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Frisbee Fun : Homemade Dog Toys

Playing Frisbee can be one of the most entertaining and rewarding physical activities you can participate in with your dog. It is great exercise for your dog, but it can help you get in shape as well!
You've probably seen more than one Dog show where one of the events is for a dog to catch a frisbee. There is even an official dog frisbee organization that holds a "World Cup Series" for dog disc competitions called the Unified Frisbee Dog Operations (UFO). This is serious business for a lot of dog owners and many practice hours with their dogs to perfect dog frisbee tricks.

One of the most important things with playing frisbee with your dog is to make sure that YOU know how to throw a frisbee. Being able to handle and throw the disc is pretty important. Not knowing how to throw a frisbee will definitely slow down your dog's learning. Some people buy dog frisbee videos which teach them the proper way to both throw the frisbee and to teach the dog to chase and catch it.

Smaller dogs will definitely have issues grabbing a full size frisbee, which is not to say they won't wholeheartedly try! But I believe they sell smaller sized frisbees for really small dogs. Smaller dogs may also have a harder time running as fast (because their legs are shorter) in order to catch up to a frisbee that is thrown really hard or far. In addition, this probably isn't a good sport for dogs that are out of shape or much older.

It's definitely not as easy as playing fetch with a stick. So in this case, it may actually be better to plunk down some money to get some sort of frisbee teaching tool, whether video or book, to figure out how to go about this. But still, many people have old frisbees lying around in the garage. The standard hard plastic ones are probably better than the new-fangled ones with holes like the Ultimate Discs or those cloth type ones made out of vinyl material. If you do end up going out to buy frisbees, at least they can serve double duty as both human AND dog toys.

Warning: Avoid hitting the dog on the head with a thrown frisbee! That'll definitely not be an encouragement for him to chase after one, and rather he may run away from it. As always, please supervise your dog to make sure nothing goes wrong.