Sarah-Jane White

For guinea pig owners, enrichment usually means the following:Having other pets as friends Providing a wide range of enrichment can help keep your guinea pig’s brain occupied, help them feel secure and more comfortable around you. However, you can provide your guinea pigs with social enrichment by:Get your guinea pig a guinea pig or rabbit friendSet up a guinea pig playdate with other guinea pigs Here’s a fun way to teach your guinea pig how to weave: Environmental, physical, and structural enrichment is probably the most common and easiest enrichment to provide your guinea pig. Interactive toys installed in your guinea pigs’ enclosure can help decrease their reactive responses to other environmental factors, which may include less reaction to: Furthermore, physical enrichment helps decrease other unwanted behaviours, including: Aside from providing your guinea pigs with all sorts of fun toys, consider installing a physical feature as well in your guinea pigs’ enclosure, cage, or environment.

These simple toys and games are easy to create with leftover egg trays and boxes and your dog’s toys and treats. Why are egg boxes such a good choice for enrichment games?Can you use any egg boxes?7 ways to use egg boxes for canine enrichmentTry some egg carton canine enrichment games for your dog. Start by using an open egg box and pop a couple of treats into the box, push the lid over, but do not close it. Let your dog sniff the treat before you tuck it into the box, close the lid and then make your dog stay whilst you go and hide the egg carton somewhere in your home.

Cats love to watch the world around them, their little heads tilting and turning as they take in their surroundings, but do cats like watching cat videos on youtube, or the tv? Studies show that cats watching videos actually improves a cat’s well being. The more prey driven your cat is, the more likely they are to be entertained by watching videos made for cats as they are attracted to the quick movements across the screen. Cats prefer real life so let them out and let cats be cats.