Pug puppy mental stimulation leads to a happy pug! Let’s face it, we all know owning pug puppies can sometimes be an especially overwhelming experience, what with furniture chewing, outbursts and getting up to mischief.
The solution is to minimizing mischief is to stimulate your dog’s mind. On top of regular exercise and playtime with your pug puppy, toys are a great way to keep your puppy active and happy! All pugs love toys, from puppies to seniors: they love to play. If you really want to tire your pug out, you should get them thinking. There are many types of mentally stimulating dog toys out there, we’re going to talk about one of our favorites: the snuffle mat.
A snuffle mat really stimulates a pug’s senses and brain to find the hidden treats! This fun game for a pug puppy really gets the brain into overdrive and fatigues the puppy fast! The snuffle mat can also be a great way to feed your pug meals, as the searching for food will slow down your pug puppy. If your puppy has a problem vomiting from eating too fast, the snuffle mat is the perfect solution!
Our pug Petal loves her snuffle mat! She has always had a perfect 100% record of finding all of the kibble in her mat. After your pug has stopped looking for the treats, pick the snuffle mat up and give it a shake. Does your pug have the perfect record? Being a pug, it probably does have a perfect record. Check out petal in action finding treats in our DIY pug snuffle mat on our Youtube Video below! You will also see how the snuffle mat works with a pug in full brain-stimulation overdrive!
Pug Puppy Mental Stimulation Snuffle Mat DIY Materials
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Before we start mentally stimulating a pug puppy, us humans need to stimulate our brains to construct the snuffle mat from scratch! Making a snuffle mat is a relatively easy DIY project for you and your family and does not take long. Snuffle mats are completely machine washable, so it can be cleaned easily and last for years and years.
Let’s get started!
The materials needed for a DIY dog activity mat are general household items you may have lying around your home and materials you may no longer need, if not add these items to your shopping cart!
- Pug puppy Kibble (Most important on the list, from a pugs point of view)
Pug Puppy Mental Stimulation Snuffle Mat Directions
- Cut rubber mat to desired size. Typical they are 16” x 24”.
- Cut fabric into approximately 1” x 10” strips. Have fun with this and use different colours of fabric to make it fun!
- Feed the fabric strip in one hole and through the next hole. Flip the mat over and tie a knot. Continue this process until all holes of the rubber mat are filled. Think about your pattern before starting, be creative!
- Just add kibble and let your pug’s senses do the rest.
We are no pugsperts, but think pug puppy brain and senses stimulation is important for healthy pug development and to help ease the sometimes overwhelming, but always adorable, experience of raising a pug puppy!
Related: So you want a pug puppy! Good choice.
