New Ways To Play With Your Puppy
If you have a puppy at home, it is important that you regularly interact with them and activate them in different ways. Therefore, in today’s article we want to introduce you to 16 ways in which you can play with your puppy. This way your dog will learn how to interact with others. You also ensure that the animal remains mentally and physically healthy.
In the first three months of life, a puppy develops its ability to concentrate, its intelligence and senses such as the sense of smell and hearing. The relationship with its owner and his social skills are also strengthened.
Also, if you are playing with your pup , this is a very helpful tool to train him. In this way, your puppy can learn in a playful way to build relationships with its environment and to maintain it and at the same time it will also get to know its limits. This allows you to prevent undesirable behavior such as destroying objects or excessive barking early on.
There are a myriad of things that can learn from your pup when you play with them
1. Hide and seek is the perfect game to develop your puppy’s hearing, sense of smell and concentration. You need one more person to play this game. Someone is hiding and you are the one who gives your dog instructions and looks for the other partner with him. Then the person hiding calls the dog by name. Of course, when the dog finds this person, you will reward him for it.
2. Another way of playing is to spread some food on various objects and then hide them. You can also put up small obstacles for the little dog to jump over while you hide the food in multiple places. If your puppy finds the items, he can of course keep them as a reward and consume the food.
3. If you want to train your puppy to follow instructions, you can play the shell game with him. To do this, you hide some food under a bucket and then place two more buckets next to it. Your puppy now has to find out which bucket the treat is under. As you can see, in this game you can train your dog’s powers of observation and smell.
4. If you want to train your dog to give you his paw, it is a simple task in and of itself. However, this can also be a certain challenge for your pet. Therefore, it is necessary that you regularly reward and verbally encourage your puppy during training. In this way you can also strengthen his relationship and bond with you.
5. If you lie down on the floor with your puppy or teach him the command “sit”, then these are very pleasant games that will not only give pleasure to your dog. It will also train your puppy self-control and it will be much easier for him to obey your commands.
Games to get your pup’s attention
Among all the ways you have to play with your puppy, those that stand out are those that will encourage the pup’s development of alertness. Because this is of fundamental importance for the animal’s learning.
6. When we talk about games that will keep your puppy alert, we mean, for example, a walk on a leash. Your feet are the indicator for the animal when it should continue and if you stop, the puppy has to stop too. This playful exercise helps develop the animal’s coordination.
7. You should also keep in mind that you can make important progress outside of your own four walls. If you start walking outside with your puppy early on, you can prevent the development of anxiety disorders and anxiety states, which often affect dogs that live exclusively in closed rooms. These fears sometimes trigger undesirable behavior in the animals, such as destroying objects and sometimes diarrhea or vomiting.
The game consists of opening the front door and telling your pup to sit still while you step through the door and close it behind you. You should repeat this process at least seven times. The goal is for your puppy to learn to sit still when someone leaves the house. Of course, if the game goes well and the dog behaves as requested, you should immediately reward him with encouraging words or a treat.
Play with your puppy and train him to bring you the newspaper
8. An interesting game is to get the puppy to wear a backpack during his walk.
9. Another way to train your puppy’s brains is to ask them to bring you or carry a newspaper into the house.
10. In addition, “catch me if you can” is another fun and stimulating game. To do this, tie a string or rope one meter in length to a stuffed animal that is attached to a long stick at the other end. Then you bring the stuffed animal in sight of the dog while you hide yourself. Then, when the puppy focuses on the stuffed animal, he will try to grasp it with his mouth. Alternatively, you can just play the game with just a rope.
Relaxing sounds, frisbee and laser pointer
11. Calming a dog with pleasant sounds and noises is easy, and when he is alone it also gives him positive feelings. The howling of wolves, the sound of birds in flight, barking dogs or the sounds of farm animals stimulate and relax the puppy’s brain.
12. Another idea is to put a large box or cardboard box in the middle of a room. Your puppy can either hide himself or his toys in it, or simply walk in and out. You can also play with your puppy as if you were a doggie playmate.
13. In addition , the dog’s intelligence is stimulated when it can sniff and discover new friends, dogs or people. If your dog likes the visitor, he will definitely show that sympathy.
14. You can also train your puppy to catch a frisbee disc. This game is not only a lot of fun, but also promotes the coordination of the animal.
15. Another very entertaining game is playing with a ball. However, you will need a little patience because your dog must first learn to pick up the ball with its mouth. He also has to understand that he should give the ball back to you afterwards. It is therefore very important that you reward your puppy for his efforts with pats, loving words or a treat.
16. Finally, you can also use a laser pointer to make fun games with your pup. Just point it at different places in the room and you will see that your little dog will try very enthusiastically to “catch” the light. This game is not only a lot of fun, but also helps to stimulate and activate the senses of your four-legged friend.
Source of cover picture: Alan Levine
