Having a variety of food toys available for your dog is a good thing. Why? Dogs need mental stimulation, and unless they’re playing or training with their guardians, they need something to challenge their capacities the other hours in the day. That is, when they’re not catching up on their beauty sleep. Dogs need brain games, and because dogs are predators, most self-rewarding toys will be about food and to get that food out. The TreatStik is a food toy {Read More}
Hol-ee Roller Treat Ball For Dogs
November 19, 2013 by
This is a video I ran across with a very good idea for a rather inexpensive dog toy that works two ways. One, it’s a treat dispenser but only after two, the dog destuffs the toy. You’ll need to cut up some fabric, fleece would be perfect, in small lengths. Before stuffing them into the ball, roll a treat inside each strip. One at a time, roll the treat into the strip, stuff the strip into the ball. Then let {Read More}
A Nose Game for Dogs Fort Lauderdale
November 18, 2013 by
One of the nose games I play with my dogs is to pop a pot of popcorn, then go out into the backyard, and plant the popped kernels all over the place. In grass, in toys, under empty upside-down flower pots, on lawn chairs, on lawn chair arm rests, in planters, palm trees, on tables, their dog walk, fence posts, on branches of bushes, etc. The main thing is that I plant the treats on the ground, at and above {Read More}
Motivational Dog Training – Toys
November 2, 2013 by
Some dogs are highly motivated by toys. They’re born to play, and when you are blessed with a dog like this, you’ll have plenty of dog training time because the reward of play is always available. The flip side, however, is you have to give these dogs a lot to do, and do a lot with them, or they’ll be called destructive and uncontrollable when they use their energy for whatever makes them happy. Case in point why I offer {Read More}
Inaugural Kong Cleansing
October 23, 2013 by
I stuff Kongs with food to encourage my dogs to work for meals when I don’t use their daily rations for dog training. I also encourage my dog training clients to use food toys for their dogs. Kongs serve to use some of the mental energy dogs have. My personal bias is that Kong Dog Toys, and other food-destuffing toys, are doggy meditative toys. Have you ever watched a dog with a Kong between his paws licking out the {Read More}
