Teach your dog to drag or crawl
There are several tricks that we can teach our dog, with whom we will show off before friends and have fun for a while, in addition to feeling very proud of the animal when everyone looks at.
One of them is cracking or crawling on the ground, a movement that is not natural in dogs, but that can learn in a very simple way with a little work and prizes.
Before you have to learn previous orders
We cannot begin to teach the “gatea” order, without before having memorized previous commands, such as sitting and being still, which are even easier to teach, especially if we do it when they are puppies.
Anyway, an adult dog can also learn them, like crawling, although it will cost us a little more and we must be more patient, repeating the sessions and making them somewhat shorter.
How do we teach you to crawl?
We have to go to a quiet place where the animal does not have stimuli that distract it, like a house in the house, our garden, a park without many people, etc.
There we give him the order he feels and then he is still. Then, and without waiting too much not to tire the dog, what you have to get is to direct it to the ground.
We can carry it out in several ways, either with the order "TRASSE" if you know it, although it is more spectacular if you do it from the sitting position, so when it is already so we teach you a candy that we will not give it if you get up.
Calling your attention We make him look at his favorite snack and move him towards the ground, with the idea that he lay on his own, but when I do we are not going to give him the prize, because we want him to crawl.
Therefore, we have to get away a bit showing the sweetness. If we crawl on the ground we say "gatea" and then we reward it.
This must be repeated several times without tireing it, starting again the next day until it begins to crawl when we ask for it, always giving it its prize if you do well, at the right time it is when you start crawling.
The click can be useful, a tool that is nothing more than a sheet that makes a sound, after which we reward it. It is used a lot in positive training, as the dog associates the "click" to a stimulus and will be pending click, which helps to be centered on training and is not distracted by anything.
At first it is possible that it costs a little
As soon as you start It is possible that the one that crawls a bit, since what he will do will be to get up and come when we teach him the prize, that we must not give in this case.
As it is done wrong, our dog will realize that it is not what we expect from him, so he will begin to crawl to us, first perhaps a little and getting up, although he will understand as soon as he does it a couple of times and receives his prize.
Depending on the race it will cost you more assimilate, but it is not a complicated exercise and you can do any dog if we propose it.
We can complicate it a bit giving the order at a distance
When the dog already crawls without failing in most cases, which means that the trick has controlled, we can step further and complicate it.
To do this What we have to do is add distance when we give the order. This means that we ask him to feel and be still, we move away a few meters and then order him to crawl.
With that, what we get is that the distance that runs stuck to the ground is increasing, making the trick more spectacular, although always with caution and letting it only do it for a few meters, because we do not want our dog to hurt.
After a while, it will no longer need to give you a candy, although it is convenient to do it from time to time and congratulate it effusive, give it its favorite toy, etc., all so that the dog understands that we are very happy with what it has done.
It serves to keep your head busy
In addition to presuming, teaching you this trick will serve in order to keep your head occupied, since there are several races that need it, such as shepherd dogs and all those who are very active.
On many occasions, some of these dogs end in shelters because their owners do not know how to give what they need, which is nothing more than spending time with them and teaching them tricks of this class, with which animals enjoy and occupy the brain learning.
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