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Teaching Handsome to jump into my arms

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Uploaded by on Jan 1, 2008

I had to replace the original song for this video with Audio Swap... it was the best I could find in the limited selection.

In the beginning, Handsome would only put his front paws on my lap. I then lifted him on my lap to let him know what I wanted. Eventually he jumped on my lap and he received more than just praise, but the disc thrown. Once he had confidence to jump on my lap, I moved up to more pillows to change the angle. Eventually the angle was like standing, so I skipped the chair and leaned back with one leg extended.

Some stuff to practice on before getting started;

Make sure your dog doesn't mind sitting on your lap. You can always start on the floor and work your way up to a chair for practice. Make sure your dog doesn't mind being picked up and being held. Some just like four on the floor better.

I taught this to Gorgeous when she was six months old which only took 15 minutes. I never tried much with Handsome because I always thought he was too big to handle. Well I did it and I'm very proud! He maybe took a little over 30 minutes to learn the behavior.

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  • Very cute video. I love the " joyful energy" of your dogs and cats when you are training ! You are having fun and so are they.

  • @djsmithppp Awww, thank you very much. We always have a good time training... cats too!

  • I love this! I've always wanted to end our agililty runs with my bc jumping into my arms....on my way now to put on a pair of jeans and start training.

  • @tmhodge01 YAY!!!!!  Good luck!

  • my dog knows how to do this but wat im looking for is i want my dog to jump on my back and jump off when im on my knees and jump off somthing like leapfrog

  • @AndrewJThomas97 I belong to the Dallas Dog Disc Club and there is a training section on how to teach your dog to vault off of you. Go to the website and look for the Training tab.

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  • I love your video! I used it to teach my dog Zoe to jump into my arms and I really appreciate you posting it!!!

  • Omg I freaking love this video ! It's so cute ! By the way you have a veryyy cute pack ;)

  • Awwww. I love how handsome puts that one paw over your arm when he jumps up there. Too cute. <3

  • Thanks, i enjoyed watching this and ill try with my dog.

  • i love bochel in the background :D

  • can you send me a message on how you got your cat to jump up. I am in the process of training my two 11 week old kittens. I would love for them to do that soon. p.s. They can jump high enough, I'm positive :)

  • You are sooo cool with your dogs - and cat!! Love it!! :)

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