Dog Training Flirt Pole Stick - Interactive fun for you and your dog!

Awesome Toy or Training Tool for you and your Dog!!!

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Often used as a dog toy, your dog will have so much fun chasing after the dual squeaking, elongating animal lure attached to the end of the flirt pole. An interactive dog toy that your dog will absolutely love. Fun and exercise for you both!

In Dog Training, we use flirt poles to measure your dog's hunter/prey drive and to get them to go through agility course obstacles.

As you move in a circle, jiggle, and jerk the lure end as often as you can. This will raise the prey drive your dog will feel about the lure. If your dog doesn't slow down and watch it pull away from them after awhile, but keeps on going after it so close at full capacity for so long, then your dog more than likely will kill prey animals - chickens, ducks, squirrels, chipmunks, etc.

While moving in a circle and jiggling the lure, your dog will eventually learn to "cut off" the lure along its circular path. When your dog does this, lift the lure out of your dog's reach and watch it jump for it! Let your dog catch it once in awhile so it won't get frustrated and upset. Try not to play tug of war with your dog ever! This leads to aggression. This is not a behavior you want to teach a companion dog. Teaching aggression is only for training a Guard Dog. When your dog captures the lure and is pulling on it, keep the long handle and the rope straight, do NOT try to lift your dog.

After a flirt pole session with your dog, please put it away. Do not leave it where your dog can get it and chew on the pole!

This by far is Lokee's favorite toy lure. We've played with this Animal Lure Flirt Pole in one hand and both the Tail Teasers Flirt Polie or the original structurallly engineered Flirt Pole in the other hand. The realism of the animal lure, by far, attracts and keeps Lokee's attention. She will glance at the other lures but will continue to chase the Animal Lure Flirt Pole. However, if you just use the original Flirt Pole or just the Tail Teasers Flirt Pole by themselves, Lokee will go for all of them with equal gusto and happiness! If you've tried other Flirt Poles and your dog shows low interest, try the Animal Lure Flirt Pole! The lure is too realistic for our model/testing dog to pass up!!!

Lokee watches the flirt pole lure pull away after 5-10 minutes. After 10-15 minutes she'll actually stand and watch it pull away. This is an example of a normal prey drive. I can't recommend this Flirt Pole to you enough!

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Training Tip
Teaching the "Give" Command

As explained in our "Dog Names" page, make sure you keep commands to your dog one or two syllables at the maximum (see "Dog Names" page for a detailed explanation). Also, ALWAYS couple a vocal command with some sort of hand signal. Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not speak English. They need a short command they can understand and a hand signal to help them figure out what we want as their handlers.

Once your dog has latched on to something, a stuffed toy, a ball, the flirt pole lure, say calmly but assertively, "GIVE" and point up, keeping the tip of your pointer finger about cheek high and relatively close to your face. This will be your one syllable command and hand signal. Say "GIVE" once and only once, but again assertively, but with no anxiety, panic, or anger...calmly but assertively. Do not keep repeating "give, Give, GIve, GIVe, GIVE, GIVE!!!" This will only teach your dog that it doesn't always have to listen to you and that your first "give" to your fifth "GIVE" it can ignore...and in the future, can just ignore commands it doesn't want to follow. In the beginning while you're teaching your dog the "GIVE" command, give it 2-3 seconds after your assertive but calm vocal command with pointed up hand signal, then tap it with the length of your "hand signal" pointer finger, on top of your dog's snout. For small dogs do it lightly, for medium dogs use medium effort, for large dogs and powerful breeds use moderate effort. If your dog does not release what is in its mouth, repeat the "GIVE" command with its concurrent hand signal again (but remember don't say give, give, give, give...one "GIVE" only). If it doesn't release, tap it again on the top of the snout with the length of your pointer finger. Keep on increasing effort of the tap until your dog will release just as another tap is on its way down. In time your dog will associate the word "GIVE" and a pointing finger with a soon to be tap coming down on top of their snout. When it begins to learn this command it will release what is in its mouth when it looks at your pointer finger, then it will soon learn to give you what is in its mouth just by hearing the word "GIVE." You will no longer even need the hand signal, unless it's too excited, then the pointing finger will remind it there's a consequence for disobeying you. Give your dog a "GIVE," wait a 2-3 seconds while staring down your dog, another "GIVE" but increase the assertiveness, wait and stare down, "GIVE" the most assertiveness without reaching an anger tone, then bring up the hand signal. Your dog will release what is in its mouth! People will think you have a well-trained dog that follows your commands with hand signals. Your dog will understand the one syllable vocal command, see the hand signal, and remember that it'll come down on its snout if it doesn't give what's in its mouth! Tadah! That's how you train the "GIVE" command!

Specifications

Fala the Squirrel	15 inches length x 2.5 inches wide body (5 inches at widest point with legs stretched out)

Skunkie the Skunk	15 inches length x 2.5 inches wide body (5 inches at widest point with legs stretched out)

Foxy the Fox	15 inches length x 2.5 inches wide body (5 inches at widest point with legs stretched out)

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