New Tricks by Hero and Casper

Just finished watching the HK drama series - "When a dog loves a cat". 'Siu Ba', the mongrel acted in the series performed some tricks during the launching of Koo Cologne. "Crawl" is one of the tricks 'Siu Ba' performed and this is the trick / command that I never thought of teaching Hero and Casper.

At the beginning, I thought this is not an easy trick to teach because they are just too used to the "come" command, to walk or run to me in what ever style they are comfortable with. In contrast to "come", "crawl" is the "come" command in which their butt have to stay close to the floor.

I started teaching Hero with him in the "down" command. Then, I hold his favourite treats in front of him (close to the floor). I started pulling the treats forward. At the same time, I used my the other hand to push his butt forward. Seems very rough :-P but it works after a few pushes and Hero got the point - 'to move forward in the "down" position'. Wonderful!!!

Next, is Casper's turn. I would think Casper could be much more harder to teach since he is very easily being distracted when he sees his favourite treats. Surprisingly, I only tried 1 push. The second time, i pulled the treats forward, Casper already managed to crawl!!!

Video of Hero with the command "circle", "cross","eight" and "crawl"

Video of Casper with the command "circle", "cross","hoop" and "crawl"