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Pet trick contest – winner! [video]

Here is the results video! Thanks to all of the talented trainers and pets who entered my contest. I had a lot of fun watching your entries, I hope that you all had fun! I’m planning more contests as well as a pet agility contest, a photo contest and a fun dog trick contest.


The contestants listed in the video are the round three contestants. Here is a list of all of the contestants’ channels. Click on a username to view their channel.

smoon3
ykcleanne
jpets561
yeodog14
myamazingpupjemma
softpawschannel
LilyMay2105
teamtikaani1
kaykay77242
thechannelofaweso100

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Teach your dog to put their toys away – PART 2 – Shape Fest 2012 [video]

Here’s part 2 of the tutorial of how to teach your dog to put their toys away using Free Shaping. Free shaping is rewarding approximations until you reach the final behavior without giving any prompts. The dog offers behaviors and you shape them.

“Put away your toys” is a cute and helpful trick. I like using Free Shaping to teach this trick because you never get stuck having a verbal cue or pointing for you dog to get the toy. With this technique, your dog learns to go directly to the next toy after putting one away. Let me know how this works for you!

This tutorial is for the 2012 Shape Fest. Any positive dog trainers can post trick tutorials using Free Shaping, just put in the title “Shape Fest 2012.” Feel free to post your tutorial/s as a video response to this video too!

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Thanks!

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Pet trick contest – round 3 [video]

Thanks so much for entering! This is the third and final round, I have picked three of the five contestants to move on to this round. Watch the video to see who. This round will determine the winner. Good luck!

Here’s a list of the round three tricks:
– Roll over
– Dig or paw at ground
– Cop cop
– Jump through arms/hoop
– Play dead (or go to sleep)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

 

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Tessa’s entry to Mikamoo’s contest [video]

This is Tessa’s entry to Mikamoo’s (teamtikaani1) contest. Tessa puts her toys away in a box, runs backwards around my legs and blows bubbles through her nose in a bowl of water. Tessa is trained using clicker training. She loves learning and performing tricks, especially the hard ones.

Click here for the contest video.

PS: For those of you who have been waiting so patiently, I have uploaded part 2 of the “Put away your toys” trick tutorial, click here.

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Tulip’s entry to Mikamoo’s contest [video]

This is Tulip’s entry to Mikamoo’s (teamtikaani1) contest. In this video, Tulip performs her two tricks, touch nose to target stick and sit pretty. Tulip’s tricks are trained with clicker training. She loves every moment of training.


Click here for the contest video.

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Stella’s entry to Mikamoo’s contest [video]

This is Stella’s entry to Mikamoo’s (teamtikaani1) contest. In this video, Stella walks on her back legs, does cop cop and bows. All of Stella’s tricks are trained using clicker training. Tricks are her favorite thing to do. Whenever there’s a treat present, she is busy offering behaviors trying to figure out which trick she has to do to get the treat. 🙂

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Java’s entry to Mikamoo’s contest [video]

This is Java’s entry to Mikamoo’s (teamtikaani1) contest. Java performs sit pretty, jump over a moving stick (sword fighting trick) and jump onto a rock. All of her tricks are trained using clicker training.

 

 

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Mollie’s entry to Mikamoo’s contest [video]

This is Mollie’s entry to Mikamoo’s (teamtikaani1) contest. Mollie performs the tricks wave, kiss and jump from one object to another. All of Mollie’s tricks are trained with clicker training which makes things fun for the both of us.

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Pet trick contest – round 2 [video]

Thank you to everyone who entered in my contest! I have carefully chosen five contestants to move on to round 2.

Here are the tricks for round 2:

-Bow
-Push ball with nose
-Weave walk (or agility weave poles for smaller animals)
-Spin
-Sit pretty/beg

Note to bird trainers: Your bird may do a bow like a human would, bobbing their body down then up.

If you have any question, please leave a comment below. Please go to YouTube to make your entry a video response. Thanks!

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Proofing Tessa’s Stay by the Gate [video]

Here is a training session with Tessa proofing her default stay by the gate. When we arrive at the pasture gate, she sits and stays on her own (by default, without being cued) and stays there (but is allowed to go to a down) until she hears the release cue “Okay”. We have been working on this for awhile. Our next steps are to keep proofing with different distractions, duration and distances and work the the real release cue. 🙂

 

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