Everytime Koda gets done swimming in the river out back she dry offs and then immediately has a full blow puppy zoomie. She runs out of control through the whole yard and makes sure to take a ceremonious leaping nip at us when she passes. She then locks in on us and growls and tries her best to get a few bites in before we can corral her and put her in her pen for a break. I don't want her to get in the habit of doing this after every swim (although I think she already has). So i was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to contain this. I was thinking possibly using a kong but was curious to see if anyone had any non food oriented ideas.
Maybe have a tug rope or a toy that you can give to her or play tug with when she gets close to you, before she manages to bite. Harley always has something in her mouth when having zoomies for this exact reason. It took a few weeks to train, but now she automatically gets a toy or sock or something when she's about to do zoomies. B
The only part of that I wouldn't like is the nipping and jumping. I'd encourage the actual zoomie part, it's fun. Oban never nips, Jet did. Jet didn't get nippy and growly till she was really worked up so at that point I just stopped engaging with her. FOr Jet, that was enough to end it. I know, I had it easy.
Hi @AJ. From my recent experience with Cassie I would say that no interaction is the best way. Every dog is different, but I can only say what happened with us. Cassie exhibited this behaviour in certain places for whatever reason in her head. For us, by far the best thing was to turn my back if she was loose, or stand on her lead if she was on it. That way she soon stops. Again, for us, making it into any sort of game was the worst thing, in hindsight. But you can only find what works for you.
