Yesterday you read about “What Was Up Gambler’s Paw” if you missed it you can read it here. Today you will find out the results of Gambler and Josey’s trick dog tests and see a reenactment of Gambler’s testing.
What is Trick Dog? from AKC website
From the 1920’s and 1940’s when trick dogs such as Rin Tin Tin and Lassie won peoples’ hearts, trick dog training has become one of the most exciting new areas in dog training today.
Title info:
AKC Trick Dog titles are official AKC titles listed on the dog’s title record.
The processing fee for each title is $20. Multiple titles for the same dog can be sent in together, each one will be processed in succession after each previous title has been added and printed.
Dogs must have an AKC, PAL, or AKC Canine Partners number to earn a title.
All dogs can get a number including purebreds and mixed breeds.
4 Trick Dog Titles
- NOVICE TRICK DOG (TKN)
The dog performs 10 skills from the Novice list. (see link to “Application” below for lists of skills). If a dog has a Canine Good Citizen (CGC) certificate or title on record at AKC, it can do 5 Novice tricks (CGC + 5) to earn the Novice title.
- INTERMEDIATE TRICK DOG (TKI)
The dog must have the Novice title, plus perform 10 Intermediate tricks.
- ADVANCED TRICK DOG (TKA)
The dog must have the Intermediate title, plus perform 5 tricks from the Advanced list.
- TRICK DOG PERFORMER (TKP)
In this title, handlers perform a short routine with at least 10 tricks previously learned.
Both Josey and Gambler performed Trick Dog Novice and Intermediate at the end of April. They both passes the Novice test so they then performed tricks at the Intermediate level. Here are the tricks that Gambler performed.
Now for the reenactment:
Novice – Gambler got 5 points because he has has CGC (Canine Good Citizen) title, here are the other 5 tricks.
Fetch It
Get on platform
Hand signals
Hold
Kiss
Intermediate –
Balance treat
Carry a basket
Catch
Fetch It
Hand signals
Paws up
Sit pretty
Wobble board
Who says I can’t be a trick dog?
Gambler showing off his titles
Josey and Gambler both received their AKC Trick Dog Novice and Intermediate titles, they now sport the TKI after their registered names.
A big thanks to Polly at Canine Solutions LLC for doing the test!
Great post! Congrats! I plan on getting at least the Novice title since my guys already have their CGCs. Just too easy not to! Not sure about Wilson since he is so old now and can’t hear, but I will try! My only problem is finding someone holding the evals.
I just went to the lady that has training nights she is a AKC judge so she did the eval for us.
Handsome AND clever. The ‘pawfect’ combo, G-Man.
Congratulations! I’ve been thinking about doing this with Bar since we heard they were starting this! What was the evaluation like? Our old obedience trainer is an evaluator and Barley has her CGC and could rock most of the tricks on the list, but I wouldn’t want her going over a jump or through a tunnel or off leash around dogs she didn’t know from agility class. Were there other dogs around?
There were other dogs around but we were away from them. It was pretty low key so I think you can do it too.
Way to go Josie and Gambler! That looks like a lot of fun – GMan looks so happy performing his tricks!
What a fun competition! Congrats on the success. When we do therapy work and people ask me to do a trick my human mommy always tells them that I don’t do tricks. Turns out I do. I can sit pretty and kiss, and I respond to hand signals. Turns out Mommy’s been selling me short. 😉
She has been selling you short, great job!!!
Woo Hoo! What a terrific title. I am so impressed with the tricks! Now, I want to get Pierre to do more tricks.
We’ve heard the new Trick Titles are pretty popular, but wrong thing for us.
How do we find out where evaluations will be? Are they typically conducted by an obedience club or ?????? How often are they scheduled? Thanks. Susan Reynolds
Congrats. The whole trick dog thing cracks me up. lol
I wish AKC would process longstanding event in a timely manner before adding new titles. They are almost a month behind processing hunt tests.