Dog Health Questions: Dog Training?

How do I teach my dog to catch a Frisbee? He really loves to chew on it, but he is having a hard time with the concept of catching it. Please help.

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This was my concept I used for my spaniel.

1. First, show him how to catch food. Start by showing him the treat, and throwing it lightly into the air so it can see it.

2. Once he masters it, use a soft ball or something that you can put food into( I prefer a stuffed animal). Let the dog sniff it and throw it about 20ft far. Don't expect it to catch it. Now once he gets the hang of it, try throwing it to him lightly as you did in step one. This teaches it to catch the items.

3. Now once he masters all of these, try practicing with a frisbee. You can also try spreading pieces of treat on the frisbee.

Good luck and hope this helps!

Dog Training Tips - When Should Dog Training Start?

• Maybe you can stick some food on it, show it to him, let him smell it, then throw it at him.


• Try some basic agility classes. You;ll have to complete basic obedience first though to ensure that you're dog will listen when off the leash.
  
  Good luck!


• well it has something with the breed of dog, although most dogs do like frisbees. try starting out small, same as a kid. go from 3 inches and after the dog has mastered it go out another 3 inches and so on till it can catch it. oh, make sure you give your dog a treat each time it catches it.


• try making little thows that are easy to catch. when he crews on it discipline him. but some dogs just dont want to catch it. sometimes the breed has a lot to do with them being interested in catching
  
  i have a border collie and he loves to catch the frisbee but if he gets a chance to laydown with it..all he does is crew it up. disciplining him has made him crew less but he still wants to chase and catch it.


• You have to train this thing with it every time. So it get know to it and it will catch some days. But now, there is allot of kind of pet books you can read. Most of it are about dogs. They got many ways to teach how to handle a dog example, feeding it, bathing it, training it and more. Check out at the bookstore, if you really need help with dogs.