How to play with your Newfoundland puppy?

Playing games is certainly one of the most important things in life of every creature who walks this planet. According to that, games take big part of everyone’s life, so therefore pets as well. This is a text about Newfoundland puppies, but the most of the story will be told referred to all dogs. However, don’t think that things that you read here can’t be applied on your Newfoundland puppies just because the most of information can be taken as general information.

First of all, you should know that playing with your pet isn’t just useful for it, but for you too. Games are extremely good for both physical and mental development. Playing isn’t just having fun as some people think, but learning a lot of important stuff too. So, while you are playing with your Newfoundland dog puppy, you are also teaching it some things and you can be unaware of that. For example, besides only having fun, your pet is learning how to behave itself. As it was explained through comparison on the start, I would like to compare humans and dogs now once more. When you’ve read word “behavior” you might thought “Yeah, like the dog’s behavior is important”. Well, actually, it really is. We all know why are some spoiled people (I say people but it’s mostly referred to teenagers) acting the way they do – it’s because they were spoiled while they were kids. Situation is similar with the dogs. Don’t take this wrong, it’s doubtless that you need to offer love and attention to your pet, just be careful to not be too careful.

So, we can start now with listing real games that you can play with your Newfoundland puppy. The most popular game with all dogs is certainly, you are guessing – Fetch. Yes, this game is not only popular but very good for your dog. You should start this game by showing a toy (ball, stick) to your dog and telling it certain command that your pet should be get used to. This command is “sit” in most of the cases. After this, you need to throw the object that you are keeping (don’t throw it too far at the beginning) and you should tell to your dogs commands like “bring it”, “get it” and so on. It’s is important that these words are spoken with encouraging tone and confident voice, and that you don’t yell at your dog. It is very important not to yell, so what if your dog didn’t do it from first attempt? After each successful period of the game, reward him with words that you are free to choose.

Hide and seek is also a game that can be played with your Newfoundland puppy. In this game you need to put you puppy in “sit position” and go and hide somewhere (This game can require one person more besides you, if your puppy is impatient or not enough trained to be calm without you standing by its side). After you hided yourself, start calling puppy’s name. It will seek you until it finds you.

Besides all these games, I think it would be good to mention some things that you could and you couldn’t do with your pet (things that you should be aware of). You should know what toys your pet likes and keep them while removing the ones he doesn’t. Pay attention on your voice too, high voice usually excite your dog while lower voice mostly means some kind of a command. Also, while doing all this, occasionally teach your dog commands like “sit”, “drop it” and so on.

Things that you shouldn’t do with your dog are yelling on it and chasing it. Also, don’t let your puppy to go to search attention from someone other else, all attention should be granted from you.

Surely there are many more games besides the ones that are mentioned above, but the most of them can be grouped somehow in “tricks”. No one can write down all tricks that people do with their pets, because there are no certain rules. You just need to be creative and patient and you will surely succeed.