New Tricks?

[outriding01]

I'm wanting to teach my dog a new trick. She's an 11 year old cocker spaniel and I've done all her training by myself. I just feel like she's got more energy and is more alert and happy when she's working and learning, just like most dogs.

So far she knows:
Sit
Lay
Stay
Come
Roll over
Play dead
High five
Sit up on her hind legs
Shakes hands with both hands (whichever one you give her)
Crawl on her belly
Will jump up and down on whatever piece of furniture or stand you indicate
Jumps over any obstacle you indicate
Balance a ball or treat on her nose and catch it when you command
Waves hello and goodbye

I think I'm forgetting one or two, but can anyone think of other simple, cute tricks I can teach her? She's pretty easy to train, but she is getting older so I don't want anything too crazy or complicated. Just another fun little thing for us to play around with would be great. What kind of tricks does your dog know?

[livaward]

Well there is also some of the easier tricks like speak,

Tony knows
sit
lay
high five
turn
roll over
speak
stay
sit pretty
stand
I taught him to ring a bell

If you want if you have a chair or something next to a light switch you can teach her to turn on and off the lights....

[Gliderider]

How about "Leave it" I lay a treat in front of Murdoc and tell him to leave it. He just sits there looking at it till I say ok then he eats it. I have a friend that lays the treat on her dogs nose and tells her to leave it. Then when she says ok the dog gets to eat it. With Murdoc being a mushy faced boxer the nose didn't work with him. ;) So I just lay it in front of him. Hey this trick saved a chickens life. Murdoc got out and had a chicken when I found him I told him to leave it and he did. Which gave me time to grab the chicken away.

[miatapony]

whisper... max can whisper... that was a fun one to teach..

[dame_wolf]

Lets see. The old man knows (knew...)

Sit
Lay Down
Go Lay Down (go away, other room, lay down and stay there till called)
Get Up
Come
Stay
Say Please (beg but different, he puts a foot on your knee and stares at you whinning)
Go Get It! (fetch)
Drop It!
Outside (he goes to the door)
Get Out (leaves the room, very helpful if you break or spill something)
Go To Your Room (get in the crate)
Give Me 5 (shake)
Foot (I can do this over and over again and he will keep alternating feet, it's cute, I should video it)
Sing (howl)
Talk (speak)
Mumble (growl)
Lay Your Head (folds 1 leg up and half climbs into my lap burying his head under my arm, like a hug)
Jump Up (he can't jump because of arthritis but he can get his front end up so I can heft the rest of him into the truck or on a table)

He also:
Balances a treat on his nose
Sits and waits to be told to come in
Sits and waits to be told before eating

And then when on a walk (I taught him to weight pull but didn't know any commands and there for made my own up):
Come (get in line in front of me, leading, and stay there no matter which way I turn)
Heel
Not Your Yard! (sometimes he follows his nose, like a dog... lol, and when I say this he would jump back and go around behind me as far from the yard as he could get)
Stop (at every intersection he stops and sits and no matter what move I made, could walk around him, he wouldn't move till given the command Come or Heel)
Get Up There! (pull)
No Pull! (stop pulling)
NO! (stop/drop whatever you are doing/have and get your fuzzy butt behind me, good for if you encounter anything bad/dangerous)

On a good day he remembers half or little over half of these (just don't know which ones it will be hahaha!). I did all his training myself too and tried to think of everything we might encounter. A lot of people told me I should teach him to bring me things or open things but he had a real bad teething problem and I didn't want him thinking it was ok to put any of my stuff in his mouth. Plus I didn't want him learning how to get in the fridge and eating all the food!

Oh! And he knows 'Where's the kids?' This one was easy to teach as he was/is very watchful and protective of children. It used to drive him nuts when my nieces and nephews would scatter and then he'd run after them and try to herd them back together so he could watch them all! He and Ottodog (RIP) used to tag team the kids. Wish I had pics of that...

[AUEquine]

Modify the sit up command to raise the front legs in "Touchdown Auburn"!!! I'm trying to teach Abby that one for tailgates... not working well so far!

[outriding01]

Haha, maybe I could teach her a "War Eagle!"

She actually knows most of those, I just didn't really think of them as tricks, lol. I pretty much just talk to her like a human. Like if she loses her ball I can say "Gracie, it's under the chair." If she goes to the wrong chair I'll say "no, the other chair, by the TV" and she'll go straight to that one. Go away, get out, etc. all get the same response and she leaves or goes somewhere else. She can find anyone if she knows their name (and she picks them up quickly). Like "go find mommy", "go find Chloe".
My favorite is "Go check it out!" This means for her to go into whichever room or area I indicate and sniff around the whole room and into the corners and make sure there are no roaches. I'm deathly terrified of roaches, and they tend to turn up in rooms when I go away for a while or whatever, so Gracie checks for me as I cower in the doorway with a can of Raid. She knows Leave It, Drop It, Go Get It, etc. She knows Go Get Your Toy, and I can specify which toy I mean.
I think I'll work on Speak. She barks on command sort of. When I say Get 'Em! She'll bark at whatever I'm talking about (door, TV, ducks, lol). but she makes the cutest little growly noise that I'd love to be able to get her to do it on command. That would be so cute!

[jeezitsjacki]

we taught our dog how to bow... you just put the treat in front of his nose by his front feet and he will fall forward, you just have to catch them before they lay down... I looked up tricks online and found bow so im sure you could too....he also knows sit, down, scoot (lays down, then army crawls on the ground to the treat), beg, and shake

[shewasmyshadow]

Not sure if anyone said this, but I taught my dog to fall over dead when "shot". I would say, "Bang! Bang!" and pretend to be shooting a gun at her. She would lay down real slow and then roll over with her feet in the air. :p It was pretty realistic. I also had her trained to jump through a hoop.

One my cousin taught was the prayer trick. She would have her dog say "grace" before she ate. It was super cute. The dog with sit up and put her paws together.

My current dog knows...

get in your kennel
get on your bed
come
sit
down
up
don't

I haven't taught her more because she's SO submissive that teaching her is just a scary thing for her. I think her previous elderly owner kicked her because she will yelp when I get my leg close to her. If I boost her with my foot she yelps. If I reach down to grab her collar to pull her somewhere she doesn't want to go, then she yelps. It's like a precautionary yelp. I hate it because people probably think I am hurting her, but I'm not.