Well if it was a publicity stunt & attention seeking as the reviews suggest, as the UK media reported the information as it was given to them by Bristol and as some individuals on this forum have been reporting it as 'scientific fact', then the researchers sure got top spot international stardom in abundance on a P1 Google international search, though I'm not sure if its the sort of stardom most other starlets want.

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TV dog behaviour programmes 'useless and dangerous' - Telegraph

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Sleepy, I have seen your posts many times on many different kinds of website. I was reading a Facebook thread the other day and it was clear it is you who was posting against Bristol University, again, under many different aliases. All the other posters on the thread, including Leonard 'Buzz' Cecil, knew it too. It is clear that it is you posting on You Tube under many different channel names. I don't know what you have against Bristol Uni, nor do I care, quite frankly, because you have yet to prove to me anything. The Google search is full of website posts from you. I am not fooled into believing that the person in all your videos is anyone but you.

Interesting, I had no idea I had a 'vivid imagination fan club' following, maybe I should get some
'I love SleebyBones' t-shirts made and sell em on ebay

or SleepyBones @ http://tinyurl.com/5t3a85b

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When a dog suddenly changes in an instant and has never displayed such behaviour before, then my money would be on him hurting himself, it could be a twist, a sprain, just a jolt, or something that hasn't manifested itself yet.

My eldest girl smashed a disc in her neck, and looking back, we think we can pinpoint when it happened - but it was when the debris got into her spinal column she started exhibiting symptoms - thankfully she had surgery and made a complete recovery.

I have to agree that it isn't a good idea to teach your dog to jump up - they could jump at someone that doesn't like it and dog wary people can interpret it as aggression.

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Actually, teaching a dog to jump on cue is a good way of fixing a problem behaviour of jumping up. Take a look at this vid:
Putting a Dog's Unwanted Behavior on Stimulus Control (to get Rid of it)-Jumping - YouTube

Possibly you're right, but I don't think that was the case here. I think the OP was just trying to teach the dog to jump up as a new behaviour or trick.

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Yes, but people are suggesting it will make the dog jump up naturally at humans. This is not the case, if the behaviour has been taught with a specific cue. However, it would be more difficult to get it right if it has been trained unconsciously.

The trouble is - people often don't realise what they are doing - one of my girls will happily walk around on two feet (in fact, she spends a fair bit of her time on them - she's like a performing seal ) - but she never jumps at anyone else.

Conversely - I have one girl who still jumps at everything at two years old - and she doesn't get the message - you would have a hard job training her to jump to order.

It's a thin line sometimes - nevertheless, my money is still on the dog being in pain and why it did what it did

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