Greetings. I've recently been hired by a new band and will be going on a 10-11 day tour on the 15th and another planned 2-3 week tour in September. While I'm gone my wife's going to be the only handler my 8mos. old pup will have and she doesn't want to do the drive or grip games. This might be a silly question but, what kind of games can they play that won't set the drive and grip work back too far while I'm gone?
Currently all she does with him is walk him occasionally, take him potty once or twice a day, and take him to the park to run around like an idiot on the 30' lunge every few days. I've already told her that I'd like her do at least one three minute marker training session and at least one mile of walking a day with him but, I know that won't be enough for his drive and energy level. He's very fond her and seems willing to please her, so that shouldn't be an issue. She does have a problem with being firm enough with him.
Scott a little more information about your wife; her interests, hobbies, dreaded chores etc. My mother never got into training our childhood dogs but she had no problem being firm So my father taught them all kinds of helpful things.
Our dogs could pick up our toys and deposit in the toybox as well as the clothes we dropped on the floor....albeit the occassional hole in the sock after a particularly avid attempt to pick it off the floor and put it in the hamper. Digging in the garden for her flower bed and basically he would wait on her every request. (My father would go to Ireland for a couple of weeks every summer with one of us kids)
Hide and seek of treats or toys is easy on her and good for his brain development too.
Get some input from your wife; you might be surprise what she comes up with!
And congratulations on your new band. Where will you be playing?
Well, her main interest/hobby (if you could call it that) is playing The Sims and she's not much for physical exertion. Her least favorite chore is washing the dishes. She did start teaching him to shake (he loves pawing at things) this morning with their first official marker session together.
Hide 'n' seek, is that as simple as it sounds? At first does the dog see about where the prize is at and then work up to actually finding it? I've been thinking about starting that up for that last few days, anyway. We're actually talking it right now and she said "well, maybe I can watch what you guys are doing with the bite stuff". I was mentioning that he gets a little obnoxious if he doesn't get to bite something on a daily basis, hahaha. He's mouthy and pushy for his rewards.
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... Hide 'n' seek, is that as simple as it sounds?
Yes, it is!
She could also teach the words for a couple of different retrieve items, like "toy" and "ball." That is, marker-teach retrieve (for me, first the "give"), and then teach a couple of simple choices (the names).
Hmm. Thank you, ma'am. I was concerned about the outting for retrieving but, it just dawned on me that she could trade him the toy for a treat. Dur, hahaha.
Neither article mentioned training the drop, but a lot of people "assume" that to fetch means go get, run as fast as you can to me, then spit it out! So, I wondered if Scott's concern was for his puppy to "forget" his training.
I've been working a lot on his mouthy grip and it's gotten better since I stopped playing fetch with him. The Building Drive DVD says to out puppies once every 3-4 days so I seldom out him anymore. I was outting him about half the time he brought the tug back to me during fetch so I could throw it again.
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