Here are the tricks and cues that has been taught to Miki:
- sit (I taught this twice to Miki, first with verbal clue and later with a hand signal)
- lay down (I taught this twice to Miki, first with verbal clue and later with a hand signal)
- relax (lays on his side)
- flat (lays down with his belly up, like in “flat tire in alaska” –meme)
- get up (gets up to his feet)
- (sharp) A! (no)
- drop it
- empty (stops destroying a treat dispenser toy or some other object that has no longer food in it)
- Miki! (comes when called, although Miki thinks that he has a number of first names, such as. hungry, food or eat :D )
- paw (right paw)
- other paw (left paw)
- shake hands (shakes right paw with right hand and looks the person in the eyes)
- high five
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high ten (gives high five with both paws at the same time)
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push (pushes a button like a doorbell or a light switch with a paw)
- go through
- search
- catch
- wait
- take (permission to take)
- eat (permission to eat)
- drink (goes and drinks from a bowl)
- let’s go
- left (turns left on crossroads)
- right (turns right on crossroads)
- right side (moves on the right side of the walkway)
- turn (turns a U-turn with me)
- jump (jumps over something)
- up (gets on top of something)
- down (gets down from something)
- circle around
- carry it
- give way (moves further away)
- leave it (walks past food or trash on the ground)
- pass (walks past other dogs and running children)
- heel (comes to the right side)
- stop
- just sleep (if Miki was interrupted when sleeping, goes back to sleep)
- sleep (goes to bed)
- continue (if Miki was interrupted, he continues what he was doing in the first place)
- dig
- ball (brings soft soccer ball)
- Leo (brings Kong Leo)
- Kong (brings Kong Classic)
- take Kong (Miki picks up a Kong toy out of the way)
- give it (no verbal cue only a hand signal, Miki picks up a toy or an item I’ve dropped and places it to my hand)
- go get toy (Miki goes and picks a toy of his choice from his toy box)
- rug (rolls a rug open)
- which hand (sniffs and then points with this paw the hand holding the treat)
- back up (walks backwards)
- crawl
- crawls backwards
- under (goes between my legs and walks under me forward and backward)
- Janne / where’s Janne (finds Janne and goes to him)
- Susu / where’s Susu (finds Susu and goes to her)
- butt (pushes with the head)
- close
- not there (turns back if heading towards a driving lane)
- spin (spins clockwise, no verbal clue - only a hand signal)
- roll over (Miki rolls over, no verbal clue - only a hand signal)
- push over
- chin rest (we don’t have a verbal cue for this but we have a hand signal, because it’s suppose to calm Miki when he puts his chin on my palm)
- touch stick (touches the ball on the stick with his nose)
- touching a post-it note with his nose
- front paws on touch pad
- box (goes into smaller and smaller boxes)
- scale (stands on a scale)
- meercat (sits in up position, no verbal clue - only a hand signal)
- crocodile (launches to his back feet, like a crocodile launches from water)
- stick’em up (stands with his back feet and leans toward a person)
- weave (slaloms forward between my legs)
- touch nose (touches a persons nose with his nose)
- paw on target
- dough! (puts a paw in front of his eyes)
- clean up (Miki cleans up all his toys one by one, no verbal clue - only a hand signal)
- go free
