Games

Making a puzzle toy for you dog can be great fun as long as they don’t swallow the packaging so always make sure that a parent knows what you are going to do. You can use old egg boxes or cereal packets and pop a few of your dogs favourite treats inside and then close up the packets using a tiny bit of tape. Your dog will have great fun trying to get inside and removing the treat. It can make a bit of mess but I’m sure you will be able to pick it all up afterwards.

Lots of dogs like to play fetch and will often bring you the toy back and drop it at your feet. That’s great if dog does this but a few will bring you the toy and then as you go to take it they quickly run away with it. If they do this then ignore them, pick up and begin to play with another toy and just like your little annoying sister your dog will come back and want what you have. However, before they get it, ask them to sit and wait and then throw it. Keep repeating this until they get the message that they might as well just give it back.

Ask mum for some cheap plastic cups and place 6 upside down on the floor about 1 metre apart. Hide a nice treat beneath two of the cups whilst your dog is in another room. Then call your dog in and go over to one of the cups with a treat underneath and pick it up so your dog can pick up the treat. Then allow your dog to hunt for others beneath the cups and repeat the word “Go Find”. When your dog finds one tell him what a good boy he is. You must make sure your dog is not going to eat the cups but if they get crunched up a bit it doesn’t really matter.