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💡 100 Enrichment Ideas

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#IDEA 28. Have friends over? Place three cardboard boxes on the floor (throw in old towels). Each further away from the next. Attribute a number value to each box and take turns tossing a treat/kibble, aiming for any of the boxes, and accumulating as many points as possible. Your dog's job will be to snuffle.
#IDEA 31. Got an old sweater laying around? Wrap it around a small enough cardboard box and tie it so that the box can't easily be taken out of the sweater. Place small treats or kibble inside the box and in between the sweat and box for your dog to snuffle around.
#IDEA 34. You will need a few different-sized cardboard boxes for this one. Think your dog is a pro at sit? Place a few cardboard boxes around the room, one smaller than the next (although never smaller than your dog's behind) and ask your dog to hop inside it and sit inside the largest box, before doing the same with the next smaller box, and so on.
#IDEA 29. Make grooming fun for your pup! Bring out your dog's brush and hold it in your hand. Anytime your pup moves a little closer towards it, toss a rare and tasty treat away from where you are so that your pup has to take space to go get it, before coming back closer and closer for the next one.
#IDEA 32. At night, or in the darkest room in your home, hide a few treats or kibble around, turn off the lights and invite your dog in for some fun snuffling in the dark! Without any visual distractions, you will get to hear all of your dog's snuffling efforts to find each piece.
#IDEA 35. Turn your dog into a scent detection machine. Using five empty toilet paper rolls, line the inside of one of them with a little bit of peanut butter (xylitol-free), close them and ask your dog to stand in front of you. One at a time, present each roll to your dog and provide him with a treat if he seats upon smelling and sitting to the peanut butter roll. Practice this with different scents!
#IDEA 30. Make brushing your dog's teeth fun for him! Bring out your dog's toothbrush and hold it in your hand. Anytime your pup licks it (or at the very least shows some form of curiosity towards it), reward them with a tasty treat. Continue to do so each time they make more and more contact on their own.
#IDEA 33. Start doing some of these enrichment games inside your bathroom, and be mindful for moments where your dog shows interest towards your bathtub/shower and reward that curiosity. Ultimately you will want your dog to show more and more interest, so that you can start transitioning enrichment games over to the tub, to eventually further socialize your dog with the idea of water (very slowly).
#IDEA 36. Stack a few light cardboard boxes and hide treats in between them. Your dog has to figure out how to retrieve them and move the boxes around.
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