Fun games!

[Briggo09]

Just thought I'd put a thread out and see what fun games everyone plays with their cockers and see if generally the breed enjoys particular games more. My boy generally loves playing 'find it' games where I will throw kibble in the grass or hide it round the house for him to sniff out- and have recently moved this on to hiding his toys for him to find- I guess being a gundog it's pretty common for him to enjoy this- just wondered what everyone else has found. 

[Mudmagnets]

Another find it game mine like is a set of those child building beakers and line them up (2 or 3 to start with) and put a treat underneath 1 of them, then take the dog on lead to 'go find the treat' great game for a rainy day as you can play it indoors. You can build this up so that firstly on lead, then they go straight away off lead and then when they really know what they are doing - more formally with a wait involved.

[Markr64]

We use some fish skin treats an hide them around the living room and watch the dog try and beat the cats to them  They all end up with a few each which does seem to amuse Dexter as then he has a reason to lick the cats faces!

[l3w15t]

Hi, we've just discovered that our cocker really likes bubbles.  We have the giant bubbles with the wand thing that you wave around (you can get them in the supermarket in the kids aisle).  After about 10 minutes she, and the kids, are exhausted - happy days!  I'd definitely recommend it.

[MIN]

as Gemma knows her toys by name we put them in a pile in another room and send her to bring the one we ask for.  we ignore the fact that she has 3 froggy frogs, 4 sockees and 3 tuggawuggas  so she has a good chance to get it right.  We also hide treats around the room for her to find. But they are quick and cunning. Watch and you notice, the first place they look are the last places they found the treats before

[Londongirl]

How do you teach them the names of things? I'd love to teach Henry as we HAVE to know where Giraffe is before bedtime every night and he always knows where he left her - if I find her and move her somewhere else he'll go straight to where she was and look for her.

[Londongirl]

How do you teach them the names of things? I'd love to teach Henry as we HAVE to know where Giraffe is before bedtime every night and he always knows where he left her - if I find her and move her somewhere else he'll go straight to where she was and look for her.

[bizzylizzy]

Humphrey sits and waits while I go and hide a toy in another room then I go back to him and say "find" and he'll tear off, nose to the ground and making that snorting noise!  15 minutes doing that and he's flat out!!
We're hoping to start agility classes soon so are practising in the garden with a bamboo stick across two old buckets which he either jumps over or crawls underneath. I also got a football out the other day, watching him dribble was hilarious!

[MIN]

How do you teach them the names of things? I'd love to teach Henry as we HAVE to know where Giraffe is before bedtime every night and he always knows where he left her - if I find her and move her somewhere else he'll go straight to where she was and look for her.

its the same as fetch the ball or get the stick, the dog only knows its a ball or stick because that's what you say every time you throw it.
name the toy and use the name every time she plays with it

[Londongirl]

How do you teach them the names of things? I'd love to teach Henry as we HAVE to know where Giraffe is before bedtime every night and he always knows where he left her - if I find her and move her somewhere else he'll go straight to where she was and look for her.

its the same as fetch the ball or get the stick, the dog only knows its a ball or stick because that's what you say every time you throw it.
name the toy and use the name every time she plays with it

Hmm. Well, Henry doesn't play Fetch. He plays Keep. He definitely knows 'ball' - he will go find one if I say 'Get your ball' as he knows I'll throw it for him if he does. So I suspect he knows the names of his favourite toys, but not the concept of retrieving them.