ok ive bought every book i can out of bowerstone read it had the lil pop up BUT my dog doesnt "know" the tricks, am i doing something wrong?
 i came across a trasure hunter book to make him more skilled at finding stuff and it worked but ones i have bought arent showing.

These tricks will display as being learned in your Logbook under Dog. They don't appear on the Expression Wheel, if that's what you're talking about. A learned trick will have a green circle next to it, while an unlearned trick will have a red circle next to it. You have to perform one of the correlating hero expressions to get your dog to do the trick. For example, if you come on to somebody with an expression, your dog will perform Beg, that is if I remember correctly.

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Go to where it shows your your corruption/purity and / level(forgot where) somewhere int hat list has the books your dog learned. I think it says your dog learned the trick again even if it already knew it, its possible your teaching it tricks it already knows.

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You must perform an expression and the dog will play along with you depending on the trick you have taught him, there is nothing on the wheel or he won't randomly do so.

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yeah i figured it out late last night after taking the time to read the lil pop ups and how some tricks have to be started by me doin something. the odd thing is we both learned play dead... but my dog wont.
any one know if there is a list out there that give all details of "hero does this, dog will do this"? i haven tried looking just yet, the idea just came to mind.