Get Your Dog To Shake Hands

Have your dog sit.

Ask her to shake. Lift her paw. Give her a treat.

Do this 5 more times. Let her rest for at least 30 minutes.

Try again. Offer her your hand, ask her to shake. If she will does it without you lifting her paw, treat her. If she doesn't lift her paw, ask her to shake again, lift her paw and treat her.

It won't take long before she will lift her paw to shake when you ask her. When you feel like she shakes on command, only treat her for shaking once of every 3-5 times she does it.

What is Funagle?

FUNAGLE is a BOARD GAME people and their dogs play with friends and family. It's like Trivial Pursuits, but instead of answering trivia questions, people have to get their dogs to do things in a limited amount of time in order to progress around the board. The best performing dog/person team wins the game.

There are no rules as to how you get your dog to do these activities, but we can share some clever ways to get dogs to perform.

You can get your dog to go potty on command (this is not in the game). Every time your dog goes out to potty say "Go potty" to your dog. Keep saying it to him until he goes potty. Treat him. Do this at least 10 times. Then take him out when you know it's about "that" time and say "Go potty" once and wait. If he goes potty, treat him. Next time take him out and say "Go potty". When he does it don't treat him, but tell he's a good dog. From then on, treat him once in a while when he goes potty on command, but not always.