Tricks on tuesday Vivien has her Novice title

And another Novice tricktitle for one of our dogs

This time was Vivien's turn

She is extreme energetic and sometimes super hard to train.

She loooooovvveeeesss to work, but out of her enthousiasm she doesn't know what she is doing.

So I was actually very surprised what we both could do!!!

Enjoy her video below.

And if you are exited yourself, just hop to Facebook, and check out Lucky pink paws trick dog spark team and earn your title

In 3 to 4 weeks you can get a title.

 
                   

Tricks on tuesday, Emmy has her novice title

Emmy and I have been training, and having fun

And we did it.

Emmy is Novice trickdog!!

As you could see in one of my friday posts, Emmy is a weirdo and she did so many tricks and in the middle of the trick

she would lie down on her back.

So the final video I had to send in for her title is far from perfect, but she did it.

And as long there is no camera, she will really do a great job.

I'm proud of Emmy and I love her so much 

And here is a little video of Emmy jumping over a bar

Tricks on tuesday Roll over.

Still no dogshows, but always active!!!!

This week I like to show you how I teach a roll over.
I did post this video as an instructional video for my trick training group, but I really

like to share it here on the website.

I'm still not a great speaker to a camera, it feels really awkward, but I will get better.

So If I'm not explaining it super, I'm sorry.

Enjoy the video I made with Vivien,  and maybe you will even try to do a roll over yourselve!

Tricks on tuesday, Leia and Star get new titles

I'm so proud!!! Star gained her Advanced trick title and Leia got her Novice.
This was really fun to work on. I got Leia's title really easy as she is ofcourse very young and learning super quick.
We had already worked on basic things because it is important to raise any dog to become a nice companion.
But since the Lockdown we had more time to train and film stuff, so that was pretty easy.

Star's Advanced title was maybe not superhard, but it is advanced for a reason, and we where simultaniesly working on our level 4 fitness.
We needed 5 tricks for Advanced so we chose
Push a taplight, Bow, Walk Backwards, Chinrest and sidestepping through a ladder with back legs.

Here is a little video of her advanced tricks

We have loads of fun training and it keeps us occupied with our dogs, patiently waiting for new dogshows to come.

Tricks on tuesday

At the moment we are still at home, as almost everyone on the globe, and we are working alot on tricks as you could see in our previous posts.

I'd like for the time being, to post video's of various tricks that we trained with our dogs.
And share some information on how I trained my dog the trick.

First one is touch target stick,
I don't have a real target stick, so I use a ball wanger.
The point is that they touch the end of the stick with their nose.

How to do this, ofcourse there are several ways but I tought it like this
I make sure I have a clicker and loads of treats ready.
The moment the dog takes interest in the stick I click, I suggest to hold the stick with the handle pretty short. After a few repetitions of taking interest, try to wait out that the dog does not only take interest, but wil touch it with his nose.
This should not be too hard to do.
When they are touching the stick almost every time, I would hold the stick out with the handle a bit longer.
After a while that should go great too, and I would put the behaviour on cue.
I say "touch" then I present the stick, and when your dog touches the stick, click and treat.

And there you have it. You teached your dog a cool trick, this trick could come in handy if you want to teach your dog spin circles or other cool tricks aswell.