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What commands does your dog know?

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  • Camelina
    Camelina Posts: 87 Forumite
    edited 17 August 2012 at 10:44AM
    Sit
    Down,
    Up
    Paw
    other one(paw)
    Where's........(who ever)
    Find it
    Close
    leave it
    Spit it out
    Over(jump)
    Help me


    In/out and OK(as in typically used for 'release/ok to do something type thing)
    What is it (cue to be extra vigilant/barking etc)
    Walk
    Come
    Wait/stay

    Many of them(obviously not all) I have also done hand signals with too which is now a blessing as her hearing is poor.
  • marlot
    marlot Posts: 4,976 Forumite
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    edited 17 August 2012 at 12:49PM
    We have:

    The usual sit, stay, wait, heel etc
    Plus
    paw, other paw, left paw, right paw, give me 5, give me ten
    toilet
    has anyone fed the doggie? (though she has been known to tell lies!)
    cross (the road)
    in the basket (toys/balls)
    bed (dog)
    outside (dog)
    no toys inside (leave the stick at the door)
    take it outside (treat which she will then take out to the garden)
    tummy (for grooming underneath)
    push (push the piece of the nina otteson toy with her nose)
    pull (pull the piece of the toy with her paw)
    ears (come and give an ear for it to be cleaned)
    kiss
    toilet
    find ... (find the ball, find the treat etc).
    gently - take the food with just the front teeth
    enough - stop what you're doing and calm down

    go on then - start eating. She recently had to have a minor op, and when she came around from the anaesthetic they put half a tin of dog meat in front of her. She watched it for 30 mins without touching it because they hadn't told her she could start!

    Edit: forgot a few!
    Excuse me (dog will move out of the way, even if shes lying down)
    we also have hand signals for the core commands - sit, down, come etc
    see them off (birds in garden)
    on guard (but she tends to be pretty on guard most of the time)
    quiet (stop barking)
  • cheepskate_2
    cheepskate_2 Posts: 1,669 Forumite
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    Ours has mastered quite a few

    Right
    Left
    Straight on
    Daddy
    Where is he (anyone)
    Bone
    Ball
    Sit etc

    The only one she hasn't mastered is " come " In fact sometimes I think she's never heard it before.
  • Camelina
    Camelina Posts: 87 Forumite
    marlot-we used to have a command for eating food too when very young but we let it go after reading something(can't remember if magazine or newspaper) about a dog going into kennels and not eating a thing because the 'right' command hadn't been given. However, with our food/dropped food etc, the dog will not touch it until told it is ok to do so, seriously we could leave our dinner on a plate on the floor and it wouldn't be touched
  • peachyprice
    peachyprice Posts: 22,346 Forumite
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    Our Yorkie does the usual
    sit
    stay
    lie down
    wait (crossing roads)
    cross
    fetch
    bed
    wee
    walkies
    bathtime
    etc. etc

    The strangest one is when you ask him where our oldest son is he grabs a toy and runs to find him. I think our son has been training him in secret, we certainly haven't taught him that his name means playtime.

    My aunts Yorkie does the cutest thing, he knows all his individual toys, which she hides over the house then asks him to fetch, he gets the right one every time.
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  • Quinny_2
    Quinny_2 Posts: 1,351 Forumite
    edited 17 August 2012 at 11:09PM
    High five
    Which hand is it in (And picks it correctly all of the time)
    Paw
    Show me what you want (When she sits looking at you when you eat and then politely takes the food)
    Kiss (followed by sloppy wet one to your face)
    Car
    Wee wee (Goes to door)
    Ball
    Cats
    Postman
    Bones (The packet variety, her favourite)
    Bed
    Lead or walkies or field
    Gently (When taking food or toy)
    Mama/Sophie's here
    Find your ball
    That's my mutt in the picture above.
  • Melonade
    Melonade Posts: 747 Forumite
    edited 17 August 2012 at 11:17PM
    My dog is a pain in the bum, he knows plenty but rarely does as he's told!!

    He knows,

    sit
    down
    paw
    spin
    high 5
    play dead
    close the door

    He also knows "in or out" which means "are you going in the garden or back in the house". He'll even stand there for a couple of seconds to think about it properly before he decides :)

    His worst habit is understanding words and even sentences :rotfl: We've invented a million different ways to say we are going to the shop so he doesn't know what we're talking about... until he gets on to it!!

    We were talking about the Bahamas the other day and he heard banana's which kicked him off in thinking we were going to give him a banana!! Sometimes when were talking his head tilts and we have to go back through the convo to try and work out what he heard.

    Like I said he's a pain in the bum... anyone want him?
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  • Welshwoofs
    Welshwoofs Posts: 11,146 Forumite
    My Neo Mastiff doesn't know that many as he's not really a breed for obedience training. His commands are:

    Sit - I rarely do this now as he has hip dysplasia
    Lie down
    Stop - If he's off lead and I want to get him to stop so I can pop his lead on
    No! - To get him to stop whatever bad behaviour he's engaging in
    Cross - To cross roads
    Quick, Quick - To speed up if he's ambling
    Wee Wee - To pee on command (only used last thing at night)
    Shake - To lift a paw
    Drink - To come and have water out on a walk
    Treat - To let him know a treat is coming and to sit and wait for it
    Dinner - To get off his bed and come and get dinner
    In the car - To run up his ramp and into the car
    Wait - To sit in the car until I set his ramp up to get out or to wait before crossing a road
    A whistle - To recall
    This way (plus hand gesture) - To indicate which way we're walking when he's off lead
    Who's that? (plus hand gesture) - To indicate someone he knows and what direction they're in
    Get it! - To chase off wood pigeons from the garden
    Sleepy time - To get on his bed after his night-time wee
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  • shedhead55
    shedhead55 Posts: 246 Forumite
    These are most of the words and phrases that our 10YO Jack Russell responds to

    Sit
    Down
    Stay
    Wait
    Go Get It
    See It Off
    In y' Bed
    In the Car
    Walk (Time for, favourite!)
    Trot
    Din-Dinns (Time for!)
    Chew? (Do you want)
    Won't be long (A phrase we use to suppress false hopes such as the "w" word heard in error)
    Going to Nana's (Telling her we are going)
    Grandad's (Telling her we are going)
    Where's y' ball
    Where's Mummy?
    Where's Daddy?
    Wee Wee
    Drop It
    Leave it
    No!

    The last three don't always work.

    She also has an uncanny knack of becoming very excited just before we arrive at a destination in the car, usually shortly before we slow for the final turning and even if she's never been there before.
  • Dunroamin
    Dunroamin Posts: 16,908 Forumite
    "Din dins!"
    "Bikkies!"

    He may know others but those are the only ones he takes any notice of!
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