Although I usually post humorous clips here, I was amazed at the things this dog can do!
I took my Standard Poodle for training, so she does know how to behave. She merely chooses to ignore me when I try to get her to do tricks. I can see her thinking, “I’m not your trick pony!”
I am the youngest of four children, raised in the old-fashioned Irish-American way. I suspect my mother encouraged me to write from an early age to keep me out of her hair, although she may have regretted the decision when my teachers began to call about the controversial stories I was writing. Thus I began my career of butting heads with the good sisters at my Catholic elementary school, and ended it by leaving high school for college with no diploma. I wear my high-school dropout badge rebelliously and proudly.
In college, I became fascinated with the Middle Ages, which was described as a “starry night” by one of my professors. So began a trek through languages and legends that informs my narrative non-fiction and historical fiction, as well as my blogs.
I love feedback and enjoy discussing ideas. I have an accountability blog for the Round of Words in Eighty Days entitled Leavekeeping; I write a blog on literary history, intellectual history, and the history of words entitled Lapidary Prose. I'm on Twitter and Facebook; my email is lapidaryprose@gmail.com.
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5 thoughts on “20 Dog Tricks”
Wow! That dog is incredible! My dog and I trained in agility for about 4 years–he was fast; I wasn’t. It was fun though. I taught him to ring a bell on the back door so that he doesn’t scratch at it to be let out.
Wow! That speaks volumes about the level of trust between the person and the dog. What a great relationship and what a talented dog. Alas, my dogs do few tricks. Although some friends taught one of them to high five and they do make up things they think are humorous. We don’t always agree on that.
Okay, that dog blows my dog out of the water! The only real trick we’ve taught Beastie Girl is a food trick we picked up from BIL. I’ll have to get crackin’ 🙂
I have taught my cats my schedule, and now they cry if I deviate. I’m not sure if that counts as a trick, but it’s pretty sweet how much they want to support my writing by herding me to my office!
Elizabeth Anne Mitchell 
Wow! That dog is incredible! My dog and I trained in agility for about 4 years–he was fast; I wasn’t. It was fun though. I taught him to ring a bell on the back door so that he doesn’t scratch at it to be let out.
Wow! That speaks volumes about the level of trust between the person and the dog. What a great relationship and what a talented dog. Alas, my dogs do few tricks. Although some friends taught one of them to high five and they do make up things they think are humorous. We don’t always agree on that.
Okay, that dog blows my dog out of the water! The only real trick we’ve taught Beastie Girl is a food trick we picked up from BIL. I’ll have to get crackin’ 🙂
I have taught my cats my schedule, and now they cry if I deviate. I’m not sure if that counts as a trick, but it’s pretty sweet how much they want to support my writing by herding me to my office!