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Permalink Reply by Amy on November 16, 2007 at 10:39am

Ha, i love the last one where she cant get him to lay down! thats so funny.

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Permalink Reply by Sam Tsang on November 16, 2007 at 12:50pm

My wife Silvia have taught Mocha to do the nose / treat trick and it's his least favorite trick :) He gets very anxious and just "dying" to hear you say the "ok" aka : release command. I'm gonna see if i can capture it on video for ya :)

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Permalink Reply by Avyon on November 16, 2007 at 6:16pm

lol that would be great!

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Permalink Reply by kathy on November 16, 2007 at 9:25pm

kaycee does the nose trick, but it took foRrrrrever! at the beginning, she hated the nose thing also. Anywhere but the nose, otherwise she'd run away and didn't even want the treat. so we just adjusted and put it on her paw or her back, and eventually moved to her face/nose. I think she realized that we weren't trying to hurt her~ but it's funny that your corgi hates treats on the nose as well ;D

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Permalink Reply by Jen Hajdu on November 17, 2007 at 5:06pm

Thanks for the link to the videos. It made me feel better that even the trainer had a hard time with the lay down command. Those corgis and their short legs! I still am working on the lay down command with Miles hoping we will have a breakthrough soon.

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Permalink Reply by Avyon on November 17, 2007 at 7:17pm

We did the old leash trick with Roxi since we were using a long lead anyways to train her 'off leash'. You put the leash under your shoe and pull down gently as you say 'down' or 'lay' or whatever you wanna call it lol. She was a struggle the first few times because she was confused then got used to the leash, a gentle tug and she would just lay down. Then we weaned her off that by just tugging lightly on her collar at home which made her remember the leash and she just laid down. Eventually we could stop the tug because she recognized the voice command.

Its just another way of doing it :) Everyone has their own tricks.

After we got all the voice commands down then we started using the hand motions which she caught on pretty quickly.

My biggest trouble with her was "shake". For some reason she picked up everything else like nothing and mostly in a day.... but shake was a two week process for her.. Every night for 30 minutes... oye...

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Permalink Reply by sandra on November 17, 2007 at 11:05pm

first of all, great you are calm...all feelings and attitude goes right to the dog....kaley corgi does the nose treat thing well, and i am justmerely working on her to sorta put her chin down a lil, for it is like she does not want the treat to fall off!

i do not think it is all that important what possibly happened long before you got her....it is mainly what you are doing now...

she has to be taught not to be scared, but start slow...it might not be as easy as putting a treat on her nose at this point...does she even like you touching her nose??? if not, start slow and merely touch her nose, not for long..... if she does not even let you do this, then only put your finger close to her nose....not long..... have her sit or down and do this....then release her and tell her she is good after you just either hold your finger close by or touch her gently.....eventually, you will work towards putting an object on her nose......when i started kaley corgi, i started with something small, half a treat, just something she knew was on her nose.....then i worked up to a full biscuit.....

small steps, always praise is important.





work with just a small treat first





maybe you can work up to being totally silly and have your dog being totally okay with nose play!


good luck

just remember to make it fun...if you do not make it fun....that is where later on, your corgi kid will shut down....and you have to back track in training....it took me 8 mo to get kaley corgi to love the teeter, because the first time i let her on, she had no clue what it was, and major freaked when it banged and dropped!...

kaley corgi kisses : )

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Permalink Reply by Avyon on November 17, 2007 at 11:47pm

awww great pictures :)

Yea I think it'll just take some time.. Its funny because we can touch her anywhere and play with her nose and everything but once you try to get her to sit still and put something on her nose thats when she freaks. So human hands and toys are A-okay! except if you try to place the toy :( I tried that too... sneakiness doesn't work apparently.

Which is also funny because she'll sit like a statue when you put the treat anywhere else :/

Im so confused by this little girl...

Thanks for the advice!

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