His first trick!

[Spearmint]

While i'm ashamed to say it...i've never trained Spearmint any tricks before, he'd always been too moody and bitey to train, he'd just snatch the treat and fly away. I'm not sure what clicked in either mine or his head, but I successfully trained him to spin yesterday afternoon within 15 minutes. The only real 'trick' i've taught, but even then it wasn't really taught he kind of just learened it accidentally, was to poop on command. I'm really happy with this little bit of progress, and hoping I can start working on bigger things later on such as continuing his harness training, or proper recalls. He's been super nervous when flying after he'd hit a window during a spook, so we're working on that again. I'll try film him spinning, it looks really funny, but he find the phone way or interesting than any treats I have to offer

 

[Dartman]

Now that he has the concept down of learning tricks for whatever high value treat he craves he'll probably quickly learn more so keep working with him and hopefully the nippiness will lesson as he keeps being kept busy and entertained with new fun things to do.

 

[Shezbug]

While i'm ashamed to say it...i've never trained Spearmint any tricks before, he'd always been too moody and bitey to train, he'd just snatch the treat and fly away. I'm not sure what clicked in either mine or his head, but I successfully trained him to spin yesterday afternoon within 15 minutes. The only real 'trick' i've taught, but even then it wasn't really taught he kind of just learened it accidentally, was to poop on command. I'm really happy with this little bit of progress, and hoping I can start working on bigger things later on such as continuing his harness training, or proper recalls. He's been super nervous when flying after he'd hit a window during a spook, so we're working on that again. I'll try film him spinning, it looks really funny, but he find the phone way or interesting than any treats I have to offer

That is really awesome!
Spin is the one thing Burt and I can never seem to get anywhere on. I would love to see your footage if you manage to get it at any point of time.

 

[Wally&Eva]

My babies learned shake hands, kiss kiss and spin in a few minutes! They are sooo cute when they do a perfect synchronized spin! Eva is easier to teach because Wally is impatient and frantic. But lately, she’s been like give me after 1 trick where Wally accepts that there are 3 tricks and then he will get his treat. If I could ever separate them, I could probably teach Eva so much more

 

[Spearmint]

My babies learned shake hands, kiss kiss and spin in a few minutes! They are sooo cute when they do a perfect synchronized spin! Eva is easier to teach because Wally is impatient and frantic. But lately, she’s been like give me after 1 trick where Wally accepts that there are 3 tricks and then he will get his treat. If I could ever separate them, I could probably teach Eva so much more

Awh thats so cute!

 

[Spearmint]

That is really awesome!
Spin is the one thing Burt and I can never seem to get anywhere on. I would love to see your footage if you manage to get it at any point of time.

I'll try get a video tomorrow morning!

 

[Spearmint]

Now that he has the concept down of learning tricks for whatever high value treat he craves he'll probably quickly learn more so keep working with him and hopefully the nippiness will lesson as he keeps being kept busy and entertained with new fun things to do.

Hopefully! I think in a day or two i'll try another simple trick, like continuing target training, or shake, he likes to hold my thumb so I think that should be fairly easy.

 

[Wally&Eva]

Hopefully! I think in a day or two i'll try another simple trick, like continuing target training, or shake, he likes to hold my thumb so I think that should be fairly easy.

Shake will be easy, you got this! Once they get it in their heads, it just clicks