Creating a More Enriching Life for Dogs

The presentation focuses on the importance of creating an enriching environment for dogs of all ages. The focus is emphasizing the need for enrichment to improve the quality of life for dogs. In this presentation, various aspects of enrichment will be covered, including the benefits for mental and physical health hitting all senses, and the different types of enrichment activities that can be incorporated into a dog's daily routine.

Key points include:
•    Why Enrichment is Important: Enrichment helps reduce behavior issues, burn off energy, and improve sleep quality for both dogs and their owners.
•    Types of Enrichment: The presentation discusses the five senses (taste, smell, hearing, sight, touch) and how they can be used to enrich a dog's life.
•    Food as Enrichment: Different methods of dispensing food and the importance of moderation in food-based enrichment activities.
•    Toy Enrichment: The use of toys for enrichment, including tug, fetch, and games with toys.
•    Enriching Activities: Various activities that can be done with dogs, such as trick training, casual sports, and organized dog sports.
•    Environmental Enrichment: Changes in the environment that can provide enrichment, such as dog play outside, providing chew toys, and hiding toys in the house, scent enrichments.
•    Goals of Enrichment: The ultimate goals of enrichment are to expose dogs to the world, build relationships and trust with their owners, and reduce stress with new experiences.

             

Lisa Potts, BS, MBA, CPDT-KA, 2025 Board Member of the Association of Professions Dog Trainers (APDT)

Lisa has been involved in dog sports for 30 years, and is a full time dog trainer, seminar giver and judge.  Lisa is also an active competitor, and has earned hundreds of titles and Championships participating in a wide variety of dog sports including Agility, Obedience, Rally Obedience, Temperament, Tricks, Conformation, Herding, Agility, Barn Hunt and Flyball.

Lisa is a certified dog trainer (CPDT), and is a well-known judge in numerous organizations for agility, rally, obedience, nosework, fetch, temperament and vermin hinting.  She is a published author with articles in Clean Run Magazine, was featured in Showsite Magazine and has been a speaker at the APDT Conference.

She lives in Springfield, IL with her husband Derek and their 3 poodles.

April 7, 7pm CEST.  Find your local time here.

The webinar will be recorded so that you can access the recording if you are prevented from participating live. The link for the recording will be sent by email within a few days after the webinar.