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What Your Dog Is Missing When They Solve Every Puzzle Toy in Seconds | Dog Enrichment
· 38 min · Episode 108 · Explicit
Episode What Your Dog Is Missing When They Solve Every Puzzle Toy in Seconds | Dog Enrichment
Does your dog finish a puzzle toy faster than it took you to load it?
When a puzzle is too easy, the fun is over in seconds, and when it’s too hard, your dog gives up. The sweet spot is a challenge they can just barely figure out, and finding it takes more than buying a new toy every week. This conversation with Aina, co-creator of the modular puzzle system Puzzler, gets into setting the right difficulty, building it up over time, and why a few minutes of brain work can settle a dog better than a long walk.
You’ll hear:
• How watching dogs blow through puzzles led to a design you can rearrange and level up • Why difficulty looks different for every dog, and how to tell where yours is starting • An enrichment stacking routine that moves a high energy dog from play to puzzle to chew • How puzzles can help picky eaters, fast eaters, and anxious dogs during things like fireworks
Press play if your dog is too smart for every toy in the house.
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This podcast explores dog training, dog behavior, dog behavior problems, dog obedience, dog training advice, dog training tips, dog training methods, dog training at home, service dog training, dog anxiety, dog separation anxiety, reactive dogs, dog reactivity, and dog body language. Episodes also cover canine nutrition, dog food, dog enrichment, mental stimulation for dogs, senior dogs, pet loss, and life with dogs. It’s a dog community for people who want to better understand the dog in front of them, make sense of conflicting advice, improve the relationship with their dog, and figure out what actually works for their dog.
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