Every dog should be trained to roll over. This allows owners to easily check the dog’s neck and belly for ticks or other problems and also just looks plain cute. In today’s article we will show you a step by step system of teaching your dog to roll over. It’s quite simple:

1. Your dog should be placed in the down position as you are kneeling in front of him, without actually hovering over your dog.

2. Now take a treat in one hand and hold so that the dog has to kind of turn its head and look over its shoulder to get to the treat (almost rolling over naturally). This may take some tweaking to find the right position, but I’m sure you get the idea.

3. Now say “Roll Over!” while you slowly circle your dog around its head with the treat close to its sense of smell. With your other free hand, roll your dog over in the direction of the treat. Your dog should then get a lot of praise and affection.

For best results repeat the above 3 steps as many times as you can throughout the day. Eventually the dog will roll over on command. Gradually phase out treats and replace them with plenty of praise.

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