advice teaching how to play

Hey guys new to the forum. i have a english staffy pup about 10mnths ol and I've tryed to play with her with balls fetch etc ropes for tug a wars sticks etc she just doesn't seem interested in it just moves her head away and nudges me with her head won't chase balls or anything. she's very affectionate towards me she's stuck to me like glue lol follows me everywere think most reason why she won't play because she wants to be right next to me. however she will play chase with me if i run around anyone got any advice for getting her to play? I've owned dogs before and never had this problem so any advice would be good or other activities could do with her. sorry if typos on touch screen mobile. even bones with meat shell only chewon][ them if I'm outside with her lshed the tan one

She's the tan one on left her brother on the right.

Hi & welcome to the forum.

She's a beautiful girl, what's her name?

Have you had her from a pup?

Thanks. her name is jazz i have had her for about 2 months now i got her from my father who has the brother still plus 2 other dogs which are keepted out back so probably hasn't had the one on one time to learn how to play. she's very energetic and hypo licking me all time following round my feet running circles around me. thank you she is a beautifull gurl

Have you tried getting right down on the floor & playing with the ball yourself? Knocking it around, but keeping it just out of her reach?

Have you tried putting peanut butter or some other snack she likes on the toys? A kong is a good toy that you can stuff so she gets the idea

I agree with Jstaff, Zeke will not play with any toys except a kong which he adores!

I'm only new to this myself, so there are no doubt others with far more knowledge however I have a puppy who thinks I am the best and only toy in the world ...

As above, I have found that the kong with food inside and playing on the floor with the toys (and getting excited about them yourself!) has helped ... toys that make a noise have worked well as well - hope it helps you too

Logan didn't want to play with toys really until very lately. I always found a decent squeaky toy would gets his attention though

Cheers for the post back i will try a squeaky toy. have no odea what a kong is have never herd of it..

brendonk wrote:Cheers for the post back i will try a squeaky toy. have no odea what a kong is have never herd of it..

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Squeaky toys are good, and running around and making yourself look like a lunatic might excite her enough to play

Alfie used to be like this too... I had to play with the toy myself to get him interested in it, he started to play with me and then he discovered he had even more exciting toys to play with lol