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 84 of your new puppies podcast.

I'm Debbie.

And today I'm gonna give you three do-it-yourself

puzzle feeders that you can make

with stuff you were going to throw out anyway.

So when I talk about puzzle feeders,

I mean the things that you use to feed your dog instead of a bowl.

So products you can buy are things like treat balls,

snuffle mats, lick mats, kongs

is usually the most popular mays bowls slow feeders anything like that okay you know that I love making mealtime and event I talk a lot about this back in episode 18 which is called

ditch the bowl and make mealtime an event and the reason why I highly encourage this is because it's just, it's more enrichment

for our dog. Dogs are built to work for their food. They really enjoy it and you're feeding

them anyway and this will give them that

extra mental exercise which is just as important if not more than physical

exercise so instead of it taking them what 30 seconds to eat their

meal it can take them up to a half hour or 45 minutes depending on how hard the

puzzle is. I have even had great success. In fact I've lost count of the number

of times that my clients have a picky eater. The dog really doesn't want to eat their food. They kind of graze on it.

They don't they're not thrilled about it. And we pick up the bowl and we use the food for

training or put it in a feeder and just simply make the meal more engaging and enriching for the dog and then all of a sudden they're interested in eating because it's just more fun than just eating it out of a bowl.

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