Jumping is a bad habit in the pet dog which if not checked, may prove hazardous. This bad habit starts from the puppy stage. The young puppy starts jumping for food. The children and adults both find it very amusing and regard it as a sort of circus trick.
You can make your dog perform various tricks, but first thing first. Your dog should be made to learn the basic commands like `sit’, stand up’, `lie down’ and so on. These commands are to be revised from time to time to check that your dog has really become adopt in these things. If he is not yet perfect in these commands, then you will have to go over these and make him repeat these performances till he becomes perfect.
Another thing that you should pay attention to is that your dog understands your hand command. If he does not understand your hand command, if he cannot follow the motions of your hand, then you have to teach him to understand your hand command. That is to say, when you tell him to sit, also use your hand and make the motion to sit. Similarly, when you say, `stand up’ or `lie down’ use the same hand movement. Your dog thus gets accustomed to your hand movements.
When you are, therefore, sure that your dog will follow your hand movements without a fault, that he will not only obey your commands in this basic orders, but will also understand your hand movements, then you can take the initiative to make him learn other tricks.
There are two sides of this trick-teaching and trick-performing. You may make the dog perform before others, but remember that your dog is basically a self centered animal that is doing the tricks not for entertaining others but for obeying you because you have taught him certain things which he can now understand, and which he would do when you command him to do so. Therefore, keep this in mind that what he is doing by way of performance, although before others, yet he is doing these for the master, to please him (master), to please him (master) as well as to do these things because he has been disciplined to do these.
Hence, if anything goes wrong in his performance, do not behave as if you are put out before the audience, do not get angry, but take it as part of the act. If the dog makes any mistake, go over the act, again without any loss of face. That is the stance to be adopted while making your dog perform before others.
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