20 Easy Ways to Exercise Your Dog at Home #32

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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If someone comes to me with a behaviour problem, one of the first questions I ask is “how much exercise does your dog get?”. There is often a definite link between the mental and physical stimulation a dog receives and the amount of trouble the dog gets into. Exercising your dog or puppy can be easy and done within your home.

The games I’m sharing are great ways to engage your dog’s brain and body if you can’t get out, or you have an injury that means you can’t go for your usual walks or outings with your dog.

In the episode you'll hear:

• Why dogs need exercise and how you can include this in daily life.
• 20 easy games to play with your puppy or dog.
• How to use what you have at home to engage your dog’s mind and body.

Resources:

• How to Train Stand on Cue (YouTube) - https://youtu.be/YCD1PvaLmPI
• Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
• Video Blog: 5 Games for Puppies - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/04/5-games-for-puppies/
• Podcast Episode 31: 5 Simple Hacks to Help Your Dog Learn Faster - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/31/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to Shaped by dog. I am Susan Garrett and I want to know. Do you exercise
0:14.4	your dog daily? Maybe one time a day, two times a day, three, four times a day? You might be saying,
0:20.7	oh, Susan, I would
0:21.9	love to, but I can't because. I want you to hold that thought. Because somebody like me,
0:29.8	when you come to me and say, I have a problem, I have a behavior problem with my dog. The
0:33.7	first thing I'm going to say is, how much exercise does that dog get? Because there is a
0:37.7	definite link between the physical mental stimulation your dog gets in a day and the amount of
0:44.0	trouble the dog gets into. If you want to make sure your dog is mentally and physically
0:50.5	stimulated, you've got to get them some exercise. And on top of it, it's just kind.
0:55.8	Dogs love to move. They need to move. So, when you say, oh, Susan, I can't because,
1:03.1	I'm going to say to you, there's excuses and there's a result. Your excuses, you can keep
1:08.0	building them up in your mind and that will justify why your dog isn't
1:12.2	getting exercise. But let's get you some results. So it doesn't matter if it's a rainy day
1:17.7	or if you're snowed in or if it's COVID and you're in lockdown or maybe you've had a hip
1:23.0	replacement and you really can't move. Today, I'm going to provide you with 20 activities you can do
1:29.6	from your home. Some of them are going to give your dog mental stimulation, some physical
1:34.9	stimulation, some both. But after today, you have no more excuses. I'm going to start with the
1:42.6	ease of use and go down to things that are more complicated,
1:46.0	but none of these games are dependent on each other or very few of them. So, you can jump right
1:51.2	in and do game 14 without having done games one through 13. First game is the search game.
1:58.3	And all that you do is you get a pile of cookies, hold one in your hand,
2:03.2	grab your dog's collar, let them see the cookie, say the word search and toss the cookie
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