My favourite pastime is dog sport.
Today there are many ways to be active with your dog. Besides VPG sport, most training clubs also offer tournament dog sport or agility, often obedience as well.
Dog schools offer fitness and fun groups, mantrailing and much more. Training as a rescue dog certainly has a more serious background, but they all have one thing in common: they give our dog a meaningful occupation.
Hovawarts love to work. They have a good nose, usually plenty of prey drive and above all a love of play, and they want to be allowed to live all of this out. Going for walks and guarding house and garden is not enough in the long run.
So anyone who does not want to take up a dog sport should think about how to give the dog tasks in everyday life that challenge it mentally as well as physically. Teaching tricks also challenges and encourages the dog – there is no limit to your imagination.
The title "Work for our dog" is meant in a positive sense: giving the dog the feeling of having achieved something and of being needed.
Ecko von Arminius VPG I, attack on the dog from motion (courage test)
