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Ways to teach my dog some cool tricks?

My dog is 18 months old and very playful but has a pretty short attention span. She’s treat-motivated, but not interested too much in other kinds of rewards. I know that she isn’t "stupid" but she does have a difficult time understanding what I want from her, where other dogs I’ve had in the past (an Australian shepherd and a Sheltie) were very quick to catch on to what I wanted them to do. She’s a Border Collie/Chow mix.

I don’t know if it’s because of her personality, or the fact that she’s still young, or possibly the way I train her, but she has a hard time catching on to more complex commands.

Right now she sits, stays, shakes, lays, comes, goes, and speaks on command. She also picks up toys/sticks and jumps into water on command. However, I just can’t seem to get her to roll over. She flops to one side but doesn’t grasp the concept of completing the roll.

How can I teach her to follow through with rolling over?

What are some other cool tricks or commands I can teach her, and how do I go about doing that? Is there anything I can do to improve her focus?

I know it sound like she’s done enough to prove she can focus, but she really does have a difficult time understanding me. Most things she’s just done accidentally and then I praise her for it and eventually she connects the cues with the action, but rolling over is not something she’s likely to do on her own so I can’t take the same approach.

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some cool dog tricks :-)?

my dog knows how to sit down,lay down,dance,spin,bang(play dead),bow,sit up,rollover,speak, and high five.he knows how to shut the door and rings a bell when he wants to go out.he knows where his treats are and his toys.he can carry things in his mouth and brings it to me like shoes,water bottles,and alot of other things.so i would say he is a pretty smart dog.i just want to know if there are any other tricks out there for him to learn.thanks