You all know how much I love giveaways. They are so much fun! Although I can’t enter my own giveaways (which is a bummer for big ones like this) I enjoy every part of giving my readers a chance to collect some fantastic prizes. Last year I participated in the Trick or Treat Giveaway Hop presented by Kol’s Notes and Beagles & Bargains, and I’m stoked to be a part of it again! Just like last year’s giveaway hop, you will learn tricks to teach your dog and potentially win prizes! How does it get any better than that?! Without further adieu, I now present our Halloween gift to you…
Trick or Treat Giveaway Hop Prizes
Grand Prize – $300 Gift Card to PetSmart
Second Prize – Sponsored by Caru Pet Food. Prize is a 14 bag assortment of Caru’s Soft ‘n Tasty Baked Bites and Baked Bars. Estimated value is $100.
Third Prize – Sponsored by The Honest Kitchen. The prize pack will include the new Nice Mussels, Jerky Chicken Bites, and Jerky Beef Filets plus Beams (7 oz), Quickies, and Smooches (16 oz). Estimated value is $80.
Fourth Prize – Sponsored by Nature’s Logic. Prize is 1 bag of canine beef lung treats, 1 bag of canine beef liver treats, 1 bag of canine beef tendon treats for 3 lbs of treats in total. Estimated value is $80. (We used these treats in our training video!)
How the Giveaway Hop Works
Below this post is a widget you fill out to enter the giveaway. You will be asked to perform simple tasks such as following each blog on a social media platform. The widget will take you through step by step! Then you can click on all of the blogs I have listed below our trick to see their fun trick and enter into their widget. It’s easy, it’s fun and it’s educational! The more blogs you enter to win on, the bigger your chances are to win – so be sure to visit every blog! The giveaway hop runs October 20-30th.
Our Trick: Teach Your Dog to Spin Left and Right
Teaching your dog to “spin” is a pretty simple trick. With Khloee’s assistance, I’m going to show you how to teach your dog not only to spin, but to spin left or right. Take a look at the video first.
Now here’s a step-by-step:
- Make sure you have lots of treats for positive reinforcement training. Positive reinforcement training methods are by far the most effective. When training my dogs I like to have a treat pouch attached to my pants so I can easily access the treats
- Your dog can begin in a sit or stand. Whatever they are most comfortable with.
- Take a treat and put it right in front of your dog’s nose. Keep your hand and treat close to your dog and turn your arm in a big left or right circle. As soon as your dog does a complete circle, give them the treat! The idea is to have your dog follow the hand with the treat in it. Try it with your dog spinning left and right. Khloee can do both but Wynston can’t seem to figure out how to turn right.
- Positively reinforce this behavior as necessary. Lots of treats and praise is always good.
- Once your dog gets comfortable following your hand in a circular motion, circle your hand in the air above their head. You still want your dog to be following your treat hand so they turn in a circle. Now treat, treat, treat your dog.
- As your dog gets better at following your hand, you can make your hand movements smaller and smaller as shown in the video above.
- You can add the words “left” and “right” after your dog is consistently following your hand and performing the spin.
- After repeating these behaviors with lots of treat rewards, eventually you will be able to tell your dog “left” or “right” and they will spin that way!
Increase your chances to win!
I encourage you to head to the following blogs to increase your chances of winning! Each site has a different trick that you can teach your dog as well! Remember, the more blogs you enter on, the bigger your chances are to win 🙂 Giveaway is open to residents of the US and Canada. Good luck and have fun!
My dog can spin! We taught it using a similar method.
Don’t have a dog, so no. Cat person that’d love to win the Petco card. Any doggie treats would be donated.
My dogs don’t know spin yet, but we’ll work on this one with Penny!
My dog can spin both ways! Taught the similar way
My dogs don’t know this trick yet
We have started to teach my dog spin (we call it twist) but are still working on it and we used the same method that you did!
she just likes to spin on her own sometimes!!
My two Boston’s haven’t been taught this trick. They will do it, but only if I have a treat in my hand, not on command.
Awesome contest!! Love checking out all the different behaviors you guys are showing us!
Great trick although Layla does not know it
my oldest knows lots of tricks, she was a very fast learner, the 2 younger girls know a few, it takes time and being consistent to train to do tricks. my oldest could prance, roll over and play dead, dance, shake, etc. the 2 younger girls just do the normal ones, except the youngest can talk and curl up her lip. i used treats and worked with them on a daily basis. i need to work more with the 2 younger girls.
My dog wouldnt do this one
My dog can spin both ways!
Great job Khloee! Bella, Terra, and Kronos know how to spin left and right on hand cues, but we haven’t added a verbal cue to the trick. 🙂
My dog can spin!
I’ll have to try that trick with my boys. I have a feeling Quincy will just get confused though. LOL
We taught ours “dance” which started out as being up on the hind legs and then spinning, but it turned into just spinning. Maybe we need to change the trick to spin instead!
Ruby knows this as “spin” and “twirl.” She is fastest to the right (“spin”) and will go five turns without stopping! This is something I can probably teach Boca pretty easily, too.
I have the pups spin before dinner time sometime but never added a verbal cue but I’m sure they would pick it up pretty easily.
That’s how I taught it too. He does it pretty well on hand cues but not on a verbal only yet.
Yes, I taught him this using the same method.
We have never tried to teach our dogs to spin. Looks cool though, so we might give it a shot.
my dog does this, we didn’t really teach him per se, it’s just something he has always done 🙂
We’ve got our spin down but not to certain ways. Ossian goes right, koda goes left. I can’t get them to go the opposite. lol
No he doesn’t know this one either!
No she doesn’t but she is only 16 weeks old. She has learned roll over though!
I absolutely love this! It’s all for the sweet canines too. 🙂
My dog can definitely do this trick.
Both my dogs know this trick, and it’s a favorite of theirs. I taught through luring.
My dog does not know this trick.
I taught my girl to spin to the right and left using the Luring method.
My dogs haven’t learned any tricks yet – we haven’t had a chance to teach them any
My dogs don’t know this trick. I tried teaching it to them but it didn’t go so well. I’ll follow your steps so I can get better results. Thanks.
He does not know this trick, his only tricks are sit, shake and get your pillow.
yes same methond as you did
My dogs know how to spin and I taught them the same way.
Nah, never taught my dog this… probably won’t either.
my pooches can not do this but they can roll over
my dog can’t do this, but may she should learn!
Rolly knows no tricks. He is my dumb dumb friend.
I’m entering to win the gift card for my sister, who is a cat lady! I’m not sure her cats know any tricks, beyond driving her crazy.
I really need to work with my dog more, she is very stubborn but extremely smart.
I have one like that, so I totally get it!
No unfortunately my dog doesn’t know how to spin, but now I just may teach her to do it using your video!
Nope, our dogs don’t know this trick. We need to get busy!
Unfortunately my dog doesn’t know any tricks. I’ve tried to teach her several times in the past but she just doesn’t get it.
It takes patience and lots of positive reinforcement sometimes 🙂
I’ve never considered teaching my dog Zeus to spin! I may have to give it a shot. He’s bigger than your cute little gal, hopefully a spin won’t knock me over! 🙂
My dog was really easy to train. He’s very treat motivated lol! I just had to show him what to do and offer treats!
My pups know this one!
I’ve never thought of teaching my big dog to spin. He does LOVE to chase his tale so maybe I can use that to teach him.
My dog does not know this trick but I plan to teach it to him.
Love this giveaway! Super awesome for the holidays! As you know, we love and admire all that you all do! This is awesome! We do giveaways but we’ve never won anything! Maybe this is our lucky chance!
My dog does not know the trick.
No my dog does not know this, but I am excited to teach it to him now.
My dogs do not know this trick. However, my Pekapoo spins on his own.
No my dog has no clue how to do this trick.
My dog knows this trick! He was taught in a similar way, too.
My dog can spin. I did just like you
Zoey loves to spin!! Such a fun trick
No she doesn’t know this trick yet
I have not tried to teach my dogs to spin. I’m still working on stay. They’re an ornery bunch!
My dog does not know how to do this yet but I am going to work with her on it.
Yes, Fang knows how to spin — it’s one of the few tricks he can do.
My rescue GS has her hips out of socket so were really careful with her so she could not do this trick at all looks like fun .
No our dogs don’t know this I’d like to try and teach them.
Spinning sure is fun. Too bad not every dog knows how to do it or can figure out on their own how. Good luck to all who can join!
My dogs do not spin they are large dogs one has bad hips
My dogs do not know this trick
YoYo does not know that trick . we tried but no success.
Oh that is so neat. I would love to teach ours to spin! Ours will sit on command, but that is about it.
My dog does not know this trick.
Delilah learned this trick in a Tricks class we took. I don’t know why we stopped practicing it, it’s so much fun!
My dog does not know this trick.
No, my dog doesn’t know that trick. Thanks for sharing.
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So cute, Khloee looks like a natural! Spin is Luke’s absolutely favorite trick I think. When he gets confused sometimes when training new tricks, he’ll fall back to spinning (or backing up). It’s so funny! We trained spin first, to the right, and then added “twirl” later for to the left. I wish I’d done both at the same time, it would have been easier. I don’t know if it’s because he learned spin first, or because he’s more comfortable going that direction, but he definitely has a preference.
I have tried to get my dog Shelby to do this and failed miserably! lol I will have it give it another shot with your video! Thank you!
Our dog Bo can sit and shake.He stands up and likes to hug you.
My dog doesn’t know this trick
My dog does this and I never even had to train him! Treats are the best way to learn new things, though!
So cute! Spin, Dance, Left, Right whatever you call it always turns out really cute!
Not yet but we are working on it :).
My dog does not know this trick.
We know “dance” where they spin while standing (well, 2/4 know it)
My dogs don’t know this trick. We haven’t tried it.
I’m going to try to teach my Delia to spin. Khloee is adorable spinning!
My dogs know spin to the left and right, We taught it the same way.
My little gal is not able to do tricks like this, but it’s sooooo cute!
My dog doesn’t know this trick. I have a 4 year old Boxer, & she’s really hyper and gets excited easily.. so sometimes she has difficulty trying to pay attention long enough to learn tricks lol.
My Izzy just recently learned this trick and we are still working on perfecting it some. It’s exactly the same technique I used.
My dog will only spin for treats
The Spin trick to Goose’s favorite trick too!!!
Yes my dog knows this trick
Unfortunately my dog does not know any tricks…………
no my dogs do know this trick wish they did
Such a cutie! I need to teach this to my big boy ASAP!
No dog, I’d love to win the gc and any dog treats I win will go to local shelter. My kitten only spins when she is trying to catch her tail
Great post and trick. My dogs love to spin, dogs love movement and this is fun for humans and dogs. Love your site! I’ll be in Arizona this winter, Romeo would love to meet Chloe!
I have three rescued Treeing Walker Coonhounds. All three will do this – at least mostly -as long as I have a treat they like. I would love to get them to do it without always having a treat.
We have been working on spin, but not much luck yet. I will have to try this out!
My daughters dog don’t do this trick.
This would be a gift for my friends dogs to share. They know many tricks!
My dogs only know to sit and they do that when they want to lol. I think it is cool the way they taught them.
No they don’t do this trick, only the basics.
Out of our 4 rescue babies – one can spin pretty well -the other three, well lets just say they have a mind of their own when it comes to tricks! Haha!
My toy poodle Scarlett doesn’t spin on command but she does shake a paw…
No, my dogs don’t know this trick.
My dog is working on this trick. She’s a timid rescue but smart and wants to do well.
we don’t really do tricks with our guys, but they tend to mind pretty well =)
Yes, I taught him this using the same method.