BOL! When I want to show someone exactly how big Vlad CAN be, I pat my stomach & say, " Hug please." (I consider this a trick not a command.) Then he puts his paws up on my stomach. Once he does that, I'll put my hands under his paws and let him raise them to my shoulders. We started doing this to stop his jumping up and demanding a hug. After he was about 6 mths old, he could knock me on my butt when he did it unexpectedly.