I tried to post here a link to a little movie about one of my favorite workouts for my dog which is based on a retrieve which she adore.
Dog has to run down, swim get the apport and then run up the hill wet where we play a little tug. Mostly I throw the apport way out in the water so she has to swim a great deal back and fort.
If you want to try this at home make sure that the hill is not too steep and the couple of first times make your dog run slow downhill till he knows what he is doing. Also make sure there is a way for the dog to get out of the water easily.
I had a little problem with the link button which was not accepting (maybe because of spaces in the address)the address so they deleted the whole topic. For some of you who still want to see it here it is !
I now for you ANTI Microsoft guys posted it somewhere else so you don´t have to deal with them.:-))
My dog hates water, but I kinda do the opposite and throw a ball up the hill into the tall grass so he has to find it. Much smaller hill, but my dog is still a pup.
Schnauzergirl/Deanna, doing the double recall up and down a hill is great fun for pups. I used to do that a lot when mine was a young'un. Even a nice set of stairs is good.
In downhill I make my dog go slow because I don't want any trouble and somethimes I have to punish her for this (I stop with workout, playing) but uphill she has to go nice and quick.
But the hill is only a small part of the exercise the swimming and coming out of the water WET are the rest.
I also used the uphill downhill workout but I'm not font about downhill because it has nothing to do with workout, but this is much efficient. Uphill downhill I can do that 15times (after dog gets bored of it) but this after 5 times you see that she had a real workout. And swimming is esecially good because it doesn't put stress on the joints. You have to be carefull if the water is not too cold for cramps.
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Mickey,
Training a young dog with similar idea. Spent the last few weeks getting the dog swimming in the pond (large one) and then building up the drive with the game of throwing out the stick, building her up and then bring. She flys into the water, grabs the stick and then brings it back.
Did some holds with the dumbell on land and then transferred to the pond. Sit the dog, throw the dumbbell into the water, stay the dog (she is pushing hard to go out and get the dumbell) and then the command to bring. Again, flys into the water, now grabs the dumbell (full mouth, no chewing as she has to focus on holding the SCH1 dumbbell above water.
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Micky wrote: "And swimming is esecially good because it doesn't put stress on the joints."
What does that matter, there is plenty of stress by running down the hill, jumping in and climbing out of the water, and then running up the hill again.
If you want a low-stress workout you have to keep the dog in the water. If that is what you want. . .
It doesn't mean anything other than that I just wanted to point out that if you want no joint stress workout it is better just swimming !
That is all I meant by it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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