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Concentration!
Photo by Matthew M. Lug

These are the utterly useless tricks a dog learns to impress his owners’ friends. But, Cinnamon learned them all and does them with enthusiasm. (Although he is a bit of a mercenary about it, requiring the presence of a dog biscuit before he’ll consider doing them!)

• Shake
• Give me 5
• Give me 10
• Sit up and beg
• Speak
• Balancing a biscuit on his nose, flipping it up and catching it, (he can also do this while “begging”)
• Give me a kiss
• “Dead Dog” (lying on side motionless)
• Really Dead Dog (lying on back with feet twitching in the air)
• Wave Goodbye
• Crawl

Video footage of Cinnamon's tricks. Click on the links to see him in action!

• Biscuit flip
• “Dead Dog”
• Wave Goodbye

Here’s a really funny movie starring an Australian Shepherd that someone emailed me entitled “What Your Dog Really Goes Outside For.”