How to teach your dog to Limp
This is a video on how to teach your dog to Limp using the clicker training method.
The old school way of training this behavior was to grab your dogs paw, restraining it while you walk forwards, and continue to do this until your dog doesn't put down their foot. Another way I saw in a book was to have your dog on a lead with their choke chain on, and loop it around their foot, so in order for the pain to be released on their neck, they had to raise their paw.
So INSTEAD, using the clicker training method, I will show you how to get your dog to figure it out all on their own! Not only is training like this fun for you and your dog, it is both mentally challenging for you and your dog. I can bet you that if you attempt this trick your dog will be taking a LOOONNNGGG nap afterwards! Mental stimulation is just as good at tiring out a dog as physical stimulation. 🙂
Keep sessions very short (3 min) and fun, it should take quite a few sessions on each of the steps to get the final behavior down, unless you have a three legged dog…
Happy Clicker Training!
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-Emily Splash! and Kiko
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Great stuff!!!! I love your ideas for training this without physical manipulation; don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do it without using those methods. I look forward to trying this one with Fuze as he gets older!
Tracy
AWESOME!! This is exactly how I have been teaching Jesse how to limp, and he is picking it up soooo much faster than when I used the other methods(I have never heard of the methods in the info feild though, that’s horrible!). I am so glad you posted this video, now others will have an awesome video to watch when starting this trick. 5*****!! ~Heather and Jesse~
Thanks, and good luck to you too! as well as all the awesome trainers here on youtube 🙂 AND congrats on Kaine’s stardom in the Word Wide Fido Contest! He is an amazing dog!
Thanks! I am simply astounded by your newest trick! Getting Jesse to ride the rocking horse. So creative and brilliant! Yeah, I tried the paw holding technique with my beagle years ago, we both got annoyed and frustrated because it was taking too long.
That is in fact sooo simple….
Thanks for that video!
I will try to teach Bluna “limp”! That is cool for party evenings…she’ll be the star!
More “how to teach” videos!!!!!
Wonderful video and another great trick to teach my dogs.Please keep the training video’s coming.
Oh and by the way, your patience was inspiring for me when i felt myself becoming frustrated. And the section of the video where your excitingly praising splash (the “oh my goodness me”, part) is just heartwarming. Its very easy to see just how much you love your dogs. A little more practice and I’ll see if i can post a video response. But, thank you so so much, I’m defiantly subscribing.
I did get frustrated with this trick! Most tricks you can usually get some big steps by the end of the first lesson, but this one literally took 5 lessons before I felt we were making progress. I also got frustrated with ‘sit pretty’ because we needed to do a lot of lessons just to build up the muscle tone in the back to get the trick going.
This is FABULOUS. I know it isn’t as easy as you make it look and I like your method better than at least one other method I’ve seen used.
You could switch to him offering his paw to you from the front, and then add distance bit by bit. If you used a prop you could put the prop next to you dog and then start out further and further away from your dog and the prop. 🙂 Im using this as a freestyle move, but it would also be cool as you said to have the dog limp towards you. I ll try that. 🙂
I’m going to try this with my Labrador. Hope I can show you her progress soon! Great video, I love your positive only method!
This is great, I’m going to teach my now. I used to look at this trick and think it was just for dogs in movies or super smart BCs because I never knew how to train it but now with this video, its given me a way to teach it to my dog so thanks!!
THANKS, can not wait to make a video and show you our finished “limp”, both my border collies are just about to take some steps, so we will see how it goes. So much fun to have clicker trained dogs, so much more fun for the person training and for the dog. You gave great instructions-
This is easier than the old school way!!
My toy xolo, Tiku, didn’t got it when we where training the old school way. We just started today and he is doing great!! Thanks for uploading this video!!!
Hi Emily,
Thanks for all your tutorials! I have used them to teach Grace all of her tricks
I’ve just posted a vid of our progress so far. Still pretty experimental but we are definitely having fun!! Hope you like the footage of a winter’s day on the beach in Australia
🙂 Camilla
Very patient and a difficult fete for both. You’re good at training for sure!
I love ALL of our videos!! Thank you So much for making them and u are a great trainer! keep up the amazing work!!!!!!! 🙂
You by far have the best videos for trick training. I’ve watched other videos that used physical manipulation, and it was obvious how stressed the dogs were. It is really a joy to watch how happy your dogs are.
I just taught my english setter this trick. It was so fun! We had some problems from lifting his paw when standing still to lift and walk at the same time. He did it with support from my hand, but the transition from support to no support was hard. I felt we didn’t have any progress, but then I just gave him some time off from this trick for a couple of weeks, and when we started the training again he did the limping correct! Yeah! 😀 I can put a videoresponse here if you want to see.
So it’s been weeks since I taught this trick and now he does it perfectly, offers it as part of his repertoire as well as doing it on command in a circle around me. Thanks again for such informative videos.