I think this is amazing!
Just shows what you can do if you you have the skill and the connection with your dogs.
all dogs look very happy doing what they do as well and it almost looks like they are doing everything without any guidance from the trainer...

http://www.wagreflex.com/2009/07/one-heck-of-a-dog-trainer.html

and here I am struggling to get my one dog to come and do a straight heel sit!

Although most of it I think is great there were some aspects that I didn't like.

didnt like when he threw the dog in the air, but, most of it very good and most of the dogs were heinz 57. they did enjoy it. most of the people who would not like this are folk that cant get their dogs to do the simplist of things like sit/down.  people that work on their dogs will appreciate the hard work that the man has put in.

I can get mine to do the simplest of tasks :)  But it ws mainly the throwing of the dog that actually disturbed me.  Thought it was brilliant how one of the dogs realised that one of the others wasn't in the correct place so wasn't able to do its part of the trick.

I find that a bit strange. Some of the dogs were showing displacement behaviours and did not look happy to be there, but some did.
Either he's incredibly talented or he uses more coercion than it seems - like many circus acts used to.

Dunno what to say.

Lindsay
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not sure i like the dogs doing a lot the walking on their back legs but i wouldn't mind my dogs being so well trained and it was fun to watch .

Well I must admit the dogs all looked happy to be there and worked very willingly, I think it shows a huge amount of trust in the handler for the little dog to jump out into fresh air and be caught. (maybe not my kind of "trick" but huge trust on the dogs part).
It seems he uses a lot of treats too so nothing but good there. All in all I enjoyed it.
Aileen