Funny Dog Trick: Ninja Jack Russell Terrier Karate Kicks a Book | drsophiayin.com

[mit102390]

That was so amazing and adorable! I'm going to go to your site to see how to train my Cattle Dog to do this!

[luckybear3822]

lol that's so cute. :]

[InDogsWeTrust11]

I love it!

Just wonder Dr. Yin, Do you think it is ok to do hind exercises like this with a German Shepherd who appears to have good hips so far? Should I refrain from teaching him from doing exercises like walking on his hind legs?

[SuperBark1]

Should be fine, especially since he's not bearing weight on it (e.g. like walking on hind legs a lot and for a long period is not a good idea:-). Actually according to a canine physical therapist that I know, it would be considered good physical rehab exercise --a hip flexor extension.

Sophia

[InDogsWeTrust11]

@SuperBark1 Great-thanks for your response. Im going to defintiely get started on this one with my new GSD, as well as the somersault highlighted in your other video, he is pretty rolly already. :) Love this little guy in your video, he is SO cute!

[newbear95]

Cool trick!

[0360sawi]

Total klasse Leistung ! Dein JRT ist super ;-) 5*

[JustJesse197]

Excellent video. Your Jack is adorable! =) Jesse does this trick very similar to how your pup does. 5* ~Heather and Jesse~

[MglBaddBoi]

omg that is awesome, i need to train my 2 month old JRT like this

was it hard to train him/her?

[PETtellcom]

yes, great trick!

[Dashin92]

I've been teaching my dog karate kick for a week or so, we are starting to add on cue. :)

I'm interested in how you taught it, I did freeshaping, but it took forever at the beginning.

[SuperBark1]

I taught him to back up and put his hind end on a short foot stool. He had already learned in one session of free-shaping to stand on a stool.

Anyway, backing up to do this caused him to raise his leg which made it easier to capture. I will put full shaping steps on my web page at some point so hopefully anyone can do it with any dog:-)

[SuperBark1]

Not bad once I figured out how. Hint: free-shaping was not the quickest way:-).

[Squiggels0503]

Great Job, that looks like a hard trick to train!

[claudiahoyle]

amazing trick, really well done! :D