How to teach your dog to become dead?
On television and in the cinema we see a trick that makes us very funny, which is that a dog becomes the dead, for which he touches belly when his master tells him.
Sometimes, this order is accompanied by the simulation of a shot with the hand, which makes it even more funny and this is something we can get with our dog.
We start teaching him to lie down
The first thing we need in order for a dog to become the dead is to be lying and keep still in that position, so you have to teach the order.
If you know how to sit will be easier, so we first tell you that you feel and then give you the instruction that you lie down, something that we are going to accompany a candy, which is known as positive reinforcement.
At first it will cost you, but after a few days we will get it to lie every time we give the order and it is even possible to remove the treats and change them for caresses or compliments.
We can ask you to feel and then go to the ground, or make it put on the pavement directly, which we see that gives us better result.
The next thing is to get it still for a few seconds
We have to go little by little, in a way that the next step is to keep the lying position, what is known as "still" what we must tell you to pay attention to us.
Again, we will resort to the treats and give it one every time you endure, without moving for a few seconds, in order to relate to be still with your reward.
As you already know how to lie, get it not to move should cost us less time to teach you to sit or any other similar command.
Now you have to work the turn
We have less and now comes one of the most important parts, get the dog to turn in a movement that is not the most natural for them.
Saying still, we put a candy in the nose area and move it to the sides, with the aim that our dog does the turn by itself without getting up.
The first times he will not (he will get up), but he will realize that then there is no reward and that he will receive it if he turns on the floor, which is when we give him the prize.
There may be animals that fail to rotate for themselves and we will help them pushing them gently until they are put up, although we are not going to get this position to the first.
We must think that it is a position that shows submission in the dog, because it exposes its soft tissue "to the enemy" in that it does not want to fight and that complicates a whole.
Little by little we force you to turn more
You have to reinforce the turn until we demand more, giving only the treat when it rotates more and more and belts up.
At that time it is when we are going to give you your favorite chuchería, to make the association that will cost more or less depending on the age of the dog and race, because there are some that are smarter than others.
In addition, it will also depend on the size of the dog, because in the giant races such as the mastin it is better that we do not try because it can end up doing harm by the weight it has.
When the turn is complete we teach the order
One last step is to set the command, so that at the time we say our dog does the whole sequence that we have taught him without having to give him a sweetness or something to eat.
It is done using food, which is what loses them. Thus, when they are already a belly, we tell you the word that will make the dead and reinforce it with the prize.
As dogs learn by repetition, we will have to do it several times, without tireing it, until it relates it well and already knows what to do when we say that word in particular, which we can accompany a gesture.
The gesture can be anyone, but that of the gun looks good, especially if we add a “pum-pum” that will be the order that tells our pet that the dead has to be done.
You have to choose a quiet place without distractions
Getting a dog to make the dead is complex, because it has to dominate a few orders separately, and then manage to gather them all.
That's why, If we want to achieve results, it is best to practice in a very quiet place, like a house room where no noises are heard and through which no one happens during the five ten minutes that we will be every day.
It also serves an area of the park away or even the field if there is no traffic or loose wild animals, because we will make our best friend focus on their training.
Do not forget that in addition to giving food you have to get the dog to take their exercises as a game, so you always have to keep calm, use soft words and show peace of mind.
We can reward him even more if at the end we go for a walk or we get to play with him, so that he knows that after obeying something good comes.
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