So, I meant to post this a week or so ago when it actually happened but I forgot.
As some of you may recall, I have asthma and I have a dog. My asthma isn't allowing me to properly exercise my dog outside this winter so he's been putting on more weight than he should. I looked around for alternate ideas to exercise him and one of the ideas mentioned in another forum was by laser pointer.
I forget who it was now, but someone here told me not to do it because it could lead to OCD behavior in the long run. I decided to give it a try anyway but with that caution in mind.
A friend loaned us his laser pointer and the first night we fired it up, Mojo went nuts for the little red dot for about a minute, then he figured out it was coming from the doo-hickie in my hand and tried to attack my hand to get at the doo-hickie instead.
Okay. Stop. Settle him down... try another night.
The next night we tried it, it took Mojo less than 30 seconds to remember where the light came from and again he stopped chasing the dot and instead tried to get at my hand. Then he lost interest completely and went back to chewing on his rawhide.
Since that second night, if I turn on the laser pointer Mojo gives it a glance then goes back to whatever it is he is doing, and/or tries to entice me to play a game of tug with him instead.
I've given up. Mojo wins.
As some of you may recall, I have asthma and I have a dog. My asthma isn't allowing me to properly exercise my dog outside this winter so he's been putting on more weight than he should. I looked around for alternate ideas to exercise him and one of the ideas mentioned in another forum was by laser pointer.
I forget who it was now, but someone here told me not to do it because it could lead to OCD behavior in the long run. I decided to give it a try anyway but with that caution in mind.
A friend loaned us his laser pointer and the first night we fired it up, Mojo went nuts for the little red dot for about a minute, then he figured out it was coming from the doo-hickie in my hand and tried to attack my hand to get at the doo-hickie instead.
Okay. Stop. Settle him down... try another night.
The next night we tried it, it took Mojo less than 30 seconds to remember where the light came from and again he stopped chasing the dot and instead tried to get at my hand. Then he lost interest completely and went back to chewing on his rawhide.
Since that second night, if I turn on the laser pointer Mojo gives it a glance then goes back to whatever it is he is doing, and/or tries to entice me to play a game of tug with him instead.
I've given up. Mojo wins.