Training to catch a frisbee???

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Is there any way you can train a dog to catch a frisbee? I am trying to get Georgia to. I don't know if running around in circles, with the frisbee in your hand, waiting for her to get it out of your hand is a good method? Any other suggestions?

[BC_MoM]

What kind of frisbee do you have? Hard or soft? I suggest soft... most dogs prefer them to hard.

Also, don't play with the frisbee until she gets bored or tired and wanders off.. play with her for a couple minutes and put away so she looks forward to playing with it next time.

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I have a soft frisbee... one of those squirrel ones. Thanks, you've been awesome help to me

[BCollie_Kelly]

I'm going to echo Jess. Both of my borders prefer the soft frisbees to the hard ones.

As for catching a frisbee, I'll tell you what I did with my Rebel. You wont believe me when I say this, but when Rebel was younger he showed no interest what so ever in the frisbee. We would throw it and he would just look at it and then run to find a tennis ball. Now he jumps over 5 feet in the air to catch them.

First you have to get her interested in the frisbee. Does she like to play fetch? If she does great! What I started off doing was just throwing the frisbee and having him bring it back to me. As soon as I saw a spark of interest with him, I began to throw it no longer then a few feet of so, so that he could catch up to it and be right under it. That led to him at least trying to open his mouth to try and catch it.

Once he got the hang of catching it when I threw it short distances, I slowly increased the distance I threw the frisbee,[ still lower to the ground, not too high-- by it being lower to the ground, he just had to jump straight out in front of himself to catch it]

As he became better at catching it that way I gradually started throwing it further and higher. By playing frisbee with him, I've notice he has gotten *alot* faster-- always getting there to catch it.

Now I have a dog who is completely nuts for frisbees

Here are a few pictures of him with his frisbee now;

[BC_MoM]

^ SHOW OFF.

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

I did the same think as BCollie_Kelly described and it didn't take long as Tango was obsessed with retrieving and jumping from the start but a lot of that is her breeds, my last Rottweiler Echo took quite a while to teach but it did work. And, just because this is a frisbee thread, I thought I'd post a couple of Tango's frisbee pics (although, they aren't very good quality thanks to my camera).







Good luck with Georgia!

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I'm going to echo Jess. Both of my borders prefer the soft frisbees to the hard ones.

As for catching a frisbee, I'll tell you what I did with my Rebel. You wont believe me when I say this, but when Rebel was younger he showed no interest what so ever in the frisbee. We would throw it and he would just look at it and then run to find a tennis ball. Now he jumps over 5 feet in the air to catch them.

First you have to get her interested in the frisbee. Does she like to play fetch? If she does great! What I started off doing was just throwing the frisbee and having him bring it back to me. As soon as I saw a spark of interest with him, I began to throw it no longer then a few feet of so, so that he could catch up to it and be right under it. That led to him at least trying to open his mouth to try and catch it.

Once he got the hang of catching it when I threw it short distances, I slowly increased the distance I threw the frisbee,[ still lower to the ground, not too high-- by it being lower to the ground, he just had to jump straight out in front of himself to catch it]

As he became better at catching it that way I gradually started throwing it further and higher. By playing frisbee with him, I've notice he has gotten *alot* faster-- always getting there to catch it.

Now I have a dog who is completely nuts for frisbees

Here are a few pictures of him with his frisbee now;

Thank you so much Kelly for your time, I am definetly going to do that and lets hope I'll get her to jump like your beautiful Rebel!

[wolfsoul]

I started getting Visa into frisbees last year in an effort to make her good enough to enter the flying disc competition this year. She hated the plastic frisbee, she was afraid to catch it in her mouth. So I bought a soft one. I would throw it, but she would just wait for it to land and then pick it up. So since we are avid clicker trainers, I had her stand in front of me and I tossed the frisbee near her and clicked and treated her for every time she caught it. She caught on well, and tried to catch it every time I threw it far. Hopefully we place in the competition this year.