[nagdu] Play time

Thu Apr 22 18:07:18 UTC 2010

Ioana,

Adrian sounds fun, inventing his own games.  We get the modified fetch and
tug around here, too.  Meaning I fetch, the dog tugs.  /lol/  Hard work
playing with dogs sometimes.  /grin/

As for clicker training fun...  I've done some work with those extra service
dogs tasks so many of my owner trainer friends use.  Only I'm not that
serious about it, so I haven't followed through.  Mitzi will use the partial
behaviors to mess with me sometimes just to show me how clever she is.  Only
never in the way I "taught" her.  Very funny.

Daisy is not so inventive, although she has picked up some creativity from
the poodle.  I spent the fall and winter threatening to do some task
training with her, just for fun and because she likes it, but the winter was
crazy, and now I'm untraining and retraining because of our erstwhile
"guest."  Sigh.  Conditioning a pup against counter surfing is one thing.
Trying to convince an adult dog who has been retrained to counter surf is
quite another.  We are getting the barking down, though, so I need to start
doing something constructive with the monsters in the back yard.  /smile/
They do like competing with the targeting clicker, but it's about the
competing with each other not the behavior, so the game is a little
repetitive.  It does settle them sometimes and it gives me a way to give
them an alternate behavior to over-greeting.  As long as the dogs are
entertained, I guess.  /grin/

Don't know if that's helpful, but that's my sort of ad hoc way of doing
things.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Ioana Gandrabur
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:18 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
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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