Bang!

[sandyl]

I've been trying to teach Maddy 'Bang!' So when I say Bang, she fakes dead.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Isabel964]

Hehe! Thats FUNNY!

I wanna see that on uTube when you have it accomplished! LOL

[ish]

I taught this by teaching drop, and then flat - to lay flat/dead by gently laying the dog over and eventually teaching them to hold this position until released. From then, I would say 'Bang!' with the hand signal, followed by 'drop' 'flat' 'stay' and then 'ok' praise and reward. Eventually, just saying 'Bang!' is enough to get it all happening.

[sandyl]

Thanks ISH, thats what I've been doing. Will keep doing it with her, hopefully she'll get it soon!

[shoemonster]

Once I saw Ish do it I had to teach Ed too! We havent perfected it, but he will lay flat to a "bang" and gun hand signal now!

[boxagirl]

I taught Bondi using the same method as ISH.

But she decided to add her own little quirk to it, and she would actually stagged as she "died". It looks hilarious.

[OMD²]

Oscar has Band down pat now

It's cool

[KitKat]

Bronx does it as well...and if he is feeling feisty i have to shoot him twice and he groans and whines as he 'dies' A lot seems to depend on his audience

I taught Bronx much the same was as ISH has described

[MrsD]

If you don't mind it being upside down here is Finn one of our first fosters playing dead .

I didnt teach him it, but it's given me another thing to teach Jarrah .

[shoemonster]

Here is a quick one of Ed last night!

As you can see I need to bring my hand signal up higher still

Molly was off to the side doing a stay, which she broke as you can tell by listening to my OH lol Poor Molls thought I was releasing her, have to work on that

Edited June 12, 2007 by shoemonster

[ShellyBeggs]

This is great fun to teach them............

I taught my dad's security dog (a big rotti) to play 'bang' when I was about 15 and I even took it further to using a cap gun and would put a western scarf on the dog.......and he would stay super still 'dead' until I gave him the release word. I would ask him if he wanted to play 'cowboys and indians' and he would get so excited he would go get his scarf and jump around until I 'shot' him.

Problem was one night out on patrol in a hotel carpark, a car backfired and the dog dropped 'dead'..... created quite an audience of drunken onlookers (who all thought the dog was really dead).....no one knew the release word and my dad had to ring me up, get me outta bed, so I could say it to the dog over the phone. Poor dog got super pissed that he didn't get his treat for such a good performance that he sulked all night. Although dad reckoned when he got up and crowd all cheered that he was grinning.

[Poodle wrangler]

My mini poodle does this.

Best I've seen is a RottyXNewfie racing down a hallway with floorboards - BANG!- he skates down further and is "dead" by the end of it Very dramatic.

[leopuppy04]

Here ya go!

One is of Leo being a git and not going all the way:

and the other is his proper bang:

I taught it first by teaching a roll over - but only half way. When he gets to the middle - i'll tickle his tummy and C&T when he is still.

I'd gradually introduce the word prior to me 'luring' him to roll over..... then stop the tummy tickle etc.

He can't get up until i've released him (the sound is poor on the vids!)......

Then gradually I added my own distance and got myself to standing up rather than kneeling/sitting down

I always did it from a drop, but Leo *can* do it from a stand, we are just needing a bit more tweaking

LOL - he did to a funny thing where he would "bark" straight after I shot him - and although it was spontaneous - I haven't been able to get it consistent

[Petal]

This is great fun to teach them............

I taught my dad's security dog (a big rotti) to play 'bang' when I was about 15 and I even took it further to using a cap gun and would put a western scarf on the dog.......and he would stay super still 'dead' until I gave him the release word. I would ask him if he wanted to play 'cowboys and indians' and he would get so excited he would go get his scarf and jump around until I 'shot' him.

Problem was one night out on patrol in a hotel carpark, a car backfired and the dog dropped 'dead'..... created quite an audience of drunken onlookers (who all thought the dog was really dead).....no one knew the release word and my dad had to ring me up, get me outta bed, so I could say it to the dog over the phone. Poor dog got super pissed that he didn't get his treat for such a good performance that he sulked all night. Although dad reckoned when he got up and crowd all cheered that he was grinning.

Thats a great story Shelly - got a real ... can imagine how your Dad reacted to that one