I've long since thrown out our dog food bowls, I feed mostly raw anyway. But after reading BrainWork for Smart Dogs [1] I've decided never to just give my dogs a free meal ever again. Yesterday I poured two cups of premium dry food (not one of the recall list foods) into an empty 2 litre plastic milk bottle with the lid off (see safety tip in comments). Sabella had a great time flipping it, punching it, kicking it, shaking it - whatever she could to make the food spill out. We went out with Django for 3 hours. When we got home there was still about half a cup of food left, which she had fun getting out when we returned from our evening walk. Such a simple idea, and so beneficial. Total investment of my time = 30 seconds. Total additional cost $0.00 Total 'active' time for Sabella, maybe an hour all up. That means I got a 120:1 dividend on my time. The "Dog Whisperer", Cesar Millan, recommends up to 4 hours of exercise a day for your dog. I don't have 4 hours, I can afford 1.5 at the most, and that's if I make up for lost time on the weekends. If I use my brain, I can reduce my total input to about 2 minutes to give Sabella 4 hours of meaningful activity. Not that I would want to reduce my time spent doing meaningful activities with my dogs to 2 minutes, but if I'm pushed for time it's nice to know that my dogs don't have to suffer.

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