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    Intelligence Games and Mental Exercise for Dogs: Dog activity for home with many dog games and much more!
    Intelligence Games and Mental Exercise for Dogs: Dog activity for home with many dog games and much more!
    Intelligence Games and Mental Exercise for Dogs: Dog activity for home with many dog games and much more!
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    Intelligence Games and Mental Exercise for Dogs: Dog activity for home with many dog games and much more!

    By Roland Berger

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    Learn together with your dog how to make the daily walks more interesting. For example, teach him some tricks and explore the benefits of clicker training. You will also learn how to keep your dog busy in a meaningful and species-appropriate way and why balanced play or training is so important for your pet.

    You will learn a lot about the body language of your four-legged friend, so that you can understand it and thus be able to impart the necessary knowledge to your dog.

    Likewise, the socialization process of a dog is covered in a separate chapter. You will learn when this is best done and why it is so important for your dog's future life.

    There are so many ways to play with your dog while giving him plenty of variety and attention.

    You will read many examples of learning some tricks. It also explains suitable dog toys and also what you need to look for when using them to avoid boredom.

    The book includes:
    - Basic rules of playing
    - Body language of the dog
    - Some breed-typical activities
    - Dog tricks and mind games
    - The clicker training
    - Over 10 illustrations
    - And much more!

    Once you have read this book and can implement some of it with your dog, you and your dog will be a well-coordinated team.

    Have fun reading, learning and trying out.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateApr 23, 2022
    ISBN9783986469771
    Intelligence Games and Mental Exercise for Dogs: Dog activity for home with many dog games and much more!

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      Intelligence Games and Mental Exercise for Dogs - Roland Berger

      List of Figures

      Figure 1: A guide dog

      Figure 2: Dog socialization

      Figure 3: Border collie dog herding a flock of sheep

      Figure 4: Dog playing alone with stick

      Figure 5: Dog hunting

      Figure 6: Puppy makes itself very small.

      Figure 7: Dog chases own tail

      Figure 8: Sit visual signal

      Figure 9: Place visual signal

      Figure 10: Visual signal "Off

      Figure 11: Dog toys from the pet shop

      Figure 12: Behavior signals in dogs

      Figure 13: Give paw

      Figure 14: English bulldog makes roll

      Figure 15: Making males.

      Figure 16: High five

      Figure 17: Dog balancing dog cookie on nose

      Figure 18: Clicker training

      Figure 19: Dogs with toys

      The dog

      Already own a dog or planning to get one? Congratulations. Because with this decision you have made a very good one, because the dog is one of the most kept and loyal pets in the world.

      But do you even know what exactly a dog is? How long has he already served man as a pet and why? These questions should be answered to you in this introduction.

      The dog family includes many species, such as wolves, foxes and even jackals and coyotes. The domestic dog known to us still has much in common with these, for example, all have excellent hearing and a very well-developed sense of smell. They all also defend their territory. In addition, he is a mammal and strictly speaking still a predator. The dentition of a dog is a predator's dentition.

      Today, it is still not known exactly when the dog was created. It is assumed that this happened about 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. However, bone finds were already made, which are clearly older. But it is certain that the dog descended from the wolf and that man at some point, for whatever reason, made use of the useful characteristics of the wolf. Probably it all started with the hand rearing of wolf pups to tame them and get them used to humans. Then with the time the house dog developed. It is further assumed that this first domestication happened first in East Asia and the dog spread from there over the whole world.

      Dogs have very different meanings on earth. In ancient Egypt he was even sacred and in Europe and America dogs were used for hunting in the Bronze Age.

      In today's world, for example, in developing countries, the dog is no longer granted great status. Often he lives here feral on the streets or is even bred to serve as food. In civilized countries, the dog is usually very pampered as a pet and no longer has to do any work.

      The many different breeds represented today were created because man began to mix dogs among themselves specifically according to their existing characteristics. So there were soon special herding dogs, hunting dogs or guard dogs. Even small breeds were bred to be kept as lapdogs. Today's life expectancy of a dog is about 13 years, however, there are also animals, especially mixed breeds, which become much older.

      These breeds have not lost their qualities over the millennia, which means that they are still present and should be promoted accordingly. This does not always prove to be easy. Therefore, you should pay special attention to which dog breed is suitable for you. All the more here is the importance of meaningful employment of your pet with the name dog.

      And why is the dog actually called dog?

      Here is a nice little definition that can be found on the Internet site www.issnruede.de:

      After man, God created all animals and plants. Now everything he had created was to be given a name. During his journey around the earth, a small animal followed him wherever he went. When God had given a name to everything on earth, the little animal addressed him, Dear God, there is no name left for me. But God thought quickly and said, You don't have to be left without a name. I'll turn my own name GOD around and call you DOG, my little friend."

      Are dogs smart?

      The answer to this question is clearly yes. However, not every dog breed is equally smart. Through a study it was found out that the smartest dog breed is the Border Collie. The next places are taken by the Poodle, the German Shepherd, the Golden Retriever and the Doberman. The Afghan Greyhound, the Basenji (a breed about knee-high, originating from the Congo) and the Bulldog were rated as less intelligent.

      Despite everything, dogs can understand up to 250 words and classify and interpret gestures and facial expressions of humans. Many owners of a dog do not know this, so in the chapter Body language of the dog the body language of humans is also briefly mentioned.

      A dog thinks very well in social contexts, while abstract things seem Spanish to him. After all, it's occasionally the case with us humans, too, so it shouldn't be difficult to tell whether the dog will understand you. It has been found that playful and particularly attentive dogs have good learning behavior.

      The special intelligence of a dog is shown, for example, in a guide dog. This training takes about a year. The most commonly used breeds here are the German Shepherd, the Labrador and the Golden Retriever. A guide dog must remain calm and level-headed, especially in stressful situations, such as prevailing large crowds and very loud ambient noise. In addition, he learns to recognize obstacles and, if necessary, to avoid them so that his blind master or mistress can reach his destination safely. Likewise, a guide dog must be able to search for, find, and safely visit specific targets that his handler tells him. Here, for example, a crosswalk or a traffic light is mentioned. A well-trained guide dog should also be able to locate elevators and the like. Mostly a guide dog is trained individually and therefore only when the corresponding need exists. A person in need of help must wait here already some time, until his guide dog is ready. The special intelligence of the dog turns out, however, when it comes to not obeying the commands of the blind master, because they would end up in a dangerous situation, for example. This is also learned by a guide dog during the training and it does not represent the typical behavior of a dog at all. Here the own intelligence as well as thinking ability is in demand and the dog must make decisions independently. This requires a special intelligence, which not every dog has.

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