Trickos
tryin’ a new trick
Am learnin’ lots of tricks for snackos & treatos, but here are some:
- crawl
- dance (spin around on two hind legs)
- fetch a ringing phone, bring to hooman
- stack some-totally-nom-able-rings on a very-delicious-looking-stick
- pull a bag dat’s heavy-ish
- somethin’ wit cones; am not supposed to nom (figure 8 around cones)
- around (go around a post or object)
- carryin’ stuff (a basket with items)
- jumpin throoo a hoop
- confoozle thing wit pots (shell game)
- A-frame (I cheat & jump off too soon)
- weave poles
- chomp
- intelligent disobedience (interrupting self-harming and dissociative behaviors)
- fetching help if hooman falls down
Tricks I so-totally know
- around - I circle da hooman from heel, around dem, to heel again
- back (two back paws on platform or target)
- back up
- balance treato & eatz it
- bell
- boop (touch my nose to hooman hand)
- bow
- carry stuffie on mai back
- come
- down
- eight (figure 8 with handler’s legs)
- evacuate - I alert hoomans to fire alarms and help dem find da door outside
- fetch-to-hand
- fire - stop, drop, and roll (taught to me by Vivian)
- flop (play dead)
- stand on da hooman foots (my-paws-on-yours aka footsie)
- get it - i pick up a dropped object and place it in da hooman’s hands again
- give it (out)
- go find your hooman
- go get my ferret toy
- head down
- heel backwards
- high five
- hold (hold an object in mouth > 3 sec)
- hup (all 4 feet on raised platform)
- lassie (sit pretty)
- leave it
- leg weavin’
- lick my lips
- paw / other (just one front paw on target)
- penguin (walk on two legs)
- place
- prayers
- roll over
- scooch (pivot)
- shake hands
- sit
- spin / unwind
- stand
- stool (two front paws on raised platform)
- take it (also, get it = pick it up off the ground)
- take it to mom/dad (I carry water bottles, lunch boxes, etc for da hoomans)
- through
- touch (two front paws on a target)
- tug / pull
- wait
- wave