'Dog Tricks For Dummies' makes trick training fun for you and your dog. You can teach simple tricks, like wagging the tail on command, and more complex ones, like fetching a soda from the refrigerator. Dog tricks are best learned when reiterated and reinforced through rewards. Persistence Patience is a virtue that requires you to tolerate hardships.



Teaching your dog tricks helps to build trust and a strong bond between you and your dog and gets your pet used to being handled. Some tricks are just for fun while others can be practical, such as 'Shake Paw' which allows you to check your dogs feet and 'Roll Over' which allows you to check your dog's tummy. Teaching your dog to do various tricks from rollovers to tidying his toys away or weaving in and out of your legs as you walk, can be great fun for you and your dog. These can be taught using clicker training, or any other method of positive reward training. Teach your old dog, new tricks. Make a pinhole camera.

In "Old Dog, New Tricks", David Taylor provides a fascinating insight into animal psychology, and explains how you can learn to communicate more effectively with your pet to create the perfect partnership. By learning how to be a good owner, how to assess your dogs problems, talk and listen to your dog, the essential ingredients for a well-behaved dog and step-by-step obedience exercises, you can prevent and solve all types of problem behaviour.

Bielakiewicz shows readers how to teach their dogs all sorts of great manoeuvres that strengthen the dog-human bond and bring endless enjoyment to both owner and pet. A trained handler should only do bite work, as you must do it properly to be effective. None of these tricks require special equipment.

High Five

Hold a treat in your fingers and raise your hand slightly higher than you would for the Give a Paw trick. You dog will think you want to do the paw trick and will reach for the treat with his paw as we taught him earlier, as he reaches up you say 'high five'.

8 Through Your Legs

To do this trick you simply have hold a treat in one hand and guide your dog through one side of your legs, through the middle then around to complete a figure of eight motion. Try to hold the treat close to your dog's nose to keep them interested and always reward them with praise afterwards and the treat afterwards.

Stand

Get the dog to sit in front of you. Hold up your arm (out stretched) with an open hand at just above shoulder height and say stand. Do not have food in this hand, but hold the reward in your other hand and give it to the dog once it is back on all four legs.

Play can enhance your relationship, increase your dog's willingness to do what you ask, teach emotional control, and in general make life a lot more fun.