How much should they know???

[Princesss04]

I have two dogs Meat Loaf and Charming, they are both 8 mts. old (going through puppy years together ) anyway I was wondering how many commands and tricks should they know at their age. I mean where should they be at as far as development and things? Thank you all for your help.

[Schwinn]

I would think that would depend on the dog and the person training. Daisy picked up the important ones VERY quickly (take nice, house breaking), and my favourite "whisper" (she barks quietly). But then the easiest one for most dogs was the one we had difficulty with (shake a paw). But I think that was technique, rather than the dog. We both taught her different things at different times, and she learned them at different rates. It also depends on the dogs DESIRE to learn, and what you are teaching them. For example, we had one dog that we taught to roll-over, and another dog that HATED if you tried to roll him over.

I would think the basics (ie. housebroken, sit, stay, come), but again, that depends on technique and consistency.

I guess the bottom line is, I'm no real big help!

[Lucky Rescue]

This is hard to answer. It depends on how much they have been taught, since that is all they will know. If you haven't taught them anything, then they won't know anything.

If they have been obedience trained, they should know all their basic commands very well, plus anything else you've taught.

Even very young puppies can learn quite easily, although they have very short attention spans.

[Princesss04]

Meat Loaf know sit and take it easy and lets go outside and go potty but he will not shake for the life of me. (any ideas) and as far as bark quite I would love to teach him that one. LOL

Charming knows sit, SHAKE (ALL THE STINKIN TIME) LOL and than lets go outside. But will not take anything easy.

They both now lets get in our cage and lets go to bed.

But other than that I think that is all, oh yeah and Justin (hubby) when we are eatting makes them stay out of the kitchen and they know that. Or they know after you tell them. They know but hope you will forget each time so you have to remind them. So tell the out boys and point to the door and they go real slow and look back like mom dad please one more try. LOL

[Schwinn]

When you say "take it easy", I'm assuming you mean like take nice? If that's the case, what I did with Daisy was held a treat in my hand so she could see and smell it, but could not grab on to it. Everytime she clamped down roughly on my hand, I'd repeat, "Take nice". When she would gently put her teeth on the treat, I'd then let go. I recommend using gloves for this, or in my wife's case, a meathead husband who doesn't mind getting his hand a little chewed up!

[sammiec]

At eight months Briggs had completed doggie obedience training. She could/can do the following;

heal
sit/stay (and extended)
stand/stay
down/stay (and extended)
come
shake
creep
high five
"go home" (to her crate)
"go to bed" (goes to her bed)
"drop it"
"wait"
"leave it"
gentle
"enough" (stops whatever she is doing and sits)
"pretty girl" -- (she play bows)

"stick 'em up" --> she stands on her back paws and sticks her front paws WAY up!

she stops and sits on the mat as soon as she walks in the door

They are VERY smart, it's all a matter of repetition... that's how she learned to shake a paw...
everytime we came in the door and I wiped her paws I would say "paw" as I picked it up and then "other paw"... she caught on...

[Schwinn]

Originally Posted by sammiec

At eight months Briggs had completed doggie obedience training. She could/can do the following;

heal
sit/stay (and extended)
stand/stay
down/stay (and extended)
come
shake
creep
high five
"go home" (to her crate)
"go to bed" (goes to her bed)
"drop it"
"wait"
"leave it"
gentle
"enough" (stops whatever she is doing and sits)
"pretty girl" -- (she play bows)

"stick 'em up" --> she stands on her back paws and sticks her front paws WAY up!

she stops and sits on the mat as soon as she walks in the door

They are VERY smart, it's all a matter of repetition... that's how she learned to shake a paw...
everytime we came in the door and I wiped her paws I would say "paw" as I picked it up and then "other paw"... she caught on...

How'd you do "stick em up" and "bow"? I'd like to teach Daisy those ones. I'm trying to teach her "grumble", where she does this thing that sounds like the Hamburgler right now.

[Princesss04]

Originally Posted by sammiec

At eight months Briggs had completed doggie obedience training. She could/can do the following;

heal
sit/stay (and extended)
stand/stay
down/stay (and extended)
come
shake
creep
high five
"go home" (to her crate)
"go to bed" (goes to her bed)
"drop it"
"wait"
"leave it"
gentle
"enough" (stops whatever she is doing and sits)
"pretty girl" -- (she play bows)

"stick 'em up" --> she stands on her back paws and sticks her front paws WAY up!

she stops and sits on the mat as soon as she walks in the door

They are VERY smart, it's all a matter of repetition... that's how she learned to shake a paw...
everytime we came in the door and I wiped her paws I would say "paw" as I picked it up and then "other paw"... she caught on...

Oh I forgot to add that one, Meat Loaf knows drop it. Because he hears it all the time. He is my digger and he grabs everything he sees. So we taught that one at an early age. When you made your long list now I feel like a bad mommy. I feel like my boys are not where they should be... Mom needs to start working with them alot more I guess. They are not dumb by no means but I mean they have not been breed good so maybe that is some of it. I am not sure but it seems like some of the tricks we have been working on forever (like shake with Meat Loaf) and he does not want to have any part in it. LOL Thank you all so much for your help. I appreciate it so much and I will continue working with them until they get it.

[Princesss04]

Originally Posted by Schwinn

When you say "take it easy", I'm assuming you mean like take nice? If that's the case, what I did with Daisy was held a treat in my hand so she could see and smell it, but could not grab on to it. Everytime she clamped down roughly on my hand, I'd repeat, "Take nice". When she would gently put her teeth on the treat, I'd then let go. I recommend using gloves for this, or in my wife's case, a meathead husband who doesn't mind getting his hand a little chewed up!

Thanks Schwinn that is what I meant I am not sure why we taught Meat Loaf take it easy but it worked. LOL I will start doing that and maybe that will help him catch on a little faster. Thank you for all the tips you have been a great help. We will go home and start tonight. I will let you know how it goes.

[sammiec]

Originally Posted by Schwinn

When you say "take it easy"....

That's a good command too - for that we use gentle. That's one of the first things I taught her. My pet peeve is grabby dogs, when you don't even have the chance to open your hand and they're already knawing at you!

[shihtzulover]

Sophie is now 7 months and she know - Sit, down, shake paw, dance, roll over, speak, stay, release, bed (go to her crate), No, and she can find either cat by there name. All this has taken a lot of time, but we really have nothing better to do every night
She also started obdience last Tuesday so hopefully she will learn more, she loves learning new things.

[GunnerX]

Ariel's almost 9 months and she knows "paw" and "other paw" which is our version of shake. Sit, Lie Down, Rollover, Fetch and Up (stands up on hind legs). Trying to teach her to spin but she doesn't seem to get it. The hardest thing to teach her was Rollover but now she can do 3 in a row.

I can do all of those using both hand and speech or just hand or speech. Oh yeah, she also knows "walk" and most importantly "NO!".

I'm not sure what else we should be teaching her. Doing fancy things like "wave" and "speak" takes time and I'm too lazy.