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Step 1 - Print the Tricks Checklist

Step 2 - Show your tricks to a Certified Instructor

Step 3 - Submit Your Application

INSTRUCTIONS for your Novice Trick Dog (NTD) Title: 15 tricks needed for 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)

🟢 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

🟢 Smile

🟢 Sneeze

🟢 Speak (Bark on Cue)

🟢 Spin Circles

🟢 Stacking (for conformation)

🟢 Stand

🟢 Stay

🟢 Target disc

🟢 Target Stick

🟢 Touch My Hand

🟢 Treadmill (sustained trot)

🟢 Tunnel

🟢 Volleyball

🟢 Wall Stand

🟢 Weenie Bobbing​

🟢 Which Hand Holds the Treat?

🟢 Wobble Board

💜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

💜Chute Tunnel

💜Close the Door

💜Crawl Tunnel

💜Directional Casting

💜Disc Catch

💜Discern Objects’ Names

💜Emergency stop

💜Fetch-to-Hand (a Toy)

💜Figure-8's Through My Legs

💜Flyball Box Turn/Swimmer's Turn

💜Hand Signals (6 Behaviors)

💜 Hoop Jump over another dog's back

💜Hold Object in Mouth (5 sec.)

💜Honk a Bike Horn

💜Jump Through My Circled Arms

💜Jump wraps

💜Leg Weave

💜 Look Left/Look Right

💜Mail Carrier (take note to someone)

💜Open the Door

💜Pawprint Painting

💜 Paw Wrap Around Object

💜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)

💜Sustained Nose-Touch (Sustained 4 sec)

💜Target Mark

🔶Advanced Trick Dog Title Rules:

🔶Arm Weaves

🔶Back stall

🔶Back Up

🔶Bark the Answer

🔶Bow

🔶Broad Jump

🔶Canicross

🔶Chorus Line Kicks

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

🔶Directed Retrieve

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

🔶Dock Diving

🔶Double Hoop Circle

🔶Drop on Recall

🔶Food Retrieval

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

🔶Get the Phone When It Rings

🔶Get Your Leash

🔶Half Reverse/Scoot

🔶Head Down

🔶Heel with auto sit

🔶Hide Yourself

🔶 Hide Your Head Under a Cushion

🔶Hug a toy or object

🔶Hula Hoop Spin

🔶Jump into My Arms

🔶Jump Over My Back

🔶Mail from the Mailbox

🔶Maypole

🔶Paintbrush Painting

🔶Pickpocket Pooch

🔶Pick up flat item and give to handler

🔶Place (circle to my 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

🔶 Tap Light

🔶Target mark (touch target with a rear foot)

🔶Teeter-Totter

🔶Tidy Up Toys into Toy Box (no lid)

🔶Treibball (counter, push ball toward you)

🔶Turn the page/reading

🔶Turn off/on Lightswitch

🔶Walk Another Dog

🔶Wave

🔶Weight Pull

🔶Wipe Your Paws on Doormat

Expert Trick Dog Title Rules

⭐️Achoo

⭐️Airplane

⭐️Back up on stairs

⭐️Balance Beam: Double Rail

⭐️ Barrel Roll: 2 feet pushing

⭐️Barrel Roll: 4 Feet on barrel

⭐️Barn Hunt

⭐️Basketball

⭐️Bring me Soda from the Fridge

⭐️Chess

⭐️Climb a Ladder

⭐️Cover Your Eyes

⭐️Cross your paws (usually lying down)

⭐️Directed Jumping

⭐️Disc Vault/Rebound

⭐️Distance Work (6 behaviors, 12 feet/3.6m away, treats between OK)

⭐️Dock Diving- e​xpert version

⭐️Find the Object With My Scent

⭐️Fishing With a Rope

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

⭐️Foot Stall

⭐️ Flyball

⭐️ Get in a suitcase

⭐️Handstand

⭐️Herding

⭐️Hoop Jump over My Back

⭐️Hoop Leg Weave

⭐️ Hug a toy dog has picked up

⭐️Index Cards (dog responds to words/symbols)

⭐️Jump Rope

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

⭐️Laundry Day

⭐️Leg Hike

⭐️Leg Weave (backward)

⭐️Limp

⭐️Litter in the Step Can

⭐️Mail from the Mailbox (including lid)

⭐️ Match to Sample

⭐️Moonwalk

⭐️Nose Work Box Search

⭐️Open a Door (by using door handle)

⭐️Orbit (circles backwards around your legs)

⭐️Paintbrush Painting (including 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)

⭐️Ring Toss

⭐️Roll Yourself in a Blanket

⭐️Rolling Hoop Dive

⭐️Scootering / Mushing

⭐️Shell Game (More Advanced Indicating)

⭐️Skateboard (3 or 4 paws on top)

⭐️ Stacking cups/bowls

⭐️Through a Hoop Lying on the Ground

⭐️Tidy Up Toys (including opening lid)

⭐️ Track a Person’s Scent Trail

⭐️Treibball (send dog to counter the ball, push toward you 15 ft/4.5m)

⭐️Walk on Hind Legs

⭐️Weave Poles

💫 What is TDCH?

💫 Guidelines for submission of TDCH:

🎥 What to submit in your video! 🎥

🕺1: Coordination- Rear End Awareness: Double Beam

🕺 1: Coordination- Rear End Awareness: Rainbow ladder / Cavalettis

🕺1: Coordination- Rear End Awareness: Skateboard

🕺 1: Coordination- Rear End Awareness: Push a shopping cart

🕺 1: Coordination- Rear End Awareness:Barrel Roll, 2 paws

🕺 1: Coordination- Rear End Awareness: Back up

🕺 1: Coordination- Rear End Awareness: Other

🐶 2: Mouth Target-Hold object/Carry object

🐶 2: Mouth Target-Retrieve to hand (12 ft/3.6m)

🐶 2: Mouth Target-Pull a rope

🐾 3: Paw Target: Tap Light, Bell, Easy Button

🐾 3: Paw target-Ground target:

🐾 3: Paw Target-High 5 or shake hands

🐾 3: Paw Target-Close a door

🐾 3: Paw target-Raised Object

🎯 4: Nose Target: Target Stick

🎯 4: Nose Target-Hand Held Target

🎯 4: Nose Target: Free Object

🎯 4: Nose target-Hand Touch

👃 5: Scent: Shell Game

👃 5: Scent: Nose Work Search

👃 5: Scent: Scent articles

🏝 6: Distance: Go to a Mark/Pedestal 20ft/6m away

🏝 6: Distance: Cued Behaviors at a Distance

🏝 6: Examples of good distance behaviors:

🤚 7: Hand/body Signals

⛓ 8: Notes about Behavior Chains:

⛓ 8: Video Examples of correctly performed behavior chains with only one cue

⛓ 8: Example of a trick that is sometimes a chain and sometimes not

🐕 9: Expert Tricks Defined

💫 TDCH Scoring

💫 How to submit your video for TDCH

TDCH checklist

🔥 Trick Dog Grand Champion explained

🔥 Guidelines for submission

🔥 Tips for success!

🔥 Example video of the GCH exercises:

1: Cue Cards

2: Delayed Reward

3: A to B Marks

4: Place an Object

5: Precision

6: Remaining Expert Tricks

TDGCH Checklist