I agree about football… the social aspect is what I like 🙂
Sweet potatoes with baked beans is the BEST!

My cat is good at sitting before treats, laying on her back in the sunlight and breaking into cabinets for treats (like jumping on the counter, opening the cabinet and climbing in for treats). That’s not really a trick, its more like disobedience.

My parents dog is good at “shaking your hand”.

I’m watching the Virginia Tech-Boise St. game right now. I’m a serious football fan, it’s actually really ridiculous. Hope you had a great labor day weekend!

I have been checking the scores all night… I’m from Boise and my dad teaches at BSU. GO BRONCOS!!

I am definitely going to have to try that recipe – my husband loves baked beans!

We have 3 chihuahuas and they don’t do much beyond sleep and eat. However, they can all sit and lay in in both English and Spanish commands, and the oldest one can roll over if the reinforcement in rewarding enough!!

Our dog is about as smart as Maggie. He can sit, and that’s it. It took us six months to teach him that.

Pippin can sit, lay, and shake. And that’s it. She gets really excited when you have a treat and does them all simultaneously and it is hilarious.

My daughter’s dog, who I have all the time, can high five, other paw, roll over, touch two ways and bang you are dead with a tail wag. He also does the dog treat on the nose and the paw. He can also catch food. His best trick which is annoying is he goes into the square foot garden and takes his nose and moves the super soft soil away from the carrot and voila, he picks his own treat. He loves carrots.

I love the picture of that dog! Hilarious! Maggie may not be able to do tricks, but she poses for pictures well, and she’s darn good at it! 🙂
My cat can play fetch with her toy mouse. Well… Sort of. She used to play fetch, then realized that if she waits long enough, I’ll go get the mouse that I threw and throw it again. So, actually, it seems that I can play fetch.

Norman would be content to eat, sleep, poop, and cry.

If he is getting any treat outside of us leaving the house for the day we’ll make him sit, lay down, roll over, dance, or crawl. He hasn’t mastered the dance or crawl yet. 😉

I’m the same with football… I like the social aspects of it.

Basil can sit. He can heel. He does stay sometimes. He’s just about the cutest and sweetest pup I’ve known. My old dachshund would sit like Rascal in that photo… for LONG periods of time. 🙂

it’s funny my first dog, Bailey does all sorts of tricks, my other little one I got a year ago from a puppy mill shut down isn’t quite so quick… all she does is sit… but hey.. it works for her… no matter what she wants or is trying to tell you she will all of a sudden just sit… and if it doesn’t work she stands up and sits again… and she will repeat this until it works… too funny that sweet little thing!
while I don’t mind missing out on the whole sports thing I sure would love some of the social time… don’t do much here… enjoy your friends and go team go!!

My dog can sit..that’s it! My aunt’s dog can play dead though, which is pretty cool 🙂
I love Diana!!! I spent loads of time withher at the HLS, I miss her!

my dog cant do any tricks, well not on command anyway, she regularly walks into dorr frames, lamp posts etc, coz she’s just too darn busy looking around at whats going on!

I have a border collie, and we make it a point to teach him to do something new every month or so. He knows all the basics, plus he does agility and rally, so he’s learned a bunch of stuff there, too. About a year ago we taught him how to count to three. 🙂

Hahaha, “Maggie can look pretty.” At least she’s got that one down! 😉

i totally agree about football being social time! also an excuse to eat fun food:-)

I’ve never been a fan of baked beans, but I find the sweet potato + black bean combo seems to make me similarly happy. 🙂

I love college football. But also use it as an excuse to socialize and EAT.

I like the scores if my team is playing…otherwise it’s social hour.

Leo can sit and roll to pet his belly. Peanut can meow like a cat if you tell her no barking 🙂

Blue is deaf so his “tricks” are just things that I can tell him to do with my hands and he does them…

Trick wise he can sit, lay down and roll over and wait (usually)… but he knows over 15 hand signals like no, quiet, go get a toy, good boy, and come. One of my goals is to teach him more tricks… He’s very smart so it won’t take long, just a little effort. 🙂

I don’t have any pets anymore, my dogs passed away years ago. But they weren’t good at tricks at all, it was actually kind of funny.
When I was a kid, I had a hamster and it would stay in my mama’s pocket when we were at home. He would look out of her pocket, it was cute.

I love the pictures of your dogs. 🙂

I go to football games for the social aspect too. I don’t understand a thing about the rules of the game. 😛

Rascal is too cute!! But so are Maggie & James 🙂

Koda can sit, lay down, stay, and will go to her crate or bed on command. Not too shabby, but wouldn’t mind teaching her a few fun tricks, too!

I am so shocked at how popular college football is in the US. We aren’t even that into pro-football (CFL anyway) up here in Canada. What a difference a border makes huh??

My dog can sit, lay down, give paw and his best trick is we taught him to sneeze on command. It’s really cute but sometimes he doesn’t want to do it so he just makes the head motion with out sneezing. I really want to try to cook Brussels sprouts any suggestions on the best way? I need to find a way to feed them to my husband without him making faces.

Football is kind of a social event for me too. I can watch the game for a while, but then I start to wander a little.