I'm doing some trick training now w/Gibbs. Working on 'take a bow' (stretch his front legs out and put his head on the ground) and, separately, putting his front feet on my feet, then taking a couple steps w/me.
His first walk in the morning is SO VERY EXCITING! (and by this point, he's usually been out to the yard to relieve himself at least 2x, so urgency is not part of the problem.) He tries to 'help' me put on my shoes by rubbing up against my legs to provide encouragement and speed things up a bit. I may, from time to time, speak harshly to him to get him to GO LAY DOWN.
This morning he tried a different strategy. First, he did the bow/stretch, right over the shoe I was trying to tie. When I repeated the GO LAY DOWN cue, he promptly put his front feet on my feet. Only one of which had a shoe on it.
I couldn't help myself, burst into laughter and am laughing about it again as I describe the scene. Gibbs keeps me smilin'.
Ruth & Gibbs
ETA: He just did it again, while I was trying to get my outdoor shoes off and my comfy inside slippers on. No quit in this dog.