Dog Health Questions: Does anyone else have any funny dog training stories?

I am teaching my dog to play dead. He is doing great. When I point my "gun" (finger gun) at him and say "bang" he lays down on his side. He has even learned to lay his head down on the floor. However, he cannot seem to get his tail to stop wagging. LOL we were standing around laughing our heads waiting for his tail to stop moving while he just laid there perfectly still except for that tail. LOL I said he must be having after tail shocks.

Does anyone else have any funny stories about what happened while they were teaching their pet new tricks? And what was the trick as I would really enjoy teaching him some new things. It is about time I work his brain again. :)

Dog Training Techniques - The Fundamentals

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I have taught my wiener/pitt to ring a bell to go outside. And now he does it to let the cat in.

And then the other day I wasn't paying attention to the dog, and I was talking to the cat,(very jealous) so the dog went and rang the bell and walked over to the cat and pushed it to the door so he would go out. It was very funny.

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• I was off lead training my wild child Rot. He had been a perfect little angel all the way around the block until he came upon my neighbors having a huge family reunion. Well my Thunder decided he couldn't stand it and went right under the whole length of the table, with half the kids following him, and dang near landing in the grandmothers lap. I went under the concrete. I have nice neighbors thank goodness, Thunder even got a invitation to the next reunion


• I was in the middle of a CGC "trial run" before the actual test and my dog (who usually has a spot on recall) decided to run past me and lick a more interesting spot on the floor...I was pretty mortified. Luckily he passed the test with flying colors...but it would have been just my luck...
  
  Or one time I was showing him off to a bunch of strangers at PetSmart..when he was just a puppy and in the middle of all his tricks he decided he had to go potty...and pooped right then and there with everyone watching!


• My dogs all ring a bell to go outside. It is a big wrought iron bell that hangs on the wall by the door. When we leave them at home to go somewhere we can hear that bell ringing when we are backing down the driveway REALLY REALLY LOUD!! There are 4 collies!


• My dog sparkle anytime she sees another dog she barks and whines and barks so in "dog school" the teacher had to keep putting like sparkles face to the wall to not disturb other dogs and then she was like spazzing at my dog lol


• Yes, when I was teaching one of my JR Handler classes last year, I had my dog Demon, my Min. Schnauzer there also to demonstrate..
  
  I was having them walk the dogs around the ring, then stop, then one by one to give the command to sit, stay, down, and hold.....Well, as soon as I said sit, Demon decided he wanted to sit, so he just hopped right up in one of the parents laps and sit down in her lap, everyone just cracked up......to this day, that JR handler still mentions it a lot...it was the highlight of the day.......
  
  Well, he did do what I said to do, Sit......LOL