Crate Rest Activities for Dogs after Back, Hip, Leg Injuries, ACL or TPLO, Heartworm treatmentetc
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- Dogs that have their activity restricted (are on crate rest) get bored, especially active dogs. Sometimes its too hot outside for active games. The best way to help them cope is to use their brains. The bonus is that they know some additional behaviors when they are ready for activity or the weather cools off.
Here is a list of links that will start you off in training the various behaviors.
Some are videos, some are links to training descriptions. Some have extra instructions below them.
Other simple activities are giving your dog a stuffed frozen bone or Kong or food puzzles. I would avoid 'bark and quiet' since the dog is confined and barking may become a default behavior when frustrated.
What other activities do you use? Add them in the comments below.
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All of the various targeting behaviors are just variations of the nose target. Start with a few cued nose targets, drop the cue, then just slightly modify the position of you hand. Do this stages until you get a chin target. For the nose bridge, start back at the nose, and modify the position of your hand over the dog's nose until she pushes it between your index finger and thumb. For the loop target, start by having the dog target your hand with the loop held between the nose and your hand.
For the touch and hold, just add duration before clicking a nose touch, or ask for two and click the longest one.
Capturing a lip lick • Capturing a Behavior: ... (Jessie's curl was captured this way)
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Ring Toss Once your dog can pick up objects and drop them in a specific location, use the ring and replace the container with an upright stick. Shape the dog to target the ring to the stick, then the top of the stick, then drop the ring over the stick.
• Ring Toss with Dogs
Cover Your Face • Cover Your Eyes dog tr... (captured when scratching her eyes or place a piece of tape on the side the the dog's head.)
Muffin Tin Game • Mind Enrichment & Scen...
Shell Scent Game • Enrichment Games for D...
Scent Discrimination. I used metal mason jar rings. Smeared cheese lightly on one and clicked when the dog picked it up. Then added a second one that I had not handled and clicked when she picked up the correct one. Over time, fade the cheese scent and just held it in my hand. From there add more rings. Repeat with wood dumbbells and other objects that had not been recently handled.
Left and Right viassistancedog...
Shaping the light switch • Service Dog Task: Flip...
Shaping the dog to hold smaller and smaller objects and to Put Them Away (toys, objects etc) viassistancedog...
Teaching Take • Formal Service Dog Ret...
Teaching Paw Target • Clicker Training a Paw...
Once both behaviors are consistent and on cue, practice a few of each before alternating, clicking only for correct choices. If the dog chooses incorrectly, reset the behavior (no click or treat) and let the dog try again. Here's a video that shows this with different behaviors: tug and shut • Teaching Dogs Cues Usi...
Object discrimination (Names of Objects) • Teaching Object Recogn...
Here's an extra activity that uses the front end of the dog. This little daxie is blind and has just had surgery on her hind legs, has no use of her back legs yet she still wants to participate! • 101 things to do with ... The activities work for disabled dogs too!
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Thanks Donna. My Gibbs just had total hip replacement, so these low/limited movement tricks will be a great distraction over the next few weeks!
I've done variations of "leave it" with dog lying down, progressing from item in my closed fist, open palm, on my knee, on the ground, on dog’s paw…all the way up his/her legs, etc. Also wave/paw, high 5s, high 10s (depending on dog's injury). Fabulous video as always! :-)
These are also great ways to exercise a senior dog's mind even if his or her body is beginning to fail. Thank you for the wonderful ideas!
That dog is amazing smarter than a lot of people out the for sure!
Have an dog on crate rest?
Keep his or her mind busy with these 20 activities while keeping the body still. Crate Rest Activities for Dogs after Back, Hip, Leg Injuries, ACL or TPLO, Heartworm treatmentetc
I keep sharing and sharing this video - got lots of friends and acquaintances with pets on crate rest right now! Awesome video.
these are really a great collection of things you can do to keep your dog working!
This is amazing! Our dog suffered a broken pelvis after being hit by a car and will be on cage rest for the next 6 weeks. These are great activities that I will definitely be doing with her. Thanks!
How's the dog now
Great video and list of links are super helpful. Thanks for sharing!
I really could have used these ideas two weeks ago when my girl was on crate rest. But I'm going to try some of these out on cold days. Thank you!
Thank you Donna, I only discovered your videos today and I am finding them very useful and interesting
Nice list! And thanks for the links to the training techniques.
Thanks Donna -all ideas gratefully appreciated after cruciate ligament tear in my older but very active terrier's left knee. We're looking at months of severely limited activity - trying to sort it out conservatively and without controversial surgery.
How's it going Jacquie? My dog's just done the same and am researching the non-surgical CM route initially.
Hello Ian, I'm very sorry to hear that - it's a long road to recovery no matter what option you take. My terrier cross is only 7kg and is 12yo so a good candidate for CM. The tear became acute a month before I was to move to Canada from the UK, so not ideal for calm confinement. In any case, we are now settled in Canada but the tear progressed to a full rupture. Took her to a highly recommended surgeon here who was fab - long story short, he did not pressure me into surgery. We decided to continue CM but have her undergo 'platelet rich plasma treatment'. She was injected directly into the joint capsule with her own plasma, put on anti-inflamatories and seems much more comfortable than before (one week on). Worth researching! Doc says 6 months to one year of recovery but it WILL happen if we stick to her restricted activity and short lead walks. We are one week into the new program - will keep you posted and good luck with your dog.
Thank you for this. We are about to do some of this as our wolfhound underwent a tplo right hind leg. Thank god for utube and great friend.s
Is your dog recovering from surgery?
Try out these activities that will keep his mind active but not his body.
Crate Rest Activities for Dogs after Back, Hip, Leg Injuries, ACL or TPLO, Heartworm treatmentetc
Is your dog on crate rest? Here's some ideas to keep her mentally busy.
Crate Rest Activities for Dogs after Back, Hip, Leg Injuries, ACL or TPLO, Heartworm treatmentetc
+Donna Hill (Clicker Training Dogs) I schooled my 4yo retriever moonbeam to stop digging up the back yard in just 5 days. It was really simple. My secret to success is the Dog discipline magic system that I found with google.
Great ideas, thank you for the video!
Wonderful. Thank you!
Thanks for the video. Very useful!
wow great job
Today my dog was put in crate rest for 2 weeks. On day 1 and he seemed to calm down when i lied infront of his crate door and started to read a book. At least with my dog, being next to me helps him relax and sleep.
lovely.
Excellent
Thanks for sharing, Uncle Lenny! Who woulda thought....
thank you, it is wonderful!
Good luck and let us know how ti goes!
Great ideas :) Also, where might I find a big sit-in crate like that or did you make it yourself? Thank you
Very nice, tho my guy s moble these are very appropriate calm down activities. Click have a cookie
I dunno.. these activities seem pretty excessive (movement) if a dog is under strict crate rest orders.. I'd worry about most of them shown. Cute pups!
Do you have any videos on helping a dog with separation anxiety?
No, Try a book by malenademartini.com
Regarding a brachycephalic adult male Bulldog.....would all of these crate rest games still be applicable (for instance the Muffin Tin Game?) for me to train him while he recovers for about 6 weeks due to a torn ACL? Thank you for any advise you have for me.
Can use this after spay?
Yes as long as the specific activity doesn't strain the abdominal muscles.
Where can I learn how to teach these behaviors? My little guy is on 8 weeks crate rest for IVDD.
There are instructions for some of them in the video description but they are intended for more mature dogs. With puppies, focus on socialization to strangers, objects, other animals etc. Housetraining and bite inhibition should be priorities.
Donna Hill Here's a link: drsophiayin.com/images/uploads/ce/Socialization_Checklist.pdf
Thanks! He's 3; I didn't mean puppy in the literal sense, although he could use some help with socialization to strangers. He barks incessantly to alarm us and then cries and screams if he doesn't get to say hi to guests in our home. I'll work on some of these things with him, instead of just down stay. Thanks again!
what this cage's name?
Excellent collection of demos Donna!