<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">This time I disagree with Riche. People with performance and show dogs (and some normal people as well) teach their dogs signals to pee on command. Mine is "Hurry up" or "Find a Spot". Even Doc knows what that means altho he sometimes still Hurries Up inside. As they say, Handler Error. It means i am not watching.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">One of my Bassets went suddenly blind. By the end of the week were taking walks again and he had learned "Watchout!" (he stopped)</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">"Step up" or "Step down", "go back" and the most impressive, "Go around it". There was no question that these were things he understood because they applied wherever we were, in the house or on a known route or in a strange place.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">All my Bassets know "LEAVE IT" and do. (quite astonishingly.) Probably because inthe past I have pursued them and forcibly removed what they were not to have. Every now and then someone breaks the command but it is not usual.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">They certianly understand "Get in your crate" and "GIDOUTTATHERE!!" altho Conley is clearly losing his hearing when I bellow GIDOFFTHECOUNTER. ("What? Say what? Could you repeat that?")</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">They all know "sit". Nobody knows "Down" (as in lay down.) All ignore "off" as in "Get off me I have on clean clothe---well I did."</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">NOBARK is widely ignored.</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">60% of the time they come when called.</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">98% of the time they come when we rattle the biscuit box.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">They DEFINITELY know "Let's get out of the crate now and go see Uncle John" (The Vet.) This command is generally met with flat refusal.</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Anyway I think that you can teach Bassets any number of words and that they understand them. It requires good treats and endless repitition, but it can be done.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">One word none of mine have taken more than 15 minutes to learn is "Let's Track".</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">MomPerson to Nigel, Llewis, Conley and even Doc the Destroyer.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"></font></font> </div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">PS I have taught several dogs "go right" and "go left" and I taught one Belgian "Freeze" (That was just for fun.)</font></font></div>
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