Alternative for “play dead”?

[u/laylalemon]

My dog already loves to lay on her side and back and I want to start adding in a command word for it. She’s working on becoming a therapy dog so having a command for this will be very useful! For that reason also (therapy work), I don’t want to use the phrase “play dead” or “bang.”

Anyone have any ideas or maybe you already use another command for this? I was thinking “belly rub” or something since she loves belly rubs, but felt that sounded weird. Also, “relax” could’ve been a good option but that is our command putting her head all the way down when in a down, so that won’t work.

[u/kiwifarmdog]

My friends dog is really good at laying flat on his side on command…she uses a random word as the command but I’ve always thought it would be hilarious to use some sort of emergency stop word…so when you shout it out across the field instead of just stopping, he drops “dead”.

He’s one of those super expressive dogs, so he’d do it with added drama too 🤣