Simple mental stimulation ideas for dogs
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Is your furry friend showing signs of restlessness or engaging in destructive behaviour? The root cause might be a lack of mental stimulation. Just like humans, our canine companions crave challenges and learning opportunities to stay happy and healthy. Our detailed video guides you through a series of fun, easy-to-implement games and puzzles designed to challenge your dog's mind and prevent undesirable behaviours caused by boredom.
What you'll learn:
- The importance of mental stimulation for your dog's overall well-being.
- Five straightforward and effective enrichment activities to kickstart your dog's mental agility.
- The benefits of agility classes and teaching new tricks in keeping your pet both physically active and mentally sharp.
- Tips for seamlessly integrating these brain-boosting activities into your daily routine for a more engaged and content companion.
Our video is suitable for dog owners of all stages - whether you have a playful puppy, an energetic adult, or a graceful senior dog. We provide you with the knowledge and tools to enhance your dog's cognitive skills and quality of life.
00:00 Intro
00:46 Scatter feeding
01:40 Hide & seek
02:13 Target training
03:27 Shell game
04:10 Lick mats & puzzles
05:36 Agility classes
06:40 Teaching new tricks
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Hope your pipe was loaded !!!!! Lolololol…..
Be careful. . I came home from work to find my dog sitting in the armchair doing the Times Crossword and smoking my pipe 😂
🤣🤣🤣 crosswords are quite good, I'd reduce the smoking though, haha
@@dogslounge I’m trying… I’ve only just managed to wean him off the 18 year old Brandy and My best cigars!
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😂😂😂 well done
The Sunday crossword or the Monday? There’s a big difference. My dog is stumped by Tuesday.
Hide and seek is my favorite. If I'm hiding in a cupboard with the door ajar and he walks by looking for me I feel like a kid again and if I'm trying to make a run for a different room and he catches me I laugh like a drain and that gets him even more excited.
I’m so glad to hear that! My dog also loves hide and seek. Both indoor and outside ☺️
This was a very good video. I wish more pet parents would do this instead of getting mad at their dogs when they chew something up or destroy it out of sheer boredom. It's not the pets fault.
Pkentyw of us do but you dont hear about us. Only problem owners.
Thank you for watching! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed it. I agree, it's not the dogs' fault. However, on a positive note, I'm glad to see more and more dog parents watching videos such as this one and educating themselves about their pet's needs. No one is perfect but as long as we're willing to learn and improve, it's all that matters :)
You all don't know what a destructive dog is until you have a board Belgian Malinois. They will turn the house to a pile of rubble.
I thought I was the only one who used empty toilet paper rolls as a cheap toy! I do the same with paper towel and wrapping paper tubes! Boxes are great as well!!! I recently rescued a 5 1/2 year old GSD. She LOVES nose work and now we are going the next step with scent training. Additionally, we are training each other on agility obstacles. Great video you covered a lot of territory! Thank You!
Thank you so much for your comment, I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed watching it. There are so many creative ways in which we can utilise things we'd normally throw away so that our pups can have some fun. I always say 'what's one man's rubbish, it's another dog's treasure', haha! Scent training is one of the best things you can do with your dog. It doesn't require much to start, you don't have to have a lot of space to practice, but the benefits to a dog are just incredible. Not only they're calmer but they seem happy as well. I'm so glad to hear you're both on the enrichment journey. Your dog couldn't have asked for a better guardian. Best of luck!
@@dogslounge - I can tell that she loves the nose work, she gets all excited and knows the commands related to it. She is very eager to learn, makes it fun for the two of us!
@@WolfMage888 I love to hear that you've found an activity both you and your pup enjoy. Doing something together is such an amazing bonding opportunity, there's nothing better out there :)
Excelent vídeo !
Thank you for watching 😊
First compleye video I have seen on this subject. I have an energetic pup that requires mental stimulation because it is not allowed long walks yet. Thank you!
Thank you so much for watching! I’m glad to hear you’ve enjoyed the video and hope you’ve found some new ideas on how to enrich your pup’s time. Best of luck with caring for your puppy, enjoy every moment!
Very good games, can't wait to try them out with my dog. I'm sure she'd love them
Thanks for watching! Let me know how you get on. I'm interested to hear which one is going to be her favourite
Thank you some great games
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for these great ideas! I am trying to prepare for when I get my border collie spayed. She is wild, so trying to keep her settled down for 2 weeks seems an insurmountable task 😅
Thank you for watching! And best of luck keeping your pup occupied. I hope these two weeks fly by 🤞
Very informative and useful 👍🏻
Thank you for watching! Glad to hear you’ve found it useful ☺️
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Nice games
Glad you like them! Which one is your pup’s favourite?
Nice!!
Thanks for watching!
My dog had so much fun playing hide and seek 😂thank you
Oh I’m so happy to hear that! My pup loves it too but he’s gotten so good at it, I have to make it more challenging for him now 😂
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Thanks for watching!
My dogs break all of those plastic puzzles.
Hi Eileen, I'm sorry to hear that. Do they have constant access to these? If so, they shouldn't. Enrichment toys should only be used during the session and then put away. This way your dog would only engage with the toy in a way it was designed for. Please always supervise your dogs while using any toys. Hope this helps!
Honestly that kinda funny 😂😂
I like scatter feeding idea, but don't use ANYTHING to hide food in that you don't want your dog to chew/tear up tomorrow when he THINKS there might be food there! So, no Amazon boxes for sure! My dogs are crazy about licky mats.
It all depends on the dog and how you train them. Mine never destroyed any of the boxes and we always play that game when there’s a new delivery. Also, a dog’s nose is much more powerful than ours and if there isn’t food in the box, it won’t be interested 😉 But again, the games shown in the video are just ideas and every owner should use only the ones they feel comfortable with as every dog is different. You know your dog best and if you feel like they’d start chewing on cardboard boxes, try having a dedicated plastic box and instead of brown paper, use an old towel or two. Hope it helps! 😊 have you tried the wobbly licki mat?
Unfortunately my dog will eat cardboard, but not his food!!
I’m very sorry to hear this. Every dog is different and so it’s important to work with a dog that’s in front of you. You can still play this game but instead of cardboard or brown paper, put an old towel inside of a plastic box. And as for the food, even though dogs have less taste buds than we do, they rely heavily on their powerful sense of smell. It may be that the food you’re feeding doesn’t appeal to your dog. Have you tried feeding fresh or raw? Or adding some toppers and mixing with the normal food?
Mine too
I have a 2year old female German Shepherd she is very smart what can I do to keep her mind going puzzles are very easy for her thanks
I recommend scent training to everyone as sniffing is what all dogs love doing and because it increases their respiration rate, it tires them out too. There are lots of different courses available (either in person or online, so check out what's available in your area), from total beginners to more advanced. They involve either finding the odour you're working with (gun oil or catnip for example) and pointing at it using their nose or a specific signal (think of police dogs when they find illegal substance on a person) or finding an item that's permeated with the odour and retrieving it back to the handler. These can be done at home or when you're outside and you don't have to have a lot of room to train, which is great. Hope this helps!
@@dogslounge what exactly is scent training also she is always barking inside the house when people come to visit or when the leave thanks for all your help and tips
Scent training is a sport where a dog needs to locate a particular scent in the environment and communicate with its handler that it found the scent. Think of police dogs detecting explosives (scent). Of course, in home setting we use other scents, like gun or birch oil, catnip, or even Kong (the rubber toy). You familiarise your dog with the odour and then teach it to find it and a command to 'tell you' the scent had been found. There are many videos and articles that you can watch/read and start right away. Alternatively, if you don't feel like you understand the process, you can enrol to scent training classes in your area. Look for things like 'nose work', 'scent training', or 'scent work'.
German Shepherds were originally bred for herding and guarding sheep, therefore they're sensible to noise and as they're 'working' dogs, they keep doing it, even if they're now family dogs. So if she hears something, she has the need to alert you of a possible danger. I'd recommend contacting a behaviourist in your area that could come over to your house and give you tips on what you can do as this is outside of my scope of expertise. If that's not possible for you, there are plenty of online dog trainers that have videos on barking, so look into that in your spare time. Hope this helps!
Could you add English subtitle as well please, thank you.
We’ve added the captions. Maybe you just need to turn them on directly in the player ☺️
Love the crossword comment 😂
Haha, it was a good one! 😂
Not a dog owner but hope some day to own Einstein-level dog to compensate for my lack of IQ.
My dog prefers Kentucky rode apples.
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Apologies, not sure what these are
My dog won’t even bend down and look for her food. She’d never go looking.
Maybe the food doesn't agree with her? Have you tried feeding raw or fresh food? I had a picky eater too and spent a lot of money on various toppers but as soon as we switched to a raw diet, there never has been a day when the bowl hasn't been licked clean. Hope this helps!
@@dogslounge She's on a raw diet. She's so fussy and just not a good eater. She's refused every so called high end kibble available, although did eat Smack pork if soaked with hot water to make a gravy.. I make her food and she won't even eat the store bought raw. Makes me wonder what's in it.
@@baublesanddolls I'm very sorry to hear she's not eating. My pup used to be very fussy and I spent a little fortune on various toppers just so that he could pick it out and leave an expensive kibble in the bowl 😅 But that all changed after switching him to raw. Now, if the dinner is late, he will come upstairs and get me, haha. There are some things you can do to entice your pup to eat. Can you let me know what you've tried already? In the meantime, you can also watch our video explaining how the food's temperature could help fussy eaters (czcams.com/video/bQSgEnj3EjU/video.htmlsi=d0z7y7xBt6rlgpRp). So with raw, obviously, you wouldn't heat it up, but maybe leave it out for an hour so that it warms to room temperature before offering her (some dogs will refuse to eat cold raw straight from the fridge). Another thing you can do is to make a bone broth and offer it with the meal - I make a large batch of bone broth and then freeze it and just defrost it as and when I need it. I add a splash of hot water and add to the meal. You can also buy dehydrated bone broth (just make sure it's for dogs not humans as it won't contain any toxic to dogs ingredients like onions) and just make it before meal time. It's easy to make - just add the broth powder and hot water to the bowl and mix. Hope this helps!
No way I’m putting food all over my house!
You don’t have to if you don’t want to ☺️ there are plenty of other suggestions you can try instead. Thanks for watching! 🙏