Be sure the area is safe, and adjust the course to your dog’s abilities and size. Get creative and use safe household objects like rolled up blankets or cardboard boxes to create hurdles and mazes to run through.
When he’s ready, raise the bar by having several people play, each calling the dog from different areas in turn to really keep your dog on his toes. This is a great group game as well as a way to reinforce his training to come when called. It may take him a few tries to catch on, but when he’s ready you can make it harder by getting more creative with your hiding places. “Hide” in another room and call him, then reward him by making a fuss over him or giving him one low-fat kibble when he finds you. Hide and seek is a great game to play with your dog, though it may take him a few tries to catch on. Hounds will love sniffing a scent trail – can he find you or a family member? Keep your breed in mind when you get started – have you got a heeler or a hound? Playing games like fetch can keep a retriever entertained for hours, while herding breeds will enjoy chasing balls or organising toys. Emily said: "He’s really a friendly and loving dog and he’s very patient and gentle with Bonnie.Here are some ideas on games to help your dog get some exercise in a way that’s fun for the both of you. Gemma's sister-in-law, Emily described the relationship between the mischievous duo as 'heart-warming'. I think Bonnie is going to have to be the one to be weaned off them, so she can't enable Rafa. I don't know what the long-term solution is in terms of weaning them both off the dummies. "When he's had enough he'll spit it out, it's quite impressive. It's not like he's eating them or chewing them, which is what we were worrying about, he literally uses it like a dummy. Rafa's being trained at the moment and he's quite a good dog on the whole.
Nobody but Rafa, he can have what he wants. She doesn't share with other kids or with me or her dad. She's very keen to share - but only with him. Rafa doesn't have his own dummy when he comes over to the house, he only gets one if Bonnie gives him one. She'll give him food off the table and she'll share some of her toys with him. They're friends, she shares everything with him. Gemma said: "The two of them have been growing up together, it's been quite cute. He's hooked on the dummies as well."īemused mum Gemma said Bonnie and Rafa have been tight-knit from the beginning of their lives, with the youngster keen to share everything with her canine companion. At first we thought 'oh he misses her', but no, he wanted to get a dummy that was left in there. "He was crying outside her cot the other day. Or we'll come across him and he has his own dummy from somewhere. It's only been recently where I've walked into a room and found her stuffing one into his mouth. The dog sucks dummies now like he's a baby, it's ridiculous. "It turns out that she's been secretly giving dummies to Rafa. She'll just appear with one and we'll be thinking 'how the heck did you get that?' Bonnie will just hide them in little corners of the house so we don't know where they are. "I'll take the dummies away but they'll turn up. I've read that once a baby turns two it gets a lot harder to get rid of the dummies, so we're basically trying to get her off them before then. We've been trying to wean her off - completely unsuccessfully. Gemma, from Birmingham, West Midlands, said: "Bonnie's now 18 months old and we've been trying to wean her off the dummies. Radio host Gemma admits that her daughter is the 'root' of the pair getting 'hooked' and she's at a loss how to get the pair to kick the habit. The pooch's 'addiction' has resulted in Emily being forced to chase him around the garden in a desperate bid to retrieve the dummies from his mouth. Instead of trying to get just her daughter to ditch the dummies, she's now trying to convince little Rafa too.
Gemma, who looks after Rafa several times a week for her 30-year-old sister-in-law Emily Howard, has been left tearing her hair out at the 'ridiculous' situation. The 18-month-old pooch now proudly parades around the house and garden sucking on dummies, even standing by Bonnie's cot whimpering for his fix when he hasn't got one. In addition to refusing to give up her beloved dummies, the sneaky tot has been sharing them with Cavalier King Charles Spaniel pal Rafa. Gemma Hill has been trying to wean 18-month-old Bonnie Howards off dummies for two months but without success, as the wily youngster manages to hide them around the house. A dummy-mad toddler who stashes comforters around her home so she always has one to hand has now got the family dog hooked on them too.
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