Getting your Dog to say ‘Cheese’ for the picture perfect snap!

This Valentine’s Day, we’re running a competition over on our Facebook page to encourage all you pet owners to take some smiling snaps with your pet in an effort to be the lucky winner of a Petsafe Drinking Fountain. We absolutely adore  a dog’s smile and it can be hard not to laugh when they show us their big grin! By training your dog to smile on command, you can enjoy that adorable look whenever you like.

Here are our Top Tips to get your pet to cooperate, ready for the perfect smiling snap:

1. Encourage the smile: Try stroking your pet and rubbing their tummy to get your dog happy and relaxed. You should encourage the behaviour whenever you see it.
2. Reward the smile: Once you start to know when your dog’s mouth is forming a smile, start to reward it. Give him a treat and be over-the-top with praise whenever you see him smiling and you’ll begin to notice it more and more.
3. Give the smile a name: In the same way that you’d coo at a baby and shout CHEESE enthusiastically before opening your camera lens, try doing the same with your dog. This will teach your dog to respond to the chosen word by smiling, just like how you have taught him to sit on command.
4. Don’t distract from the smile: If you know there’s a specific location where your dog feels relaxed, practice the smile here. This way, his attention is on you and will be focussed on perfected that pearly white grin.

For more tips, follow us on Twitter and give us a like on Facebook.  Head over to Facebook now & enter our competition before 21.02.16.