“On Trust” and “Paid For” for is one of the earliest dog tricks that has been offering as much amusement as anything a dog can do from the early 1900s. It’s a great trick to teach your English Mastiff. It isn’t the easiest trick to be learned but it can be elaborated on and shown in a number of various ways to impress many people.
To teach your English Mastiff this trick, call your dog to you, allowing him to stand up or sit down, as he wishes, and hold his head stable with one hand, while you stabilize a treat on his nose.
Teach your English Mastiff the “on trust” trick
State to him, “On trust, on trust,” steadying and limiting his head from shifting using 1 hand and holding up a warining finger with the other and repeating the words, “On trust, on trust”.