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How I teach my dogs to jump hurdles

  
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Gray Dawn- Treader

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Barked: Sat Mar 8, '08 9:51pm PST 
Cookie took much longer to teach. I think because when I did her I wasn't using a clicker, nor did I understand what a clicker was. Of course, Treader is smarter than her, IMO.
Anyways, I start out with a "hurdle", usually a metal bar sitting on top of two things. The dog can't go around the hurdle. I am one side, the dog on the other. I tell the dog to come. If the dog tries to go under the bar, I don't let him. I click when the dog goes over it. Once, I'm sure that the dog understands this, I add the cue "over". I teach the dog with my self in different places. Sometimes on the same side as the dog, sometimes on the separate side, or standing right next to the hurdle. Then I set it up so that the dog can go around the hurdle, but when he tries I don't let him. He figures out that he must go over after a few minutes.
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ARCHMX Asher- RL1X RL2X- RL3X RL

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Barked: Sun Mar 9, '08 8:15am PST 
The only thing I would add is that you can make your hurdles with either double bars or some othere barrier that prevents the dog from going under.
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Gray Dawn- Treader

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Barked: Sun Mar 9, '08 9:20pm PST 
I don't really have any way to that. So today I figured out the next best thing: drape chicken wire over the jump. Like in my new main photo.
It looks like a chainlink fence though.big laugh

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Sadie Mae *- CGC - SD *

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Barked: Tue Mar 11, '08 8:25am PST 
One way I have found to get my dogs to go over hurdles is to lay the pole on the ground and lure them across it and click-reward do this until they just step over. Then I lay 2 bricks down and set the pole on them and repeat luring clicking and rewarding. keep doing this raising the bar a little at a time. At first it is so low that they cannot go under so I don't worry about them making a mistake.
I break in between and do some other fun exercises to keep them from getting bored.
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Sparky- Winker Bean

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Barked: Thu May 29, '08 5:10pm PST 
hi there every one!
I'm new and just giving you another idea... but have you tryed having him jump thrue a hula-hoop its easyer to handle (setting on the floor and slowly moving up)... if you do try this stand in the front (side) of hoop and offer treat or favorit toy and as he goes thrue say the command and also I never really cared but my fur brother (doobie) is scared of the ones that make noise...but like I said I never really cared... and after he is fine with that move to hurdles (I don't have hurdels but my sissy has had me jump over poles and sticks I whould think its the same)

this looks like a fun group! my sissy is always teaching me new tricks!
see ya latter
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Cash TT

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Barked: Fri May 30, '08 1:27pm PST 
Oo- I never thougth about using a hula-hoop! How fun that would be!
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ARCHMX Asher- RL1X RL2X- RL3X RL

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Barked: Fri May 30, '08 5:26pm PST 
We actually worked the hula hoop from being on the floor to being set up like a hurdle, in small increments, of course, so Ash jumps hurdles and through the hoop.

I wonder if I should try getting him to jump through a rigng of fire thinking but I guess that would add up in hula hoop expenses laugh out loud
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Cash TT

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Barked: Mon Jun 9, '08 3:45pm PST 
you know, with some craftyness, some tissue paper and a fan, you could make it "look" like fire. That could be fun!
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Firefly

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Barked: Tue Jun 17, '08 11:01am PST 
I taught Fly to jump through hurtles by getting a long pole 3 inches above the ground, and walking Fly over it on a leash. She hopped proficiently, and soon it went from 3 to 5 to 6. At first she didn't want to jump, so I lowered it even more to about a half of an inch and she step over it. Then after repetition, she got better and better. And we moved the height up.

Soon she stopped needing the leash. I started out low for convenience of the the dog, and so she would stop trying to got under. Soon I could point at a 10 inch jump and say "Jump!" and she would leap across the hurtle. I would always reward with a treat afterward.
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Chance

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Barked: Sun Sep 28, '08 1:41pm PST 
Just some suggestions for equipment. I bought one of those long plastic noodles that are used in swimming pools. I cut it in half and with 2 'T' shaped pieces of PVC pipe made a hurdle for my dachshund. I also bought a bunch of the long reflectors you might put along a driveway. I use those for weave poles. There's no reason you couldn't pole holes in the ends of the noodles and put the reflector poles thru the holes, stacking the noodles to form a hurdle. Also, I straddled the hurdle and lured Chance over it until he got the idea. Then we practice in the park over the concrete barriers in the parking lot. Hope my ideas are helpful.
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