Trick Dog Title - Trick Descriptions
A free resource to aid you in getting your Trick Dog title. This master list of dog tricks has descriptions, video, and difficulty level.
INSTRUCTIONS for your Novice Trick Dog (NTD) Title: 15 tricks needed for title
FREE PREVIEW🟢 2 On/2 Off
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Back-up Chute
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Balance Beam
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Balance Cookie on Nose
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Bang Game (smack a board)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Bar Jump
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Biscuit Under the Sofa
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Bow Under a Magic Square
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Catch a Ball/Toy
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Cavaletti Arc
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Come
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Crawl
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Disc Rollers
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Doggy Push-ups
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Down
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Drop It
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Fetch (Bring it Near Me)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Find Hidden Treats
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Focus
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Front
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Hand Signals (3 Behaviors)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Head Cock
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Hide and Seek (Find Me)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Hoop Jump
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Jump for Joy (straight up)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Jump Over My Knee
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Kennel Up
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Kisses
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Leave It
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Loose-Leash Walking
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Memory Game (3 Baskets)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Muffin Tin Game
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Paws in a Box
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Paws Up on an Object
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Peekaboo/Center Position
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Platform Jump
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Rainbow Ladder (trot through)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Ride in a Wagon
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Ring a Bell to Go Outside
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Roll Out the Carpet
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Send to Pedestal
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Sing / Howl
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Sit
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Smile
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Sneeze
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Speak (Bark on Cue)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Spin Circles
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Stacking (for conformation)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Stand
🟢 Stay
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Target disc
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Target Stick
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Touch My Hand
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Treadmill (sustained trot)
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Tunnel
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Volleyball
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Wall Stand
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Weenie Bobbing
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Which Hand Holds the Treat?
FREE PREVIEW🟢 Wobble Board
FREE PREVIEW💜Intermediate Trick Title: 12 tricks needed for title
FREE PREVIEW💜2 On/2 Off Peanut
FREE PREVIEW💜2-on/2-off Pull Back on
FREE PREVIEW💜A-frame
FREE PREVIEW💜Assisted Upright Walking
FREE PREVIEW💜Balance on Top of a Ball
FREE PREVIEW💜Balance on a Block
FREE PREVIEW💜Barrel Racing
FREE PREVIEW💜Baton Jumping
FREE PREVIEW💜Blind Jump/Paper-Covered Hoop
FREE PREVIEW💜Blowing Bubbles in Water Bowl
FREE PREVIEW💜Carry My Purse
FREE PREVIEW💜Chute Tunnel
FREE PREVIEW💜Close the Door
FREE PREVIEW💜Crawl Tunnel
FREE PREVIEW💜Directional Casting
FREE PREVIEW💜Disc Catch
FREE PREVIEW💜Discern Objects’ Names
FREE PREVIEW💜Emergency stop
FREE PREVIEW💜Fetch-to-Hand (a Toy)
FREE PREVIEW💜Figure-8's Through My Legs
FREE PREVIEW💜Flyball Box Turn/Swimmer's Turn
FREE PREVIEW💜Hand Signals (6 Behaviors)
FREE PREVIEW💜 Hoop Jump over another dog's back
FREE PREVIEW💜Hold Object in Mouth (5 sec.)
FREE PREVIEW💜Honk a Bike Horn
FREE PREVIEW💜Jump Through My Circled Arms
FREE PREVIEW💜Jump wraps
FREE PREVIEW💜Leg Weave
FREE PREVIEW💜 Look Left/Look Right
FREE PREVIEW💜Mail Carrier (take note to someone)
FREE PREVIEW💜Open the Door
FREE PREVIEW💜Pawprint Painting
FREE PREVIEW💜 Paw Wrap Around Object
FREE PREVIEW💜Peekaboo (remain between my legs while I walk)
FREE PREVIEW💜Pick a Card from a Deck
FREE PREVIEW💜Platform jump with hoop between platforms
FREE PREVIEW💜Pull on a Rope / Tug
FREE PREVIEW💜Rainbow Ladder: Front Paws Only
FREE PREVIEW💜Roll Over
FREE PREVIEW💜Side-Step Drill
FREE PREVIEW💜Shake Hands
FREE PREVIEW💜Shake Your Head "No"
FREE PREVIEW💜Shell Game (Nose at Correct Cup)
FREE PREVIEW💜Sit Pretty / Beg
FREE PREVIEW💜Soccer
FREE PREVIEW💜Stay (Out of Sight)
FREE PREVIEW💜Sustained Nose-Touch (Sustained 4 sec)
FREE PREVIEW💜Target Mark
FREE PREVIEW🔶Advanced Trick Dog Title Rules:
FREE PREVIEW🔶Arm Weaves
FREE PREVIEW🔶Back stall
FREE PREVIEW🔶Back Up
FREE PREVIEW🔶Bark the Answer
FREE PREVIEW🔶Bow
FREE PREVIEW🔶Broad Jump
FREE PREVIEW🔶Canicross
FREE PREVIEW🔶Chorus Line Kicks
FREE PREVIEW🔶Counter (treibball, dog goes to opposite side of ball from me)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Directed Retrieve
FREE PREVIEW🔶Distance Work (3 behaviors, 10 ft /3m away. OK to treat between each)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Dock Diving
FREE PREVIEW🔶Double Hoop Circle
FREE PREVIEW🔶Drop on Recall
FREE PREVIEW🔶Food Retrieval
FREE PREVIEW🔶Get the Phone When It Rings
FREE PREVIEW🔶Get Your Leash
FREE PREVIEW🔶Footsies (peekaboo, dog places paws on my feet)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Head Down
FREE PREVIEW🔶Heel with auto sit
FREE PREVIEW🔶Hide Yourself
FREE PREVIEW🔶 Hide Your Head Under a Cushion
FREE PREVIEW🔶Hug a toy or object
FREE PREVIEW🔶Hula Hoop Spin
FREE PREVIEW🔶Jump into My Arms
FREE PREVIEW🔶Jump Over My Back
FREE PREVIEW🔶Mail from the Mailbox
FREE PREVIEW🔶Maypole
FREE PREVIEW🔶Paintbrush Painting
FREE PREVIEW🔶Pickpocket Pooch
FREE PREVIEW🔶Pick up flat item and give to handler
FREE PREVIEW🔶Place (circle to my left side)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Play Dead
FREE PREVIEW🔶Play the Piano
FREE PREVIEW🔶Pull a wagon with a rope/handle
FREE PREVIEW🔶Rainbow Ladder: Back Paws Only
FREE PREVIEW🔶Rebound
FREE PREVIEW🔶Remove socks/slippers
FREE PREVIEW🔶Say Your Prayers
FREE PREVIEW🔶Side (swing to my left side)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Side Pass
FREE PREVIEW🔶Side Step Drill: Ball/Disc
FREE PREVIEW🔶Skateboard (front paws only)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Spin a Tight Circle on a Small Pedestal
FREE PREVIEW🔶Surfing/Paddleboarding
FREE PREVIEW🔶Teeter-Totter
FREE PREVIEW🔶Target mark (touch target with a rear foot)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Tidy Up Toys into Toy Box (no lid)
FREE PREVIEW🔶Treibball (counter, push ball toward you)
FREE PREVIEW🔶 Tap Light
FREE PREVIEW🔶Turn the page/reading
FREE PREVIEW🔶Turn off/on Lightswitch
FREE PREVIEW🔶Walk Another Dog
FREE PREVIEW🔶Wave
FREE PREVIEW🔶Weight Pull
FREE PREVIEW🔶Wipe Your Paws on Doormat
FREE PREVIEWExpert Trick Dog Title Rules
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Achoo
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Airplane
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Back up on stairs
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Balance Beam: Double Rail
FREE PREVIEW⭐️ Barrel Roll: 2 feet pushing
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Barrel Roll: 4 Feet on barrel
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Barn Hunt
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Basketball
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Bring me Soda from the Fridge
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Chess
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Climb a Ladder
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Cover Your Eyes
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Cross your paws (usually lying down)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Directed Jumping
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Disc Vault/Rebound
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Distance Work (6 behaviors, 12 feet/3.6m away, treats between OK)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Dock Diving- expert version
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Find the Object With My Scent
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Fishing With a Rope
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Footsies (peekaboo with dog’s feet on my feet as I walk)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Foot Stall
FREE PREVIEW⭐️ Flyball
FREE PREVIEW⭐️ Get in a suitcase
⭐️Handstand
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Herding
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Hoop Jump over My Back
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Hoop Leg Weave
FREE PREVIEW⭐️ Hug a toy dog has picked up
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Index Cards (dog responds to words/symbols)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Jump Rope
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Kennel Up (open door, go in crate, close door)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Laundry Day
⭐️Leg Hike
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Leg Weave (backward)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Limp
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Litter in the Step Can
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Mail from the Mailbox (including lid)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️ Match to Sample
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Moonwalk
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Nose Work Box Search
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Open a Door (by using door handle)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Orbit (circles backwards around your legs)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Paintbrush Painting (including bucket)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Paw Pods (4 feet target)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Piggybank (put coin in slot)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Push a Shopping Cart
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Rainbow Ladder: Step Backward
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Rainbow Ladder (push a yoga ball through it)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Retrieve Over High Jump (with formal hand delivery)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Ring Toss
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Roll Yourself in a Blanket
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Rolling Hoop Dive
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Scootering / Mushing
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Shell Game (More Advanced Indicating)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Skateboard (3 or 4 paws on top)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️ Stacking cups/bowls
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Through a Hoop Lying on the Ground
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Tidy Up Toys (including opening lid)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️ Track a Person’s Scent Trail
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Treibball (send dog to counter the ball, push toward you 15 ft/4.5m)
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Walk on Hind Legs
FREE PREVIEW⭐️Weave Poles
FREE PREVIEW💫 What is TDCH?
💫 Guidelines for submission of TDCH:
🕺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
🔥 Trick Dog Grand Champion explained
FREE PREVIEW🔥 Guidelines for submission
FREE PREVIEW🔥 Tips for success!
FREE PREVIEW🔥 Example video of the GCH exercises: