June 2008 Intermediate Challenge

[Jean]

Objective

In this month's Intermediate Training Challenge, you will have to train your dog to balance a treat or bone on his nose. This is not the easiest trick to train but is tons of fun!!!


Rules

• The dog must not have practiced or been taught the behavior before the beginning of the month.
  
  
• The dog must hold the treat or object for a minimum of two seconds to be eligible for the trophy.
  

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the prize?

Each participant will receive a Participant award, and the winner will receive the Advanced Training Challenge Trophy award. They are symbolic awards which will be featured on your profile.



Also, this month we will be giving away a FREE Graduation Plush Dog as a souvenir/decoration. It will be awarded to the member who submits the best looking/performing video of any of the three challenges!

How do I submit my video?

You can submit your video using a free video hosting service. Some popular websites are: Youtube & Google Video.

How do I embed my video into my post?

You can embed your video by pasting the video URL and inserting it into your post. There is more information on this subject in this thread.

How do you determine the winner?

The winner will be determined by the Dog Trick Academy staff. At the end of the month, we will judge submissions based on performance, quality and improvement.

This prevents friends voting for friends, people voting for the cutest dog or their preferred breed, or other similar qualities.

[dat123]

ECCCKKKKKSSSSS !!!!
Only a few days to go....

I started with Talin for this trick, he decided it was smarter to catch the treat a second after I placed it on his nose. So I moved onto Arlie, she is more devoted to pleasing me anyway.

With only a few days to go, I'll have to speed it up.

Here is our progress so far....

BalanceTreat progress-Arlie

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[shegen]

I've been practicing this with my dog for about a week and a half or so for a few minutes a day. I think that by Sunday I should be able to make a video of her doing the trick.

[Jean]

That looks pretty good dat123! I started training this with my dog first using my touch (acclimatizing her to my touch), then a 1/4 bone and gradually went to a full sized bone.

[yoyopoodle]

Arlie is looking great!

I'm doing the same thing with Harmony - bottle cap first, then I'll move to a biscuit.

I thought I had already done this with Charlie, but it may only have been my first Poodle that I taught... Charlie certainly didn't act like he knew what to do, lol. He got it after a few sessions, and I wish my camera took a clearer video - he froze in place and crossed his eyes to keep watching the cookie!

Videos later today.

[dat123]

My final entry for this challenge...

Arlie balancing treat on nose.

Arlie-balance treat on nose

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[good_doggie]

I'm trying very hard to teach that trick,but my dog has a small muzzle,so im trying leave that out.

[fickla]

Here's Lance's and mine

Balancing Treats

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[Jean]

LOL What a cute video!!!!

But he really looks scared in the first half there Did you happen to discipline him for eating treats during the training? Although he does look waaaay more comfortable during the second try!

Thanks for sharing!!!

[Jean]

Hey dat123, great entry too!!! I had missed it :/

[fickla]

Originally Posted by Jean

LOL What a cute video!!!!

But he really looks scared in the first half there Did you happen to discipline him for eating treats during the training? Although he does look waaaay more comfortable during the second try!

Thanks for sharing!!!

Lance usually looks like that whenever we practice "leave it" When we first started he would actually leave the room if I told him to leave a piece of food. I think he's more grumpy that I'm making him stay next to it then scared!

Even though I realized that I practiced the treats on feet and treats on nose separately, and for balancing it on his nose he was always given a different treat as a reward and not given the nose treat. That's why in the first video shown he left the rawhide piece for last till I said ok again, and by the 2nd attempt he was already going for it first upon release!

[dat123]

nice entry fickla.

[Jean]

And the winner is ... fickla !!!!!!!

Congratulations !!!!!!

Watch her video entry below:

Balancing Treats

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[tenniskitty]

Oh man! I missed this contest! I taught this to Jewel around this time!!!