Puppy Games

You might dread taking your dog to the vet for shots, immunizations or general check ups, but you probably realize that a trip to the vet can be even more stressful for your pet. As a knowledgeable pet owner, you realize that your pet needs you to help maintain his health and physical well-being, and your vet can help you understand the best methods for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and diet at home, but sometimes a trip to the vet is necessary. Not only does your dog need shots and check ups, he might need emergency care, flea and tick prevention aides, de-worming and blood sugar level adjustments. Aside from all of this stressful medical trauma, your pet might need some extra emotional support from you – especially in stressful areas like the busy waiting area or the cold exam table.

In this free video clip series, our expert will help you understand what types of care you absolutely must provide your dog with through trips to the vet, as well as tips and techniques for ensuring not only a healthy pet physically, but emotionally as well.

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

"Hi! This is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about puppy care. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at canineheadstart.com. So in this video clip we are going to be talking about games that you can play with your puppy. Puppies need to be entertained. If you do not entertain them, they are going to wander around the house and find out ways of entertaining themselves. So we are just going to talk about a couple of little games that you can play with your puppy here, so I am going to play the touch game with her. I am going to put my hand out to her, touch and when she touches my hand, yes, good girl, I am going to give her a treat, so we will try this again, touch yes, good girl. You can move your hand around, so you can check and see if the dog really knows what they are doing, ready, touch, yes, good girl, Raven touch, yes good girl. Another game you can play with her is the attention game, the watch me game, so I can take a little treat bring it up to my eyes and say watch me. Yes. When the puppy is looking at you, you reward them and give them a treat. Another game you can play is the beginning of teaching them how to play dead. You take your finger and you just kind of move it towards their body and they rollover, yes and they rollover you give him a treat, touch, yes, good girl, touch, yes, good girl, yes, good girl. I am not pushing her over with my hand, I am just pointing to her side and she is rolling right over. Let’s see if can get her to play a foot game with me; yes good girl. That is how you begin to start teaching them the slap me five or high five, so let us see if I can get her to give me another foot. Yes good girl, so if she hits me with her foot, I am going to mark it and reward her. I am not going to play go for that; see if I can get her to do it here. Okay, touch, yes good girl. A lot of times all about capturing behaviors; now if she had just spontaneously hit me with the foot, yes like she does there, good girl, I can mark this and see if can get her to do it again. Yes getting a bit confused here, because she is doing the touch game, good girl. I will see if I can get a rollover again, yes good girl, good job, so you can see this lots of different little games that you can play with your puppy keep herself, yes, good girl and you amused during the time you are spending with your baby."