Providing enrichment for pets enhances their quality of life by reducing stress and promoting the human-animal bond. Enrichment engages pets through sensory stimulation using sounds, smells, sights, and tastes. It also provides mental stimulation and physical activity. Effective enrichment soothes pets and keeps them occupied through various interactive toys, puzzles, and food-related activities. Regularly varying enrichment helps prevent pets from becoming bored.

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2.  Enhances the quality of life
 Reduces stress, anxiety, boredom
 Promotes the human/animal bond
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3. Sensory
-Sound (Auditory)
-Smell (Olfactory)
-Visual
-Taste (Feeding)
Mental
Physical
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4.  Soothes
 Masks outside noises
 Condition to human voice
 Classical music
 Books on tape
 White noise
 Toys that make noise
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5.  Sense of smell 10,000 times greater
than ours
 Stimulates
 Calms
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 Toys soaked in Broth then frozen
 Lavender, vanilla, chamomile,
almond, coconut, peppermint – spray
on toys, bedding
 Dried scents: Cinnamon, cloves,
ginger
 Animal scents: Duck, Pheasant, Bear,
etc.
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6.  Bubbles
 Lava Lamps
 Mobiles
 Access to look outdoors
 TV
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9.  Work to Eat
 Search and Find
 Kongs, puzzle toys, feeders
 Paper towel rolls
 Egg cartons, kleenex boxes
 Ice cube trays
 Boxes, Pails for hiding toys
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10.  Chicken & beef broth
 Meatballs
 Sardines
 Pumpkin
 Fruit
 Vegetables
 Canned wet food
 Cheese
 Baby food
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11.  Tricks
 Flirt poles
 Platform training
 Car rides
 Treadmill
 Hide and Seek
 Agility
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12.  It is not enrichment if it is the same
type of enrichment every day
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