How to teach a golden retriever to play dead? First, make a simulated gunshot sound and gently push the golden retriever down to let it lie down. After the golden retriever lies down, you can give verbal praise or snack rewards until the owner gives the command to get up. Use passwords and certain commands. Repeat training with rewards until the golden retriever's conditioned reflex is developed.

First of all, let the golden retriever learn to lie down. This task is relatively simple. If the golden retriever will not fall down on its own, we can gently push the golden retriever down with our hands and cooperate with the instruction to lie down. The difficulty is that the golden retriever must cooperate with the gunshot and lie down in time. After we shoot, that is, after simulating the sound of shooting, if the golden retriever does not fall down, we need to push it down with our hands and comfort it.

Make it feel like lying down is a pleasure. After lying down, you can give a certain amount of caress or reward. Over time, it will be able to associate the sound of gunshots with lying down, without having to give a "password".

Let the golden retriever lie down and don’t move around. This is the key to the success or failure of the golden retriever's show of pretending to be dead. If the golden retriever is "resurrected" without the owner's order, then the performance will obviously become a comedy. When the golden retriever lies down, it will try to get up after a while. At this time, you have to say no to it and press it down again. After it lies down quietly, give it food encouragement.

Through this kind of practical guidance training, Golden Retriever can quickly understand how to "pretend to be dead" and how to "pretend to be dead" when the owner gives instructions. As long as parents can insist on training the golden retriever and cultivate the golden retriever to form a conditioned reflex, training the golden retriever to "pretend to be dead" can be successful.