Tug of a Life – How Tug-of-Love Can Tackle Reaction (and Hyperactivity!)

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY Watch Dunbar Academy’s brand new Canine-Dog Responsiveness webinar for FREEDr. Ian Dunbar explains why teaching your dog to play Tug of War is one of the smartest things you can do to address dog-dog reactions.

Teaching your dog to enjoy playing Tug of war can be extremely helpful in dealing with hyperactivity and reaction problems. Tug of war is a game your dog plays WITH YOU, very easy and portable to take you anywhere. The beauty of Tug of War is that it keeps your dog’s focus on YOU, which allows you to pull your dog’s focus away from anything they might be reacting to.

If your dog enjoys playing Tug of war and they are starting to understand a little bit about another dog or a squirrel, you can pull their Tug Toy out of the bag and make them focus on you to the point of perfecting them. completely ignore everything else. The problem has been resolved.

That’s why we encourage all dog and puppy owners to teach their dogs to play Tug of War, even if they don’t have reaction problems. Teaching Dogs to Tug opens up a whole new realm of dog training, making it easy for you to improve motivation and reliability.

Plus, behavior and temperament are always changing so it’s good to have a Tug in your pocket (figuratively and literally) in case you need to pull it out someday.

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If you want to learn more about how to teach dogs to love Tug and how to use their love of tug to prevent or solve dog-dog response problems, check out our all is new Webinar on dog-dog reactionsavailable on Dunbar Academy, for free, LIMITED TIME.