I was trying to teach Logan to shake hands...first by touching the back of his paw/wrist in an annoying way, waiting to mark any movement. He is rock solid, won't budge. I tried other annoy tactics, like poking his foot. Picking his paw up does nothing, I desensitized him for nail trimming that way.

Any ideas?

I haven't tried luring his head to one side. (Ha, maybe I just answered my question)

I taught both my dogs a high five one rainy afternoon. This what I did.

One dog naturally picks up her paw at me to try to get me to pay attention to her when she gets bored..so I just marked it when she swatted at me with her paw then put up my hand palm out so that she hit my hand when she pawed at me & marked it. After her doing that a few times I just told her 'high five' & marked it when she did. Done. Only took a couple of minutes to teach her.

My other dog I had him sit in front of me, picked up his paw to touched my palm & marked it. Then I just held up my hand & he did it. I marked it each time & then after a few times I told him 'high five' when he did it I marked it. Then I started to ask for it & when he did it I maked it. Done.

Both of my dogs learn new things very quickly. Although my female learns things quicker then my male...he retains things better sometimes. Just not as crazy high drive as she is..so she learns it & then she sometimes needs to brush up on it another time whereas when he gets it, it's learned,period. Took 5 min.

Taught him to crawl one rainy afternoon when we were bored in about 5 min. I didn't think to ask him again for it until a few weeks later out at the field & he just did it when I asked. I had figured that I would have to reteach it, especially since dogs don't usually generalize..but he did. Sometimes he surprizes me.

Stupid pet tricks are the stuff I do on rainy days.

Have you tried the step forward method? While standing place a box in front of him and encourage him to step forward, mark the moment that the front paw raises to go on the box but before he shifts his weight on to it

I had tried that...but neither of my dogs would make the connection....even though they do touch pads. Maybe if I had a higher box it would have worked..but I didn't.

Thanks everyone.

I haven't tried it today, we were doing nosework. He used to claw my hands (among other lovely things) when I was teaching the shell game. I taught him that was undesirable, might be part of it. Maybe he'll get the box idea or even a small paw target.