Myself and Mason have come to a halt on the 'tricks' training as I cannot think of anything else for him to learn. He does sit, stay, wait, fetch, beg, roll both ways, walk backwards, through the legs, play dead, high five, speak on command. I am stuck for what to try next! Does anyone have any cool tricks that they do with their dog that they would kindly share? He loves learning new things and so do I!
Any suggestions at all?

Vikki

If he retrieves you can teach him to put toys/paper into the bin. My wee dog will pick up empty crisp packets or hubby's junk mail and put it into a wee bin. People like that. I also taught mine to stick em up...sitting on his bum with both paws in the air. He also has silent speak where his mouth move but no sound...and when I say "I can't hear you" he then barks. Teach hide...where he hides his body and his head sticks out from under chairs or my legs if I am sitting. He is also learning staff members and family/ other dogs by name. I ask him ....where's Jay (staff dog) and he runs up to her and put his paw on her. If he is finding a person he touches a hand with his nose. Little kids like when he picks boy from girl. I ask where's the boy....he touches them and they think it's a hoot.

Just some ideas...:-)

my dog can bring me my shoes before we go walkies... well done by the way!

My favourite is to get my boy to sit 'like a person' (that's the command I use), to which he jumps up on the sofa and literally sits like a person... it's very cute.  A nice position to teach is 'flat'... so they're lying completely on one side.. it's very impressive to go through the repertoire from stand-sit-down-flat-down-sit-stand.  Well it amuses me anyway.  I also teach mine to go and touch things, or rest their chin on them... it's nice when they get to the point they can distinguish between different objects eg 'touch table, then chin on chair' etc.  You could also train a sendaway, mine always love them... and it also comes in handy if you ever do any KCGC stuf.  Have fun... I love teaching new tricks :-D

Shut the cupboard doors/draws,  very handy if your children a lazy slobs like mine as the dog loves 'earning' himself an extra treat by closing them :) (especially funny as he tries to shut the draw while my husband is tryng to get a spoon out - LOL, hubby just can't seem to grasp you only have to tell Buster 'wait' and he doesn't trap your hands!!)

The cutest 'trick' I've taught Buster is for him to nod his head when I say 'do ya love me?'. It was simply a case of getting him to move his head up & down to follow a treat while I spoke the command (the first hurdal was for him to move his entire head, at first he would only move his eyes up & down, so my movement of the treat had to be very exagerated) untill he got the idea. Once he was 100% reliable with that, I can now change the question, pretty much anything that is a similar length as 'do ya love me?' (the tone/pattern of the tone of the question is more important), so it can be 'are you hungry?', 'have you farted'?', 'does *insert husbands name here* smell?' - anything like that is met with an eager nod of the head. (I also coupled the command with a hand signal - palm of the right hand flat & facing upwards)
That is how he 'begs' for things he wants aswell, which can be a little embarassing when your huge dog is nodding frantically at a guest, slobber flying, because the guest has a biscuit *blush*.
I have been meaning to teach him to shake his head (as in 'no') but haven't got round to that one.

>He does sit, stay, wait, fetch, beg, roll both ways, walk backwards, through the legs, play dead, high five, speak on command.

I'm so envious of you!! I would love Buster to speak on command but he very rarely barks so I have never even got close to trying that one, I can't even tempt him to bark, nomatter how ridiculous I make myself :( :( As for fetch - PAH!! The best we've manadged on that is for Buster to walk towards the thrown object, sniff it & look at me as if to say 'you want it? get it yourself'!!!

Shut the cupboard doors/draws,  very handy if your children a lazy slobs like mine as the dog loves 'earning' himself an extra treat by closing them  (especially funny as he tries to shut the draw while my husband is tryng to get a spoon out - LOL, hubby just can't seem to grasp you only have to tell Buster 'wait' and he doesn't trap your hands!!)

Can't stop laughing, please tell me Buster is a Mastiff.......

> Can't stop laughing, please tell me Buster is a Mastiff.......

LOL, yes he is a Mastiff (English). When he shuts the draws he does so with some force (eager to 'earn' himself a biccy). My husband is very quick when he gets a spoon out of a draw or he'll get his hands trapped in, LOL, his face is a picture when he catches sight of Buster tanking across the kitchen with his nose poised ready to ram the draw back in :-D 

I've tried teaching him to shut draws with a paw, like he can the cupboard doors, but he much prefers to use his nose like a battering ram *rollyeyes*.

You could teach him "Show me the ball, show me the tuggy" etc. I clicker train tricks and to get my dog to do this trick I put a toy in front of him and when he touches it I click and treat. Once he realises that touching the toy earns a treat I introduce the name of the toy. Once he has learnt the name of that toy I repeat the same process with a different toy. I then put the two toys in front of him and ask him to show me the xxxx toy and he is clicked and treated if he gets the right toy. If it's the wrong toy I didn't do anything and he very quickly touched the other toy instead. I haven't done this trick with my dog for ages but he could choose correctly between five or six toys put in a row in front of him.

I also taught him to drop to the floor and lie upside down with all four feet in the air if I make my hand into a gun shape and say bang bang. He learnt that really quickly with the use of a clicker but he will not do a reliable retrieve for love nor money - a non retrieving retriever :-)

Oh I must work on Whistler we do a few buts and pieces but nothing like you guys.
We have "where's your ballie, nou nou ect " and we go and fetch that. Kev has him jusp on his lap both paws around his neck then he lies on his back in his arms and goes to "sleep". Kev's huge and Whistler looks so small.

Jake is better you can get him Away, Bye and drop him to the ground by hand movements but he's a BC so v. intelligent.

They understand the obvious cheese, chewey bar,biscuit, milk - and food on the nose chuck up and catch. Road work they sit when a car approaches (roads are very narrow) sit by a kerb, wait at the door for me to get downstairs, they are getting a pleasure to road walk.

walk backwards is always impressive. essp if you have a fast dog like my w/cocker. twirl (to the left) or twist (to the right) is a good one to get the dog to concentrate on you. dead dog is good too.

I remeber watching a programme on one of the animal channels years ago and this woman had this Airedale Terrier that was doing all sorts of things. My favourite thing was when she called him by the wrong name and he went into a position like a play bow and put his paws over his eyes as if to say "Doh!!". It was so funny. I have no idea how you would teach them that though.

Mine only know the basics, sit, down, paw, stay etc. They are too stubborn to learn anything else (or maybe I am too soft?!).

put his paws over his eyes as if to say "Doh!!". It was so funny. I have no idea how you would teach them that though.

Again this is where a clicker is brilliant for pinpointing the action required. I start teaching this with my dog in the down position. I put a small piece of sticky tape ( not very sticky at all) on his nose and as soon as he tries to wipe it off with his paw I click that action. Once he is reliably putting paw to nose I introduce a command word - I use "No peeping" - and once this word is associated with the action I dispense with the tape and just use the command.

ROFL particularly at My husband is very quick when he gets a spoon out of a draw or he'll get his hands trapped in but thank you for making me laugh. 

I've a long way to go, I can't even get my boy to give me a paw (lick my ears, yes, paw no).  He can roll over & spin round though, not bad for a goldfish brain. :-D

Thanks for confirming, I am still chuckling at Man V Mastiff & the draw closing:-)

Thank you for those fab suggestions!! I never really thought of getting him to do 'practical' jobs - opening and shutting things, what a great idea! He is a very clever Lab x Collie (*puffs chest out like the proud Mum I am*) who seems to love working for his treats. In the last day or so we have perfected the 'play dead' adding Me miming a shooting action and saying 'bang' while he rolls over and stays perfectly still!

Mastifflover - 'have you farted'?', 'does *insert husbands name here* smell?' Lmao! thats fantstic, along with closing the drawers, I don't know which one to try first! And as for 'speaking' I really wish I hadnt as he never shuts up :)

I love the idea of the hiding the eyes trick and It may be easier than I thought after seeing him get masking tape stuck on his snout this morning! (now also has a large smudge of gloss paint on his tail after OH leaving the door open to the freshly painted lounge) I think this will be our new trick to learn! :)

This has opened a whole new world of training ideas now! thank you all :)

My collie would "put the children to bed".
He would herd them upstairs and push the doors shut after them...