[nagdu] Play time

Wed Apr 21 17:00:56 UTC 2010

Iona,

This past winter I taught Monty to put his chin in the palm of my hand using 
clicker.  I'm sure one of these days I'll find a use for that behavior. 
*smile*  It is cute though and I enjoy the contact.

Sometimes I drag an empty box out of the basement and just click for 
anything the dogs do with the box.  I never have a specific plan in mind and 
no intention of doing anything with it long term.  I sorta let the dogs 
explore and problem solve.  Usually there is some definite goal I dream up 
after a minute or two...stepping into the box, tipping it over, putting one 
foot on top etc.

I used to play this a lot with Monty when he was still a puppy.  Older 
puppies have this weird thing where their thought process and limbs don't 
exactly sync up.  the front half will be going one direction and the back 
half another.  So we'd play the box game to build coordination.

I also taught Monty to jump through a hoop and run on a treadmill using 
clicker.  He's an incredibly high energy dog or was in his puppy days.  I 
had to be creative to keep him occupied.  Bored Boxer puppies...well I don't 
want to think about bored Boxer puppies! LOL

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ioana Gandrabur" <igandrabur at gmx.de>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Play time

> Hi all,
>
> What a fun topic!
>
> Adrian my retired guide was never a big player to the point where I was
> wondering if I am not trying hard enough to find what gets him going.
> He has a stupid modified fetch game version: I throw  the toy he runs 
> after
> it and waits for me to come get it from him and throw  it again. Some 
> other
> times he actually picks it up and runs with it past me to settle at the
> opposite end of the hall and wait for me to get it and throw again. Sure
> makes me work for his idea of a game. Oh, and never would he fetch 
> outdoors.
> Much more fun to sniff around. He sometimes plays tug. Because it is rare 
> to
> see him want to do it I let him even if it is with the leash right before 
> we
> go for a walk or after a free run in the park. He rarely tries it while
> walking and I can always tell him "no, that's enough" successfully. An 
> other
> silly thing he does is to run from where ever he happens to be if my 
> husband
> and I do a kind of a dancing hug and goes right in between us to be in on
> the love. He loves clicker training but I don't seem to find enough
> challenges worth training. Any ideas of fun games to clicker? He does look
> for my slippers that I hide around the house (or misplace (smile) )and 
> gets
> them to me.
>
> I am so curious how the new dog I am getting in now less then a month
> (hurrah!) will play.. Adrian was my first guide and first dog.
>
> Take care,
>
> Ioana and retired adrian
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julie J" <julielj at windstream.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Play time
>
>
>> Monty's most favorite playtime activity is to run free on our farm.  He
>> doesn't get to do this very often though.  He also enjoys serious tug
>> games, but I can't really play those because I can't hold onto the toys 
>> so
>> well. He enjoys fetch quite a bit and it tends to be our default game.  I
>> also allow both of my dogs to wrestle and play tug games together.
>> they both also very much enjoy learning new things through clicker
>> training. We do more of this during the winter months when it's harder to
>> get exercise outside.
>>
>> Julie
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Cheryl Osborn" <chapalacheryl at gmail.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:12 PM
>> Subject: [nagdu] Play time
>>
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Thought it might be interesting to find out what you and your dogs
>>> like to do for play.
>>>
>>> My dog likes to play keep-away and wrestle with a toy. And, sometimes
>>> tug-of-war.  My last dog liked to play hide-and-go-seek. My first dog
>>> was Kong crazy.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Cheryl in Mexico
>>> chapalacheryl at gmail.com
>>>
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