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Hold it / Catch it

These are the utterly useless tricks a dog learns to impress her owners’ friends. Sunny has further put them to use as a therapy dog, however, doing all the tricks for the kids she works with!

• Shake
• Give me 5
• Give me 10
• Beg
• Speak
• Hold it/Catch it (Balancing a biscuit on her nose, flipping it up and catching it)
• Give me a kiss
• “Dead Dog” (lying on side motionless)
• Wave
• Spin right
• Spin left
• Stand up
• Roll-over
• Jump (through a hoop)
• Jump (over a bar, or two kids kneeling holding hands to make a "hurdle")
• Weave (weaves in and out of legs as we walk forward

Video footage of Sunny's tricks. Click on the links to see her in action! (She was about 5 months old here - she's gotten better, but we haven't gotten any new footage up).

• Roll-over
• “Dead Dog”
• Wave Goodbye (oops - thought there'd be an easy way to rotate it...)

Tire!

Fly-Girl

New Sunny Action Photos!

We started taking agility classes at the Riverside K-9 Center back in May. Little did I know how much she'd enjoy it! There have literally been days where we'd leave class, go outside, she'd do her business, and she'd then dig in her heels and try to pull me back inside for more! While many of the dogs need training to get used to the equipment, gain confidence, etc., she's little miss fearless! Unfortunately that translates to "See you later! I'm going off on my own to run the course a few times in whatever order I particularly feel like today." We're working on it. Right now the biggest problem (as is usually the case) is "handler error." (Ahem, me.)

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