For the Dog Who Plays all but When You Want to
This is the category my dog best fits; Diva loves to play, but only when she wants to. Her toys are scattered around the house from her various play sessions and whenever I wanted to play a nice game of fetch with her, she was uninterested. To fix this problem, I gathered all her toys and put them in a closed room, so when I wanted to play, she would be thrilled.
For the Dog Who Just Won't Play
This is the category that Annie fits best in (I have a bunch of misfits!). This is the dog that would rather sit on the couch all day. To get them intrigued into playing I used an old sock and stuffed it with some gross stuff and mushed it together, inside the sock. I then tried to get Annie to tug on it. Since your dog probably can't tug then you will start by clicking an treating them whenever they look at it. Once they become increasingly better at this change it to where they get a treat when they touch it with their nose. Keep on doing this until your dog does it repeatedly. Now treat them when they bite it. Repeat. Next, try to get them to hold on and start tugging. Repeat. Then when they start repeating this action over and over say Tug right after they hold on to your sock. Repeat. Now they will tug with you, but you want to just throw the toy and they chase after it. What do you do. You would use your sock filled with monstrosities and throw it, they will likely start wanting the treats inside and try to tare the sock to get in. Since they went for the toy you will now click and treat them. Repeat this step. Now their only missing one key ingredient for a good fetching dog: they need to return the toy. Now you're going to tell your dog Come after fetching the toy. If your dog doesn't know Come it is on the blog. Repeat until your dog doesn't need you to say Come, it's just habitual.
I hope this helped if your dog wouldn't play with you!
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