Our Christmas wish for you is that your day be filled with all the things you love.
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By Jodi
By Jodi
We kept Christmas gifts for the dogs at a minimum this year.
Sampson and Delilah eat raw food, have stuffed Kongs for snacks, go to daycare twice a week, get long walks in the woods, have birthday parties, and sleep in the same bed as us. Really how much more do they need?
But just before Christmas Sara got a toy in that I had to get for Delilah, it’s called a “Paw Hide.”
The toy is hard plastic in the shape of a paw, there are seven compartments with little covers that fit inside. Paw Hide is a nose work toy and encourages your pet to use their nose to find the hidden treats.
The directions suggest to begin with just one treat and slowly work your dog up to more than one. The toy should be placed on the floor with lots of room for your pet to walk around it. While your dog is working their nose, you should be offering words of encouragement.
As you can see from the video, Delilah wasted no time in learning to use her nose.
Sampson’s gift was less exciting, he got a stuffed bird which he didn’t seem interested in. When he realized that Delilah was finding treats from her gift, he got up to check it out.
I figured, what the heck. Let him give it a try, so I loaded it up.
As you can see, he didn’t take to it in quite the same way Delilah did, but he got it!
How did your pups enjoy the holiday, were they spoiled rotten or like me did you keep it to a minimum? What were their favorite gifts?
By Jodi
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, ours was pretty good even though we were missing a few family members.
As I noted in an earlier post, I have to keep my tree gated off to keep Delilah from eating the ornaments.
This year she was really good, never even went near the tree until yesterday when I removed the gates for Christmas morning. She was particularly interested in a sand dollar ornament I had picked up in Florida on one of our vacations. I assume it was because her nose smells better than mine and she can smell a faint trace of sea life.
Hubby and I were sitting and relaxing with our Irish Coffees and playing a little Donkey Kong and I guess I may have relaxed a little too much, because all of a sudden I heard Hubby exclaim, “Delilah!”
Yup, she got it.
Once she got it, she stayed away from the tree. Bob on the other hand kept going underneath the tree scratching at the bag of dog treats.
Gates are back up.
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