Task 1 of the International Trick Dog Competition 2024 is all about bucket tricks
Here are 60+ ideas of tricks you can do with a bucket (or buckets) to get your creative juices flowing:
Please remember you can use anything else vaguely resembling a bucket: a flower pot, pan, basket, cups and even dog puddling pool!
1 Get into the bucket
2. Tidy the toys in the bucket
3. Paws up on upturned bucket
4 paws up
5. Turn them upside down and use as a cones to go around
6. Stack them as a stacking cups
7. Take objects out of the bucket
8 Put objects into the bucket
9 Hold the bucket
10 Carry the bucket
11 Perform other tricks while carrying the bucket
12. 2 paws up and elephant trick
13. Reverse around a bucket
14. Hind paws up on a bucket
15. Roll a ball into a bucket on it's side
16. Use the bucket as Basketball hoop
17. 2 paws up and say prayers
18. Put poles on the top and use as jumps, cavaletti or an obstacle course
19. Jump over a bucket
20. Weave a row of buckets
21. Bucket as a drum
22. Blow bubbles
23. Nose touch the bucket
24. Topple over
25. Roll the bucket on its side with nose or paws
26. Fake "pee" into a bucket
27. Help with household chores using the bucket
28. Paws touch the bucket
29. Jump over a row of buckets
30. Bring a drink can from a chiller bucket
31. Hold an empty bucket, lift the head up and pretend drink from it
32. Stack rings on the top of upside-down bucket
33. Step from one upside down bucket to another
34. Nose work tricks with buckets- hide a treat or an object in upside-down bucket and ask the dog to find it
35. Search for a hidden bucket
36. Hide behind a bucket
37. Put head inside a bucket
38. Wear a bucket (keep it safe and fun for the dog)
39. Sit on the top of a bucket
40 Spin on the top of a bucket
41. Sit pretty on the top of a solid stable bucket
42. Dig soil in a bucket or a pot
43. Use the bucket as a mark for distance work
44. Balance the bucket on the bum while doing a bow
45. Balance a small and stable cup or a bucket on head
46. Wait for a release cue to eat from the bucket
47. Paint on a bucket or a pot with a brush or leave your paint paw prints to decorate a bucket or a pot
48. Hide inside a large basket
49. Push a bucket or a basket
50 Pull a bucket or a basket
51. Hand the bucket onto something
52. Take the hanging bucket off something
53. Fill the bucket with water by either bringing a hosepipe to it or holding it by a tap
54. Search for treats in a bucket filled with balls of crumpled paper
55. Catch something thrown and put into a bucket
56. Identify a bucket touched by a handler or a member of the household
57. Bring a present or a message in a bucket to someone
58. Go around a bucket together with a handler at heelwork position.
59. Wrap a rope around a bucket by holding the rope in the mouth and going around a bucket
60. Put coins or tennis balls into a bucket
61. Figure of 8 weave around a pair of buckets or pots
For those who prefer to do trick without props, you can hold the bucket in your hand while performing other tricks with your dog!
The link to Task 1 of the International Trick Dog Competition is here: https://www.dogtalentassociation.com/itdc2024
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