newbuzz...My dog has learned to shake hands. Specifically, he has shaken my hand three times. He did this after no less than four years of training and an eight pound bag of cat food, given one kibble at a time. I don't know why he fights me on this. It is clear that he can hear me talking. He can see me holding out my hand. I think he knows what I want. Yet, he sits there time after time with a blank look on his face. At one point, he began to whine every time I gave the command to "shake". I think he was trying to ask why, but my daughter thinks he was saying "I don't want to". In any case, just as I was ready to give up again, he threw his paw in the air and shook my hand. It was like a mercy shake; I think he really felt sorry for me. We all clapped and cheered because it was so exciting. He repeated the same scenario three times yesterday -three shakes in all. It occurs to me that only one of us is stressing out about this. He has the upper hand and I realize that he is much smarter than he looks.