Well, his crawl backwards was sort of self taught, he offered the behaviour, and I clicked it... didn't take him long before he was using it all the time... he LOVES crawling backwards!!!
His backwards figure 8 was taught in many, many small steps. I'll try to remember them all...
1- I taught him to put his front paws up on a box and spin
2-I taught him to "get in" and "get right" using the paws on a box, so he was learning to move his back feet
3-I taught him to back up beside me
4- I would walk a few steps forward, with Ollie heeling on my left, then take one LARGE step back with my right leg, then lured him by pushing a treat towards him and aiming him back through my legs, clicking in small steps (his butt in the general direction, his butt touching my leg, his butt between my legs, halfway through, and finally in front of me
5-I then worked towards not walking, and only a side step,
6-once he had the left side down, we began working on the right in the same way
7-then we began putting the movements together: Get In (left side), Leg, Get Right, Right Leg, Get In
8- then we practiced and got faster and faster until I had him doing it smoothly in sequence.
9- then got the whole behaviour on hand signals,
10- added in the command "eight"
Ollie's a big goofy terrier, who likes nothing better than to mess around and make me laugh... he's really easy to teach tricks to!
His backwards figure 8 was taught in many, many small steps. I'll try to remember them all...
1- I taught him to put his front paws up on a box and spin
2-I taught him to "get in" and "get right" using the paws on a box, so he was learning to move his back feet
3-I taught him to back up beside me
4- I would walk a few steps forward, with Ollie heeling on my left, then take one LARGE step back with my right leg, then lured him by pushing a treat towards him and aiming him back through my legs, clicking in small steps (his butt in the general direction, his butt touching my leg, his butt between my legs, halfway through, and finally in front of me
5-I then worked towards not walking, and only a side step,
6-once he had the left side down, we began working on the right in the same way
7-then we began putting the movements together: Get In (left side), Leg, Get Right, Right Leg, Get In
8- then we practiced and got faster and faster until I had him doing it smoothly in sequence.
9- then got the whole behaviour on hand signals,
10- added in the command "eight"
Ollie's a big goofy terrier, who likes nothing better than to mess around and make me laugh... he's really easy to teach tricks to!
