Course curriculum

  • 1

    How to Get Your Trick Dog Title

    • Step 1 - Print the Tricks Checklist

    • Step 2 - Show your tricks to a Certified Instructor

    • Step 3 - Submit Your Application
  • 2

    🟢 Novice tricks

    • INSTRUCTIONS for your Novice Trick Dog (NTD) Title:

    • 🟢 2 On/2 Off

    • 🟢 Back-up Chute

    • 🟢 Balance Beam

    • 🟢 Balance Cookie on Nose

    • 🟢 Bang Game (smack a board)

    • 🟢 Bar Jump

    • 🟢 Biscuit Under the Sofa

    • 🟢 Bow Under a Magic Square

    • 🟢 Catch a Ball/Toy

    • 🟢 Cavaletti Arc

    • 🟢 Come

    • 🟢 Crawl

    • 🟢 Disc Rollers

    • 🟢 Doggy Push-ups

    • 🟢 Down

    • 🟢 Drop It

    • 🟢 Fetch (Bring it Near Me)

    • 🟢 Find Hidden Treats

    • 🟢 Focus

    • 🟢 Front

    • 🟢 Hand Signals (3 Behaviors)

    • 🟢 Head Cock

    • 🟢 Hide and Seek (Find Me)

    • 🟢 Hide Your Head Under a Cushion

    • 🟢 Hoop Jump

    • 🟢 Jump for Joy (straight up)

    • 🟢 Jump Over My Knee

    • 🟢 Kennel Up

    • 🟢 Kisses

    • 🟢 Leave It

    • 🟢 Loose-Leash Walking

    • 🟢 Memory Game (3 Baskets)

    • 🟢 Muffin Tin Game

    • 🟢 Paws in a Box

    • 🟢 Paws Up on an Object

    • 🟢 Peekaboo/Center Position

    • 🟢 Platform Jump

    • 🟢 Rainbow Ladder (trot through)

    • 🟢 Ride in a Wagon

    • 🟢 Ring a Bell to Go Outside

    • 🟢 Roll Out the Carpet

    • 🟢 Send to Pedestal

    • 🟢 Sing / Howl

    • 🟢 Sit

    • 🟢 Speak (Bark on Cue)

    • 🟢 Smile

    • 🟢 Spin Circles

    • 🟢 Sneeze

    • 🟢 Stacking (for conformation)

    • 🟢 Stay

    • 🟢 Target disc

    • 🟢 Target Stick

    • 🟢 Touch My Hand

    • 🟢 Treadmill (sustained trot)

    • 🟢 Tunnel

    • 🟢 Wall Stand

    • 🟢 Weenie Bobbing​

    • 🟢 Which Hand Holds the Treat?

    • 🟢 Wobble Board

    • 🟢 Volleyball
  • 3

    💜Intermediate Tricks

    • 💜Intermediate Trick Title: 12 tricks needed for title

    • 💜2 On/2 Off Peanut

    • 💜2-on/2-off Pull Back on

    • 💜A-frame

    • 💜Assisted Upright Walking

    • 💜Balance on Top of a Ball

    • 💜Balance on a Block

    • 💜Barrel Racing

    • 💜Baton Jumping

    • 💜Blind Jump/Paper-Covered Hoop

    • 💜Blowing Bubbles in Water Bowl

    • 💜Carry My Purse

    • 💜Close the Door

    • 💜Crawl Tunnel

    • 💜Chute Tunnel

    • 💜Directional Casting

    • 💜Discern Objects’ Names

    • 💜Emergency stop

    • 💜Fetch-to-Hand (a Toy)

    • 💜Figure-8's Through My Legs

    • 💜Flyball Box Turn/Swimmer's Turn

    • 💜Disc Catch

    • 💜Hand Signals (6 Behaviors)

    • 💜Heel

    • 💜Hold Object in Mouth (5 sec.)

    • 💜Honk a Bike Horn

    • 💜Jump Through My Circled Arms

    • 💜Jumping Figure-8s

    • 💜Leg Weave

    • 💜Mail Carrier (take note to someone)

    • 💜Nose-Touch (Sustained 4 sec)

    • 💜Open the Door

    • 💜Pawprint Painting

    • 💜Peekaboo (remain between my legs while I walk)

    • 💜Pick a Card from a Deck

    • 💜platform jump with hoop between platforms

    • 💜Pull on a Rope / Tug

    • 💜Rainbow Ladder: Front Paws Only

    • 💜Roll Over

    • 💜Side-Step Drill

    • 💜Shake Hands

    • 💜Shake Your Head "No"

    • 💜Shell Game (Nose at Correct Cup)

    • 💜Sit Pretty / Beg

    • 💜Soccer

    • 💜Stay (Out of Sight)

    • 💜Target Mark

    • 💜Teeter-Totter
  • 4

    🔶Advanced Tricks

    • 🔶Advanced Trick Dog Title Rules:

    • 🔶Back stall

    • 🔶Back Up

    • 🔶Bark the Answer

    • 🔶Barrel Roll (2 paws)

    • 🔶Bow

    • 🔶Broad Jump

    • 🔶Chorus Line Kicks

    • 🔶Counter (treibball, dog goes to opposite side of ball from me)

    • 🔶Directed Retrieve

    • 🔶Distance Work (3 behaviors, 10 ft away. OK to treat between each)

    • 🔶Dock Diving

    • 🔶Double Hoop Circle

    • 🔶Drop on Recall

    • 🔶Food Retrieval

    • 🔶Get the Phone When It Rings

    • 🔶Get Your Leash

    • 🔶Footsies (peekaboo, dog places paws on my feet)

    • 🔶Head Down

    • 🔶Hide Yourself

    • 🔶Hug a toy or object

    • 🔶Jump into My Arms

    • 🔶Jump Over My Back

    • 🔶Lightswitch

    • 🔶Mail from the Mailbox

    • 🔶Paintbrush Painting

    • 🔶Pickpocket Pooch

    • 🔶Pick up flat item and give to handler

    • 🔶Place (circle to my left side)

    • 🔶Play Dead

    • 🔶Play the Piano

    • 🔶Pull a wagon with a rope/handle

    • 🔶Rainbow Ladder: Back Paws Only

    • 🔶Rebound

    • 🔶Remove socks/slippers

    • 🔶Say Your Prayers

    • 🔶Side (swing to my left side)

    • 🔶Side Pass

    • 🔶Side Step Drill: Ball/Disc

    • 🔶Skateboard (front paws only)

    • 🔶Spin a Tight Circle on a Small Pedestal

    • 🔶Surfing/Paddleboarding

    • 🔶Turn on a Tap Light

    • 🔶Target mark (touch target with a rear foot)

    • 🔶Tidy Up Toys into Toy Box (no lid)

    • 🔶Track a Person’s Scent Trail

    • 🔶Treibball (counter, push ball toward you)

    • 🔶Walk Another Dog

    • 🔶Wave

    • 🔶Weight Pull

    • 🔶Wipe Your Paws on Doormat

    • Canicross
  • 5

    ⭐️Expert Trick

    • Expert Trick Dog Title Rules

    • ⭐️Bring Me a Tissue

    • ⭐️Airplane

    • ⭐️Back up on stairs

    • ⭐️Balance Beam: Double Rail

    • ⭐️Barrel Roll: 4 Feet

    • ⭐️Basketball

    • ⭐️Climb a Ladder

    • ⭐️Cover Your Eyes

    • ⭐️Cross your paws (usually lying down)

    • ⭐️Barn Hunt

    • ⭐️Directed Jumping

    • ⭐️Disc Vault/Rebound

    • ⭐️Dock Diving- e​xpert version

    • ⭐️Distance Work (6 behaviors, 12 feet away, treats between OK)

    • ⭐️Find the Object With My Scent

    • ⭐️Fishing With a Rope

    • ⭐️Footsies (peekaboo with dog’s feet on my feet as I walk)

    • ⭐️Foot Stall

    • ⭐️Handstand

    • ⭐️Herding

    • ⭐️Hoop Jump over My Back

    • ⭐️Hoop Leg Weave

    • ⭐️Index Cards (dog responds to written cue word)

    • ⭐️Jump Rope

    • ⭐️Kennel Up (open door, go in crate, close door)

    • ⭐️Leg Hike

    • ⭐️Leg Weave (backward)

    • ⭐️Limp

    • ⭐️Litter in the Step Can

    • ⭐️Mail from the Mailbox (including lid)

    • ⭐️Moonwalk

    • ⭐️Nose Work Box Search

    • ⭐️Open a Door (by using door handle)

    • ⭐️Orbit (circles backwards around your legs)

    • ⭐️Paintbrush Painting (including bucket)

    • ⭐️Paintbrush (replace paintbrush in bucket)

    • ⭐️Paw Pods (4 feet target)

    • ⭐️Piggybank (put coin in slot)

    • ⭐️Push a Shopping Cart

    • ⭐️Rainbow Ladder: Step Backward

    • ⭐️Rainbow Ladder (push a yoga ball through it)

    • ⭐️Retrieve Over High Jump (with formal hand delivery)

    • ⭐️Shell Game (More Advanced Indicating)

    • ⭐️Ring Toss

    • ⭐️Roll Yourself in a Blanket

    • ⭐️Rolling Hoop Dive

    • ⭐️Scootering / Mushing

    • ⭐️Skateboard (3 or 4 paws on top)

    • ⭐️Soda from the Fridge

    • ⭐️Through a Hoop Lying on the Ground

    • ⭐️Tidy Up Toys (including opening lid)

    • ⭐️Treibball (send dog to counter the ball, push toward you 15 ft)

    • ⭐️Walk on Hind Legs

    • ⭐️Weave Poles