Chuchi won't hold on to rope when playing! Advice? Hey YT people, I have been trying to play with Chuchi with a Kong Rope toy and I would expect him to bite on and try to keep it from me. It may be because he is only almost 6 months old but he just puts it in his mouth, tries to play when he is in the mood, but there is never that pulling battle that I would have expected. He's the same with all of his toys. Is this due to his young age or is there a way to teach him to play trying to keep it in his mouth? Thanks! Aron |
Welcome to YT! Thor is the same way. He does not like rope toys, and won't even eat a flossie unless it's been boiled soft. He loves to play, but almost exclusively with plush toys. I think he either has weak jaws, or extremely high bite inhibition. He's little - only four lbs - but even though all his toys have squeakers, and he loves the noise, he can only make a few of them squeak. We play tug of war, sort of. He doesn't really lock his jaws down and hold the way other dogs do. He sort of repeatedly bites at the toy and paws at it to keep me away. I have to try really hard NOT to take the toy away, he's so bad at guarding them. It's sort of pathetic, really. :D Anyway, I just think some dogs are more into tug-of-war than others, just like some are monster fetchers and some are not. I would like to teach Thor Take It/Hold It, but I don't see pulling matches in our future. Hope this helps. |
Frisco too, also @ 6 mo. I just have to lightly hold a toy, like with my pinky, and he's wrassling away pushing up against my arm, and I can't feel anything. I have seen his grip, though and he certainly can turn it on. Like he pulls like a terrier on a toy hung from the ceiling. I haven't tried to have a go with him, because I worry about his teeth and throat, but I like to see him work out on a chewy stuffed between the couch cushions. We're playing like yockey now. I guard his bed, and has to get past me with the ball. If I get it past him, I try to get it in the litte mouse hole I rigged up in a big cardboard store display box. Then he gets to dig it out. He really likes this game, it's high action and he actually can legitimately win. |
Some will pull really hard and some won't. He's just gone thru or is still going thru teething. He could have been hurt a little while pulling or had a thread catch on a tooth. Could be lotsa things. My previous yorkie would pull really hard, but Kacee will barely pull and doesn't like to play too rough.:) |
I think USAYorkie has something there. It very well could be the teething. Sophie was hesitant to play tug while teething and now see loves it at just over a year old! |
How old is Thor? |
He's three. |
My little Rambo was the same way. He wouldn't play tug for the life of him. I did notice since he lost all of his baby teeth he started to chew and play catch more! I finally bought him a small rope and he loves it now. I took a good month for him to tug. But man he is strong I have a hard time keeping a grip on it! Rambo is 8 mths old now. |
Hmm, has he always been this way? When I got one of my dogs, he really had no interest in play at all. I got him back in June and only now is he starting to really like to play with toys and catch balls and play tug of war. |
When I got Rambo from the person they had him playing with a tennis ball. Well when I got him home the first toy was one of those small tennis balls and a little stuffed orange toy with squeaker. He loved the squeaker because of the noise and when he would chew on it I would reach for it and hang on to it a give little tugs. Then when he started to catch on I up graded to a rope and he loved it! Because he loves his rope so much I only let him play with it for 2 hrs a day. If he would have it all day it would be chewed to strings all over the apt. and he would never let it go in hopes to tug! |
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