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Puppy games that make dog training fun

While this booklet is all about fun puppy games, these specific games also serve as practical dog training and therapeutic techniques. The puppy games included are designed to enhance the puppy-owner relationship while providing a healthy and necessary outlet for your puppy's natural tendencies to chase, catch and chew.

Dog training sometimes seems like disciplined, serious business. And it can be. But having fun in the process by using puppy games like these, makes dog training much more enjoyable for everyone, including your puppy.

You will find a few of our puppy games listed below, along with a brief description of the learning outcome for your puppy.

"A dog is a predator and instinctively they want to chase, catch and chew."

Games include:
Drop it Take it, Leave it The Socialization Game Hide and Go Seek Follow Me Retrieve Round Robin Recall Puppy Out of the Gate Which Hand

Drop it: Teaches the puppy to drop objects from their mouth on cue.

Take it, Leave it: Conditions the puppy to take or leave a toy or other object when asked.

The Socialization Game: Encourages family or group participation and enhances socialization by exposing the puppy to a variety of people, places and things.

Hide and Go Seek: Two variations that are just plain fun.

Follow Me: Focuses the puppy's attention on the owner and teaches him to stay close by.

Retrieve: Provides healthy exercise and training benefits.

Round Robin Recall: Reinforces the "come" the recall and helps the puppy learn the names of the people in his life.

Puppy Out of the Gate: Great fun for the puppy and again reinforces "the recall".

Which Hand: The basis of "shake a paw" and great mental exercise for the puppy.