🌿 Enrichment Essentials
Simple ways to meet your dog’s needs—so they can feel good and thrive
Enrichment isn’t just about keeping your dog busy. It’s about creating daily opportunities for them to think, sniff, move, explore, and learn—in ways that build confidence, reduce stress, and improve behaviour.
Inside, you’ll find ideas and resources that go beyond obedience and basic commands. These activities are designed to meet your dog where they’re at, help them feel more regulated, and make training easier by meeting their real needs.
Explore the categories below to get started.
Sniff walks, foraging boxes, and calming outdoor experiences to support emotional balance.
Using food-based enrichment to engage your dog’s brain, calm their nervous system, and meet natural foraging needs.
DIY games, food puzzles, and confidence-building activities that engage your dog’s brain.
Thoughtful changes to your home environment that support comfort, reduce stress, and promote zen.
Physical enrichment that helps dogs release energy in healthy, natural ways.
Targeted ideas for helping anxious, fearful, reactive, or frustrated dogs.
🎬 Explore & Restore Videos
Simple, real-life enrichment to help your dog sleep better, decompress more often, and feel more at ease.
🥩 Explore
Discover what reinforcement actually is—and why it’s the backbone of all behaviour change. When you understand what truly motivates your dog, training becomes clearer, more effective, and way more enjoyable for both of you.
📂 Explore & Restore Downloads
Guides and resources to help you support your dog's mental, physical, and emotional health through enrichment.
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A practical guide to sensory walks, decompression, and nature-based enrichment for emotional wellness.
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A visual reminder to support your dog’s mind and body—featuring sniffing, shredding, chewing, and more.
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A short guide to building self-regulation through simple, real-world setups.
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Retrievers and sporting dogs are happiest when they’re given meaningful work. This guide will give lots of ideas for just that.
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Easy ways to turn your walks into instinct-driven enrichment, using scent and natural movement.
🎬 Puzzle & Play Videos
DIY games, food puzzles, and confidence-building activities that engage your dog’s brain.
🥩 Towel Tornado
This quick DIY game turns a simple towel into a fun puzzle your dog can sniff, unroll, and shred through to find treats. It’s great for confidence, problem-solving, and slowing down eager eaters—with zero setup time and no fancy gear needed.
🧩 Snuffle Mats 101: How & Why to Use Them
Snuffle mats tap into your dog’s natural sniffing and foraging instincts. In this video, I’ll walk you through how to use a snuffle mat effectively, what to put in it, and how to adjust difficulty based on your dog’s experience level.
🐾 Cone Nose Target
Teach your dog to pop their nose into a cone—fun, fast, and fantastic for focus, confidence, and coordination.
🎬 Food for Thought Videos
Food-based enrichment that builds focus and calm.
🍖 Using a Toppl for Food Enrichment
Using a Toppl for Food Enrichment Toppls are one of my go-to tools for food-based enrichment—and in this video, I’ll show you how to stuff them in ways that keep your dog engaged, encourage licking and problem-solving, and support emotional regulation.
🍽️ 3 Favourite Food Toys for Enrichment
Whether you’ve got a curious puppy or a seasoned sniffer, these toys can help meet your dog’s food-motivated needs in fun, creative ways. are one of my go-to tools for food-based enrichment.
📂 Food for Thought Downloads
From simple dinner hacks, to more complex food-based enrichment for dogs of all ages and stages.
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You are what you eat. This guide helps explain how nutrition affects behaviour.
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Diet & Behaviour: Supporting Your Dog’s Emotional Health
How your dog’s diet and early life experience might be influencing their behaviour—and what we can do to help.
🥣 Homemade Rewards Recipe Book
This downloadable recipe book is packed with simple, dog-safe treat ideas you can make at home. Whether you're looking for high-value training rewards, limited-ingredient options, or just something fun and healthy to share, you’ll find easy recipes that work for a variety of dogs and diets.