40 • Pets at home T ink outside the box
Mattie Lacey-Davidson gets advice on how to entertain dogs during lockdown with nothing but a cardboard box and toilet roll tubes
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At Home & In T e Garden • Sunday 24 May 2020
Paws-up Can you get your dog to put its
front feet on the box? T eir back feet? Can you get them to run round to the left, to the right? Can smaller dogs sit in the box? T ink outside of the box and you won’t be able to contain yourself with all this canine fun.
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Bowling balls Create your own 10-pin bowling
alley with spare kitchen roll tubes. Have a competition with your dog and see how many pins you can each knock down.
Tunnels of fun Cut out the sides of a few boxes
and line them up to make your very own DIY tunnel. Encourage your dog to go through with the promise of treats or their favourite toy at the end of the tunnel.
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— even if that’s only because they’re so excited to have you around all day. Dogs Trust has come up with eight fun ways to entertain your dog with a cardboard box and tubes, complete with online tutorial videos to explain how to go about it.
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ith the UK lockdown in eff ect, dogs may have extra energy to burn
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The paw-fect fi gure eight Get two boxes and set them out a
little distance apart. Hold your dog’s treats or a favourite toy in one hand and slowly start to move them in a fi gure of eight around the two items, swapping the reward into your other hand at the centre point. One arm will guide your dog around the item to the left and the other arm will
guide your dog around the item to your right. Repeat several times until you’ve got the routine down pat.
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Digging deep Shred or scrunch up newspaper or
any paper items and pop them in an empty cardboard box. T en drop in a few treats or toys, and watch your dog dig away.
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Jog your dog’s memory Lay out multiple boxes in a semi-
circle and pop a treat in one of them, making sure your dog is watching. Hold up a sheet to block your furry friend’s vision, drop the seet and then see if they remember which box the treat was in. Repeat the game and change the box with the treat in, see how many times they get it right.
Snoot challenge next level Remember the snoot challenge,
where you had to make a hole with your hands and wait for your pooch to run up and put their nose through it? Using this as inspiration, cut a hole in your box and see if you can get your dog to poke its nose through it.
Teach your dog to read For starters, write diff erent words (e.g. sit, down, paw) on diff erent
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Online searches relating to getting a dog have shot up since lockdown came into force. Dogs Trust is urging anyone thinking of getting a four-legged friend to ask whether they’re truly ready for the realities of dog ownership. With millions of us working
from home, Google searches for ‘buy a puppy’ increased by 120% in the month after lockdown was announced on 23 March. ‘Adopt a puppy’ saw an even bigger rise of 133% in online searches, according to data from Propellernet. Whether people are getting a
dog for companionship or because they’re around more to train them, the charity is concerned there may be a spike in people giving up their dog when normality resumes and reality sinks in.
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boxes that you want your dog to learn. Say the word that’s on the box in front of them and then ask them to do what the word says. When your dog does as you’ve asked, reward them with a tasty treat and repeat the process until they learn the words on the boxes. All video tutorials can be found at
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