How To Of The Day: How To Teach Your Dog To Jump Rope

Impress your friends at parties by teaching your dog to jump rope!

Step by step training using positive reinforcement training.
“Poisoning” the rope means the dog comes to associate it with bad feelings like punishment.
See our ‘Equipment for Dog Skipping‘ video.

If you cannot capture the jumping up try using nose targeting with your hand or a stick. Lifting it higher and higher until the dog has to jump for it. See my video on training a nose target.

How to Teach Your Dog to Jump Rope
 

Joke Of The Day: At The Zoo

Rubber Chicken A man started a new job at a zoo. He was given his first job by the zoo owner – to clean out the large tropical fish tank, which contained many exotic species.

While removing some gravel from the tank with his spade, he accidently hit one of the fish and killed it. Worried about losing his job for this mistake, he decided to hide the evidence. He took the fish and fed it to the lions because lions eat anything.

The zoo owner did not notice the missing fish and gave the man a new job – to muck out the chimps. He was in the middle of mucking out when two of the chimps became a bit over familiar and, in an attempt to get them away the man lashed out with his spade, killing two chimps. In his panic he decided to hide the evidence and fed the unfortunate chimpanzees to the lions because lions eat anything.

The zoo owner was pleased with the man’s work and as his final task for the day he asked him to collect honey from the zoo’s beehives. The man tried hard to do this without upsetting the bees, but some got angry and stung him. He grabbed his spade and whirled it above his head, squashing and killing several dozen bees. Plagued with guilt, he fed these to the lions as well because lions eat anything.

The next day, a new lion arrived at the zoo. He inquired of the existing residents “what’s the food like here?” One of the zoo’s resident lions said, “Oh, it’s great. Only yesterday we had fish, chimps and mushy bees.”

 

 

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