Mummy is on this awesome forum alot. It’s called the Sheltie Forums. And someone from the forums came up with this brilliant idea of doing monthly trick challenges! And of course Mummy was psyched!
Yes, so much so that she was so happy to have been working from home the day she read about it because she could start training us IMMEDIATELY. *rolls eyes* But as usual, I caught on quickly and knew exactly what Mother wanted. Unlike somebody….
I just thought she was doing something like the walking-on-her-feet trick that’s why I kept putting both my paws on her foot!
[This is not the end result yet. The final behaviour should be the dog raising each leg following my cue with my raised legs, but the dog should be doing it independently at a short distance away from me.
Romeo picked it up fast. He pawed my foot immediately when I offered it to him. Juliet took a bit longer. She didn't quite understand what I wanted. I do think she was abit confused - she wanted to put both her front paws and her weight on my raised foot. So I tried to get the behaviour by putting my hand on my foot (like shaking hands) and also wiggling my foot around. A combination of that worked!
I also started off training them with a blister. Now it's a painful wound, no thanks to the kids and them digging in their nails!]


Before I forget. I wanted to pen down some thoughts on Romeo and Juliet’s performance at the January 2012 agility and jumpers SKC trial. Will try to get the courses for that day so I can post them.

