Comments on: Increasing Play Drive in Your Dog http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:55:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Katy http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-4613 Katy Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:09:34 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-4613 Hi Fanny,first I have to say that my english is very bad because I realy need it since leaving school. I´m working wtih my 4 years old Jack Russell Terrier in Obedience - now in germans class 2! He is rewarding by food or playing with me. Now I´m searching for Toys that you are using with your dogs during trainingsessions. My favorite is for instance the jollyball with a rope. Did you make it on your own...? I´ve never seen it before! Thanks and gretings from Germany Katy Hi Fanny,first I have to say that my english is very bad because I realy need it since leaving school. I´m working wtih my 4 years old Jack Russell Terrier in Obedience - now in germans class 2!
He is rewarding by food or playing with me. Now I´m searching for Toys that you are using with your dogs during trainingsessions. My favorite is for instance the jollyball with a rope. Did you make it on your own…? I´ve never seen it before!

Thanks and gretings from Germany
Katy

]]> By: Dee Mullins http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-4377 Dee Mullins Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:18:21 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-4377 Hi Fanny, Oh, I'm so glad I read this article!! I have a mini aussie that is in beginning agility and we are in the process of using a toy drive instead of always depending on a treat. He loves to play - but not all the time on the agility field - especially when he knows I have treats. I'm taking your suggestions and will keep in mind that it takes time! Thanks so much for your suggestions and your experience! Hi Fanny,

Oh, I’m so glad I read this article!! I have a mini aussie that is in beginning agility and we are in the process of using a toy drive instead of always depending on a treat. He loves to play - but not all the time on the agility field - especially when he knows I have treats. I’m taking your suggestions and will keep in mind that it takes time! Thanks so much for your suggestions and your experience!

]]> By: Sarah Stuurman http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-3751 Sarah Stuurman Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:28:32 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-3751 Hi Fanny, Thanks for writing such a superb post! I too follow your website and LOVE reading your stuff and watching you train your dogs :-) I wish I had had this post last summer and fall when I was working on play drive with my english cocker... but I figured it out (discovered a lot of what you wrote about on my own) and I now have a crazy tugging dog with great desire and drive for toys, games, retrieving, etc. My previous dog was not very toy motivated so I used a lot of food with her. This dog was very good at training ME so I became pretty much a food-only trainer. I was determined not to let that happen with my cocker; it was hard for me but soooooo worth it. A great "side effect" of working on tugging and playing with her was that *I* loosened up and started to have way more fun training. I think my training skills have improved a lot too! Thanks for being so generous with your knowledge :-) Hi Fanny,

Thanks for writing such a superb post! I too follow your website and LOVE reading your stuff and watching you train your dogs :-) I wish I had had this post last summer and fall when I was working on play drive with my english cocker… but I figured it out (discovered a lot of what you wrote about on my own) and I now have a crazy tugging dog with great desire and drive for toys, games, retrieving, etc.

My previous dog was not very toy motivated so I used a lot of food with her. This dog was very good at training ME so I became pretty much a food-only trainer. I was determined not to let that happen with my cocker; it was hard for me but soooooo worth it. A great “side effect” of working on tugging and playing with her was that *I* loosened up and started to have way more fun training. I think my training skills have improved a lot too!

Thanks for being so generous with your knowledge :-)

]]> By: Linn Ahlbom http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-3723 Linn Ahlbom Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:34:56 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-3723 Thank you for this great post! I will have to think of better ways to train tug with my dog -- and shape him to grab the toy further from my hand (he likes to hold the toy right next to my hand for some reason), currently he prefers food to tug but I really would find it useful to reward with play as well as food. Thank you for this great post! I will have to think of better ways to train tug with my dog — and shape him to grab the toy further from my hand (he likes to hold the toy right next to my hand for some reason), currently he prefers food to tug but I really would find it useful to reward with play as well as food.

]]> By: Kathie R http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-2077 Kathie R Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:00:58 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-2077 Hi again Fanny, I think we're making progress with the tugging :) I followed your link to Susan Garretts page regarding how to begin teaching the dog to tug. And, for the past couple weeks have been working with that in the house. At first he would just take it in his mouth. Now, today when I brought it out he really grabbed hold of it and didn't want to let go! That's real progress for him. Our next step is to take it to the training building and see if he's interested in it there - unless there's a step in between that I should be doing. Please let me know if you think the next step should be something different. Thanks! Hi again Fanny,
I think we’re making progress with the tugging :) I followed your link to Susan Garretts page regarding how to begin teaching the dog to tug. And, for the past couple weeks have been working with that in the house. At first he would just take it in his mouth. Now, today when I brought it out he really grabbed hold of it and didn’t want to let go! That’s real progress for him. Our next step is to take it to the training building and see if he’s interested in it there - unless there’s a step in between that I should be doing. Please let me know if you think the next step should be something different.
Thanks!

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]]> By: Roseanna http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-1626 Roseanna Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:18:31 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-1626 Hi Fanny! Great post. I have been thinking a lot about rewards lately. I really need to use more play rewards so your post is very helpful. Especially in regards to teaching tug. Hi Fanny!
Great post. I have been thinking a lot about rewards lately. I really need to use more play rewards so your post is very helpful. Especially in regards to teaching tug.

]]> By: Fanny http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-1599 Fanny Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:13:37 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-1599 Hi Kathie, I'm happy to see that people are actually checking the blog out daily! I promise to update more often. I'm sure that you can teach your 5-year-old dog to enjoy play. I got my cairn terrier to start enjoying toys for the first time in his life at age 9. With much less sofisticated methods then outlined here (I really just shaped a retrieve with him, did some flyball and then, one day, found my old dog playing with a tennis ball on his own in the back yard!) Hi Kathie,
I’m happy to see that people are actually checking the blog out daily! I promise to update more often.

I’m sure that you can teach your 5-year-old dog to enjoy play. I got my cairn terrier to start enjoying toys for the first time in his life at age 9. With much less sofisticated methods then outlined here (I really just shaped a retrieve with him, did some flyball and then, one day, found my old dog playing with a tennis ball on his own in the back yard!)

]]> By: Kathie R http://www.fannygott.com/increasing-play-drive-in-your-dog#comment-1598 Kathie R Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:03:02 +0000 http://www.fannygott.com/?p=86#comment-1598 Hi Fanny, I'm so glad you're back! I've been checking your site daily, hoping for some more training tips. I am really interested in your post on increasing play drive. Do you think you can teach play drive to a 5-year-old dog who doesn't appear interested in toys and tugging? I'm working on a utility dog title in the states and trying to motivate my dog. He does like treats and will run across the ring to get them, but not so with toys. Hoping to use some of your tips to try to develop some play drive with him. Thanks! Hi Fanny, I’m so glad you’re back! I’ve been checking your site daily, hoping for some more training tips. I am really interested in your post on increasing play drive. Do you think you can teach play drive to a 5-year-old dog who doesn’t appear interested in toys and tugging? I’m working on a utility dog title in the states and trying to motivate my dog. He does like treats and will run across the ring to get them, but not so with toys. Hoping to use some of your tips to try to develop some play drive with him. Thanks!

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