Outdoor Pen Exercise For Your Dog

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Outdoor pen exercise for your dog is a great way to give it some freedom. An outdoor pen for dog exercise can be both beneficial to your mental health and your dog’s physical health. By having this kind of pen around the house (outside of course), it allows your animal to use the outdoors when you are not around. This is perfect if you have trained your dog to use the bathroom outside. The last thing you want is your animal to hold itself all day until you get home. How hard is a pen to set up and what does it take? Take a look below and find out.

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There are other great advantages too you know. The exercise ability for the dog is greatly enhanced when you give it the freedom to roam about be it outside or inside. Your dog won’t become cramped from staying indoors and it won’t feel the need to whine when it wants to come in. If your dog is a guard of any sort, it would do a lot better if it can go inside and outside as well. These are just a few of the reasons having a dog pen is a great enhancement to your life and the life of your pet. So what do you do first?

Once you have purchased your kit of things to build, it is now time to put them together. You will most likely have some sort of pen fencing, the port itself, a dog house, and a few other random things. After all is said and done, your dog can now walk to and from the house, to the pen, without leaving your yard. It is a now an obedient, unsupervised dog. What more could you ask for? Well, the problem is getting your dog to know it exists, or to use it.

A simple trick again is to coax the dog’s ego and to give it what it wants, food. A simple means of letting the dog know it is ok to come through the port is by offering it a doggy treat on the other side of the hole. You may also want to leave the swinging door open for the first few days while you let the animal become acquainted with what you have just installed. Calling the dog’s name might even do the trick. It is up to you to try a variety of methods and see which one works best for you. Take your time; the pooch will eventually get the idea. Always remember to reward the animal for anything it does right too.

Once your dog has gone through the port-hole and is in the pen, now is the time to get it back into the house. With the dog outside and you inside, repeat the process of calling its name and reward it when it finally comes back through the hole. You can do this training procedure for a few days, adding the swinging door a couple days later (while holding it open) and then finally doing it just by calling through the wall. Get your dog to use the bathroom outside and you now have a great setup for your animal and yourself. -- Paper Training