Activities For Siberian Pinschers

If your dog likes to swim and is good at it, you may want to try dock jumping, which is exactly what it sounds like; jumping off a dock into the water. While this little to no expense activity is typically done at a large pool, you can train your fur buddy to dock jump in a lake, river, or ocean as long as it has a dock to jump from. The water has to be at least four feet deep, and the dock should be about eight feet wide, forty feet long, and two feet above the water. The dog must jump from the very end of the dock to get the furthest distance, which is measured by where the base of the tail meets the water and is typically caught by freeze-frame videos for a precise measurement. 

An agility course may seem like a lot of work to you, but if you watch your Siberian Pinscher, you can tell that Fido thinks it is more play than work. Take another look at the obstacles in the agility course, and you should see why. There’s a see-saw, tunnels, hoops, hurdles, an A-frame, chutes, and even some poles to weave around. It looks like a playground now that you see it like that, right? Actually, many dog parks now include some of these agility course obstacles in their parks for pooches to play on. Of course, even though it is fun, there are certain rules and regulations that you and your fur buddy have to learn and go by to be in a competition. Using a park owned agility course is free; if you want to join a club and compete you will have moderate expenses to cover.

If your furry friend is good at following directions, maybe you could try obedience competition. Of course, this is more than just getting your dog to sit, stay, and heel. In fact, there are quite a few different exercises that your dog has to perform to impress the judges in a competition. Some of these include recall, drop on recall, heel, figure eight, stand for examination, sit, long sit and long down, retrieve on the flat, retrieve over a high jump, recall over a broad jump, directed retrieve, scent discriminating, and directed jumping. Although your dog has to be a purebred to be in the AKC competitions, there are other groups that offer reasonably priced obedience competitions for mixed or designer breed dogs like your Siberian Pinscher.