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Play is important for our pets. It’s an outlet for normal behaviour and helps strengthen their relationship with you.

Do some tricks training
If you want to tire your dog out without taking them on a walk, tricks training is the perfect thing.

Use great dog training treats and break the behaviours down into little steps so as not to go too fast.

There are plenty of trick training videos on Youtube.

You can also try tricks training with your cat, or maybe use the spare time at home to teach them to use their cat carrier (there’s a plan in my post on 8 ways to help your cat go to the vet).

Play is important for our pets. It’s an outlet for normal behaviour and helps strengthen their relationship with you.

So now is a great time to fit in more play time, whether it’s a game of tug with your dog or playing with a wand toy with your cat.

While it’s true that your pet is probably very happy to have you at home, sometimes even they can have too much of a good thing. Make sure your pet has a safe space where they can go to relax if they want some alone time.

For dogs, this could be a pet bed where you will never disturb them, or a crate with some nice cozy bedding in it.

For cats, hiding spaces should be just the right size for an individual cat, as even in a multi-cat home, cats like to have space on their own.

For cats, providing a safe space is one of the five pillars of a healthy feline environment (and problems with the environment can cause behaviour issues, which is the main welfare issue facing pet cats).

Friendship is in the air 🥰

Pets are being found more frequently across Portuguese homes.

A study by market research institute GfK concluded that half of Portuguese houses have at least one pet, most of which are dogs (68%), showing an increase in pets compared to 2011, when 45% of home owners kept animal companions.
But owners seem to prefer smaller animals. Half of the dogs weighed less than 10 kilos.