To live a happy and fulfilled life dogs need to be stimulated and enriched and exercise typically meets that need, but it is not the sole way of providing enrichment. Playing games can be an effective way to provide stimulation and enrichment when a walk isn’t the right thing that day for your dog. 🐶 Choose games and activities that will help with emptying your dog’s stress bucket and with building concepts that will help them on their future walks. Here are top concepts for
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING❓ Training, even good quality training, like everything, feeds into your dog’s Bucket (remember, both positive and negative interactions feed into the Bucket) - each dog will have their own limit and even a short training session can be too much if your dog has had many other interactions that have fed into their bucket. Each dog will have their own capacity and it is up to you as their training partner, guide and guardian to recognise where their limi