Content warning: This blog includes brief discussions of aggressive behavior toward humans. When I was a young intern during my undergrad years, my cubicle
It’s a beautiful spring day and I’m sitting at the Firefly Coffee House finishing my house-made bagel with peach spice cream cheese schmear (yes, it
If you’ve been around for long enough, you’ll already know that enrichment is about outcomes. And if you don’t already know that, hi, welcome! When
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It’s 7am on a blustery December day and Petey the Wondermutt has a very important 8am appointment for a jaunt in the woods. I can hear the wind howling outside, so I pick up my phone to check the weather. Windchill of -4 degrees!? Guess we’re stuck inside.
Last night we had seen an increase in frequency, intensity, and duration of barking when my husband (hereby known as Big Man) came home from work. I knew that meant Petey could use some time tracking scents, moving his body, investigating his surroundings, and ideally spending some time digging. An off-leash romp in the woods, a meandering walk in the cemetery on a long line, or an adventure to a nature preserve would be ideal options for engaging in most of these behaviors (I’m not going to make the cemetery grounds crew mad at me by letting him dig a hole!). But with the sudden drop in temperature, those options were off the table.
Picture, if you will, a mountain with a perfectly round base. It juts up out of the pastoral farmlands of New Zealand’s North Island, surrounded
For the Benefit of Mister Pete: Creating a Sensory Garden in a Small Back Yard Estimated reading time: 8 min Petey the Wondermutt climbs a
We know that safety (being protected from harm) and security (FEELING protected from harm) are both categories of enrichment. As someone who lives with a
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