give him a reward. Hold the reward low enough so he does not confuse it with a sit signal but not too low that he thinks he has to drop.
3. Then take a step backwards yourself so that the dog comes forwards and set up to do another time
4. Do this about 10 times, then add the word "back" and start saying "Back" before you move toward the dog. Once the dog has the idea he should start moving back, before you move toward him. Introduce a hand signal, which is both of hand at your sides, at waist height moving together with palms facing outwards.
5. Now gradually increase the number of steps that the dog takes backwards before rewarding him. If the dog starts to go crooked, you have pushed him too far and need to back up a step. It takes a while for the dog to learn to coordinate their hind feet.
6. Use the guiding chute for quite a while before changing the context of the training to another place.
With Sailor, I needed to touch her hind hip to get her to move backwards the first couple of times - I got the impression she would have let me step on her otherwise.