How to Teach Tricks to a Pet Dingo

Dingoes are wild dogs that are becoming popular exotic pets. If they are taken from their litters before they are six weeks old, they can be easily domesticated and trained to be an enjoyable part of your household. In Australia, dingoes are being trained as seeing eye dogs because of their intelligence and longevity. If you can spend consistent time with your dingo, you can teach him to do tricks.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Make a plan. Choose the tricks that you want to teach your dingo, put them in the order you would like to teach them and break each trick into small, manageable steps. You can teach your dingo any tricks you could teach a regular dog, like shake, speak, bow or high five.

2. Be consistent. You will need to spend time training your dingo every day to teach her new tricks, 15 minutes once or twice a day is the ideal amount of time to spend on tricks. Your dingo may well decide learning new tricks is fun, if so, you can take many breaks during the day to work on her current trick.

3. Give rewards. Break each desired trick into small manageable steps and as your dingo gradually learns each step, give little bites of his favorite treat as a reward. This positive reinforcement is the most effective way to teach your dingo the desired behavior.

4. Take time to play. When you're finished your training session, spend time playing with your dingo. This will also help her associate learning new tricks with fun time.

5. Add new steps. When your dingo has mastered one step of his new trick, add the next. This method will allow you to successively build the behavior you are trying to teach.

6. Keep practicing. Even as you teach new tricks to your pet dingo, you will have to keep working on the old tricks. Show them off to your friends and family so they can see what a smart pet you have.

Tips & Warnings

• Never hit your dingo. This will only teach him not to trust you and will effectively prevent him from learning any tricks.

Resources

• Tricks for dingos and dogs alike.

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