This year, I decided to reach a little big and try and teach a trick to our new Great Pyrenees foster puppy, Kiska. Since she was picking up on things so quickly, I figured, let’s try and use her for this year’s Trick or Treat Giveaway Hop!
Let’s get a kiss from ‘Kis’ka’ 😉
The easiest way for me to teach ‘kiss’ has always been to start with touch. If your dog already knows touch, feel free to skip ahead. If not, it’s super easy.
Touch
In my opinion, ‘touch’ is one of the most versatile tricks you can teach your dog. It can be used for multiple tricks, such as turning off a light, pushing open a door, etc. It’s also a great distraction exercise in a stressful situation. When Mauja is feeling stressed, we play games with touch to keep her mind occupied.
- Present your dog your hand. Dogs are naturally curious animals, so typically, they will reach their snoot out to touch your hand. When he does, click and treat.
- Put your hand out of sight for a second or two and then show your hand again. When the snoot touches your hand, click and treat again.
- Continue practicing with both hands, at multiple angles, and from varying distances.
Note: Touch can also be taught with a target stick rather than your hand.
Kiss
Once you feel your dog is responding positively to touch, it’s time to move on to kiss.
- Move your hand (or target stick) close to your lips for your dog to touch with her snout.
- Move your hand closer and closer to your lips (or cheek if you prefer the kiss there), continuing to ask for touch.
- Ask your dog becomes more comfortable with the position, place your hand right next to your lips to lure your dog to ‘kiss’ your lips (or ‘touch’ your lips).
- Continue to practice asking for ‘kiss’ while gradually removing your hand as a lure.
Now that you’ve learned the trick, how about we discuss the treat?
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My dog does not know this trick.
me either
Yes, my dog knows kiss and touch. I taught it the same way.
Unfortunately my dog doesn’t know this trick. We’ve tried to teach her tricks in the past without success.
Yes my dog knows how to kiss. I go up to her and tell her kisses and she kisses me.
Yes! We know this trick. I don’t know how she learned it but she does give me kisses when I ask her.
My dog know this trick by kisses, he will kiss and nuzzle
I don’t think anything is better than puppy kisses. I love this. We’ve had Delilah for 10 years, and only in the last six months or so, will she kiss us. Great job.
we know this one, all I say is kiss, kiss and voila
My dog does know this trick! She’s the best pupper.
Dexter knows “kiss” or as we call it “kisses”. I think he learned it because whenever he’d lick us we say “kisses”. Now when training if I say “kisses” he’ll do a quick lick for his treat 🙂
Great post! This is something I think I could learn! However, I think I need to borrow Kiska to help give me pointers! 😉
Yes ! Both my dogs know this though they do it in excess ??
Yes, my dogs know touch and kiss. Also my German Shepherd will kiss his toys when I tell him to give kisses instead of chewing them. LOL.
My dog does not know this trick.
All three of my dogs can kiss. They just did it right from puppy hood! I can ask for a kiss kiss and get one or more!
My dog knows this one, she gives her own version if you ask her for a kiss. She just butts her mouth against yours, it is pretty funny really.
Great trick! My pups can kiss, but nothing quite like puppy kisses!
I have three rescued Treeing Walker Coonhounds. My girl, Kyoko, is a kisser by nature, so it didn’t really take teaching her to kiss. She’s so sweet!
This is pretty similar to the way I taught my dog to “kiss,” although he pretty much did it on his own! LOL.
My dog loves to kiss and lick but it would be good to have it controlled better.
we Love this
My dog gives kisses all the time, no need to teach her
Cute dog! Maverick kisses upon command and there was no teaching, he just started going, we named it and now he does it upon command.
We haven’t taught this to our lab yet, I am afraid he wouldnt be gentle
My dogs don’t know this trick
Our dog Jake does know this one.
no, my dogs do not do this yet, but this is freaking adorable!
My dog knows kiss very well!
We call it poke, but yes.
My dog doesn’t know this trick but she does lick on us is that the same?
Cute trick! We do hugs but learned that all on our own. Never thought about kiss on command.
She doesn’t know this trick but she know how to lick us when shes happy
my girls are great at this, they love to kiss. one of them even tried to french kiss. i just make a little noise with my lips and they want to kiss.
Our new puppy was born on 10/19 so he doesn’t know any tricks yet but we have high expectations for him.
My baby loves to give kisses.
My dog does know this. I just say kisses and here they come!
Yes for us it’s point but we do it.
Such an amazing trick! Thank you for sharing it. My dog doesnt know it yet, but I can try to teach him.
Yes, this is a favorite.
My dog does kiss! She just taught herself, haha!
yeah my dog was born knowing how to kiss- he does not need a trick for this!
My dog only gives kisses when she wants feels like it so I haven’t taught her this trick.
Petals the Pug knows no tricks. She is a wild child. Ugh
No, he doesn’t know how to do that.
My older dog knows kiss. Sometimes when he doesn’t want to kiss us but I want a kiss he’ll put a little snarl face on but still give us kisses, it’s funny. Our puppy doesn’t care to kiss us, no matter how much we ply him with treats.
my dogs both know this trick(: I like this one the most
No neither of our dogs know this trick, but it sure is adorable.
No…my dogs do not know this trick.
My dog doesn’t know this trick but I think she could learn. She would do just about anything for a treat, ha.
Grady gets really excited about this trick!
Odin knows this trick and uses it when he wants something. He also does it on command.
My dog does not know this trick.
My dog already knows this one!
My cat liked dog does this all the time even without treats!!
My dog does not know this trick.
This looks like a fun trick, but I haven’t taught my dogs yet.
Oh my goodness, Kiska is gorgeous! My dog, Bentley, doesn’t know this yet. I will definitely have to teach him this one!
Nope not yet! We got him a few months ago so pretty soon we’ll start teaching tricks!
I don’t teach my dog the trick, but he always “kiss” me when I’m home with excitement. He’s good at reaching my kips. Perhaps he just wants to show his happiness. Thank you for the tutorial!
Kiska is so cute!!
My dogs kiss freely when asked…lol…Probably from me always asking over and over.
My puppy learned this on his own that when I kiss his cheek, he licks mine in return! 😀
I’m looking forward to teaching Coco “touch.”
my daughter taught my dog how to do this and i like that he gives a one lick kiss and not a full on slobber attack 🙂 so cute!
My dog doesn’t know this trick
My dogs don’t know this cool trick!
My dog is currently learning “Kiss”. Sometimes she offers her paw instead 🙂
My dog knows this trick but doesn’t know when to stop. LOL
My dog doesn’t do any tricks.
My youngest just did this naturally
Yes Roxy can give kisses on command
Both Nala and Cody know this trick but you have to be careful because if they get to excited they might nibble your nose.
My one dog already gives kisses so I don’t really have to teach it.
Cool trick! I can try this with a few of my grooming clients
My dogs do not know this trick. I’d love to try it in the future, though. 🙂
No my dog does not know this trick but I think it waould be easy to teach now.
I taught my dogs to kiss by smacking my lips at them! Haha! 🙂
My dog does not know this trick, but these are great tips!
No, my pup, Don, does not know this trick.
I’m looking forward to teaching Nancy “touch.”
I used to have a dog who knew this. I’d say “give me kissy-poo” and he would. LOL!
My dog does know this. She likes to do it on her own, so I just put a word to it and used a happy voice to encourage her.
No- my dog only knows how to roll over. I adopted her when she was an older dog……so no new tricks.
Sounds like a fun giveaway! Too bad I missed it. My dog doesn’t know this trick anyways though.