Bringing the dinner dish
I liked Charlie Brown and all of his "friends" and Woodstock was just okay, but I loved... you guessed it! Snoopy! I used to like it when Snoopy brought his dinner dish to Charlie Brown. As most of you know, Mulligan has learned the LEAVE IT command as well as GET IT and BRING IT, too. Mulligan must GET YOUR LEASH before we go out and then might be told to BRING IT, BRING IT TO MOMMY or BRING IT TO DADDY. (He also must come head first and stand for the leash to be applied with the command COLLAR. A few of months ago when Joan was out of town (our best training happens then for some strange reason) I dropped my baseball cap as I was getting ready to go out. I pointed to it and said GET IT! and Mulligan picked up the cap and put it into my hand. Aha, I thought! He's applied the word to the action! Cool! Over the next few weeks, he's gotten pretty good at Getting objects pointed to. Unfortunately, he (we) seem to have slipped a bit on his ability to bringing specific toys by name... we'll have to work on that some more again. Anyway... A couple of months when ago Joan was out of town (our best training happens then for some reason) I decided to try to get him to bring his dinner dish. Not only will he need the GET IT command to be working, but this will require him to figure out how to accomplish the task. It is a heavy weighted plastic bowl with a halfway turned over rim that goes from narrow to wide, forming two hand holds (for humans). If he grabs it from the "wrong" side the dish will just hang downward and fall out of his mouth. He needs to grab it from the wide side to have any chance at carrying this heavy bowl. He figured it out! After a few days he would find the wide side after a couple of trials and errors. Now he goes right for the wide side, and sometimes he will pick it up a little and get his whole mouth around the whole dish, just like my favorite Peanut Snoopy. I always give him an extra piece of kibble for his hard work, and the smile that it brings to me. |
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Funny....Izzie trained me to bring her, her food bowl   |
| This is great!
Lumpi learnt to bring my shoes to me when I tell them we are going for a walk. If he is not thinking about it - distracted by Boni - I ask him to bring my shoes to me and he does. 
Sometimes though for some reason he doesn't stop after a pair and he brings me 5 shoes...including Charlie's 
Boni on the other hand likes to carry the mail, magazines, books, the leash and pretty much everything. |
Prof. Boni wrote: Sometimes though for some reason he doesn't stop after a pair and he brings me 5 shoes...including Charlie's
That's funny! Maybe he doesn't realize us humans only have 2 feet.
And yay about Mulligan!  Your training sounds fun. Maybe you get more done when Joan is out of town because you have more free time? And I love Charlie Brown too. My cell ring tone is the theme song (Linus and Lucy) and I often think Nanny looks like Snoopy with her big white head and black ear. 
Also, I still watch the Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown Christmas each year. I don't care if I'm too old! |
| Ron that is awesome. I would like some pictures of Mulligan carrying his bowl.
1st Time OES Mommy wrote: Also, I still watch the Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown Christmas each year.
I don't care if I'm too old!You are never too old for animation! |
| that is sooo cool!! very impressive mulligan!!!
panda only barks.....  |
Darcy wrote: that is sooo cool!! very impressive mulligan!!!
panda only barks..... That's not true!! I saw your "treat on the nose" trick video!  |
1st Time OES Mommy wrote: Darcy wrote: that is sooo cool!! very impressive mulligan!!! panda only barks..... That's not true!! I saw your "treat on the nose" trick video! no im talking about the shoe thing...that would be cool for her to bring me her leash, poopie bag AND my shoes...instead she just barks and wiggles |
The funniest when I'm at the computer for hours and they both of the boys come to me, Lumpi with a shoe in his mouth (HINT - "Let's go for a walk!") and Boni with one of my books (HINT -  I have no idea why he does that.)
Earlier on, I told them off...Lumpi came to me with his Kong in his mouth, dropped it in my lap and start licking my face. Boni was watching him, then he picked up the remote from the coffee table, came to me, dropped it in my lap and start licking my face. |
OK, a slew of "Mulligan Carrying His Dish" pics     At some point I suppose we ought to remove the stickers on the bowl. He also did his best to make me a liar in my description of how he is carrying it. The booties are for his paws which he ripped up a bit running around a doggie park last weekend. |
| nice job mullie!!!!!!!!!
and of course i have to mention that your shoes are awesome!! |
| Pretty cute! |
| Pretty clever Mulligan!
Love the booties too!  |
| Aww thats so cute! |
| AWEEEEEEE, Mulligan is so smart and so cute! |
| Only a couple of people on this thread still visit/post often, so I thought I'd bump it up to show off my Mulligan from 4 years ago. Wow how time flies! |
| That is so cool. All 3 of my dog will pickup their Bruster's doggie sundae bowls, with their mouths, bowls right sides up, and will take them to the place they want to eat. I won't teach them to do this with their food bowls or plates because they are ceramic and most of my floors are tile...not a good thing. |
| When Jack feels stressed about his food, he'll pick up the bowl and move to a quiet spot. Woe be to me if I try to take his bowl when empty but not yet properly "licked." Also if I ignore him after feeding, not giving him his "cookie" immediately, he paws the bowl causing it to flip around. |
| Butch was bringing his bowl usually with water still in it. We changed the type of bowls he gets and he hasn't figured it out yet, which I prefer. Years ago our first dog would come running with his bowl when anyone was having a beer. |
how cute is that !! my boys have taught me how to bring them cookies in bed in the morning  |
| Ron, Great for Mulligan. I don't want to teach that trick. Right now they bang their bowls around if we are 1 minute late on feeding them. I would love to teach the leash thing though. When I take them for a walk...we are working on them keeping calm as I put leash and collars on. I used to get mauled as I tried to get them put on and leashed. We are down to slightly less mauled and trying to sit. |
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