List of Novice Tricks
Earn your Novice Trick Title by demonstrating 15 tricks from the following list of tricks.
You may also demonstrate more advanced tricks.
Advanced and Expert tricks count as 2 points each.
2-on/2-off
back up in a chute (5 ft/ 1.5 m)
balance beam
balance cookie on nose
bang game (smack a board)
bar jump
bow under a magic square
catch a toy in mid-air
cavalettis in an arc
come
crawl (5 crawl steps)
down
drop it
fetch (bring it near me)
find the hidden treats
flying disc (rolling on ground)
focus (hold eye contact 6 sec.)
hand signals (3 behaviors)
hide and seek (find me)
hoop jump
jump for joy (jump straight up)
jump over my knee
kennel up (send to crate)
kisses
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leave it (10 sec)
loose leash walking (30 ft/ 9 m)
memory game (3 baskets)
muffin tin game
paws up on an object
pedestal (send from 3 ft/ 1 m)
peekaboo (between my legs)
platform jump (2 platforms)
rainbow ladder (trot through)
ring a bell to go outside
roll out a carpet with nose
sit
speak (bark on cue)
spin circles
stacking (for conformation)
stand
stay (6 ft/ 2 m, 10 sec)
target disc (nose-touch disc)
target stick (nose-touch stick)
touch my hand (nose-touch)
tunnel
wall stand (front paws on wall)
which hand holds the treat?
wobble board