A number of years ago an amazing product came onto the market. It was one that allowed a user to put into the machine a bunch of stuffed kong puzzle toys, then it would dispense the Kongs on timed intervals…
KONG Cleaning 101
I love interactive food toys for dogs. They can be great enrichment, good for boredom busting, and general fun for many dogs. I highly recommend them, and we have a basket in a kitchen cabinet filled with various interactive food…
Silly for the Weekend
Games Dogs Play
Dog play is fascinating and hysterical! Lucy spaniel invented this game today and played it over and over and over. She takes the ball, and goes under the a-frame. Pushes the ball in the space under the a-frame, then uses…
Agility Trial Routines
I’m a rather routine, predictable person. I find routines comforting and reassuring. I like having plans. It’s harder to get lost, lose things and be forgetful when life is orchestrated with many patterns. It’s no surprise I have any number…
Push the Ball
Teaching dogs to push round objects with their noses is often such a fun training exercise and game. The Advanced class had a great time with it last night, and as I just typed the instructions for it up for…
Stuck in the House
And Tom and Zora are sad. No walk for them today. It’s raining. And icy. Everywhere is this thin sheet of ice you don’t know is there until Whoops! There go your feet. We did some training and play early…
Toy Play & Cooperative Care
I teach a cue to my dogs that means reach your head through the hole extended. Primarily I use this for putting leashes, collars, and harnesses on. Though it has proved useful if they need to wear an Elizabethan cone…
Just Wanna Have Fun
We woke up to a balmy 22’F out today, so a walk was in order! Tom was so so so so so so so (did I mention so) excited that as I put his leash on he couldn’t contain himself…
Trade!
This happened yesterday. OMG these dogs are ridiculous. (Note there is plenty of anthropomorphizing in this post for humor’s sake mostly) Rock-It minding her own business chewing a toy on the dog bed Zora “I want that” Rocky “yea whatever”…