There's a lot of fun that you can have with trick training. If you take your dog somewhere and he's little uncomfortable, and you can start putting him through his little repertoire of tricks it does two things. It makes others receptive to your dog, which is a good thing, and it also gives your dog something to do that he's confident doing, because basically, there is no wrong response to a trick. You know, when you start trick training, you're teaching a dog to do something, and it's not like you're trying to take a problem behavior away. So it's a very confidence building thing to do.

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