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Anyone know of jumping games for dogs?
We've found out Jasper LOVES to jump. We're actually pretty sure he could jump one side of our fence (one side is a "regular" size wire type fence - other sides are the tall wooden fences).
We're hoping if anyone knows of some jumping 'games' for him - we think if we keep him occupied when we're outside/tire him out - have positive things for him to jump he won't want to jump the fence - if that makes sense.
So - anyone know of anything? Short of buying hurdles, I don't know what else to get!
Re: Anyone know of jumping games for dogs?
Not sure about the frisbee- he LOVES the ball, but he won't jump to catch it, he waits for it to hit the ground. Dakota, however, will catch things in the air.We recently tried the frisbee, but we had issues throwing it - not sure if it was the operator, or the frisbee that was the issue
the PVC pipe is a GREAT idea! Do you just arrange them and then leave them up? Did you have to coax your dog to "jump" at first? Or did he automatically know what to do?
There is a part of our yard which is really muddy (and narrow) so we've blocked it off with some pallets (maybe 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall) and he's always jumping it - seems like a piece of cake to him!
It has been REALLY hard trying to find games/toys/play games that Jasper enjoys. When we adopted him he didn't know how to play at all and was scared of H when he tried to play with him. Dakota has been teaching him play things and how to use toys. I'm really hoping he likes the jumping!
There are lots of directions for making jumps, just google agility jump directions. There are also some good books of jump games. One has suggestions of setting the jumps up like the letters of the alphabet and working through the alphabet of your dog going over jumps in the order that you want.
As for teaching a dog to jump, I did a few things. If you clicker train (or even if you have a short word like yes), you can stand at the side of the jump, facing the pole, with the dog at your side, hold out your hand to the opposite side of the jump, when he jumps over, click and reward. This is just working on one side of the jump at the pole.
Standing at the center of the jump, you can get him used to you using your hand to send him over the jump by teaching a figure 8. With your dog at your side, use the hand closest to his face and send him across the jump, having him go around the pole and back to your opposite side. I wanted my dog to just wrap around the pole so I would click and then treat when he was directly back at my knee again. It's a figure 8 because then you send with your other hand, the one that is now next to your dogs face.
Then I started with him jumping and me running along side. I put a word to it - like jump or over and I use my hand as a signal.
This isn't easy to describe, but there are a lot of videos on youtube if you want to look around.
If he looks at jumping as a reward, I would also use it as a great opportunity to train self control...he has to wait until you give the ok to start jumping.
Who knows, maybe he will really like it and you would want to try a for fun agility class.
I agree that agility would be a great fit for him
If he loves to jump and loves a ball there is also flyball.
As for the not catching the disc, sometimes you have to teach them that they can catch it instead of just retrieving it. Start with a disc in your hand and wave it around, encourage them to bite at it. When they grab it praise and release it. once they are always grabbing it offer it and release it a second before they grab it. Always have the dog to the side and hold the disc in front of you so you aren't tossing it at your dog. Then just up the ante by tossing it a bit and reward for trying to catch it in the air. Rolling a disc on its edge will also encourage them to track and grab before it falls.
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I agree with PP on the PVC dog jumps. We use them all the time and you make them different heights or combine to make a wide jump. I use to work with horses so I often set up jumps how I saw the horse's jumps set up.
There are tons of sites to google with easy directions.
When training to jump I use the command "over" when its a regular and if they they are doing a tire jump I use "through". I can now command my dog to "over" and she will jump even if there is no jump or obstacle. It's funny because she is jumping for no reason other then my command.
I like hearing what names for obstacles other people use. I use over for jumps, but a tire jump is "tire" for me and "through" means go through my legs.