Trick information found in the Nintendogs instruction manual
A Trick (Japanese: 芸 Gei) is an action that a dog of any breed can perform throughout the Nintendogs series in response to a voice command. Your dog will need a variety of Tricks in its repertoire to get to a higher level in the Obedience Trial. As the dog moves up levels, the tricks it learns will get harder to memorize and the rewards will be greater.
Nintendogs includes a Dog Training Book in the Care category of the player's Supplies explaining how they can teach their dog tricks.
Teaching Tricks[]
A Shiba Inu learning a voice command
Dogs can learn tricks when called over and interacted with by the player-- or if the dog naturally performs an action while the player is on the home screen (Nintendogs). When a dog performs an action, a lightbulb icon will appear in the top right-hand corner of the touch screen. Pressing it will allow the player to speak the command into the microphone. If they repeat this process enough times, the dog will learn to perform the trick whenever the player says that specific word into the microphone.
Dogs will only learn/perform a trick if it is spoken with a consistent tone and with the same word every time the player says it.
When teaching a new trick, all training is isolated to the day that it is done. If the dog does not learn the trick on that day, then its progress will reset the next day. A dog can learn a maximum of three tricks daily.
Troubleshooting[]
If your dog keeps doing one trick instead of the one you want, relearn whichever trick you've trained less, but use words for those commands with different intonation and syllabic structure. That way, the dog will stop confusing the voice commands.
In Nintendogs + Cats, if you taught a trick wrong, you can delete it and relearn it like nothing happened-- as long as it's still the day you first learned that trick, you can delete and relearn it as many times as you want.
List of Tricks[]
The first trick your dog will learn is Sit, at the beginning of the game.
A Jack Russell learning to jump in Nintendogs + Cats.
Nintendogs[]
- Main article: List of Tricks in Nintendogs
Nintendogs + Cats[]
- Main article: List of Tricks in Nintendogs + Cats
Trivia[]
- There is no way to reteach your dog its name.
- The more a trick is practiced, the faster the dog can perform it and the longer it can hold the action for.
- In Nintendogs, dogs can learn a maximum of 14 tricks.
- Practicing your dog's learnt tricks is an expedient way to earn the daily 200 Owner Points in Nintendogs + Cats.
- If you get enough Owner Points in Nintendogs + Cats, your dog can learn special tricks-- for example, when you get 1,000 owner points, your dog can learn to Beg, Handstand, and even Breakdance.
- American dog trainer Peter Goudanis provided reference points and animation advice for most of the tricks used in this game. He had recommended to add in a 'peanutbutter trick' but lead developer Garrett Chaplinsky noted publicly that the trick had to be scrapped before launch due to regional insensitivity.