Can any one recommend any good games to play with my Scottie puppy?
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at
10:33 pm
bunka24 asked:
I want to teach him that the play is a pleasure and large, but d& #39; a manière s? Re à not to encourage the bad behaviors. It is 10 weeks Scottish Terrier and super nice and soft! I live in an apartment, therefore I n& #39; do not have much d& #39; free space to make its intense plays. Also, do I have to let it play with his own toys when it leaves the cage? Or should I play with it? Qu& #39; this is qu& #39; good équilibre?
Denise
I want to teach him that the play is a pleasure and large, but d& #39; a manière s? Re à not to encourage the bad behaviors. It is 10 weeks Scottish Terrier and super nice and soft! I live in an apartment, therefore I n& #39; do not have much d& #39; free space to make its intense plays. Also, do I have to let it play with his own toys when it leaves the cage? Or should I play with it? Qu& #39; this is qu& #39; good équilibre?
Denise
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Alma
Play fetch in the park or frisbee
Tiffany
Neat idea. I like the ‘stop’ game. Its just like ‘statues’ if you ever played that as a kid.
You play with any toy, then when you say ‘stop’ and hold up your hand, you both have to freeze. If she does so ( and she will, she’ll copy your body language) then you resume the game with ‘ok’. Tug of war is the best game for this; you keep contriol of the toy to start with.
Then every so often you don’t resume the game, you go very slow and quiet so as not to gee her up and say ‘quiet time’ or something similar, and she has to calm down.
Later, as she starts to get the ides, you can sometimes let her win the toy. Then you get her to give it up by swapping it for a fragment of cheese and a big fuss, along with the word ‘mine’.. Its cheating, but they learn to give up anything to you. I could take a bone out of the mouth of any of my dogs without any hassle. They think I’m guarding it for them since they realise I don’t eat them myself!
Its a great way to get some control over a terrier. Don’t leave it till she’s older, its too late!
Then theres ‘warmer, colder’. You get some dog biscuits and you let her see you hide one in a really easy place. Then you say ‘find it’ and encourage her by saying ‘warmer, warmer’ as she gets nearer.
When she gets the idea you hide the biscuit with her out the room. If she’s nowhere near, you say ‘colder. colder’ and get less and less excited; when she faces the right direction or moves towards it you say warmer’ and get more excitied – eventually you’ll find you can direct her straight to the hiding place just with your voice.
Then theres the cup and ball game. You start with 2 cups and hide a biscuit under one, she has to put her paw on the cup that hides the biscuit. You can out them on a plastic tray if they won’t slide on the carpet. You end up swapping them around more, and work up to 3 or 4 cups. You won’t fool her nose!
You can also get balls with holes in that you can put dog biscuit in, when she rolls it around biscuits fall out randomly.
Melvin
A good game? Hmm, lets see. What do you like? How about snap the male genitalia in half. Sound a little too gruesome for you? Alright-alright. How about a nice game of fetch the asshole a bone? Hope something works out for you!
Corey
Actually, it depends on the pup. I have owned 4 Scotties, each with very distinct playing preferences. One adored squash balls or basketballs. One just like playing with Nylabones. One of my girls, really just never got into playing with ANY toys, she prefers to follow me around. Our youngest Scottie loves to chase laser pointer light beams. When our Scotties were puppies, whenever they were out of their crate, I played with them for a bit, took them outside to do their business, brought them inside and had them in small area where I was, but where they could play with the toys themselves. Congratulations! They are a wonderful breed!