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Dog Play

How to Recognize Good Dog Play

Have two or more dogs? Take your dog to the dog park or to friends' houses to play? These helpful resources will help you determine if the play is good. 

Fellow Academy graduate, Jane Sigsworth, put together these very informative and important to watch videos to help others recognize good and not-so-good dog play.

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Warning

Beware of predatory drift with dog play - especially new dogs with a significant size difference (one dog little and another big) or in a situation where multiple dogs play.  Read more below in an excerpt from Fight! by Jean Donaldson.

Predatory Drift Exerpt from Jean Donaldson

If you have two dogs playing, and you're not sure if it's good play, record it with your phone. Email or text  it to us and we will help.

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