Play Hard: Creating a Healthy Outlet - a podcast by Ty Brown

I want to talk about playing with your dog, a topic that I encountered several times just this week. Earlier today, I had a conversation with a client who’s getting a very good working dog from a Midwest breeder. The breeder called me to say, “I understand that you're going to be doing some of the training for this dog, and I’d just like to talk about your methods.” We had a forty-five minute conversation, and when all was said and done I realized that about twenty minutes of that was spent talking about play.

I also have a nice working dog who’s doing a test run at a client’s home this weekend. I wasn’t going to be there when the client was going to pick up the dog, so I made a video to impart some information to them. Most of that information, I noticed, was about play. My family is going on vacation. I was making a video for my brother-in-law, who’s going to be staying with my dog, and a big part of those instructions were about play. All of these events made me realize the importance of play. I’ve known this for a long time, but I’ve never sat down and put all of my ideas out there. Here’s my attempt to do just that!

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