Keeping Your Labrador Fit and Active Through Labrador Training
According to your dog’s personal needs, you need to ensure that your dog is kept physically trim and mentally exercised through Labrador training. Labradors are highly intelligent dogs that will need good stimuli at home whether or not they have their handlers-trainers with them at home.
Interactive games that bring the two of you together are a fun way to train your dog in accomplishing basic and routine tasks. These can also give the dog that mental simulation it may be sorely missing. Take a look at these guidelines for an easy-to-follow retrieval exercise which can be tried in your own backyard:
The first exercise, called Fetch, starts by getting the dog to sit, and throwing the dog’s pet item—like a treat or toy—some meters away from both of you. Get your dog to fetch, if it runs, follow by a few meters behind.
Give and Take is another activity; as the dog gets and runs away with the toy, run away from the dog to get it to go after you. When the dog catches up, turn to it and put one hand out to get it to give up the toy. If the dog does so, give it a treat with the other hand.
Keep up the practice and play with the dog over the weeks, bit by bit adding to the distance that the dog has to bring the bone over. If your dog gets shows signs of not enjoying the game anymore, stop in order to sustain the motivation of your dog. The next time the dog is ready for play, try throwing things for discarding like an old shoe or a slipper. But this time, you need to call out “Fetch the slipper” as you throw the item. You also should not change the items too fast, otherwise the dog will not have a reasonable amount of time to learn what are the name of the items. Due to your Labrador training, soon enough your dog may be able to retrieve items for you as you name or call it.
Before we end, we ought not to forget food as really helpful for giving your dog’s everyday routine a change. If indeed you need a new twist to how you feed your dog, try using a Kong. These are toys effective at keeping your dog preoccupied for hours and hours with food puzzles. Activity balls work the same way as kongs. Place a handful of treats inside so that they fall out as it rolls along the floor.
