Wanted to get some thoughts from other GSD owners (house/family pets) that give their dogs any jobs. Our 3 yr old, recent adoption, is a good house/companion pet. He gets plenty of exercise from daily walks to playing fetch. He has almost constant companionship via the kids and wife being at home. No major behavioural issues. But wanted to see if there were some other types of jobs that I could train him to do, also to keep him mentally busy. What are you guys doing or could recommend?
I'm training my pup to go retrieve the daily paper for me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Seems that sometimes they "appoint" themselves for certain jobs. Whenever my daughter has her male friends over, King my alpha male, follows them everywhere and keeps a close eye on her visitor. When we have small kids swimming in the pool, he watches over them. We even noticed recently that when they play dead man float he starts alert barking. He was a rescue and I know nothing of his past, but he is such a great dog. Someone elses loss, my gain. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
How about fetching the paper for you (assuming you have a newspaper thrown to your house or driveway) is a great idea!
I did this with my dog of years ago. The paper boy would throw the paper pretty close to the street and sending the dog out saved me a trip in my pajamas.
The only problem that I ever had was with the Sunday paper that was wrapped in a plastic bag. Since it was too big for her to carry all in her mouth, she would simply pick up the end of the plastic bag. Depending on which end of the bag she choose to grab, there was always a 50/50 chance that you would a) get the paper intact in the bag, or b) she would bring you an empty bag and the entire paper would be strewn out behind her!
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I know people have trained their dogs to find and retrieve a variety of things. You could teach yours to find your car keys- that would come in handy when you're running late for work <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
You could take a cue from service dogs and teach your dog all sorts of handy things.. flipping light switches, picking things up off the floor, bringing things to you from the fridge, finding the remote control, the cell phone (okay, maybe slobber on the phone is a bad idea), anything to give the dog another job and you another few minutes of time on the couch <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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