No!
Discontinue action. Bummer.
No biting!
See above plus teeth. I’ve got this
one down now.
Leave it!
It stinks, is dirty or shouldn’t be dug up.
Bigger bummer.
Leave him/her alone!
This is an older dog who doesn’t want to play with me.
Good girl!
Do that again or continue action. Sometimes followed by a cookie, cheese,
liverwurst.
Good piddle (follows go
piddle)!
Makes Mummy happy. I do this on the right side of the yard.
Good poop!
Follows go poop and makes Mummy jump for joy. I do this on the left side of
the yard by the standing stone.
Heel!
Whirl around to Mummy’s left knee. I sometimes forget to stay there after I
get a cookie.
Look at me!
Look up at Mummy to see treat for heeling. I get a crick in my neck!
Sit!
Put your butt down on the ground. Do it automatically if Mummy stops during
heel.
Lie!
Follow Mummy’s hand down to the ground. Get reward and jump back up. Why stay
down? I now stay down so that Mummy
can walk around me. Trainer Annika says I have to do it without a
hand signal. Ah, shucks!
Lay!
No, Mummy never says that word, ‘cause I am not a hen. Fortunately!
Stay!
Wheatens do not have time for this one. Well, maybe for a few seconds on
touch/down on contact zones in agility.
I’m up to 10 minutes at 22 steps
distance now. (We have ¾ year to build up to 10
minutes at 30 yards.)
Front!
Come to Mummy, face her and sit. Cookie, cheese or liverwurst tube.
Come!
Well, it depends. On a walk, yes of course. In the yard, forget it.
Guten Appetit!
Time for breakfast/lunch/supper.
I always take my time to approach the dish as if uninterested. If I’m
really hungry, I eat like a lady.
Meanwhile I will only eat once a day
Say your prayers!
Lie, put my head down and wait for „Amen!“ (and treat).
Get in the shower!
I have dirty feet. She’s
going to turn the water on them. Now I just go in voluntarily because it’s
gonna happen anyway.
Turn around!
She wants to get at my back feet in the shower.
Go to bed!
Ah shucks. OK, I’ll go, Mummy, see you in the morning. I’ll waken you at 7:30
or 8:00. Or not.
Over!
Go up the narrow ramp of the dog walk, across the top and back down the down
ramp.
Or: go up the A-frame and back down the other side, followed by:
Touch/Down
In the house put my front paws on a piece of carpet (yes) and stay (yuck). On
the patio, after walking the plank (teeter board),
put my front paws down and
stay. Wait for cookie. At agility, put my front feet down on the ground with my
back feet
on the ramp I just came down. And wait for „OK“. I’m good at this.
OK!
Release. I can quit what I didn’t really want to do anyway.
Go tunnel!
Find the entrance Mummy is pointing to. Once she pointed too far right and I
went there but it was clear, no entrance.
I went back and corrected Mummy’s
mistake.
Go left / go right!
At home make a circle round Daddy’s wastebasket. At school and in the
backyard round a cone.
Left/Right!
Follow Mummy in a tight turn
Gimme Five!
Sit, left paw up, let her shake it, get a cookie.
Look! Where’s Daddy?
DADDY’S UP! Run for pats and cuddles.
Let’s go upstairs! /
Mummyvator!
Put front legs over Mummy’s right arm and be lifted.
Go upstairs or
downstairs!
Meanwhile I’m a big girl and have to do them on my own.
Wanna go bye-bye?
Yes! Meet you at the back of the car! I’m
an angel in the car.
Wanna go for a walk?
Well, of course! Get my harness and leash!
Wanna go outside?
Yes, yes!!! I love my backyard! Why else would the patio doors be all smeared
up?
Wanna
cookie?
It depends what I have
to do to get it. Come in from the yard? No thanks!
Want some water?
If I’m thirsty, I’m plenty glad to drink from a bottle on a walk or a field
trip. But my favorite source is my magic stone in the backyard.
You stare at it
and then at Mummy/Daddy and suddenly it spouts water.
Up!
Don’t sit down on the grooming table. Mummy helps with a hand under my belly
if I forget.
Twist!
Make a 360° turn next to Mummy’s left leg. Do it three times while walking
forward. Do not pass “Go”. Do not collect $200.
But a treat.
Right round!
From „Front“ go around behind Mummy and sit at her left side.
Left round!
Flip around from „Front“ into heel position.
Go in the house!
We’re not driving anywhere?
Now we’re
working on „stack“ because Mummy says we have two dates in August for me to be
shown to a judge. I have to learn to hold my head up with my back feet
stretched behind and her holding my tail up by its base. See: Dog Show! I can’t
wait to pull and refuse to stand still with all those other dogs around me! Here
at home I can stack like a statue. Wait till ex-Mummy sees me; she’s teaching
us how to show.
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