This is an interesting command. Herein you can train your dog/puppy to find you or your family members and deliver things to them.

You can begin with your parents. Let your Dad stand holding her by the collar and have your Mom hold her by the leash. You should place yourself about six feet away. Tell your dog to “Find Mom”. At the same time, your Dad can release the collar and your Mom can pull the leash towards her enabling her to find her.

Reward her when she reaches your Mom. After successfully teaching her this, you can try the other way round. Let Dad hold the leash and let Mom hold her collar. When you can tell her to “Find Dad”, let Mom release the collar and simultaneously let Dad pull the leash towards him. This will teach your dog to look for Dad.

Thereafter you can train her to find the Dad and Mom without pulling the leash. Reward her generously after every successful attempt. In the next step, you can repeat the training with Dad or Mom in different locations of the house.

Slowly you can use the names of other family members in a similar exercise. Once she has mastered the art of finding anybody in the family, teach her how to deliver goods to others. You can achieve this by putting a paper in her mouth and tell her “Give Mom” or something similar. Encourage her to give the paper to Mom and reward her on doing that successfully.

Here again you have to train her to deliver the objects within the same room and gradually increase the difficulty. This can be followed up with something different and giving the same command. Therefore, she will associate the command with the trick and deliver anything to anyone.

This is a utilitarian command where you can ask your dog to fetch the newspaper from the driveway.

Fold an old copy of your newspaper and tape it securely for practice. Encourage your puppy to take an interest in it. Reward her with food and appreciative gestures when she begins to take an interest in the newspaper. When she tries to play with the paper and tries picking it up, associate it with the verbal command “Fetch”.

Keep the paper in the plastic bag that it comes in and use the command again. Reward her after she picks up the paper. You have to be careful to reward her after she has picked up the paper.

You can now place the treat strategically in your hand so that she has to drop the newspaper in your other hand to get the treat. This way she will learn that the treat comes only after she has retrieved and then released the newspaper.

Once your dog/puppy begins to understand the command, take her to the porch and keep the paper at a distance of few feet away from her. Repeat the process with treat in your hand and encourage her to bring the paper to you.

Shake the paper and try to make her take interest in it if she seems confused. Once she picks up the paper successfully, you can continue to increase the distance until the newspaper is at the driveway where your newspaper carrier delivers it and you can issue the command from within the house.

Reward her every time she makes a successful attempt and gradually you can reduce the frequency of the rewards, as your puppy gets perfect with the command. It is important that you do not allow her to tear up the paper even when you are training her with old and used newspapers.

Warn her with a firm and stern” NO” if she tries to tear the newspaper. Over a period, you could train her to fetch other things like ball or a handkerchief.

Most dogs love to jump. However, you can make effective use of her inherent jumping abilities for acrobatic jumps and jumping through  hoops. Before you can teach your puppy to jump through a hoop, get her to jump over a straight barrier. Select a low height barrier in the initial sessions. Generally, you should keep the barrier at a height of one inch less than half of your dog’s height.

It is important to get a check up done on your dog to ensure that she does not have any physical problems. This will help in preventing any physical injuries that your dog may face during the jumping training.

Once you have the barrier in place, let your dog check it out. Discourage her from chewing the barrier. Do not push her into jumping. Encourage her to take the jump and reward her after the successful jump. Reward her even when she makes an effort for jumping.

This will make the process interesting for her. If your puppy is reluctant to jump, first let her walk over the barrier. After a few sessions, repeat the training and induce her to attempt to jump over the barrier. You should use verbal command “Jump” when she is about to proceed for jumping.

If you want your pooch to jump through a hoop, a good idea is to use a hula-hoop. You can keep the hoop on the ground and encourage her to go through it a few times before you train her to jump through the hoop. You can reward her with food rewards and verbal praises even when she walks through the hoop.

Once she goes through it comfortably, let someone hold the hoop and use the same process and verbal command that you had used earlier trying to make her jump through the hoop. This will help her understand what you expect of her. Sometimes it might take a while before your pooch masters the art of jumping.

Have patience and continue with your efforts. Later on, you can use the command “Over” to make her jump over the barrier and “Through” to make her jump through the hoop.