[nagdu] Play time

Cheryl Osborn chapalacheryl at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 20:45:30 UTC 2010


Tami,

That must be frustrating, but it's so funny!


On 4/22/10, Tamara Smith-Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of The Pawpower Pack
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:13 PM
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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
> pawpower4me at gmail.com
>
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