Brain games

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It's both our dogs birthdays soon so thought it was a good time to replenish our toy stock. I'm getting a bit of a selection. Need to be fairly indestructible as they just tear everything to pieces.

I was looking at some of the more interactive toys. The ones where you hide treats and they have to figure out how to get them. Does anyone have any recommendations for good ones?

Not something you can buy, but our Terrier loves playing with a cardboard box. We get kibble and bits of cheese or sausage and wrap them in brown paper, or bags and make little screw up parcels of them. We then put either more brown paper or newspaper in the box and fold the box on itself. She spends ages playing with it, it it does, of course, make quite a mess.

The Nina ottoson ones are good and come in differing levels of difficulty but they are pricey and to be honest our greedy lab can still work them out pretty quickly so they don't keep him busy for long. There is a fb page called something like canine enrichment which is good for simple homemade brain games.

Kong wobbler is particularly instructable
Kong gyro
Snuffle mat is fabric based and homemade
Nina Ottosson range is great but requires supervision if your dog is destructive or prone to swallowing foreign objects.

My dog likes to destuff cuddly toys so I buy them cheap from the charity shop and remove any dangerous parts such as hard eyes first.

Canine Enrichment Facebook group is great.