Dog:
Sit, catch, fetch, turn left, turn right, shake, shake left (she’s right paw’d), high-five, lie down, roll over, and stay. I also play hide and go seek with her, but I’m not sure that’s a trick.
Cat:
Sit, shake, lie down, fetch.
All the tricks I taught my dog paled into insignificance the day she taught herself free will.
My girl knows how to: lay down, shake, turn around, (kinda) stay and heel. However, she gets *very *excited if she thinks she is getting a treat and so if I am slow to give her one, she’ll go through everything she can think to try. So I see her belly, and then she turns around and I see her belly again and then she’ll shake. It is kinda funny.
I thought she was doing great on “stay” and when I was at my Mom’s I said watch this: Stay! Then I went to the bathroom. When I came back she was in the same place as when I left, but Mom was all full of giggles. Turns out, she waited until the door shut, got up and came back and when she heard me stop peeing, she went back to where she was supposed to be. So I thought she had stayed…
Also, if I say: do you want to snuggle? She’ll jump into my lap. But only if she wants some attention.
She’ll bring a ball back and drop it at my feet. She also knows to sit before I throw it. She is losing some of that because a co-worker will make her leap and jump before he throws it and then will chase her when she brings it back. She is getting confused about what is expected.
Also, before she gets food, she must lay down. And she is very good about that, unless I am on the phone, then she thinks she can get away with a token bow.
Hello, Superhhal. I’m curious how you trained your cat. Is training a cat similar to training a dog or do you use different techniques?
Cat: “beg” for food. She stands up on her hind legs with her front legs pointing down, looking like a fat meerkat.
Only one of my three dogs will sit on command. She’s the smart one. She STILL ate my sofa.
My cat comes when I meow just right.
The basics: sit, come, stay, heel, go get various objects, leave it, drop, shake (shake right), other one (shake left), off (which usually just results in sit), crate (she goes and lays in her crate) and place (sit on my left hand side and look up at me). She does agility as well which has proven to be pretty situational, but she does well with the obstacles and we sometimes use “over” if we are hiking.
The dog came very well trained. I am not responsible for the majority of her training. After we got her from the shelter, we enrolled her in basic obedience. We had a meet and greet with the trainer and showed her what the dog already knew and she put us in a higher level class. The one thing I wish is that she would be better off-lead. I just do not trust her to not run away. We were told she had separation anxiety when we got her, but we haven’t seen it. Apparently, her former owners divorced and when the husband left, she began to act out and the wife took her to the shelter.
If I had more time, I would make her into a therapy dog. She passed canine good citizen, but I just don’t have the time to do the rest. I use her for educational things when talking to groups about shelters and rescues. She loves going to classrooms and scout troops and being mauled by children. People are amazed that she came so well trained. They expect to find only “damaged” dogs in shelters and rescues.
My cat was addicted to fish. He would do anything to get that fish.
So, in a word, the technique I used was drug addiction.
I look after my neighbor’s two dogs when they go away. Apparently they think making their dogs do tricks is not acceptable. “We love them, they’re not sevants.”
Yeah but they do tricks for me…
So far, they can:
Roll over, fetch; play dead; shake a paw; put food on their snout then they toss it in the air, off their snout and catch it; speak, sit, go get a rag; walk, jump over the rope.
The old dog can also bear his fangs but he will only do that in the presence of the evil mailman.
I taught my dog to play chess, but she’s not very good at it yet.
I can still beat her 2 out of 3 games.
Kill,
was in the yard shaking trees,
had a nasty squirrel treed,
damn, musta shook 5 trees, 4 or 5 times,
but the squirrel had some brains,
finally got away,
mighta ate squirrel tonight,…
funny,
how he kills them,
just bites down and,
shakes head,…
no fun disposing of dead critters
lol
My dog says “arf!” and I open the door for her.
She says “woof!” and I get her leash and take her for a walk.
She says “yip!” and I scratch her tummy.
I’m a slow learner so she’s only been able to train me with three canine words. She’s now trying to teach me to “ruff!” but I haven’t been able to completely learn that yet. But she still loves me despite my limitations. 
We don’t have any dogs, but I look after the neighbors dogs once in awhile. So far, I’ve taught the 2 year old lab to quiver in anticipation when I come over with dog treats. We’re working on getting so excited that she pees on the deck, too.
It was very easy - she’s a really smart dog.
You could teach your dog to recognize certain hand gestures.
Sit, lie down, roll over, beg. Stay needs work. “Stop trying to lick me!” definitely needs work. It’s been 11 years, I’m sure he’ll get the hint soon…
I gave up trying to teach my girl not to lick me. It is easier to just let her have a few licks and say “enough”, then it was to have her not lick at all.
The dog came with my SO - she is doing agility and other “serious” dog stuff with him. When she’s not at home I try to teach the dog some silly tricks, like “who farted?” where the dog covers his nose with his paws. Sometimes when I let one go, I dont even have to tell him … And then there is the trick where I shoot him and he has to play dead. We also salute each other - I whack my hand to my forehead palm out, and he sits down and raises both his front legs. Now we need to figure out more silly stunts.