More:Nintendogs: Training

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Contents 1 Easier training 2 Advanced tricks 3 Disc training 4 Agility training 5 Obedience training 6 Training locations 7 Competition courses 8 Easy competitions 9 Best competitions 10 Disc contest 11 Losing contests 12 Avoid losing ranking 13 More trick and competition opportunities 14 Get your dog to learn lots of tricks 15 Easy training with multiple dogs 16 Deleting tricks

Easier training

When teaching your dog to sit, do not say "sit down", just say "sit." By doing this, when you teach it "lay down," it will not get confused. When teaching it to shake, do not say "shake". Instead, say "shake hands". By doing this, it will not get sit confused with shake.

Instead of saying "sit" and "lie down", say "one" for sit or "two" for lie down. Your dog will most likely get confused when you say "six". This will takes awhile but is a very easy way to win obedience trials.

Use the following steps to teach your dog "Sniff The Ground", "Bite Other Dog", "Cuddle Other Dog" "Sneeze", "Dig" (scratch the ground), "Stretch" (whole body), and "Yawn". This has the benefit of your dog doing different, simple tricks. Also, you do not have to force them to do it and your other dogs cannot interfere.

1. Ensure all dogs are on top screen and that the bottom screen shows the Home Menu.

2. Touch one of your dog's pictures to center the camera on to that dog you using.

3. Watch that dog closely, rotating the camera if needed.

4. When your dog performs a trick that you like, such as "Dig", "Sniff" or "Yawn", immediately tap the light bulb in the top right corner of the bottom screen.

5. Say your command clearly.

6. Repeat steps 3 through 5 until your dog learns the trick. Note: This may take awhile; you may want to teach multiple tricks simultaneously.

7. Name the trick.

Advanced tricks

The majority of advanced tricks must be done with voice commands. Do not pet your dog while the trick is in process. Once you start petting, the dog will assume that the teaching process is over.

Disc training

Go to the park, and keep training your dog until you get a message. Use a Frisbee, tennis ball, rubber bone, or a stick to train it.

When playing fetch with your dog, after you throw a bone, Frisbee, stick, or tennis ball in the park or homeplace, to retrieve the item tap the screen at least five times to get their attention. Then, play a tug-o-war until you have it again.

For very fast speed for the disc competitions, get a small dog like a Chihuahua or Yorkie.

Get a Shetland Sheepdog for the disc competitions. It can keep up with the disc no matter how hard you throw it.

Inside your house, train with your dog until it gets five discs in a row. Pet your dog every time it catches and it will learn to catch the disc better. Also, throw the disc straight and it will probably catch it. Then, go to contests and disc competitions. You should be able to win all three games, which is all you can play a day.

Use a Dalmatian for the disc competition. They can run fast and jump high. Alternately, use the Jack Russell terrier. It can go fast but catches the disc on the ground.

Agility training

Go to the gymnasium and train your dog on the agility course. It changes with each contest you win.

If you want a dog that can jump very high for the agility trials, than get a big dog like a Lab or Golden Retriever.

Obedience training

Have the dog do a trick repeatedly until a message appears. Name the trick, then the dog will do the trick every so often. Keep teaching it the trick until it does it for the first time you call it. Note: The dog can only do so much training in one day. For more training, wait for the next day.
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When teaching your dog to fetch, every time the dog brings back the item from tapping the screen, pet it until the sparkles appear. Then, take the item and throw it over again. After doing this awhile, your dog will bring back the item automatically, making the contest easier.

Training locations

Each contest should be trained at a different place (disc competition at the park, agility at the gymnasium, and obedience at an empty park or house).

Competition courses

There are five courses for each competition: beginners, open, expert, master, and championship.

Easy competitions

When you are almost ready to go into a competition, save the game. Go into any desired competition. Play it, and if the outcome was not as you expected, turn off the Nintendo DS. If the result was what you wanted, keep playing. If turned off the game, you can start it again and can resume just before the competition.

Best competitions

The best competitions to do are the Agility trials. If you get first place in the championship, you will win $1,000.

Disc contest

Get a Boxer if you want speed. Get a German Shepherd if you want it to jump high.

Use a German Shepherd. It is fast and can jump high. However, do not throw it as far as you can. It will most likely drop it. This is not true for the Boxer. It can run fast, so you can throw it far.

Losing contests

In certain classes of contests, if you get below a certain score you will drop a class.

Avoid losing ranking

Before entering competitions, save the game. If you do badly, turn off the before the competition ends to avoid any ranking loss. Note: Whenever this is done, the leader's score will change.

More trick and competition opportunities

Notice how your dog will only learn a certain amount of tricks a day, while the same goes for competitions. To get more chances at tricks and competitions, change the system date to to the previous day and set the time to 23:59. Exit the menu and turn off the DS. Immediately turn it back on and load the game. You will see the previous day and time shown. After one minute it will be an entire new day, allowing more tricks to be taught and competitions to be won. This can earn you more money if you win the competition. When you want to follow the normal order of things, just set the date and time back to the correct values.

Get your dog to learn lots of tricks

Go to "Care" and read the training book. It will show you how to do different tricks. Read one and memorize it. Then, go back and do each step to your dog. Tap on the light bulb in the corner and say the trick. Repeat this until it says the dog has learned a new trick.

Easy training with multiple dogs

Use the following trick when you have more than three dogs in your home and want to train a dog are having difficulty because of the others. Find a Naptimerecord and put it on. As soon as your dogs are asleep, wake up the one you want to train. You will find it is easier to train that dog without the others around.

Deleting tricks

On the camera view of your dogs, tap the question mark under the dog's picture. It will bring up a screen with the dog's information on it, such as name, age, gender, etc. At the bottom is a button to go to the "Trick List". Tap on a trick, and tap "OK" for the dog to forget that trick. If you delete the trick by accident, you can re-teach the dog the same trick, and name it all the same.