New Tricks

In the past week or so Bri and I have managed to teach Kodo a couple new tricks. He picked them up really quickly because he is brilliant (of course)!
"Be shy": flop over on his side and put his paw over his face.
"Wave": sitting down, he picks his paw up really high as if to shake with it.
"Bow": just like it sounds.. :)

Whenever Kodo gets really excited about dinner or a treat coming his way, he will start running through all the tricks he knows in quick succession without waiting for a command. Pretty funny to watch the puppy sitting, waving his paw, flopping over on his side, turning around, backing up, etc.. all with no commands given yet! The new tricks generally make the first appearances in his string of unsolicited tricks since we have been rewarding them more heavily as we try to teach them. "They'll have to give me a treat for THIS!!"

He is also smart enough to remember sequences- I feed him part of his breakfast as hand-fed rewards for obeying commands, and since I am groggy on work mornings I sometimes get into a routine of the same tricks in the same order. Whenever I do this for a couple days, he will end up anticipating my commands- that usually clues me in that it is time to change up the order.

Oh and his latest new trick that he did for the first time today- the chew-a-black-pen-into-plastic-shreds-and-leave-black-ink-all-over-the-carpet.... Really hoping he DOESN'T repeat THAT one!!! We think one of the cats knocked a pen off the counter for him to try to get him into trouble.. :D