Pet Necessities Dog Training and Behaviour

23/06/2025

Today's enrichment share

Another home-made enrichment idea. The cardboard tubes could also be placed in a cardboard box, such as a shoe box. You could also tape some of the tubes together, to increase the difficulty.

Admittedly, some dogs will just pick up or tip the box to remove all the treats in one go. It provided 5 minutes of fun in our house today.

If your dog is fed on a kibble-based diet, perhaps you could even feed the odd meal in this way?

22/06/2025

Today's enrichment re-share.

Another easy homemade enrichment idea with plastic bottles. You must never leave your dog unattended with them and remove the bottles if they start to chew the plastic.

They go from fairly easy to a lot more challenging.

Take care feeding daily food allowance in such a hard way, as some dogs don't cope well with the frustration. Our opinion is this works better with treats or chopped vegetables.

1 - a bottle with treats inside.

2 - a crushed bottle with treats inside.

3 - a bottle filled with shredded paper and treats inside.

22/06/2025

Three birthdays this weekend! Happy birthday to Orla, Gregg and Star ⭐.

❤️

20/06/2025

Today's enrichment idea. Fold the bottom of toilet rolls and put treats inside. Always supervise as we wouldn't want a dog ingesting any string!!

19/06/2025

Gorgeous Murphy the showing what progress he's made with his chin rest. He's a very excitable, happy boy and I can now touch him (just for a moment) and he can contain his joy and keep his chin on the rest. Hopefully progressing to some proper handling soon.

19/06/2025

Ove the next few super hot days I'll be re-sharing some home-made enrichment ideas as I'm sure (and hope!) your doggos will be getting less exercise and might need things to occupy them in the shade.

Your may be getting less exercise at the moment with the hot weather, meaning you'll need to add more to their day. This is a simple but effective idea.

19/06/2025

Worth another share as it's hot, hot, hot!!!

Some frozen delights for weekend in a !

Pureed natural yoghurt, peanut butter (xylitol free) and frozen berries. Also had enough left over for a frozen , what a win!

Fresh fruit in water.

That will keep our little princess busy over the next few days 😊.

Keep cool everyone! 🥵 Keep your babies safe.

12/06/2025

Scarlett the puppy was acing her leaves in class yesterday 🩷. She's such a little cutie and full of spice!

09/06/2025

We still have spaces on our Trick Workshop running this Thursday. Get in touch if you want an hour of solid fun with your faithful friend 🐕