The professional dog trainer Martin Rütter is a well-known and popular dog trainer in the dog world.
In his last TV show, Martin Rütter involuntarily got back into the situation with a dog owner throwing a stick and immediately used the situation to make an urgent appeal to the viewers.
The fact that a dog fetches something is genetically deeply anchored. Almost every dog is excited when it sees a thrown object like a ball and will return it to its owner as soon as it is thrown.
Dogs just love this kind of play. And what is better for a throwing game between man and dog than a walk outside in the great outdoors?
The dog’s favorite ball is often part of the basic equipment with which you go on a walk. But what if the ball is forgotten at home?
Nature offers all kinds of throwable objects.
The stick is probably the most popular and well-known. But the dog professional Martin Rütter expressed himself on TV AGAINST throwing the stick!
Just why?
«Stick – throwing forbidden» is why Martin Rütter is against the popular throwing game
Martin Rütter has previously expressed skepticism about the popular throwing game and advised dog owners not to fetch with a stick.
Martin Rütter has now again in his TV show «The dog professional – Rütters team” commented on RTL on this subject.
This season you could see how the dog owner played with her dog «Horst» in the park.
One of the actions was that the dog owner Horst threw a wooden stick. Horst happily ran after the stick and brought it back to its owner.
After Martin Rütter had seriously observed this scene, he turned to the audience and spoke to the camera with a serious expression:
«Please stop playing with sticks! It is dangerous. I experience it again and again that dogs chew off a small piece of it, have small splinters stuck in their throats, abscesses form or the dog carries the stick in front like a cigar and rams the stick into it. No stick games!”
Stick alternatives: retrieval fun without risk of injury
Some time ago, Martin Rütter used his wide reach on Facebook to write a long post with his fans with the headline «Sticks are taboo» to share.
Martin Rütter pointed out, among other things, in his post: «Quite a few dogs have suffered serious injuries from which some have even died. But even when carrying the stick, injuries can occur if the end of the dog gets caught or stuck somewhere.” You can also buy oblong toys in any pet shop,»e.g. B. the Kong Safestix. It is flexible, bendable and made of robust, i.e. bite-resistant plastic.».