I have trained my dog to:

1. Sit down at corners when we're walking, and wait to cross the street
2. Go to the bathroom quickly when I let her outside
3. Get in the car or her crate when she hears "kennel up"
4. Chase the cat away from furniture if she's scratching it (this one was accidental--she just started mimicking our behavior)
5. Sit for food and catch treats

The dog has trained me to:

1. Let her out when she scratches the door
2. Give her water when she knocks her bowl around

I have trained the cat to:

1. Nothing. The cat is completely untrained.

The cat has trained me to:

1. Turn on the faucet for her when she jumps onto the bathroom counter and cries
2. Feed her when she sits by her bowl and cries
3. Pet her when she hits me with her forehead

I guess the pets are actually coming out a little bit ahead.

We have a beautiful brindle & white American Bulldog named TANK. Tank weighs about 110 lbs. (possibly more). Tank obeys the following list of commands:
1. sit
2. high five (he stands on his hind legs and pats his left paw to your palm)
3. back... (he will walk backward, away from whatever you are intending)
4. bow...on command
5. stay... and then retrieve his toy when you say "GO GET IT" (but not on giblets, goobers, gidget or other words that sound like that)
6. down or lay down .... he will lay down
7. Let's get a bath... he jumps into the tub and stands still to get bathed
8. GET EM' he will bark ferociously at strangers outside

This isn't a command but I have diabetes and my dog knows when my blood sugar is too high or too low. When I came home from the hospital last year he kept nudging me until I sat up and then he kept trying to get near my face. I realized my blood sugar was too low and had to immediately get OJ and food. He has done this on 3 or 4 occasions since then. I have read that your dog can smell the change in your breath when your sugar drops or rises (that strange alcohol/fruity smell).

Shouldn’t that be what has your pet trained you to do?
Lets see, we had one that by instinct knew how to open the fridge door and because we knew it, we kept a plate of treats for him on the lower shelf.
All of ours, we are down to 6, having to part with another (BoomBear) on Monday due to Heat stress caused Chronic Heart Failure, have us trained very well. At 11-pm, they either head into the living room on their mattress to watch with mommy Alfred Hitchcock and they have a nighttime snack or they will head into our big bed for movie and snuggle. They know how to read a clock!
We had a basset hound that could read Wal mart no matter where in the country he was. At the time, every Wal-Mart was still different in outside look, but he knew the difference between a Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target! He even had an immense command of the English language.
Mama has a great command of the language and she loves pasta with tomato sauce.
Princess and Sugarboog love chocolate and both do the “ chocolate dance”. And the other two are just cuddle bugs. Not really into anything other than continuous snuggle.
Shadow is well, my shadow. He needs, and loves to suffocate me to get cuddle at night. Come 11 pm he’s wanting to head to bed.
So you see we are well trained by them. We don’t even know what the last bite of a sandwich, bowl of food or dessert tastes like.

I have a Perlino Morgan stallion that I have had since the the day he was born, or he has had me. I have done all of his training up to second level dressage and only have had to send him away for a couple of months while I was pregnant with my third child. He is ten years old this year and on top of all the cool dressage things he can do at second level such as travers and renvers, he likes to bow. I have him bow with one leg stretched out in front after every work session as a cue to let him know that he is done for the day. He will also bow with both legs tucked up under him. I was teaching him to rear as well but when he spooked one time and came up and over on top of me my mom but a stop to that.(Even at 35 she still had a lot to say about some of my "smarter" training moves).

I was actually disappointed to find that my much smarter Pomeranian, who seemingly understands at least 25 different commands and many more words (I read somewhere that small breed dogs can learn to understand up to 250 different words and respond to them through some form of action) presented a greater learning challenge than my former Lab mix, who picked up a new trick every week. When we first picked up our Lab (whom we no longer own), he was an eager puppy who loved treats and enjoyed showing off his abilities in order to earn more goodies to eat. Some of his first tricks included, of course, sit, lay down, come, give paw, high five, go in your house, and do you want to go outside. Then came a trick that he was taught and caught on to accidentally. Once, while feeding my Pomeranian, my Lab was sitting nearby, impatiently awaiting his own bowl of food. Since he was a greedy puppy, I had to keep both dogs separated by gate during meal times, which led the Lab to whine and bark every time he saw our Pom eating in front of him. This gave me the idea to teach him how to “speak”. The food jealousy was an advantage, and soon whenever he barked when he saw my other dog eat, I asked him to “speak” and he quickly associated the command with food, especially after he started receiving plenty of treats, every time he “spoke”. My Pomeranian, on the other hand can sit, give paw, lay down, go to her house, and dance. But she refuses to learn more complicated commands and she “speaks” only when somebody rings the doorbell or passes by the house. Then she goes into a barking frenzy until the perceived “threat” is out of sight. She is certainly a stubborn doggie and I have little hope that she will be up to learning new tricks. However, she does understand quite a few spoken commands that do not require her to make any fancy moves.

I have taught my cats to eat and sleep. And without much direction. I guess I taught them to use the catbox. They know to sit and wait patiently for me to get done eating before getting scraps. And they know that if I fall asleep on the couch to get up and move as I have rolled over on them more than once.

The only pets I have are a few turtles and a parakeet. Can't really train turtles to do anything, but I was able to train my parakeet.

He sits in my finger and moves from finger to finger and will run up my arm. He jumps up to the side of the cage when he sees me and will just sit there and look at me while I get close to the cage and talk to him. What's funny is he will follow me allow over the cage. If I move to one side he'll come over until his face is right up against my face. Another funny thing he does is as soon as someone enters the house or walks up the stairs he starts to chirp.

He also mimics a lot of things that I have said to him. His name is "Tweet" so he'll say things such as, "My name is Tweet", "Tweet talks", "Come here Tweet", "Where's Tweet bird", "You're a bird Tweet". One of the funniest things he says is "Dirty, dirty, dirty" and "You have a dirty house" because I say those things to him when I clean his cage.

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My dog? He's about as dumb as a rock. I wish I wasn't lying. He knows how to sit, but even that is hit and miss. He can push open the screen door, but he learned that himself. Other than that, I've tried to teach him tricks and he just doesn't go for it. He's 15 now, and deaf, so it's a bit late to make another attempt. He is quite good at barking endlessly while you eat, or standing directly under you while you cook in the off chance you'll drop something he can eat. I guess he does go outside to the bathroom most of the time as well.

My ferret is a bit smarter but I haven't taught her as much. I litter trained her which was a breeze and she's flawless at it. I've got her coming to me when she's called. I've got her walking on a leash fairly well. I'm sure if I tried to train her otherwise she'd do great, but I've never made the attempt. I just don't have a need for my pet to do outrageous things for no reason.

my cat, the cat, goes to his bowl when he's hungry. he stares at the door until it is opened when he wants to go out, and he knows how to push his head up against my hand if he wants his neck scratched.
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