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So I got my pup in May. He is about to turn 9 months. He catches on to tricks pretty quick. We have been working on hand signals as well. He will sit, down, speak, high five, shake, paw, bow, and roll over with just hand signals.
A group of friends and I are going to make a horror movie. It is kind of like Paranormal Activity as far as the haunting part goes, just a very different plot. Well in the movie, we want a dog to bark at the main "demonized" character. I have seen dogs do the whole growl on command thing and show their teeth so I want to teach these two tricks to my dog. They can be together or seperate (cause I could voice over the growl if needed). We can growl at him and he will growl back, and we've been trying to integrate the command "scary" to eventually initiate the growl (we tried "growl" but he kept bowing. Guess they sound too similar...) We can introduce hand signals and wean him off the verbal command fine like we've done everything else.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to illiciting these responses? I am having issues getting him to catch on. He is usually extremely quick. It took about 2 hours to teach him bow and the hand signal and about 3 more days of 10 minute sessions twice a day to get him solid on it. Any suggestions are helpful! I'd like to feature my baby in our production, but if he can't catch on it time we won't be able to get him in!
A group of friends and I are going to make a horror movie. It is kind of like Paranormal Activity as far as the haunting part goes, just a very different plot. Well in the movie, we want a dog to bark at the main "demonized" character. I have seen dogs do the whole growl on command thing and show their teeth so I want to teach these two tricks to my dog. They can be together or seperate (cause I could voice over the growl if needed). We can growl at him and he will growl back, and we've been trying to integrate the command "scary" to eventually initiate the growl (we tried "growl" but he kept bowing. Guess they sound too similar...) We can introduce hand signals and wean him off the verbal command fine like we've done everything else.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to illiciting these responses? I am having issues getting him to catch on. He is usually extremely quick. It took about 2 hours to teach him bow and the hand signal and about 3 more days of 10 minute sessions twice a day to get him solid on it. Any suggestions are helpful! I'd like to feature my baby in our production, but if he can't catch on it time we won't be able to get him in!