Indoor activities to keep your pets entertained this winter
It have always found that winters are the cruelest on your pets. But at the same time pets show extreme reluctance to wear warm clothes. Even the vet will also advice you against forcing them to wear winter garments. Now what becomes more challenging for you in such a situation is that how can you keep your pet warm. A great idea is to let it indulge into simple indoor games, which will be really enjoying for the creature as well as the best way to induce warmth. Indoor activities increase the circulation of blood within the body of these domestic animals and render internal warmth. Here are a few suggestions of indoor activities for your pets to help them remain entertained in winters:
1. Find the toy
It will be really great to indulge into a hide and seek game with your pet. Get hold of a toy that your pet loves the most. It is mostly seen that pets are attracted towards tasty treats. Now, show it to your pet and allow it to sniff the treat once. After this hide it from the creature. Direct it to find the same. Its improved olfactory cells help to trace things easily. Thus, it can also find out where you have hidden the object. In the process the running and hunting all over the house for the search of the hidden treasure will lead to some amount of physical activity and promote internal warmth to your pet.
2. Treasure hunting game
Get into an innovative treasure hunting game with your pet by making your own playing kit. Arrange for a few used soft drink aluminum cans. Now, get hold of a tin cutter and cut holes on either side of the can. Insert some mulchable treats for your pawed pal inside these cans. Allow the creature to sniff the things kept inside these cans once. Now, mix these cans with some empty cans as well. It will be a laborious sport for your pet to run all around these cans, find out the cans with treats and gulp down the treats.
3. Reward in the rope
If you think of making your pet jump and run a bit to drench itself in sweat when it is snowing outside, you can try out this game as well. Take some strings and hang some of your pet dog’s or cat’s favorite treats at the end of each of the strings. Now, hang these strings from the ceiling of your room in such a way that the treats remain within the accessible range of your pet. It just need to jump and bite on to the same. It will be really funny to see that every time your dog or cat jumps to grasp the treat with its teeth, the string sways back and forth and your poor pet misses the target, to initiate a new attempt all over again.
4. Digging the treasure
Some scooping, scratching and digging will also be fun for your pet. But this game is to be played in the morning, outside your house. The best place for the game is your garden or a park. Take different types dry food treats for your pet, wrap them in papers and hide them under piles of dry leaves, heaps of stones or dump of loose soil. Now, direct your pet to search them out and enjoy the treats after its search gets successfully accomplished. The high sense of smell will help the pet locate the food. But in order to get hold of the same it needs to indulge into some scooping and digging. Thus, this laborious search will not only make your pet feel warm from within but it will also encourage its hunting instincts.
5. Tug of war
You can play tug of war with your pet too. Take a play rope or a discarded towel. Now, train your pet to hold one end of it with its teeth. Grasp onto the other end of it tightly so that it cannot escape with rope as you miss the grasp of the rope or the towel. As you play the game put in small jerks and pulls, just enough for the capacity for your pet. The pet, in its turn, will involve all the capacity it has to pull the tug towards its own direction.
6. Teach your pet different actions
Teach your pet different actions like sitting, standing, lying down, etc. Now, direct your pet to do so and as it does the perfect move, reward it. This simple exercise will be a much loved entertainment for your pet.
