The Joy of Playing With Your Dog: Games, Tricks, & Socialization for Puppies & Dogs

by Monks of New Skete, Marc Goldberg, Daniel Henning (reader)

Dogs love to play, yet in training, humans can overlook its value and importance. The Joy of Playing with Your Dog reveals how playing can be developed into an invaluable tool to support behavioral development, obedience, and strong bonds. For example, Fetch—the most basic of games—taps into a dog’s prey drive in a healthy manner. It encourages interaction and reinforces commands like come and drop it. A good game puts the owner in control, while the dog follows the rules. Activities like Red Light, Green Light and Go Find will entertain and delight all involved, but also help with impulse control, developing an “off-switch,” and responding to vocal commands. Tricks like Speak can solve excessive barking. These lessons all lead to better dog-to-dog relationships, a topic important to dog owners. Featuring full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions, this is a valuable addition to the dog-training bookshelf.

Genres: Dogs

1 pages, Audio CD

Published November 14, 2023

Reviews

[Hilary Keys]

Loved it all except for the last chapter about old dogs. My dogs will live forever so I just didn’t think it applied.

[Jen Albano]

Was hoping for a more psychological read verses training techniques which is what this book mostly focuses on. Still an enjoying and informative read.

[Linda Garcia]

I'm always looking for new ways to play, train, or interact with my pup. As a first time dog mom, I have learned A LOT about dogs, dog behavior and the way dogs learn. I took a bunch of these games and tricks and will work on them with him. Especially as we head into the winter months where our outside time will be limited because it's too cold!

[Peggy McCoy]

Reading this book was pure joy. I really appreciated the gentle methods presented. I have hope I can teach my old dog some new games.

[Susan]

Excellent books about training and playing with your dog