Here are some great games that help your dog to use his brain and develop his senses, rather than just exercise his body. By playing these challenging games, your dog will be learning to listen to you, to concentrate and to improve his memory.
These games can be played in the house, in the garden, on walks, in fact anywhere!
Suggestions for games:
o Hide a toy or treat in the house or outside. Ask your dog to find it. You may need to help him a little. While you hide the toy, either move the dog so that he is out of sight or pretend to place the toy in several different places.
o Throw the toy into grass so that it is not visible. Send him to find it. Make the game more difficult by:
o Not sending your dog for a minute or so, so that he is less likely to remember the exact place.
o Calling your dog away from the toy and then sending him to find it.
o Calling your dog away, then doing something else, like asking him to sit or even fetch another toy, before sending him out to find the first toy.
o Inside the house, have a selection of boxes. They can be cardboard or perhaps empty (clean) margarine or ice-cream tubs. Hide a toy or treat under one of them. Either have your dog out of the room or, if he is watching, pretend to hide it under each. Send your dog to find it. He may knock the boxes over to get it, or he may prefer to indicate it by pawing at it. You can then lift it for him to gain his reward. This game can be made more difficult as detailed above. On a walk, drop a toy or treat onto the grass as you walk. Stop after one or two paces and call your dog to you. Send him to find his reward. As he progresses with this game, you can take more steps away from it before calling your dog and sending him to find it. Whilst it is essential that games are fun, it is important to have some degree of control over your dog.
o Throw a toy away from your dog, but hold onto him. Then send him to get it. Make this game harder by throwing the toy and calling your dog away from it first, then sending him for it.
o Develop the game by throwing two toys in different directions and asking your dog to get one first, come hack to you and then get the second. Let him choose which he collects first.
o Teach your dog to collect a named toy.
o Throw out two toys and send him for one specific toy. He should bring this to you before you send him back for:he second toy.
o Make this game harder by throwing two toys, sending him for one, taking it from him, throwing it again and letting him get this, before sending him for the second toy.
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