Enrichment has become a big topic in the dog world, and rightly so!
collect items from their favourite places and give them a themed scent boxes to sniff: beach, forest, local park, etc.
There are so many options and activities to keep our dogs engaged and thriving. However, as our dogs age or while recovering from injury, their mobility becomes restricted and we often default to food based enrichment ideas, which combined with limited physical activity can be a slippery slope.
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Here’s an idea for a non-food related and easy enrichment activity: create scent boxes for your dog.
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collect items from their favourite places and give them a themed scent boxes to sniff: beach, forest, local park, etc. make the items fun by including a variety of scents, colours and textures allow them to smell and interact with the pieces you’ve collected make sure to supervise closely to prevent them from ingesting a foreign body! as our dogs age their world starts to shrink, often leading to depression, anxiety, cognitive decline and increased pain perception. It’s up to us to help expand their world..
Theme Ideas
There are so many options to chose from: places your dog liked to visit or places they have never been. It can be a box from a local park or from a holiday you took without them. Make sure to change the objects often as they will lose their scent and novelty.
Local Park
Forest
Beach
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