[nagdu] Play time

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Rox,

They're no fun if they're not weird!  /grin/

The dogs like to hide things from me sometimes then get me to look for them
using positive reinforcement to keep me hunting.  I always fall for it, too.
/grin/  Probably because it's something I can do with them that doesn't
involve Daisy's barking!  That there is good positive reinforcement for me.
/lol/

Tami Smith-Kinney

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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Play time

Laveau, my Doberman loves tennis balls.  She will chase them all day  
long.
Bristol, my twelve-year-old retired queen is a tug of war champion.  
She can still out tug all the dogs in the house and the people.
Mill'E-Max is a bit of an odd duck because she doesn't understand the  
point of fetching a ball. I think she associates retrieving so  
strongly with her "job" that she doesn't see it as a game.  She'll  
play tug with Brissy but losing every time isn't fun so she quits  
after a while.
Mill'E's favorite is clicker games-- free shaping, hiding and finding  
objects, and complex retrieve problems. For example she loves it when  
I throw dimes and pennies and old credit cards on my tile floor and  
she has to run around picking them all up and putting them back in the  
box or spitting them into my hand.  She reminds me of a Niffler from  
Harry Potter.   She thinks that is the best thing ever.
She loves unpacking boxes and opening and closing doors.  If I let  
her, she will stand by the door and just slam it and open it over and  
over again.  I said she was weird.


Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
"It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as  
sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs." -- Christopher Moore
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