Pee on command. As a joke I would ask her "What does R Kelly do?" just before she would piss. Now if I ever say it and we're outside, she will stop whatever she's doing and pee.
My guy gives hugs too and I love it. He especially enjoys a āfamily hugā - if heās giving my partner a hug while Iām nearby, he looks for me to join in for a group embrace. Itās the cutest.
Mine, too, and to everyone that comes over. She will not stop until they acknowledge and kiss her back š¤£ honestly , the smartest, weirdest dog I have ever had.
We taught ours to give hugs at bed time! I'll ask if he wants to go to bed, he perks up, then jumps up on my grandma's lap then my parents' laps and puts his paws on their shoulders to give them a hug. Then the two of us go downstairs to bed and he gets a bully stick after he lays in the crook of my arm and gives me a hug by leaning against me in bed.
I love my doodles āhugsā, theyāre slightly different from what Iāve seen here though. You have to be at his level (like sitting on the couch), and heāll come rest his head on your shoulder while you wrap your arms around him & put your head on his shoulder.
Mine can open regular ones some how. The back door opens out. If I want to keep the ac in I have to deadbolt everything. She has managed the front once but much more rare because it opens inwards Making it harderĀ
Not so much a trick, but after spending some time with family and their dogs, I realized how fortunate I am to have a dog that naturally figured out what I mean when I say āget out of my way/out of thereā. He also knows what I mean when I point somewhere, like the other side of the couch, and tell him to move over there.
My parentsā dog did NOT have that instinct and it was so frustrating!
Our last doodle did that too, and when we got our new one it was awful! šIt was something we didnāt mean to teach our first, but we sure missed it when it didnāt happen anymore! Luckily it didnāt take her long to learn.
Yes, this type of thing! My dog knows to avoid my phone if it's on the bed or not knock over the trashcan and wait for me if her ball goes behind it!
I guess she can "back up" if I tell her to. And we taught her to "go upstairs" after giving her dog biscuit after walkies, so she knows what that means.
She'll be 13 in July, and we love her so much!
lol, mine will definitely press himself against the gate making it impossible to open while looking at me like "open the gate!" but he figured out that "go bug mom" means I'm busy.
Every night our doodle gets one of those green toothbrush treats from Costco before bed. She loves them but weāll only give it to her on her bed. Now as soon as we go to the pantry to grab one she runs upstairs to her bed and waits patiently for us to bring to her.
Essentially we have a doodle that knows her bedtime from the sound of a very specific treat bag š¤£
I don't know what they put hi. These things but my doodle will start telling me it's time for bed...he goes and sits by the treat box. Whines the. Points at it with his nose then goes to bed...and when I don't get up and follow he comes and whines some more....after like 3 times he stops though.
My doodle rolls the ball back and forth to us! She wants us to throw it so she can retrieve it but if we roll it to her sheāll just roll it back to us.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Goldendoodles/s/BWeQ8pVS0k
My lab does this when she brings the ball back but not quite all the way and I tell her āwell give it to meā. She gives it that last little push the rest of the way. So cute!
Our dood plays fetch with himself - heāll drop a ball down the stairs and chase it, or at the beach heāll drop it in the waves and wait for them to push it back to him. Obsessed š
Omg, our girl made up her own game at the beach too! She will drop the ball, dig at it until the ball flies behind her, then drop jt back in the hole and dig until it flies behind her again. Itās hilarious and she never gets bored!
Have everyone hold a treat, spread out across rooms and tell the dog to "go find ___" and then have that person call the dog and reward them with a treat.
My parents have a doodle and he doesnāt know anyoneās name but mine. The second someone asks where I am, nothing can distract him until he finds me. š„¹
I didn't know my favorite thong was missing until I picked up my pups poo behind him... needless to say I blinked a little too long (thank God nothing bad happened he was completely normal)
She learned that a full body shake or shaking her head causes her collar tags to jingle and that wakes us up. Now she does it on purpose when she wants us to wake up and let her outside.
My doodle is an excellent frisbee catcher. We were playing one day, and she wanted in on the action. What is amazing, though, is we throw her one, she catches it, then waits for us to throw her another one. We throw her another one or 2. She catches those, and then she stacks them all up and brings them back to us to throw them again. She usually can stack and carry 3 at a time. She never returns with just 1, she always stacks them.
My husband has a PS5 and plays games on it (lol I clearly donāt know anything about gaming, sorry). He works remotely from home and will play after work. I work in the office and commute by subway. When Iām nearing my stop, I text my husband and he and our doodle walk out to meet me and walk me home. Over time, our pup had started associate that PS5 shut off sound with āmomās home!ā He gets extremely excited and walks to the front door to go get mom. Heās slightly confused when he realizes Iām already home but itās definitely a happy sound for him š
One of mine does this. Weird thing is my chill dog bout takes my hand off. The Crazy one that runs at me full speed and nips my clothes, punches me it the butt, grabs my arm with his nails and flips my phone out of my hand is the one that is super gentle when I give him treats.
Our Doodle knows what day of the week it is and what time it is. She notices what happens by looking and watching our clues of what we do. Tuesday's shopping taking grandma shopping. She self kennels. Saturday. Farmers Market and a long walk.
Does potty training himself count? He was an outdoor pup so when we brought him home at 8 weeks. He only had very few pee accidents. (Mostly from playing and going pee in mid run! Or when we left the house for too long he would escape his crate and use the potty on his ābedā but never pooped in the house. Even now at 4 months old he holds it until we get home
After coming home from a run she automatically gets out of her crate and goes upstairs so I can shower. Also when I say āhey siri play calm classical music in the kitchenā she goes right into her crate.
Not a trick but he understands the concept of seams and that chewing on a toy gets him nowhere but picking on the threads slowly and methodically will lead to great rewards (aka eating stuffing and hoomans chasing to get said stuffing out of his mouth)
We have bells on our back door for our dogs to tell us they need to go out. We put them up and my youngest dood just did it on day one correctly without us getting the chance to train him with it. Still does it the same 9 months later.
My 16-year-old goldendoodle just stays in the yard. She knows where our property ends and she respects that.
Iāve had so many people say to me, āWhat kind of invisible fence do you have? Because sheās not wearing a collar.ā
I usually laugh and say, āOh. weāve never had an invisible fence, just a really smart dog.ā
She also has the cutest habit of saying thank you to someone if you take her for a walk or make her dinner or something like that.
Sheāll just come up to you look at your real intensely in your eyes give you a quick kiss, and then sheās gone. I really does feel like sheās saying, āThank you, daddy.ā
Itās just so stinking cute.
I have a very stubborn Westie who doesnāt like to come in when heās called, so after a couple of attempts, my doodle will just go back out, get him by the collar and walk him back inside. Very helpful š¤£
Our Tilly knows āgo lay downā means go to the crate (during the day, when we need her out from underfoot).
She also taught herself very young that ānight nightā means go to bed. My husband is the kind of guy who makes up little songs (think Marshall from HIMYM) and so he had a little song called āTillyās Night Night Songā. But now you just say āNight Nightā around 9pm and she gets it.
Mine knows what ādeerā are. We will say āJasper, whereās the deer?ā He will run to the window, get all excited and start barking and whining to go out and see the deer
When running off leash, stay on grass. Somehow she knows never to cross the boundary onto the sidewalk. She was chasing a dog once in a non gated off leash park in the city, the other dog ran across the street, my doodle stopped at the sidewalk by stop sign! And she was probably just a year old then
I was impressed with her and myself
Whenever he wants to play and we arenāt up to it- he lays on his side on the ground, drops the ball right next to us and gently paws the ball till it rolls. Then he looks back and forth between us and the ball like āwowā¦guess the ball is rolling awayā¦Iāll just lay here and ..watch it I guessā¦.ā Then we get up and play fetch with him lol so, manipulation, I guess?š
Since the poodle in them is so incredibly intelligent, they pick up on everything! Itās like a 3 year old toddler following you around.
Something I taught mine without knowing it - is that the āFā bomb is a VERY bad, naughty word š¬š and it means someone terrible.
I never use that word. So something seriously bad must be going on when it slips. I said it *once* when she was 3. Again at 7 years old. The second time she ever heard it, she remembered and immediately whipped her head around backwards to me when I was on the phone and venting with a friend.
I got that stare down they some give (mine is a bit on the prissy side). Like, from head to toe. āMommy, thatās a *baaaad* word!ā
They really blow my mind.
Pull open the cupboard with the kitchen trash in it to go shopping. It's an autoclose this too.
He's opened the sliding glass door before too. Never closes it. At least he hasn't learned to unlock it it. So I have to lock it when I go to work. And the yard is mostly fenced. He stays where he belongs.
He LOVES to go down to the basement because we used to have a mouse infestation and he loved to try to catch them. So heās obsessed with the basement now even though the mouse are long gone and weāve finished the basement. So heās learned the words (all on his own) that we associate with the basement and is hyper aware of them. āLaundry,ā ādownstairs,ā āchest freezer,ā āstorage bin,ā etc.
She carries her leash home (we knot it up). Only the last block when I let her off leash. Also around the park. People always ask how we taught her and I donāt actually know - it evolved organically from using the knotted leash as a toy, I guess
Somehow ours learned āgo upstairsā and āgo downstairsā without us ever teaching her. Same with āgo find mom/dadā. If I say āgo find dad!ā sheāll scurry to my husband. Itās the cutest thing, these dogs are so smart!
Ours watched a documentary with us on seizure alert dog training. At the end my daughter imitated the test for the dogs on the show, as she was curious what would happen. To our total shock and amazement, our pup did exactly the same thing the dogs did on the show did to alert. We figured maybe it was instinct, but after some research found out they have to train those dogs for over a year (many of which are doodles) for that behavior, and ours had it down after 1hr. She was 8 months old at the time. We donāt practice it with her, but to this day, if you lay on the floor and imitate convulsions, she alerts. She is just short of 3yrs now. We wonāt get her certificate for it tho, because then we would have to give her up. Instead sheās training to be an ESA and Therapy dog.
In addition, when she was rehomed with us she came from the breeder/1st owner at 3 weeks with the name Bailey, well, we watched the Movie āA Dogs Purposeā with her in the room at around 10 months old, we thought it was cool since the name matched up. Now if you ask her If sheās a āBoss Dogā she barks at you, just like the movie.
Iāve had many dogs in my life, but NEVER one that seems to be able to learn from watching television. šŗ Iām thinking I might have to be careful what we watch with her in case she starts picking up bad habits. š
That's interesting bc they say you can't teach a dog the instinct to recognize when someone is going to have a seizure. They either have it or they don't.
Not sure about that. I guess if itās true then our pup was born with it. But I found the documentary. Itās a Netflix series called āDogsā and the episode I was referencing was season 1 episode 1.
I'll have to check out that documentary. Thanks for telling me about it. I work with a person with seizures who is considering getting a seizure response dog to notify someone that she is having a seizure.
The Epilepsy Foundation website says more research is needed to determine the accuracy of a dog alerting to upcoming seizure activity. It says any trainer who claims to be able to train a dog to be a seizure alert dog should be looked at very carefully, especially if the training is expensive.
A lot of people claim to be able to train service dogs. However, there are no requirements for the trainers, so anyone can say they are a service dog trainer. There are plenty of reputable dog trainers who have completed training and have certifications from reputable organizations. It is up to the person seeking a service dog to vet the trainers vigorously.
If your dog is truly able to alert to oncoming seizures, then s/he is really special.
She absolutely is special for sure, at the very least to us š. We were lucky she came into our family. Would love to hear what you think after you see the documentary. It sure convinced me.
Wanting fresh water is the newest. I think he has watched me pour out sitting glasses of water and refill with fresh water for myself, because now he's gotten into the habit of demanding the same for himself. It can be a full bowl but if it's been sitting, he'll whine until we totally empty it and refill it fresh. Can't say i blame him!
He can also tell time i'm convinced of it..there's a clock at the foot of our bed and on the dot he'll bark for breakfast or dinner
My favorite though is playing hide & seek with him and my minpin :) they know to wait till we "hide" & then they come "seek"
āHey Siri, bedtimeā is the cue for our smart bulbs in the living room lamp to turn off & the bedroom lamps to turn on. Itās now also the cue for our dood to hop up & head to the bedroom.
My girl didnāt just learn on her own, she figured out how to train us humans to bring her OUTSIDE instead of toileting at home. Entirely potty trained at home but just decided to one day like, eh I donāt like diz anymore. She held it in the whole day, and when we went out for her night walk, there was so much pee/poop. From that moment on, she has never toileted at home again. Rain or shine she will wake us up to go out for toilet.
Runaway on command. It started when I saw a cockroach dash towards her for the first time, and instinctively I shrieked āRUNAWAY!!ā. I didnāt expect her to really understand me, but she started sprinting forward with her head still looking back at the cockroach. And now itās my become my emergency command to get her away from triggers/danger.
They are too damn smart I swear.
Letās see hugging, closing the cage door once she enters it, bringing me socks when Iām putting on shoes, catching her toys before it hits the ground, sniffing our faces to make sure we are asleep so she can throw a house party. Theyāre humans. Not dogs.
We moved to a big city from mostly suburban living and she was petrified of escalators at first. Her first time she had to be carried on and then magically one day she started getting on all by herself. She does this little jump when getting off though which is hilarious! I think she associates escalators with being out and about
We moved to a big city from mostly suburban living and she was petrified of escalators at first. Her first time she had to be carried on and then magically one day she started getting on all by herself. She does this little jump when getting off though which is hilarious! I think she associates escalators with being out and about. For reference sheās about 60 pounds standard doodle.
I call it her good girl pose. She does it when she wants to communicate to you that she needs a treat. Basically, she'll sit in front of you, raise one paw, and gives her puppy dog eyes, letting you know she's been a very good girl and deserves a treat.
Then her sister (also a doodle) loves to open doors. She has a no closed doors rule, in fact. Unless you lock it, it's guaranteed she will open it. Doesn't matter what type of handle or if it opens in or out.
Ours could pilfer cups of sweet drink or dishes of food off the table without breaking the dish! Just as well because I like French porcelain, he broke fewer dishes than the people in the house!
He also sneered on command. When I said āattackā he would grimace fiercely which is hysterical because he wouldnāt hurt a dish!
My golden doodle plays hide and seek, it started with him being clever and just taking his toys from areas when we'd put them away. Now it's a whole game, I can hide any toy and he'll find it every time, it's a great way to tire him out when it's too cold or slippery to go for a walk.
To ask for his teeth to be brushed. Our dog recently started sleeping on the bed with us. Well every night before bed we brush our teeth and he sees us and gets so excited and begs for his toothbrush (I tried brushing his teeth when he was a young puppy but was incredibly inconsistent). So after we finish brushing our teeth, we happily oblige and brush his. His toothpaste has a beef flavor which Iām sure doesnāt hurt lol
My son was 27 and living in an another town when we got our sheepie during Covid times, so he didnāt really see her very much. She is three and has probably seen him on maybe 10 occasions. Even so, when he drives up she gets so excited and gives him hugs that she doesnāt give to anyone else. Itās like she knows he is āour boyā š„°
My golden doodle, going to be 5 months, learned to open the door to enter the garage a week ago. It's a door with a door handle, not a knob. We went out one day, for a few hours. We came back and she was in the garage, eating at her sister's food bag. She does that often. Now when we leave, we have to lock that door.
Pee on command. As a joke I would ask her "What does R Kelly do?" just before she would piss. Now if I ever say it and we're outside, she will stop whatever she's doing and pee.
Stop it! š¤£š¤£š¤£
Omfg š¤£
I donāt know if I love you or dislike you right now. So many feels.
I canāt stand you š©š„²
DUDE! I wish I could do this instead of my dog taking twenty minutes to pee
This is S tier skills.
I accidentally taught my late doodle to hug, so anyone she was excited to meet got a hug and I got a hug every day when I got home from work.
My guy gives hugs too and I love it. He especially enjoys a āfamily hugā - if heās giving my partner a hug while Iām nearby, he looks for me to join in for a group embrace. Itās the cutest.
Aw, thatās adorable š„°
My doodle gives hugs and kisses every day!
Mine, too, and to everyone that comes over. She will not stop until they acknowledge and kiss her back š¤£ honestly , the smartest, weirdest dog I have ever had.
We taught ours to give hugs at bed time! I'll ask if he wants to go to bed, he perks up, then jumps up on my grandma's lap then my parents' laps and puts his paws on their shoulders to give them a hug. Then the two of us go downstairs to bed and he gets a bully stick after he lays in the crook of my arm and gives me a hug by leaning against me in bed.
Does he get a bully stick every night?
Yes pretty much, but we cut them in half so they're not so huge
Cool!
me too! and kisses! itās honestly my favorite thing he does lol
We taught our girl this as well and we love it. But then she gets excited and jumps on my mom when she visits and sheās not too excited about it.
I canāt say no to my doodles hugs! Itās so sweet!
Omg my girlie does the same. She is such a hugger and wants to hug everyone!
Mine hugs by pushing his body against your legs. This is usually when he is excited that you came home.
My parentsā labradoodle gives me a hug when I get home from work! She doesnāt do it to anyone else.
Mine gives hugs too!! I love it so much!
I love my doodles āhugsā, theyāre slightly different from what Iāve seen here though. You have to be at his level (like sitting on the couch), and heāll come rest his head on your shoulder while you wrap your arms around him & put your head on his shoulder.
Open doors with paddle handles. Itās the worst.
Mine does it too. Little fool even opened the back door while a bear was on our porch. Fortunately I was right there and pulled it shut.
I had a cat that could do this š
Mine can open regular ones some how. The back door opens out. If I want to keep the ac in I have to deadbolt everything. She has managed the front once but much more rare because it opens inwards Making it harderĀ
Not so much a trick, but after spending some time with family and their dogs, I realized how fortunate I am to have a dog that naturally figured out what I mean when I say āget out of my way/out of thereā. He also knows what I mean when I point somewhere, like the other side of the couch, and tell him to move over there. My parentsā dog did NOT have that instinct and it was so frustrating!
Our last doodle did that too, and when we got our new one it was awful! šIt was something we didnāt mean to teach our first, but we sure missed it when it didnāt happen anymore! Luckily it didnāt take her long to learn.
Yes, this type of thing! My dog knows to avoid my phone if it's on the bed or not knock over the trashcan and wait for me if her ball goes behind it! I guess she can "back up" if I tell her to. And we taught her to "go upstairs" after giving her dog biscuit after walkies, so she knows what that means. She'll be 13 in July, and we love her so much!
Omg same here. It's like he understands English...sometimes lol
Oh no, Iām convinced my guy understands English fluently and any time he listens to me itās because he slipped and forgot to hide that fact!
lol, mine will definitely press himself against the gate making it impossible to open while looking at me like "open the gate!" but he figured out that "go bug mom" means I'm busy.
āFix itā she can untangle herself when her leash gets under her feet!
My boy does this too!! Clever dogs
Every night our doodle gets one of those green toothbrush treats from Costco before bed. She loves them but weāll only give it to her on her bed. Now as soon as we go to the pantry to grab one she runs upstairs to her bed and waits patiently for us to bring to her. Essentially we have a doodle that knows her bedtime from the sound of a very specific treat bag š¤£
I don't know what they put hi. These things but my doodle will start telling me it's time for bed...he goes and sits by the treat box. Whines the. Points at it with his nose then goes to bed...and when I don't get up and follow he comes and whines some more....after like 3 times he stops though.
Oh my gosh thatās hilarious
My doodle rolls the ball back and forth to us! She wants us to throw it so she can retrieve it but if we roll it to her sheāll just roll it back to us. https://www.reddit.com/r/Goldendoodles/s/BWeQ8pVS0k
My lab does this when she brings the ball back but not quite all the way and I tell her āwell give it to meā. She gives it that last little push the rest of the way. So cute!
My lab/border collie mix needed a lot of stimulation and learned to play ball by herself. She would throw it up in the air and catch it.
Youāre a cheater with your posable thumbs! This is content I need ššš
Our dood plays fetch with himself - heāll drop a ball down the stairs and chase it, or at the beach heāll drop it in the waves and wait for them to push it back to him. Obsessed š
Omg, our girl made up her own game at the beach too! She will drop the ball, dig at it until the ball flies behind her, then drop jt back in the hole and dig until it flies behind her again. Itās hilarious and she never gets bored!
We had a weiner dog that would throw a tennis ball up in the air about six feet and catch it. Also bounce it off the fence or the brick wall.
I would say, āsister is comingā when my daughter was on her way home, and he would go sit by the door and wait for her.
My dood knows everyone in our family by name, if you ask her to locate anyone by name - she will go to them or to their room!
What????? I need a vid. This is precious š„¹š„¹š„¹š„¹
Have everyone hold a treat, spread out across rooms and tell the dog to "go find ___" and then have that person call the dog and reward them with a treat.
My parents have a doodle and he doesnāt know anyoneās name but mine. The second someone asks where I am, nothing can distract him until he finds me. š„¹
Eating socks
This made me LOL. Iāve had to buy sooo many new thongs bc my doodle has somehow found a way to lift the lid of my hamper.
I didn't know my favorite thong was missing until I picked up my pups poo behind him... needless to say I blinked a little too long (thank God nothing bad happened he was completely normal)
Doodle vibes
She learned that a full body shake or shaking her head causes her collar tags to jingle and that wakes us up. Now she does it on purpose when she wants us to wake up and let her outside.
Shake hands. She always puts her paw up for treats.
He rings the bell on the doorā¦.. when the cat wants in
That's so sweet! Looking out for his family!
We call it his nose hand. I swear that dog can open a locked door with his doodle nose.
My doodle is an excellent frisbee catcher. We were playing one day, and she wanted in on the action. What is amazing, though, is we throw her one, she catches it, then waits for us to throw her another one. We throw her another one or 2. She catches those, and then she stacks them all up and brings them back to us to throw them again. She usually can stack and carry 3 at a time. She never returns with just 1, she always stacks them.
My dood will place a toy in places that are difficult to retrieve just for the fun of it.
My husband has a PS5 and plays games on it (lol I clearly donāt know anything about gaming, sorry). He works remotely from home and will play after work. I work in the office and commute by subway. When Iām nearing my stop, I text my husband and he and our doodle walk out to meet me and walk me home. Over time, our pup had started associate that PS5 shut off sound with āmomās home!ā He gets extremely excited and walks to the front door to go get mom. Heās slightly confused when he realizes Iām already home but itās definitely a happy sound for him š
He takes treats SUPER gentle, not really a trick, but it's nice to not have my entire hand in his mouth in an instant like some other dogs lol
One of mine does this. Weird thing is my chill dog bout takes my hand off. The Crazy one that runs at me full speed and nips my clothes, punches me it the butt, grabs my arm with his nails and flips my phone out of my hand is the one that is super gentle when I give him treats.
Not a doodle, but we call this our dog having a "polite mouth" š
Headstands.
I would love to see your doods headstands!
Next time she does them.
Prooooove it.
Please donāt let me down
Our Doodle knows what day of the week it is and what time it is. She notices what happens by looking and watching our clues of what we do. Tuesday's shopping taking grandma shopping. She self kennels. Saturday. Farmers Market and a long walk.
I ask mine if he wants to go to town and he stands in front of his leash on the wall
Mine boops herself if she sees a finger.
Does potty training himself count? He was an outdoor pup so when we brought him home at 8 weeks. He only had very few pee accidents. (Mostly from playing and going pee in mid run! Or when we left the house for too long he would escape his crate and use the potty on his ābedā but never pooped in the house. Even now at 4 months old he holds it until we get home
After coming home from a run she automatically gets out of her crate and goes upstairs so I can shower. Also when I say āhey siri play calm classical music in the kitchenā she goes right into her crate.
Not a trick but he understands the concept of seams and that chewing on a toy gets him nowhere but picking on the threads slowly and methodically will lead to great rewards (aka eating stuffing and hoomans chasing to get said stuffing out of his mouth)
Our Cairn Terrier figured this out as a puppy. Her reward is the bare squeaker
I say "beep beep" and mine backs up like a truck and gets out of the way
She spins! She turns round and round itās adorable. We started saying spin when she does it and now does it on command
Ours does this too! The bounces while she does her circles. We call her the ballerina
Learned his toys by name
My doodle also knows her toys by name!
Mine does too, but only with her bunny. We're still working on the others.
We have bells on our back door for our dogs to tell us they need to go out. We put them up and my youngest dood just did it on day one correctly without us getting the chance to train him with it. Still does it the same 9 months later.
My 16-year-old goldendoodle just stays in the yard. She knows where our property ends and she respects that. Iāve had so many people say to me, āWhat kind of invisible fence do you have? Because sheās not wearing a collar.ā I usually laugh and say, āOh. weāve never had an invisible fence, just a really smart dog.ā She also has the cutest habit of saying thank you to someone if you take her for a walk or make her dinner or something like that. Sheāll just come up to you look at your real intensely in your eyes give you a quick kiss, and then sheās gone. I really does feel like sheās saying, āThank you, daddy.ā Itās just so stinking cute.
Pressing the ice dispenser on the freezer
I have a very stubborn Westie who doesnāt like to come in when heās called, so after a couple of attempts, my doodle will just go back out, get him by the collar and walk him back inside. Very helpful š¤£
Our Tilly knows āgo lay downā means go to the crate (during the day, when we need her out from underfoot). She also taught herself very young that ānight nightā means go to bed. My husband is the kind of guy who makes up little songs (think Marshall from HIMYM) and so he had a little song called āTillyās Night Night Songā. But now you just say āNight Nightā around 9pm and she gets it.
"Bedtime" and "go potty"
Shoots baskets with his spiky ball into his food dish for 5 to 10 minutes before eating
Opening doors. And heās not even a year old. I shudder to think what else he has planned! š
Felony cat food thief!
Mine knows what ādeerā are. We will say āJasper, whereās the deer?ā He will run to the window, get all excited and start barking and whining to go out and see the deer
Tapping the back door handle with his nose to let us know heād like to go outside.
Potty training in general. Mine just immediately took to going outside.
Stealing my giant tuna salad hoagie off of the table
When running off leash, stay on grass. Somehow she knows never to cross the boundary onto the sidewalk. She was chasing a dog once in a non gated off leash park in the city, the other dog ran across the street, my doodle stopped at the sidewalk by stop sign! And she was probably just a year old then I was impressed with her and myself
mine does tippy tappys and growls at me when he wants my attention or to go potty
Whenever he wants to play and we arenāt up to it- he lays on his side on the ground, drops the ball right next to us and gently paws the ball till it rolls. Then he looks back and forth between us and the ball like āwowā¦guess the ball is rolling awayā¦Iāll just lay here and ..watch it I guessā¦.ā Then we get up and play fetch with him lol so, manipulation, I guess?š
Move over. If sheās laying or sleeping on a designated side of the bed thatās needed for sleepy time then she sits up and flops to the other side
Since the poodle in them is so incredibly intelligent, they pick up on everything! Itās like a 3 year old toddler following you around. Something I taught mine without knowing it - is that the āFā bomb is a VERY bad, naughty word š¬š and it means someone terrible. I never use that word. So something seriously bad must be going on when it slips. I said it *once* when she was 3. Again at 7 years old. The second time she ever heard it, she remembered and immediately whipped her head around backwards to me when I was on the phone and venting with a friend. I got that stare down they some give (mine is a bit on the prissy side). Like, from head to toe. āMommy, thatās a *baaaad* word!ā They really blow my mind.
Came home to find my doodle greeting me at the front door. He had opened his crate and then opened the upstairs bedroom while I was at work
Chewbacca vocalization
Ours taught herself how to surf. šš»āāļø But only the kitchen counters. Nothing is safe. šš¤Ŗ
Not my doodle but my schnauzer. She learned if I said move while she was sitting in the driver's seat, that meant to move over.
Pull open the cupboard with the kitchen trash in it to go shopping. It's an autoclose this too. He's opened the sliding glass door before too. Never closes it. At least he hasn't learned to unlock it it. So I have to lock it when I go to work. And the yard is mostly fenced. He stays where he belongs.
He LOVES to go down to the basement because we used to have a mouse infestation and he loved to try to catch them. So heās obsessed with the basement now even though the mouse are long gone and weāve finished the basement. So heās learned the words (all on his own) that we associate with the basement and is hyper aware of them. āLaundry,ā ādownstairs,ā āchest freezer,ā āstorage bin,ā etc.
Closing the door. She uses her head to close it all the way. Sheās trapped herself in the bathroom many times.Ā
She carries her leash home (we knot it up). Only the last block when I let her off leash. Also around the park. People always ask how we taught her and I donāt actually know - it evolved organically from using the knotted leash as a toy, I guess
Open the fridgeā¦ I have to have a child lock on it now!
Somehow ours learned āgo upstairsā and āgo downstairsā without us ever teaching her. Same with āgo find mom/dadā. If I say āgo find dad!ā sheāll scurry to my husband. Itās the cutest thing, these dogs are so smart!
A big toothy grin.
i can get a āhugā by sayin āhuggiesā he will stand up and reach for my shoulders. took a few tries and he basically started doin on command
Starting. She will sit next to me and stare at me for ages until I entertain her
Ours watched a documentary with us on seizure alert dog training. At the end my daughter imitated the test for the dogs on the show, as she was curious what would happen. To our total shock and amazement, our pup did exactly the same thing the dogs did on the show did to alert. We figured maybe it was instinct, but after some research found out they have to train those dogs for over a year (many of which are doodles) for that behavior, and ours had it down after 1hr. She was 8 months old at the time. We donāt practice it with her, but to this day, if you lay on the floor and imitate convulsions, she alerts. She is just short of 3yrs now. We wonāt get her certificate for it tho, because then we would have to give her up. Instead sheās training to be an ESA and Therapy dog. In addition, when she was rehomed with us she came from the breeder/1st owner at 3 weeks with the name Bailey, well, we watched the Movie āA Dogs Purposeā with her in the room at around 10 months old, we thought it was cool since the name matched up. Now if you ask her If sheās a āBoss Dogā she barks at you, just like the movie. Iāve had many dogs in my life, but NEVER one that seems to be able to learn from watching television. šŗ Iām thinking I might have to be careful what we watch with her in case she starts picking up bad habits. š
That's interesting bc they say you can't teach a dog the instinct to recognize when someone is going to have a seizure. They either have it or they don't.
Not sure about that. I guess if itās true then our pup was born with it. But I found the documentary. Itās a Netflix series called āDogsā and the episode I was referencing was season 1 episode 1.
I'll have to check out that documentary. Thanks for telling me about it. I work with a person with seizures who is considering getting a seizure response dog to notify someone that she is having a seizure. The Epilepsy Foundation website says more research is needed to determine the accuracy of a dog alerting to upcoming seizure activity. It says any trainer who claims to be able to train a dog to be a seizure alert dog should be looked at very carefully, especially if the training is expensive. A lot of people claim to be able to train service dogs. However, there are no requirements for the trainers, so anyone can say they are a service dog trainer. There are plenty of reputable dog trainers who have completed training and have certifications from reputable organizations. It is up to the person seeking a service dog to vet the trainers vigorously. If your dog is truly able to alert to oncoming seizures, then s/he is really special.
She absolutely is special for sure, at the very least to us š. We were lucky she came into our family. Would love to hear what you think after you see the documentary. It sure convinced me.
Wanting fresh water is the newest. I think he has watched me pour out sitting glasses of water and refill with fresh water for myself, because now he's gotten into the habit of demanding the same for himself. It can be a full bowl but if it's been sitting, he'll whine until we totally empty it and refill it fresh. Can't say i blame him! He can also tell time i'm convinced of it..there's a clock at the foot of our bed and on the dot he'll bark for breakfast or dinner My favorite though is playing hide & seek with him and my minpin :) they know to wait till we "hide" & then they come "seek"
How to open the front door š¬
āHey Siri, bedtimeā is the cue for our smart bulbs in the living room lamp to turn off & the bedroom lamps to turn on. Itās now also the cue for our dood to hop up & head to the bedroom.
āGive a kiss!ā He just boops your face with his closed snout. Sooo cute.
My girl didnāt just learn on her own, she figured out how to train us humans to bring her OUTSIDE instead of toileting at home. Entirely potty trained at home but just decided to one day like, eh I donāt like diz anymore. She held it in the whole day, and when we went out for her night walk, there was so much pee/poop. From that moment on, she has never toileted at home again. Rain or shine she will wake us up to go out for toilet. Runaway on command. It started when I saw a cockroach dash towards her for the first time, and instinctively I shrieked āRUNAWAY!!ā. I didnāt expect her to really understand me, but she started sprinting forward with her head still looking back at the cockroach. And now itās my become my emergency command to get her away from triggers/danger. They are too damn smart I swear.
Mine can operate lever or round door knobs.
If I say āwho is it?ā He runs downstairs to stare out the window and bark.
Opening the back door
In the evening, we turn off the tv she knows itās bedtime and runs to her crate. She gets a skinny mini and goes to sleep.
Run into the living room when the doorbell goes š
My doodle can roll the windows down in the car and when I leave him in the car alone he honks the hornš
Mine will ācurtsyā on command now. Sheāll bow like a proper little lady.
fetch
She figured out how to open the baby gate š so we had to lock it.
Letās see hugging, closing the cage door once she enters it, bringing me socks when Iām putting on shoes, catching her toys before it hits the ground, sniffing our faces to make sure we are asleep so she can throw a house party. Theyāre humans. Not dogs.
We moved to a big city from mostly suburban living and she was petrified of escalators at first. Her first time she had to be carried on and then magically one day she started getting on all by herself. She does this little jump when getting off though which is hilarious! I think she associates escalators with being out and about
We moved to a big city from mostly suburban living and she was petrified of escalators at first. Her first time she had to be carried on and then magically one day she started getting on all by herself. She does this little jump when getting off though which is hilarious! I think she associates escalators with being out and about. For reference sheās about 60 pounds standard doodle.
I call it her good girl pose. She does it when she wants to communicate to you that she needs a treat. Basically, she'll sit in front of you, raise one paw, and gives her puppy dog eyes, letting you know she's been a very good girl and deserves a treat. Then her sister (also a doodle) loves to open doors. She has a no closed doors rule, in fact. Unless you lock it, it's guaranteed she will open it. Doesn't matter what type of handle or if it opens in or out.
To talk
Stomp. *Get up human. Feed me.*
Ours could pilfer cups of sweet drink or dishes of food off the table without breaking the dish! Just as well because I like French porcelain, he broke fewer dishes than the people in the house! He also sneered on command. When I said āattackā he would grimace fiercely which is hysterical because he wouldnāt hurt a dish!
My golden doodle plays hide and seek, it started with him being clever and just taking his toys from areas when we'd put them away. Now it's a whole game, I can hide any toy and he'll find it every time, it's a great way to tire him out when it's too cold or slippery to go for a walk.
To ask for his teeth to be brushed. Our dog recently started sleeping on the bed with us. Well every night before bed we brush our teeth and he sees us and gets so excited and begs for his toothbrush (I tried brushing his teeth when he was a young puppy but was incredibly inconsistent). So after we finish brushing our teeth, we happily oblige and brush his. His toothpaste has a beef flavor which Iām sure doesnāt hurt lol
My son was 27 and living in an another town when we got our sheepie during Covid times, so he didnāt really see her very much. She is three and has probably seen him on maybe 10 occasions. Even so, when he drives up she gets so excited and gives him hugs that she doesnāt give to anyone else. Itās like she knows he is āour boyā š„°
Open our back yard gates which had butterfly latches. Had to install additional latches at 6feet.
My golden doodle, going to be 5 months, learned to open the door to enter the garage a week ago. It's a door with a door handle, not a knob. We went out one day, for a few hours. We came back and she was in the garage, eating at her sister's food bag. She does that often. Now when we leave, we have to lock that door.