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THE CLASSICS- TRICK TRAINING
Dog tricks not only help provide with excellent physical and mental workout, but also improve the human-canine bond, enhances your dog’s cognitive skills and tremendously improves their responsiveness to your cues. Fetch Some dogs can play this game all day. Add variations to this game by teaching your dog to fetch other items like water bottle, keys, etc. Tug To avoid hyperactivity while playing this game, make sure your dog knows how to drop it, leave it, wait and take it.
OUTDOOR EXERCISES ON A BRIGHT SUNNY DAY
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e know how DIY Snuffle mat annoying it Take a large towel and scatter some kibbles is when you have and treats over it. Roll it and let your dog go crazy finding food in it. to cancel the hike “Find it” with your pup you’ve been looking If you have some space, just scatter your dog’s forward to for days; or call off dry food all over the floor and throw some beach day with your dog. Annoying toys in it. Ask your dog to “find it.” As your dog rain or Severe Heat! But who says gets better at the game, you can also make this game challenging by hiding food under the you can’t have fun indoors with furniture and in different rooms your dog? Don’t worry, we got you AT-HOME AGILITY covered on that front. Read on for If you have a high energy dog, agility is one of the best ways to add some structure and cardio some cool ideas. to your dog’s exercise routine. Guess what, you can even do it at home. Exercises to physically and menWeave through chairs tally stimulate your dog at home Arrange a few chairs in a straight line and use INTERACTIVE FEEDING treats to train your dog to weave through it. Why feed in a bowl when you can make a game Jump over mop/ skipping rope out of food? If your dog is food motivated and Depending on your dog’s size and agility level, playful, all you need is willingness to put that to place a long mop on two buckets or any two good use! same sized objects to make it into a DIY hurdle. Muffin tray game Jump through hoola hoop Put your dog’s kibbles in the muffin tray mixed Hoola Hoop is one of the best ways to instantly with some treats. Keep a few balls over each tire your dog out. A few minutes of jumping cup to hide the food and let your dog figure out through hoops is sufficient to get rid of that the rest. burst of energy.
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DIY Obstacle course Arrange everyday items like a few toys, chairs, stools, utensils, clothes etc to make a DIY obstacle course at home. To make it more fun, tie a rope between 2 chairs to get your dog jump over it.
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On the days you do get to engage in excursions, give your dog’s daily exercise routine a refreshing change of pace through following activities • Beach day or a dip in the lake • Sniffari (where your dog just gets to follow a scent and you follow him) ‘• Find it’ in the grass (scatter some treats in the grass and ask him to ‘find it’) • Flirt pole in the backyard (You know the cat toy that has a long stick with a string and toy attached to it. Flirt pole is the dog version of that toy)
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n days when the weather isn’t the best, try some of these activities. Let me know if works for you! Until next issue, stay safe!
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