Here are some pictures of the last 15 min of training today. Ironically, I only got puppy and Schnauzer shots! Some are not great pictures and are all taken with a cheap-o camera...
It looks like image #23 of 81 shows a GSD drinking from a Heineken bottle. I'm assuming that's not really beer the dog is drinking; maybe it is. But I'm thinking training a dog to drink from a bottle is a handy thing for hiking, etc. Wondering how to go about training that. Suzzie shows interest when we're in the back yard and I get myself a drink from the garden hose; but doesn't want to get close to the hose herself. I have a bowl for her, but it'd be handy on extended walks and such to be able to give her water from a bottle.
Anyway, all of mine will drink from a bottle or hose. I only ever had to teach one. I had heavily bated water in a bottle on a hot day and slowly allowed the water to trickle out for her. She picked it up pretty quickly. Slowly trickling water is always less scary and even more so on a HOT day!
My only advice is to make sure that there are no kinks in the hose when you are showing her how to drink from it.
Loki was getting a drink the other day and a kink worked itself out and he got a face and noseful of hose water.
You would have thought I had hit him with a baseball bat or something the way he yelped and ran off. He will not go anywhere near the hose, or me if I an holding it now, poor guy.
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Drinking from a bottle
#240206 - 05/18/2009 03:56 PM 
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