You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your

host Debbie Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 18 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today

we're going to talk about ditching the bowl and making meal time and event.

So I have a few examples for you that I'm going to go through, but the reason

why I'm bringing this topic to you is because it is a great way to give your dog some extra exercise and some extra stimulation by doing something

you do already and that's feed them.

We get stuck in this idea that our dog is supposed to eat out of a bowl.

And it probably comes from our own habits because we sit down on a table and eat off of plates

most of the time.

But dogs are programmed to work for their food.

So if we use that and make meal time and event,

then we give them an extra outlet

to burn some of that extra energy.

And if you have a puppy or a high energy dog,

this is going to start sounding really good to you

because it's not going to take that much more effort from you,

but we're going to give them another way to, you know, occupy them a little longer than the 30 seconds it takes them to

eat their food out of a bowl. They're going to get that extra mental exercise

because they got to work at getting to their food.

And it's not only going to be fun and entertaining for them, but it's going to take a little

bit of pressure off for us and let me tell you you this can be entertaining for you as well.

So as I mentioned I do have a few examples for you and I'm going to go through them, I'm going to talk

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