Ensuring Your Dog’s Toys Are Clean and Safe: A Comprehensive Guide As a responsible dog owner, you understand the importance of keeping your dog’s environment clean and safe. This extends beyond regular grooming and feeding to include the cleanliness of their toys. Dirty toys can harbour bacteria, mould, and other pathogens that may pose health…
Canine Enrichment
A Complete Guide to Kong Toys for Dogs: Sizes, Types, Fillings
This article will give you an overview of the different types of kongs available and some suggestions for what to stuff them with. s could be cream cheese to peanut butter. We understand that you may not have a kong either because you haven’t heard of them before or never understood the hype. Then please…
Canine Enrichment: Keeping Your Dog Happy
Do dogs get bored? The simple answer is yes. Like anything human or animal, a dog can get bored and stressed, which can manifest in behavioural issues. Dogs are social creatures, and in the wild, they would have been in packs, so humans become their pack for the domestic dog. Ensuring your dog doesn’t get…
The Sniff and Decompress
Let Your Dog Sniff: Why It’s More Than Just a Walk Walking your dog is part of your daily routine. Rain, sun, wind, or frost—you do it because you know exercise matters. But there’s more to a walk than just physical activity. Some dogs need long hikes across open fields, while others are happy…
Some tips for entertaining your dog whilst on outdoor walks
As mentioned in our previous article on how to mentally entertain your dog, which can be fun and entertaining for you and your dog. Many of these ideas need very little equipment and provide some simple outdoor entertainment whilst on a walk. Fallen trees can be fun to entertain your dog on walks. If you…
Ditch the bowel at Mealtimes
My dogs have never been fed out of a bowl as we turn mealtimes into a chance to ensure they have quality canine enrichment time. Dogs, by nature, are foragers and love it. All dogs, no matter what the bread, love sniffing out food etc. and find it both fun replacing and, believe it or…
Do you provide your dogs with Quality walks
One of the mistakes that dog walkers often make when walking their dog is the human focusing on their mobile whilst the dog walks beside them or, even worse, getting dragged along by the owner. Let’s face it, the dogs have been out and done their business, so all is good? WRONG Let your dog…
What are One 2 One Enriched walks
Many people ask me what I mean when I say, “Specialist One 2 One walks with an emphasis on fun and enrichment.” Our Canine enrichment walks mean they are not just ordinary walks but fun and help enrich your dog’s life and break the boredom of the day up as they wait for you to…