I have a french bulldog/goldendoodle mix, and I've had him for almost the entire 2 years he's been alive. I am in no way a dog trainer, but when he was in his teenage monster phase I had a condition that limited my ability to play with him, so I burned his energy through training. I learned that he's a very smart little man and he picked up tricks really fast. As of now he knows sit, stay, leave it, paw, spin, hug, dance, sit pretty, centre, left/right, lay down, roll over, up, off, kiss, seek, wait/cross (the street), back up, bark, whisper, growl, bow, yes/no, catch, and even my roommate's name. The only trick I have failed to teach him is drop it, but he never takes anything he's not allowed to have anyways so I'm not concerned about that one. I learned how to teach him all of these tricks from googling how to do it, and he's never needed anything more than that.
I don't train him as much anymore because I now have the ability to play with him long enough to tire him out, but he seems to miss the enrichment. We reinforce the ones he already knows, but he's been learning something new almost constantly for over a year and now that he's not, he seems bored. The problem is, I honestly don't know what else to teach him. Do you guys recommend any (free?) guides that detail how to train more elaborate tricks?
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