06/11/2024
🪴Exciting News! 🪴
We can finally show you our NEW scent space and sensory garden for our pups!
We have been working hard over the last week to transform our outdoor space to create lots of hiding spaces for dogs to use their noses to find hidden treats.
Lots of different smells and textures.
herbs and essential oils for scent work
Different textures in our dig pits and the ball pit!
We continue to work hard to keep updating the center to bring the best possible experience for our pups every single day and today was the first day they got to experience it! Safe to say it has been a success!
Did you know…
While us Humans have around 5 million scent receptors, our Dogs have up to 300 million scent receptors!
Sniffing tires our Dogs both mentally & physically! Just 10 minutes of sniffing has the same effect on our Dogs as a whole 60 minutes of walking!
With their super scent powers, our Dogs are able to pick up the aroma of a single teaspoon of sugar in a body of water the size of two Olympic swimming pools!
Our Dogs breathing rate at rest is around 15 breaths per minute. This increases to around 30 breaths while walking, up to 60 breaths while running & between 150-200 breaths per minute while sniffing!
This is why scent work is so tiring for our Dogs!