[nagdu] additional tasks

[Tami Kinney]

We play the touch game a lot here, too. /smile/ I had taught Mitzi, then
we taught Daisy, so it was a good way to begin proper obedience with
Daisy. Also, the competitive obedience between the two went a long way
toward establishing peace and order between the two prima donnas. /lol/
And you're right. Teaching the dog to touch makes getting it under the
table or chair or whatever a whole lot easier. /smile/ 

So lately, Mitzi has been doing a silly little thing. I give her her
bone in the evening, and she comes to put it on my lap. Then we play the
touch, take, give game with it. Then she will take it and run chew it
for a bit. Then she brings it back... I think she's trying to play a
version of the strategic keep away game she and Daisy would play every
evening with the bones. There would be much snarking band barking and
growling, with the dog with the bone being very possessive and flaunting
the bone at the other, who would stare at it. There seemed to be a
strict set of rules, and some order in which the bone would change hands
-- or mouths. I was somehow necessary in the game, but I never did
figure out where I fit in. I was expected to know and to do the right
thing, though! /lol/ So now, Mitzi's making me a different part of the
game somehow. I do wish she would publish the rules so I know what I'm
expected to do. Teehee. As long as it keeps her entertained.

Tami

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 03:20 +0000, Robert Hooper wrote: 
> Hello:
> 
> I thought of something after I got home with Bailey. I decided it would be a good idea to teach him to target my fist. It's a fun obedience/training exercise, and it has its practical applications as well. For example, when I want him to go under a chair in a certain way, rather than grab him and manipulate him like a back pack, I can show him my fist and tell him to "touch". He then moves under the chair to nose my fist, thus positioning himself for me. I sped up the process with a clicker, and think it would be a great way to teach him off-leash recall, something TSE didn't do. I just need to back chain him further. :)
> Sincerely,
> Robert Hooper
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:27 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] additional tasks
> 
> Well, when I had Jet, the black Lab, she would fetch anything. One day I dropped a stylus and dropped some keys. I told her to fetch and she came up with the keys; then I pointed in the general direction of the stylus again and she fetched it. Once I was in a restroom at a grocery store and the TP wasn't affixed to the roll. It flew off and across the bathroom. I told her to fetch and she brought the roll of TP back to me. It's true! One time she grabbed a cookie off a tray at the VA Hospital; when I told her out, she gave it to me--dropped it right into my hand. Then do you praise or scold? LOL.
> Cindy
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