Hi

Can anyone give me any tips on how to teach my 16 week old puppy that the towel is not for tugging and playing with.  It's a fight after each walk to dry her paws!  I get them dried but it's always a struggle and she just thinks its a game.  Any ideas or is it just a puppy thing that she will grow out of?

Oh dear, we had this with ours and have a couple of towels full of holes to prove it.  They do seem to have got better as they have got older.  We have a large old double sleeping bag that unzips which we put on the floor and when they come in it is put down and they have been taught to lay down on that, we then get the towels and clean them down.  They do have days still when they think it is a big game and try to steal the towels.

I must say when tess comes in from the garden or her walk i tell her to wipe her feet and into her bed she jumps its so funny to watch

Hiya.
Are her feet ticklish?  It may be that her feet are a little sensitive to the towel and by playing, this is her way of avoiding the rubbing of her feet.  When she's a little tired, try touching her pads, just lightly.  If she flinches then I'd say she's a little sensitive on her feet.  To help overcome this when she's relaxed, just lightly put your hand on her foot so she gets used to them being touched.  This can then be built up over time and you could reward with a treat of some type.  She'll soon realise that touching her foot is not a problem which should get her used to the towel on them.
Not sure if this helps, but I did this to our puppy and he is as happy as larry to let you touch them now.

My sister-in-law has taught her staffie to wipe his feet on a towel when the come back from a walk!! it is so funny to watch, he does actually scrap his feet like a human going backwards and forwards on the towel until she says 'OK' and then he runs through the house!! LOL
I will have to ask her how she actually taught him how to do it so well! as I can't even get my OH to remember to wipe his feet!

Thanks.  She is really good at sitting on the towel when she comes in, but the minute the drying towel approaches it just becomes a game.  As soon as ithe drying is finished she sits with puppy dog eyes in her bed waiting for her treat.  Puppies are so cheeky! 

I have a  long haired breed with lots of hair on thier legs and feet .
I find if you stand over them so that the dog is between your legs they dont mess about as much, be firm , lift each leg up wipe the foot then the leg telling her /him they are good, you could offer a treat as a reward for behaving well , eventually it becomes a habit and they just let you get it over with!!

Hi, With mine, and she is still a puppy I always lift her up on to the grooming table and she now waits to be lifted up to be dried and then she gets her treat. It helps that my other dog does this so she has learnt from her. Obviously only works if your dog is small enough to lift.!

Ike allows me to towel dry his feet and body - wriggle fidget!...... but told firmly to be still he does after a fashion .
When it's wet he already kind of waits to be dried.  He's 12 wks old and very sharp .
Have trimmed in between his pads cleaned and de-fluffed his ears.  I've groomed him each day ..Yes he gets bored with it but I
try and make it a daily thing he gets to accept and next will be the bath.He can be quite defiant but you just need to stick with
it and keep the comands the same each time and they slowly become more excepting of it.