Things to note about dog abundance
Precautions for dog abundance mainly include ensuring that the abundance activities are suitable for the dog's personality, providing diverse sensory stimulation, and maintaining the environment clean and safe.
1. Safety, location selection, material selection, safety factor, such as those that are too low, it is best not to choose if dogs are prone to mistaken eating, or if there are too many risk factors in the environment, don’t take risks to enrich the environment.
2. How to avoid dogs from destroying similar objects due to their abundant content (for example, many people ask if they will disassemble the express delivery by themselves if they ask them to play with cartons for dogs)? When enriching the game, clearly give the start command; enrich it in a fixed area. In fact, most dogs can tell which toys and games we designed for them, and which are not. Just as most dogs do not distinguish between biting the sofa and TV at home, because these things are not fun. Except for bored and anxious dogs. In addition, who would be willing to take the initiative to "work overtime"?
3. The amount of snacks used should be combined with the daily intake to avoid excessive amounts.
4. When enriching, try to create and provide conditions to improve dog autonomy, so that they can choose independently, solve problems by themselves, and experience and feel by themselves. The less the owner's intervention, the less it is. After the design and layout are completed or brought to the enriching environment, you can stay away from supervision and safety and do not interfere too much. Too much interference is not only easy to distract yourself, but also easy to rely on dogs. Especially for some overtrained dogs, owner neglect is extremely important. Even if it is an interactive game, try to let the dog take the lead. You can encourage it appropriately, but do not complete it on his behalf or help or urge it too much. When it comes to enrichment, you can design an environment that combines difficult and easy things. Most dogs will go through it first and then choose an easy start, or when playing a difficult mechanism, they will choose to go back and play the easy things in the middle, and then come back to solve the difficult problems, just like when we were a child, we did questions in the exam. In terms of environment and space, let dogs try their best to choose and advance and retreat as freely as possible. Don’t have too high mission goals and expectations, let the dog enjoy it themselves. The purpose of enrichment is to stimulate the dog’s mind and enrich their lives, rather than train them to become super powerful brains.
5. If the dog's emotions fluctuate greatly, are very manic or frustrated during the process, you can pause and start over after he calms down. We must be particularly wary of dogs who are unable to sniff and play, and pay attention to checking for physiological diseases and behavioral psychological causes.
6. If you have two or more dogs at home, it is best to conduct them separately or provide a large number of props and places when you are at home to avoid unnecessary conflicts caused by resource protection.
7. The rich content and form can be changed frequently, and repeating a single thing will make the dog lose its novelty and challenging nature. The easiest thing to accomplish is the change of walking routes, don’t always walk the dog in one place.
