Fun Dog Games for Girls
Young girls can sometimes be timid and experts agree that caring for and training a dog helps them to become more confident and outgoing. Caring for a dog also helps young girls foster their natural love for animals, which could be carried into their adult life and help them decide on a career caring for animals in some way.
Fun dog games for girls teaches young girls various activates, in the form of games, that they can do with their pets to help them learn empathy, become more caring individuals and responsibility. Dogs are loving, non-judgmental animals and when a young girl cares for them and plays games with them; it helps to build her self-esteem.
Commands and Tricks
If a young girl owns a dog, and is over the age of 10, she can teach her dog several obedience style commands and tricks. Sit, stay, come, down and go-out are all fairly simple command style tricks that a dog will pick up quickly and help a young girl feel good about what she has accomplished.
Fetch is a good game to play with a dog and it teaches the dog that the girl is the alpha in the family hierarchy. The girl is higher up than the dog and this should always be the case. This is not to say the girl and the dog cannot lie together on the floor or play together on the floor, the dog simply must understand that the girl is in charge.
Pretend Veterinarian
This is a good game for young girls of nearly all ages, but a stuffed animal may have to substitute for a dog in cases where a girl is younger than 10. Pretend vet could include a plastic doctor's kit in which a young girl may administer vaccinations and practice being gentle with either the real dog or her stuffed dog.
Virtual Dogs
When a young girl cannot have a dog, there is an alternative in virtual dogs. These are the type of pets that 'live' in a computer or other electronic device. The dog has a timer to bark for feeding time and at random times for going out to potty. A young girl can have hours of fun training the virtual dog to do a variety of tricks that require different hand-eye coordination skills. This is an entertaining way to teach responsibility.
Dog Care Guidelines
Young girls under the age of 10 should be supervised when working with a dog. A young girl should never scream or chase a dog because it will send the wrong message to the dog. Another 'game' to stay away from is tug-o-war. When a dog plays tug-o-war with its master, the master must always win; this could be difficult from a younger girl without the strength to pull the toy away from the dog. The winning of this game is important because of the alpha dog and family hierarchy rules.