Dogs and other domestic animals normally love to play around. While this fact may be a problem to owners who are strict disciplinarians, they will have to acknowledge that a daily play schedule is vital in keeping their dogs truly healthy and happy.

1. Why Play Schedule Is Vital to Pet Dogs
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2. Dogs and other domestic animals certainly love to play around either with their
fellow dogs, with a bunch of dog toys, or even with their masters. Much of the
pleasures that a dog would like to achieve in its lifetime can be obtained from the
moments of exhilaration found in playful activities. Because of the apparent
restrictions that it may experience within a limited environment, domesticated
dogs would need to have a scheduled time of play. The importance of this ideal is
further discussed in the points listed below.
1. A daily playtime gives the dog a sense of secured freedom. While studies
have not yet concluded on how much sense of freedom is actually felt by
domesticated animals, somehow a set of daily activities which includes
playtime assures the dog with some sense that it is still free. The presence
of that daily time of play and the faithfulness of the master to grant that
time will certainly secure for the dog a daily dose of free activity. As long as
days do not fail and masters, too, do not fail to fulfill that bonding time,
pets can then doze off into their dog beds with peaceful, trustful rest.
2. It challenges the pet to bow under discipline. Because of the master’s
respect to play schedule, the dog can also return much more easily that
respect which is the very ingredient to effective discipline. As the rules are
faithfully guarded, so the dog instinctively acts in faithfulness to duty when
it is therefore required by the master. When the wages are regularly
received, the servant is glad to work.
3. It increases the sense of dependence to the master. Playtimes, especially
when conducted with the master’s presence, improves the bond existing
between the creature and the steward. The dog feels the love of the master
and thus increasingly draws out a life of dependence on him. Thus the dogs
will most joyfully wear dog collars which faithfully reflect the ownership
tied more strongly by faithfulness to playtime.
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3. 4. Daily playtime increases the longing for a weekly day of outdoor activity.
While weekly outdoor walks are best for dogs, a daily playtime keeps the
interest to that weekly endeavor as wide awake as possible. The daily
schedule increases the significance of that weekly experience such that the
outdoor encounter becomes truly a treasure to the dog.
5. Overall, it keeps the dog in healthy tone. A daily dose of exercise keeps the
dog healthy and gay. Besides physical health maintenance, an adequate
combination of emotional, mental and social well-being is also achieved,
especially as dogs are allowed to play not only with dog toys, but more
importantly with fellow creatures and above all their human masters.
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