how do you get a chihuahua to roll over???

Question

please give me good instrucions. no retarted ones. and if they are retarted don't even waste your time.(:

Answer 1

How do you get a chihuahua to do anything is what I ask myself when I look at mine. LOL Anyway, getting the little thing to respond to you will take some coaxing, if he is anything like mine, it will take alot of time. Chis by nature are nervous. Wouldnt you be if you had someone towering over you commanding you to do something. Ok, start by finding the perfect treat. With mine it was Bacon. If he knows the sit, down, commands then its time to learn Roll over. If not he will at least need to learn "lay down". After that is mastered the trick is to get him to lay on his side, while on his side grasp his front legs and with another hand on his back legs roll him over. When you roll him say "Roll over". Once he is over give him the treat. Do this for about 10-15 minutes at a time each time praising him and treating him with his favorite treat. My chi will rollover, it took a week and 2 pounds of bacon. But it was worth it to actually see a chihuahua roll over instead of shivering. Hope this wasnt too retarded and Good luck.

Answer 2

I got both of my chihuahuas to do this, so I promise, it will work. Never force the dog into the position (i.e. push him over), you always want to dog to move on their own so they learn that they are doing the action and not you. Be sure the treats you use are small (if you give them a big bone or something, they'll get distracted eating it and forget that you're doing tricks). With each step that I explain, make sure the dog is reliable and knows the trick well (practice it for a couple of days). Otherwise your dog will get confused and just forget everything. You have to be patient!

First, you need to have the dog learn the sit command. If you haven't already done that, here is a good way: take a treat, hold it in front of your dog's nose, be careful that they dont' eat it. then take the treat, and right up against the nose, slowly lead the treat up and towards their back. The dog will follow the treat which leads the dog into a sitting position. Immediately when the dog's hiney touches the floor, say the word "sit" and give the treat to the dog and congratulate. Keep doing this, and eventually you can start to just use the word. With my dogs, the word is not enough, and I hold out my hand palm up, and then sort of wave up my four fingers, they associate this with the up motion of the treat and sit.

Next you need to get the dog down on its belly. Do the sit motion with the treat, and once the dog is sitting, bring the treat down to the floor. You can either bring the treat straight down in front of the dog, or else towards one of his paws (different dogs are different sizes, experiment). When the dog is down, you can use the "down" command or whatever you want, and get the dog reliable on that trick. (I turned that one into the play dead command which I use my hand in the shape of a gun and I say "bang!" it's pretty cute.)

Now, you are finally to the roll over command. Get the dog down, and then just take the treat (still close to his nose), and lead the dog around in a circle. It may take a little while, since rolling over is a much stranger request for a dog than sitting or laying down, but eventually he will figure it out. Once you ween the dog off the treat, you may also use a hand motion since chihuahuas seem to respond better to that than voice, just move you're hand around, something like that.

Hopefully that works for you, it worked for me! Don't try to do it all at once, if your dog starts getting distracted or bored stop and try again later. It's all a game to the dog. As long as they are having fun, they'll learn!

Answer 3

I got my lab mix to learn the 'roll over' command in about ten minutes. I took one of his favorite treats. Then, I first told him the 'sit' command, then the 'down' command. Next, I would say, "Roll over!" and make an exaggerated circle in the air. Then I would physically roll him over. Every time I rolled him over, I would verbally praise him and give him a treat. After about ten minutes, he caught on. Now I just tell him, "Roll over!' and do the exaggerated circle motion in the air and he does it. It's kinda' comical to watch...he's mixed with greyhound and he's got a deep chest, so it's hard for him at times to get all the way over. Sometimes for a second, he gets stuck on his back with his paws in the air, like a turtle. LOL. Anyway, hopefully your dog is highly food motivated.

Answer 4

A dog should be trained on how to eat, walk with you, not to bark, potty training and sleep on its place etc. You can teach anything to your puppy, dogs get trained easily with some good instructions. If you want some good training tips visit https://tr.im/vz4YP

If properly trained, they should also understand whistle and gesture equivalents for all the relevant commands, e.g. short whistle or finger raised sit, long whistle or flat hand lay down, and so on.

It's important that they also get gestures and whistles as voice may not be sufficient over long distances and under certain circumstances.

Answer 5

Hey,
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Cheers.

Answer 6

If you do a google search, "type how to get your dog to roll over", they have lot's of different sites you can go to, that tell you, how to teach your dog, to do just about any trick.

Answer 7

This is what I copied down from a best answer:


Be agressive and use your hands when you are training him, give him lots of treats when he does something you say, and tell him Good boy or Good girl.... I would go to the local book store and get alot of books, Reading is knowledge

Good luck! From me.

Answer 8

easy get a treat and put it bihind them like you do to make them sit down. Then, you have to put it under them and twirld it.

Answer 9

kick it so it rollls over oops i wasted my time whats going to happen to me now

Answer 10

rub its stomach