Dog Games for Small Breeds

Playing games with your small dog can help train their behavior and give them exercise to keep them healthy. Indoor and outdoor games provide you and your dog plenty of hours of fun without you realizing you are actually training them.

Hide and Seek

Even dogs can play a few rounds of hide and seek and they will finally get the gist of what’s going on after the first few times. Tell your dog to sit and stay while you try to find a good hiding spot for yourself. Try to make the spot easy, especially if it’s your dogs first time trying out the game. After you pick a hiding spot, call out to your dog. If they are having trouble tracking you down, keep calling them to end their confusion.

Frisbee

Smaller dogs can jump almost as high as their larger counterparts so playing a game of Frisbee in the backyard or a park is an exciting game. Not only does throwing the Frisbee catch the dog’s interest, they will also get their daily exercise quota from all the jumping and running.

Finding the Treat

This can be done in the house and will allow your dog to use his or her nose. First, tell your dog to sit as you go into another room of the house and place treats in various nook and crannies. After you’re finished, tell your dog to come next to you and find the treats. They may not understand at first but once they smell the food, they will start to learn what you have been doing every time you start up the game.