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12-14-2011, 02:30 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Michigan
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I play with toys, I hide and have them find me, I hide and jump out at them and they run around the house CRAZY, I wrestle, and I don't mind them chewing on my hands/arms if they are gentle. Ditto and Daisy are gentle (Ditto usually doesn't bite my hands at all, but if she does it doesn't hurt at all.) Dakota never learned his own strength. Now that he is older, he doesn't play much and has a hard time playing like he used to (hide and seek, untie the toy from the railing, tug.) Now if he plays, he likes to chew a toy, or my hand. It usually gets too rough and I have to end it, but not so rough that I am bleeding. He listens when I say enough, so I don't discourage the playing. As long as the dog is enjoying it and nobody (including the dog) is getting hurt, I don't see that it matters how you play.
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12-14-2011, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Tacoma, WA
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Mostly with tugs and toys, but their absolute favorite is a flirt pole. One will be in the kennel while I play with the other. They get to catch the toy 3x's then I switch them out and play with dog#2. Each get 3 rounds with the FP. By the 3rd round they are slowing down and out of breath and I am pretty dizzy. I also use this as an opportunity to do some OB and I am teaching the kenneled dog(s) to be quiet and wait for their turn. Works well too for those days when you need to to get their heart pumping with a bit of exercise without leaving home
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12-14-2011, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Columbia, MO
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I think we have played every game. Dax's favorite are probably:
1. Fetch with his Cuz ball. 2. Chase-It! woo he loves Chase-It and I love using it for training because I don't have to reach down and pick anything up or constantly throw something (my arm gets sore...). 3. Hide and Seek- my DH and I go to a large, usually empty park by our house and split up, then we call Dax back and forth between us. To make it harder we hide in tall grass or behind trees, run around, etc. This is probably my favorite game- to see Dax looking all happy smiling running towards me is a treat. 4. Wrestling. I didn't do wrestling where he could bite us when he was younger, but now we do. You have to get him pretty revved up for him to do a bite- and it is GENTLE. Mostly he just play bows and I play bow- gently grab his tail or foot or something and he makes a crazy monkey noise. 5. Chasing each other- self-explanatory, but Dax gets sick of it pretty fast (which is good, because I certainly can't catch him and he can easily catch up to me!). |
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12-14-2011, 06:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Jenkintown,Pa.
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play tug (with ropes, tug toys, towels).
tease him (jump at him, run from him, run to him, grab him, get on my knees for light wrestling, run with him. throwing the ball or kong toy for retrieving. "find it" ( i hide something and send him to find it). general walking and long walks in the woods. lots of the above i play indoors as well as outside.
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