This is mainly for office-based dogs, though if you have a dog who has an actual job I'd love to hear about that just for curiosity's sake!
I'm currently fostering a 1 year old mongrel, who comes to work with me. For the most part everything is ok, sometimes she will sleep for most of the day, but at other times she gets very bored in the office. I can't play with her all day as I obviously need to work, so I'm looking for some ideas of things to keep her busy and entertained, with minimal impact on anyone else.
She has a kong which I usually fill with peanut butter and freeze, but she dispatches that in about 20 mins. She loves soft toys but just tears them up, which is fine, except it's not super professional to have bits of fluff strewn all over the office. She has a tug of war rope but won't play with it on her own. Today I made her a snuffle box thing, scattered some kibble in a shoebox and covered with bits of paper, cardboard etc for her to sniff out. This lasted about ten mins. Sometimes I tuck treats into a rolled up sock and she works at getting those out, again this will last about ten minutes and results in torn up sock all over the office. She is not interested in rubber toys unless they are food-related so any kind of nylabone/rawhide/rubber ball etc just gets ignored.
If she doesn't have something to do she can be found chewing paint off the walls, chewing people's belongings, scratching office furniture.
This will sound extremely harsh but we will only have her for another month as she has a home lined up, and I have already spent close to 450quid on her in the last 8 weeks as she basically arrived with nothing, so I'm not looking to spend much on exciting new toys that the new owner will just inherit for free.
So, TLDR: looking for quiet, not too messy, not too expensive things that don't require a lot of time to set up and supervise, to keep my foster pup entertained when I have the audacity to actually work and not play with her all the time. Thanks!
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Ruibies · 22/01/2019 09:30
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