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    Boredom Busters for Dogs: 40 Tail-Wagging Games and Adventures
    Boredom Busters for Dogs: 40 Tail-Wagging Games and Adventures
    Boredom Busters for Dogs: 40 Tail-Wagging Games and Adventures
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    Boredom Busters for Dogs: 40 Tail-Wagging Games and Adventures

    By Nikki Moustaki

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    Here's a Dog Fancy book for dog owners who work more hours than they'd like to;and for dog owners who own super-active dogs without real jobs to do (like herding sheep or retrieving ducks for ten hours a day). Boredom swiftly sets in on the domestic canine, and what usually follows is destructive, bad behavior that drives owners bonkers. Before you
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCompanionHouse Books
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781620080573
    Boredom Busters for Dogs: 40 Tail-Wagging Games and Adventures
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    Nikki Moustaki

    Nikki Moustaki is the author of twenty-five books on the care and training of exotic birds. She holds an MA in creative writing, poetry, from New York University, an MFA in creative writing, poetry, from Indiana University, and an MFA in creative writing, fiction, from New York University. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry, as well as many other national writing awards. She splits her time between New York City and Miami Beach.

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      Boredom Busters for Dogs - Nikki Moustaki

      Enriching Your Dog’s Life

      In the mid-1990s, zookeepers at the Central Park Zoo in New York City noticed that their 700-pound male polar bear, Gus, seemed to be coming unhinged. Gus swam back and forth in his small pool day after day, for hours on end, in continuous figure eights. It was obvious to both zoo visitors and zookeepers that something was desperately wrong with the bear. Not knowing how to respond to Gus’s apparent unhappiness, the zoo hired an animal behaviorist to study Gus and try to resolve his problems.

      The verdict? Years of life in captivity had turned the poor bear neurotic, which had led him to exhibit obsessive and compulsive behaviors, probably to prevent himself from going out of his fluffy polar bear mind. Quite simply, Gus was in desperate need of something interesting to do.

      The animal behaviorist recommended that the zoo implement enrichment activities for Gus and enhance his environment in ways that would stimulate some of his natural tendencies and break his neurotic patterns. Zookeepers installed a polar-bear-entertaining whirlpool and gave Gus interactive toys. They started offering him food in packages he had to open, hid other food around the habitat for him to track down, and froze fish in giant blocks of ice for him to break into. Gus appeared to be thrilled with the new additions to his home and daily life. He stopped his neurotic swimming pattern as he learned to play and forage as he would have in the wild. This is what pet enrichment is all about: keeping an animal active and engaged in his environment by offering him activities to stimulate natural behaviors.

      As Gus so aptly demonstrated, lack of enrichment can cause stress, anxiety, and boredom, leading to problems. In your dog, they can include such behaviors as inappropriate elimination, excessive barking, and furniture dismantlement. It’s a recipe for dogsaster that can end with a trip to the local shelter or a classified ad: Take my puppy, please!

      Many of these problems can be solved by adding enriching activities to your dog’s life. This book explores some simple ways to provide your dog with stimulating environmental enrichment to keep him happy, healthy, and out of trouble. If enrichment can work for a bored polar bear in the Central Park Zoo, it can certainly work for the

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