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[glorybea]

I am searching for ideas to help my Malt/shih tzu cross she is 6yrs old

we have started our UD training and my hurdle to get over LOL is the jumps it took me some time to train her to jump safely for Open it was a slow journey as she has trouble judging the jump -I succeeded by placing dowel 3 pieces in front of jump saying wait at each and final one' over 'and slowly remove them as she suceeded ,I hope you understand what I mean here ??

now we have the box [doing okay ] but I only have it a short distance from jump approx 2.5 metres which i will not lengthen until she is secure in this area , the major problem is she jumps toooo early about metre which frightens the living s**t out of me she is trying sooo hard to please has trouble judging jump [not eyes]

I need your support in advice because it is a distance of the run up to the jump do you have any suggestions to help us overcome this ????????????????

looking forward to your suggestions as I know there is an answer out there Glorybea

[poodlefan]

The first thing I'd suggest Glorybea is trying a ground line to give her a better way of judging the height.

Put another jump bar in front of the jump, at the same distance out from the jump as the jump bar is high.

She sounds like she isn't a natural jumper so may need to be taught to judge the height.

[glorybea]

thanks poodlefan your VERY right she definitely is not a natural jumper ,I am not sure if I have this right but are you saying place a bar on the ground the distance of the height ???

[poodlefan]

thanks poodlefan your VERY right she definitely is not a natural jumper ,I am not sure if I have this right but are you saying place a bar on the ground the distance of the height ???

Yep.. in front of the jump. Groundlines are commonly used to train horses and often work well for dogs. Let us know if that works.

Well done training such a little dog for UD by the way - it's not common.