Brain Games & Enrichment Activity Deck
Brain Games & Enrichment Activity Deck
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The ultimate bonding experience for you and your dog!
➟ Simplify mental stimulation
➟ Create a calming routine
➟ Enrich your dog's day
The deck provides you with a variety of brain games & enrichment activities across five key categories so that you can give your dog a mental workout, without taxing your own brain.
Just pick a card and follow the step-by-step instructions to play, bond and learn more about your dog!
Specifically designed to help you to develop calmness, confidence and connection together in a quick, easy and stress-free format.
Helping you enjoy a more relaxed life with your dog ~ all within a few minutes a day.
As supported by the RSPCA
FAQ
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What's inside the box?
You get a deck of 52 Activity Cards.
The front of each card is decorative and features different illustrated dogs.
The reverse of each card provides instructions for the games and activities.
There are 5 colour-coded Key Categories: Calm, Focus, Play, Puzzle & Bond
Plus, a Guide Booklet for additional tips and progressive activity levels.
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What type of activities does this include?
✔ Scent games – become part of your dog’s #1 activity!
✔ Enrichment activities – includes easy DIY puzzle feeding activities & provides an appropriate outlet for expressing natural, stress-relieving behaviours.
✔ Brain games – boosts your dog’s confidence and motivation levels.
✔ Bonding exercises – strengthens your relationship through working together.
✔ Stealth training – reinforces positive behaviours such as toy sharing, recall, proximity and responsiveness while your dog just thinks you’re the most fun person ever.
Our approach is always positive reinforcement!➟
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How do I integrate this into my life?
Ideal for:
- Daily mental stimulation & enrichment.
- Adverse weather conditions (heatwaves, storms etc).
- Restricted exercise & recovery from injury.
- Becoming more interesting to your dog (especially in stimulating environments).
- Helping your dog to settle in new situations.
- Occupying or redirecting energy into a productive outlet.
- Creating a decompression routine with calming activities.
- Developing a relationship with a new dog.
- Getting the whole family involved with your dog (always supervise children).
- For people or dogs with limited mobility.
- Engaging puppies without overexercising them.
- Fosterers, rescue centre workers and other dog-professionals; boarders, groomers, walkers etc.
Why enrichment?
Enrichment is what your dog actually wants to do. Enrichment activities give your dog an outlet for expressing natural behaviours.
In other words, simply ‘be more dog’!
This is crucial for their overall wellbeing.
Enrichment is a foundation for animal welfare and can help resolve a number of ‘undesirable’ behaviours which often stem from boredom and frustration.
So instead of trying to ‘fix’ chewing, digging, excess energy etc, we can do simple activities with our dog to provide safe and appropriate opportunities to fulfil these behavioural needs.
The main purpose of the deck is to be a resource to learn more about our dogs and help us give them what they need.
When a dog has plenty of enrichment in their life, they are calmer, more balanced and fulfilled and less ‘desperate’ to find their kicks elsewhere!
The benefits of brain games for dogs
As supported by the RSPCA and used by multiple dog welfare organisations.
The deck is used by numerous dog welfare organisations to provide varied enrichment to dogs within their care and support owners with their new dog.
The games help you learn what your dog finds engaging and encourages you to work with them in a way they find rewarding.
Common behavioural concerns such as lack of calmness, destruction and inappropriate greetings can often be resolved through fulfilling a dog’s enrichment needs.
What started as a passion project with my own spaniel has now given me a greater mission – to help owners understand dogs better so less end up being brought in for rehoming.
Always seek the help of a behaviourist when needed.
Let customers speak for us
Popped into the Horse and Farrier in Dacre, Cumbria, for a well earned pub lunch. Sadie our 4 year old Whippet has never been one for settling on hard floors (who can blame her) so we tried out her new settle mat (size large) for the first time which she absolutely loved. Took to it straight away and relaxed in front of the fire while we ate a delicious lunch. It folds easily and can be carried anywhere thanks to the handy carry loop and stores away nicely in the car boot until needed. Fantastic product, but most importantly, Sadie loved it!
This is my sixth time buying this deck. I always end up, lending them out to clients and friends, who end up keeping them. These cards make it super easy to come up with enrichment ideas for any dog, and I have used them for other species as well. I love using the categories to align with the type of day my dog is having. The instructions are easy to follow, and the art of the cards is absolutely beautiful. I cannot recommend this enough to any dog owner, looking for a way of easily including enrichment into their daily routine.
This is my sixth time buying this deck. I always end up, lending them out to clients and friends, who end up keeping them. These cards make it super easy to come up with enrichment ideas for any dog, and I have used them for other species as well. I love using the categories to align with the type of day my dog is having. The instructions are easy to follow, and the art of the cards is absolutely beautiful. I cannot recommend this enough to any dog owner, looking for a way of easily including enrichment into their daily routine.
Nice quality cards. Great idea to engage with your dog.
Nice quality cards. Great idea to engage with your dog.
Perfect for when you’re tired of scouring the internet for ideas. Also great at getting the whole family on the same page with training!
Perfect for when you’re tired of scouring the internet for ideas. Also great at getting the whole family on the same page with training!
Dog loves the Odin ball. I only wish I’d bought 2!
Lots of useful games to enhance both dog and human bond. Lots of games to choose from. Well worth the purchase.
Lots of useful games to enhance both dog and human bond. Lots of games to choose from. Well worth the purchase.
My dog absolutely loves her plait. She uses it every night to decompress and runs upstairs to get it for me so I can pop some of her food into it. If I forget she very quickly reminds me that this is a daily part of her bedtime routine. Along with her snuffle ball one of the best toys I bought.
I received an email from Calm Dog Games and was intrigued by the idea of this Puzzle Plait. I watched the video and KNEW that this would be the type of dog puzzle that my dog might enjoy! Needless to say I bought the Puzzle Plait which arrived very quickly and I can honestly say that my dog absolutely loves this plait! It keeps her very happily occupied as she slowly locates each of the treats hidden around the plait and her tail never stops wagging! I would definitely recommend this Puzzle Plait which genuinly enriches and lengthens my dog's enjoyment of treats!