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#100daysofenrichment, AniEd

All within 2km

Last night, Ireland was mandated with further restrictions in our increasing efforts to slow the progress of COVID-19. Everyone is now asked to take only brief exercise within 2km of their home. That might limit lots of dogs, especially those who have more special requirements in terms of environmental exposure, when out and about.

See our advice for helping your dog through this very odd time: On Lockdown.

Our third run of #100daysofenrichment is ongoing and you can join up any time by subscribing to this blog and joining our Facebook group of wonderful enrichers.

#100daysofenrichment over 14 days

We have (at least) 14 days of very limited movement ahead of us; we can use the #100daysofenrichment program more intensively to provide our dogs, and their humans, with plenty of entertainment in lieu of the normal level of exploration and challenge.

I have mixed up the challenges so that you can do a few options from the program on each of our 14 days of cocooning.
I have distributed them so that there is an appropriate mix of challenges each day to provide your dog with well-rounded enrichment.

For Decker, he gets the following every day regardless, so I am considering these the foundations for every dog, in some form or another.

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 1: Stuffables, Day 4: Hanging out – Just Be, Day 6: Sniffing Saturday – Sniffathon!, Day 11: Chewing and Day 57 Rollercoaster Games.

If you do that much with your dog each day, you will be rocking it.
Want to mix it up or add more? Read on.

Day 1 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 16 Tubs, Day 58 Paper, Day 81 Bringing the Smellside Inside, Day 83 Sniffing Saturday – Cup Game

Day 2 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 23 Pulleys, Day 32 Play: Fun with Food, Day 45 Hanging out – on the road, Day 71 Chasing!

Day 3 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 27 Sniffing Saturday: Adventure Time, Day 30 Digging, Day 41 Sniffing Saturday Sniffing as a Reward, Day 52 Your Favourite Trick!, Day 55 Sniffing Saturday – Sniffing Courses

Day 4 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 18 Eggboxes, Day 25 Dissection & Destruction, Day 34 Sniffing Saturday: Sniffing & Engagement, Day 73 Play: Be Goofy!, Day 93 Watersports

Day 5 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 17 Handling & Husbandry: Comfort with Gear, Day 36 Choice & Choosing: reinforcement, Day 48 Sniffing Saturday – SNIFFING STATIONS, Day 66 Transferring Cues

Day 6 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 24 Choice & Choosing – consent to touch, Day 39 Bottles, Day 65 Loose leash walking doesn’t have to be boring!, Day 69 Sniffing Saturday: Drag Hunts, Day 99 Pockets,  Day 100 Pockets (again)

Day 7 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 22 Body Awareness – Confidence Courses, Day 31 Foraging Boxes, Day 46 Teasers, Day 88 Suspended Teasers, Day 90 Sniffing Saturday – Where’s my keys?

Day 8 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 20 Sniffing Saturday – GO SNIFF!, Day 43 Fast & Fun Recalls, Day 53 Suspended Puzzles Pt1, Day 67 Suspended Puzzles Pt. 2, Day 74 Snuffle Roll Ups

Day 9 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 72 Food Dispensers, Day 78 Freeshaping, Day 86 Play: the toy isn’t the reward, Day 92 Winebox Puzzles Pt. 1, Day 94 Winebox Puzzles Pt.2

Day 10 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 8: Body Awareness – Cavaletti, Day 10: Choice & Choosing – beds and bedding, Day 51 Compound Puzzles, Day 59 Engagement Games, Day 80 Hanging Out: Entertainment for Dogs!

Day 11 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 9: Busy Boxes, Day 62 Sniffing Saturday: Searches & Scavenger Hunts, Day 87 Stacked Puzzles, Day 95 Grasses

Day 12 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 2 Play: Release the toy, release the joy, Day 38 Hanging Out: Massage & Mindfulness, Day 60 “Middle”, Day 85 Tubes!, Day 76 Sniffing Saturday – SNIFFARI

Day 13 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 13: Sniffing Saturday – Scatter Feeding & Snuffling, Day 15 Targeting, Day 29 Blankets, Day 44 Puzzle Chains, Day 64 DIY Nail Care

Day 14 Lockdown

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Choose challenges from each of the following: Day 3: Handling & Husbandry – Handling comfort, Day 37 Lappables & Lickables, Day 50 Body Awareness – rear end awareness, Day 79 Box o’ Stuffables

As always, let us know how you are getting on! Stay well!

AniEd

Free stuff!

No catches, just free stuff…who’s in?

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With the world being pretty topsy-turvy at the moment, it’s difficult to think about much else than this chaos.
Recently, a sad incident, in Dublin, left a young boy dead after a dog attack. This is the second such fatality ever recorded in Ireland and we really don’t want a third.

We do a lot of child-dog work and would much prefer to do preventative work, rather than being called in after things have gone wrong, which is more often the case.

In light of the extra pressure dogs are feeling at the moment (like us all), given that everyone is home and essentially confined, we want to help.

Next week, we will have FREE resources to reach everyone:

– for pet pros: free access to our Kids & K9s: the dog trainer’s role, course. FREE. No strings attached.
– for pet owners: free Facebook Lives on juggling kids and dogs. FREE. No catches.

We want to do our part to get accessible education out there, with nothing standing in the way of getting it to everyone who needs it.

All the details will be available next week via our Facebook page so that you can register. And then all you have to do is show up, in your PJs, drinking wine, relaxing and talking dogs!