Neb's Visual Guide to Petz Tricks
Trick Guide & References
Trick training is a wonderful part of the game, and offers a new way of bonding with your pixel petz. This guide aims to provide general trick training insights and complimentary visual animation references, supplementing the existing trick guides made by Spider and Thor and updating some gaps. A special shoutout to Reflet for all their work analyzing .pet files, giving us a glimpse into the mechanics of tricks! Details on trick titles & hosting trick shows can be found at UKC.
General Info on Trick Training
Cues are defined in this guide as the different gestures you can prompt tricks with, done by waggling the treat. There are 5 cues, as illustrated above - Up, Down, Left, Right and Toy.
For each of the cues labelled above, a pet has the capacity to learn 3 tricks. It is common practice however to fill all 3 slots with one trick, to guarantee it will be performed. Below is a tabulated example of what a pet's trick repertoire might look like for one treat category.
There are 5 categories of training treats from the original game (shown below), with trick slots allocated to each cue for that treat category (e.g for the Chicken treats → the Up cue → Cartwheel trick). Be aware that treats in the same category (e.g beef & bone treats ) will overlap each other's trick slots! The healthy treats cannot be used for trick training ✘
In summary: there are 5 categories of treats in the original game that can be used to trick train. For each category, there are 5 cues you can prompt, and for each cue there are 3 potential slots for tricks. This means that if you're teaching one trick per cue/treat, the max no. of tricks a dog can learn at a time is 25 tricks (out of 36 total dog tricks). Catz have a total of 15 tricks.
Trick Summary
Dogz Tricks - 36
Note: Balance on Toy and Bounce on Toy are seperate tricks (same plan ID but different action ID), whereas the Nose Toss trick appears to be an advanced progression of the Nose Balance trick (both tricks have the same Plan ID and same Action ID). I have included the Nose Toss trick here for completeness, but it is not counted as a standalone trick.
Catz Tricks - 15
Dog Tricks 🐕
Note some tricks are more difficult to learn for dogs, depending on their Acrobaticness. These specific tricks will have an (A) next to it to signify this.
| ⬆ Up | Animation |
|---|---|
| Short Jump |  |
| High Jump |  |
| Beg |  |
| Backflip (A) |  |
| Sideflip (A) |  |
| One legged stand (A) |  |
| Stand on Hindlegs (A) |  Dogz stand up, take one step, then fall back down |
| Walk on Hindlegs (A) |  can be differentiated from Stand on Hindlegs by dog taking 2 or more steps. |
| Heel Click (A) |  →  Dogz can click their heels up to 3 times! (See above) |
| Kickback (A) aka Horse Kick |
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| Headstand (A) |  |
| Handstand (A) |  |
| Screen Slide (A) |  |
| Cartwheel (A) |  |
| Down ⬇ | Animation |
|---|---|
| Sit |   The same trick can present with a panting or calm face. |
| Lie Down (Alert) |  |
| Lie Down (rest) |  |
| Dirt Roll / Roll in Dirt |  |
| Wave (A) |  |
| Play Dead (A) |  |
| Left/Right ➡ | Animation |
|---|---|
| Rollover |  |
| Shuffle aka Sidestep |
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| Hop |  |
| Somersault (A) |  |
| Jump (A) |  |
| Wall Slide (A) |  |
| Toy | Animation |
|---|---|
| Fetch Toy |  |
| Balance on Toy |  |
| Bounce on Toy (A) |  |
| Nose Balance (A) |  |
| Nose Toss (A) |  |
Notes
- For the Balance on Toy task, bigger dogz may have trouble balancing on smaller balls (e.g the star ball)
- For the Nose Balance & Nose Toss tasks, using toyz/balls bigger than the star ball & blue/red ball (such as the soccer ball) results in the toy overlapping the dog's muzzle.
Cat Tricks 🐈
Cat tricks can only be performed by 100 Dogginess cats, also known as Tricksters!
| ⬆ Up | Animation |
|---|---|
| Backflip |  |
| Bounce |  |
| Plead |  |
| Speech |  |
| Peekaboo |  |
| Down ⬇ | Animation |
|---|---|
| Jump Splat |  |
| Spin |  |
| Crouch |  |
| Left/Right ➡ | Animation for right |
|---|---|
| Somersault |  |
| Jump |  |
| Flying Leap |  As petz get more experienced, they can do double leaps (like Jonquil does here!) |
| Toy | Animation |
|---|---|
| Fetch Toy |  |