In police dog training, we can often see a cool training – “jumping back”. “Jumping back” is a training exercise in which the dog jumps over the back of the handler quickly and naturally on the handler’s command and sits in front of or behind the handler. Through “jumping back” training, the dog can develop the ability to jump over obstacles and jump according to the command. The main command of “jumping back” training is “come” and “jump”, and the hand signal is to point to the obstacle. Pre-preparation I. Preparation of training items 1. Choose toys or food that the dog likes, such as bouncy balls, wooden blocks, plastic toys that make sounds, larger individual food (such as bones, buns, tomatoes) and other training items that can be easily tied or hung. 2. Moderate two big trees, quiet bridge, deeper and narrower mound openings and so on. As the training difficulty increases, gradually choose open space or more complex environment for consolidation training. 2. Indoor: corridor, hallway, room door, etc. Training steps Phase I: Specific environment training Tie a live knot in the middle part of the long rope, put the two ends of the long rope on both sides of the obstacle or on the beam above, and adjust the height of the knot to about 40 cm-50 cm from the back of the head when the dog trainer squats to the lowest. cm-50 cm from the back of the head. When the dog’s possessiveness is at its peak, make the dog sit and delay at a distance of about 5m-7m from the knot, the dog trainer will quickly run to the knot and nestle the item inside the knot and swing it back and forth, while calling the dog’s name and squatting with his back to the dog, when the dog comes to his back, the dog trainer will give the jump command, the dog will jump to the item and jump over the trainer’s back, the trainer should Reward the dog adequately. After repeating and successfully completing the above procedure 2-3 times, adjust the height of the knot of the virtual embedded object to about 10cm-15cm from the back of the dog trainer’s head for training, after successfully completing 2-3 times, lower the knot to a place where the dog cannot see, and remove and hide the training object to make the dog jump over the back, and quickly throw the object for reward after jumping, accompanied by enthusiastic and strong verbal rewards. After successfully completing 3-5 times, rest and adjust after the dog has established the basic conditioned reflex. Phase 2: Open field or complex environment training, take the dog to an open field for full adjustment, choose a suitable position to make the dog sit and delay, the dog trainer is in the squatting position of an eagle spreading its wings at 5m-7m from the dog, call the dog to come and make the dog jump, make the dog sit behind the dog’s successful jump and throw objects for reward, gradually rise to a semi-squatting position, with each increase in difficulty, the reward should be more timely and adequate. As the training continues to deepen, the training environment should also be constantly changing, from quiet to complex; jumping back direction should also be changed, from back to front jump transition to jump from front to back, until the forward jumping back and backward jumping back can be completed naturally. Note 1. Training should be based on basic training such as sitting delay, articulation, etc. 2. Follow the principle of gradual training, the dog should bypass the trainer to articulate objects, should be patient to correct, not simple and rough to stimulate, in order to avoid the formation of bad contact. 3. 4. Do not adjust the dog trainer’s posture at will after the training is done, so that the dog will not be afraid to jump back. 5. Keep the dog highly excited during the training, and do not neglect the reward after the training is finished.
