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Holly has sort of started to teach herself to play the piano....
So Holly likes to jump up on stuff, especially desks, and we have a keyboard on a desk next to a chair that she is able to jump up on. She keeps jumping up there so today when she did it I thought I would turn the keyboard on for her but she jumped off because I normally tell her to get off it. I called her back in and pressed some keys which elicited a lot of head tilting (soo cute).
Then she came over and I got her to jump up on the seat and pressed some more keys (lots more head tilting and sniffing the keys) and she followed my hand around so I thought I'd try a "paws up" so she made the keys make noise herself (it was so so cute) and gave her some treats. Holly was pretty confident about putting her paws on the keys and even tried playing with her chin
She seems to want to play the keyboard so I think this might have to be her new trick
I might use the cue "play it" and get her to randomly press keys. I think teaching her an actual tune might be a bit difficult (although it would be extremely impressive).
Has any one else taught (or want to teach) their dog to play the piano/keyboard?
How did you teach it? what was your criteria?
Did you use a full size piano or get a little kids one?
Any thoughts or tips?
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So Holly likes to jump up on stuff, especially desks, and we have a keyboard on a desk next to a chair that she is able to jump up on. She keeps jumping up there so today when she did it I thought I would turn the keyboard on for her but she jumped off because I normally tell her to get off it. I called her back in and pressed some keys which elicited a lot of head tilting (soo cute).
Then she came over and I got her to jump up on the seat and pressed some more keys (lots more head tilting and sniffing the keys) and she followed my hand around so I thought I'd try a "paws up" so she made the keys make noise herself (it was so so cute) and gave her some treats. Holly was pretty confident about putting her paws on the keys and even tried playing with her chin
She seems to want to play the keyboard so I think this might have to be her new trick
I might use the cue "play it" and get her to randomly press keys. I think teaching her an actual tune might be a bit difficult (although it would be extremely impressive).
Has any one else taught (or want to teach) their dog to play the piano/keyboard?
How did you teach it? what was your criteria?
Did you use a full size piano or get a little kids one?
Any thoughts or tips?
Pictures: