My pup is uninterested in tug and balls however, he is crazy for plastic drinking bottles. Any advice on similar prey items to focus him on or should i just run with this.
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Ana Kozlowsky Webboard User Reg: 01-21-2010
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All my dogs LOVE plastic bottles, empty or filled with treats or water/stock (and frozen solid, for Egge effect) or ice cubes or combination of the above.
There are toys with a plastic bottle inside for the crunchiness. Also bottle tugs.
I was at an obedience trial just yesterday and one of the vendors was selling these. I ended up getting the kind without the plastic bottle inside, but I can see where dogs that love the crunchy sound of bottles might like these. It's kind of like a bottle and a soft, furry animal all in one. These toys are made without stuffing. Not sure how they would hold up to really strong tugging, but as a training item for a puppy, it might work well.
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My dogs as pups would have shreded those in a very short time. They look like the ones that are being advertised on tv lately, just not stuffed. It might work for some softer mouthed pets, like labs or goldens that have been bred for bird work & tend to have softer bites.
My male, as a young pup, would find all the plastic water bottles left on the sport fields that I would take my dogs everyday to use to train. He would pick them up & carry them all around. He didn't chew or crunch on them very much though,other then to grab them to pick them up. It was funny when he would find a big one that was still partially full & tried to pick it up & carry it or drag it.
I will add that if you have a working dog, depending on what your plans are for the dog(training venue), you may not want to encourage chewing (giving the crunchy or squeey toys) on a retreive item.
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My boy Echo also has no interest in balls or the hard tugs either. He LOVES water bottles and anything light and fluffy.
Flirt poles are his favorite - a fluffy tail type tug or rag attached to it gets him going every time but his ultimate favorite is a scrunched up piece paper, formed into a ball and tied to the end. He'd chase this for hours if I'd let him. Of course if he gets it, a new piece is generally needed. But the paper is great for seeking/hiding games and retreive too.
I don't know if you're in a position to do this or even want to but he also used to love (and I'm sure still does if he was allowed) rubber garden hoses. He used to do a real drivey tug with these but we had to stop the behavior because we just didn't have any need for shredded rubber all over our yard.
This is going to be my personal work dog for our security company. This GSD pup is a natural defense dog so I'm really working on his prey drive. If there are no serious objections then I will continue with using these as prey items. I plan on filling some two inch nylon tubular webbing with bottle plastics inside and see if he'll go for that or not.
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