Dog Tricks

HOOP TRICKS

Teaching a dog to jump through hoops is easy, fun, cheap entertainment.
And, they enjoy it, well into old age.
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We begin with a small home made hoop.*
It is much easier to teach jump throughs, varying the angles, broad jumps, and jump overs, before moving on to the larger hoola hoops.
doing simple jump throughs

and over
All of our dogs have enjoyed hoop play. A frisbee or tennis ball may be more exciting, but hoops are good stuff, or so they've told me.
And catch - a tennis ball.
This is not as easy as Tory makes it look.