Dog training thread

Try filling his mind to help with the boredom: Save toilet rolls to fill with treats and kibble, much like a Kong. My dogs love it when they see me with a handful of rolls, and the torture of sitting watching me chopping up stuff (cheese, roast beef etc to mix in with kibble) folding and filling is all part of their impulse control training. Even paper towel rolls would be fun to full and keep him busy getting the goodies out.
Another easy game if you could is just standing in a spot he wouldnt jump on you and throwing a piece of his food. He goes and finds it then you throw another. It would tire him out.
Mine would eat the cardboard, haha, but he does enjoy when I put enrichment treats together. We have a little, hollow rubber "iceberg" for freezing, so I'll fill it with things like pumpkin, pepper, strawberries, apples, whatever's on the menu and then give it to him. He quite enjoys it, though last time he took some chunks out of the rubber, whoops. He's a "maximum destruction chewer", so I've got to be on top of taking certain toys out of his reach once we are done with their intended purpose.
He also has a rubber pinecone. It's got the little petal things on the outside, and the inside has a rudimentary "trickle dispenser" system of small shelves so that treats can come out slowly. I've smeared pumpkin and banana on the outside, sometimes I freeze it, then I put either broken up treats or kibble on the inside. He doesn't like eating food out of the dirt on the ground, so it's a great toy for when he has to be in the crate for longer (due to rain, heat, whatever).
The only problem I have with these toys is that they are "too small". 😂 Good enough size that he enjoys them and they don't pose a risk, but not big enough in the food compartments. He gets about 4.5 cups of food a day, and the pinecone doesn't quite even fit half a cup. I have had my eye out for more treat-based enrichment toys whenever we go to the store. A lick mat would be awesome, though it'd have to be thick, solid rubber, not silicone. 😂
 
Instead of a regular round ball see if you can find him one with lots of angles. Don't know how to describe it. More interesting bc it doesn't just roll in a predictable manner but bounces erratically. It's polygon shaped.
You will chase it less when he is on the cable, it's not as likely to get away from him, roll out of his reach.
Oh, yes, that's a good idea. I think they have rubber cubes and other such things at the store. I mentioned a rubber pinecone just a moment ago, and that toy is also designed to bounce erratically, and doesn't go very far since it's hollow. I think it would fit in his mouth better, too, since the ball is just barely on the verge of too big, lol. He is pretty good at retrieving, fortunately. I think what I might try first is bringing some treats with me so I can have him "heel" if I need to go get the ball myself, and I'll just do that if it works well. More enrichment for him, too.
 
Mine would eat the cardboard, haha, but he does enjoy when I put enrichment treats together. We have a little, hollow rubber "iceberg" for freezing, so I'll fill it with things like pumpkin, pepper, strawberries, apples, whatever's on the menu and then give it to him. He quite enjoys it, though last time he took some chunks out of the rubber, whoops. He's a "maximum destruction chewer", so I've got to be on top of taking certain toys out of his reach once we are done with their intended purpose.
He also has a rubber pinecone. It's got the little petal things on the outside, and the inside has a rudimentary "trickle dispenser" system of small shelves so that treats can come out slowly. I've smeared pumpkin and banana on the outside, sometimes I freeze it, then I put either broken up treats or kibble on the inside. He doesn't like eating food out of the dirt on the ground, so it's a great toy for when he has to be in the crate for longer (due to rain, heat, whatever).
The only problem I have with these toys is that they are "too small". 😂 Good enough size that he enjoys them and they don't pose a risk, but not big enough in the food compartments. He gets about 4.5 cups of food a day, and the pinecone doesn't quite even fit half a cup. I have had my eye out for more treat-based enrichment toys whenever we go to the store. A lick mat would be awesome, though it'd have to be thick, solid rubber, not silicone. 😂
The woof pupsicle is amazing. They do have a super chewer option. And the x large is huge compared to the large. The large lasts Tucker about 30 minutes. Yesterday i put a duck foot in it so it took him over a hour. Im not exactly sure hoe much food they hold. Ive also looked at freezebones they can hold quite a bit of food.
 
The woof pupsicle is amazing. They do have a super chewer option. And the x large is huge compared to the large. The large lasts Tucker about 30 minutes. Yesterday i put a duck foot in it so it took him over a hour. Im not exactly sure hoe much food they hold. Ive also looked at freezebones they can hold quite a bit of food.
I'll look into those, thanks!!
 
I put pumpkin and blueberries in it, without freezing, so he can try it out. He was very well behaved for it, lol, I think he could smell the pumpkin from outside so he was sitting very nicely, and I didn't even have to remind him to stay seated.
 

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