Trick of the Week: Spin!

[SaraB]

I was going to say the same thing about reward placement for Fromo! He's getting it though! Spin was seriously one of the more difficult things I've shaped.

[Lyzelle]

DH has been working with Zander more, and he did spin in both directions for him last night. I was actually pretty surprised, he is usually pretty stubborn about going in the other direction. I trained it with a lure, though, so that could partly be why.

I'm hoping to get a video either tonight or tomorrow. Zane's been super sore the last few days and I've been giving him as much doggie massage lovin's as I can. Think we need a Chiro appointment sometime soon.

[monkeys23]

Yay Zane!

[katielou]

Abe is struggling with this one.

We started by reshaping a head turn which turned into him only wanting to do his "where's your pee pee" trick.

[Laurelin]

All together now!



Yeah I totally lured these. But to be fair, I taught the original spin before knowing much about shaping. Even with the luring it's still one of their stronger behaviors.

[monkeys23]

Okay this first one is my final vid from last week that I didn't upload until today. Whoops. Its come farther since then too!


And here is our sad video from today for Spin. I totally didn't get all the best stuff on video. Sad pandas.

[Beanie]

I love the synchronized spinning LOL.

No Pepper in this one - I think I may stop trying to teach her this for a while. This I think is just too difficult for where she's at in her thinking development, and it's just frustrating us both.

[TuffStuff]

Nice job, Beanie! Looking good!

Boone's progress:

I think that about does it. All I need to do now is improve his speed of response and increase the speed of the actual spin itself.

[sassafras]

I think I need Lily and Boone immediately.

Pip does the same thing as Lily - head turn, then bail on the spin. He's getting much better though. For some reason, Pip is really jolly about this trick - he wasn't very enthusiastic about sitting up so I kind of bailed on that one with him.

God I love Payton's little happy butt.

Anyway, here we are today, hand signal a bit reduced. Maisy is the best at the hand signal so far -- I wish I had been taping when this happened, but one day when her turn was over I pointed at the futon for her to hop up and she threw in a little spin before she got up there.

[milos_mommy]

Can next week's trick be to remove the lid from some kind of box, basket, garbage can, etc? I just saw a really cute opening-a-picnic-basket-via-nudging video and I want to teach that!