Many owners , including myself , have long beenitching to get outdoors with their dogs and take advantage of systematically meliorate weather . finally , regular daily walks and trips to a dog park become wearisome , and you may desire to stress something novel that would challenge yourself as well as your andiron – physically and mentally .
For this podcast instalment I interviewedLiz Claflin , the Director of Operations atZoom Room , which is a franchised indoor dog education gym that offers traditional dog training stratum , advanced wienerwurst training classes and even doggy playgroups . Liz and her squad focus on the grandness of stay fresh our canine companions systematically active and stimulating them mentally and physically to forbid ennui , apathy , depression and other conditions that add up with the lack of activity .
During the sequence , Liz has put up a routine of utilitarian , actionable and originative crown and advice for pet owners on how to keep our pets more active and do it safely . We ’ve also touched upon some of the essential supplies you may have not explored or thought of .
Listen to the installment in the video above and regain the full podcast transcript below . For more , visit this episode ’s mail service on the officialTheory of Petswebsite .
How to Be More Active With Your Dog(podcast transcript)
Hello , everyone . Thanks for tuning in to another episode of hypothesis of Pets . As you know , we like to talk about all thing pet . And this hebdomad I was able to utter with Liz , from a company called Zoom Room . If you do n’t have a Zoom Room in your area , they are a marvellous , new , or fairly new , I reckon , franchise that is produce and it ’s actually anindoor dog training gym . They have locations across the country . Liz will speak a little piece more about where the locations are and how you’re able to find those . They do offer obedience and lightsomeness classes , as well as puppy education classes , thing like that . But they also offer playgroups and it ’s just a really great way for dogs to get out and about with their owner .
I mean , especially with spring … As you know if you follow my podcast , I live in Maine . So , we are coming out of very long , very boring winter with our blackguard . We do try and recover exciting ways to get out and about with them . Thankfully our dogs are younger , but when we ’ve had aged dog-iron in the past tense it ’s more difficult to get out in the coke and on the ice rink . So having somewhere indoor to go would be majuscule . And when I saw Zoom Room I thought what a wonderful enfranchisement that would be to have in our region . Unfortunately , we do n’t yet , but I am hoping to see one in the near future .
But I wanted to peach with Liz . She had some great crown about bringing your frankfurter out and about . There are n’t Zoom Room location all around the body politic , but they do have a few , and again , Liz will give you some information on that . But if you do n’t have a Zoom Room , or a cad green , an indoor dog park , something like that in you expanse , which most of us do n’t , there are some neat ways to get out with your pet , but still keep him good , keep yourself safe and have a really great time . So Liz gave us a lot of really swell pointer and tips that I can partake in with you today . So I will let you guys listen to the consultation and get that advice from her .
Interview with Liz Claflin
Samantha : Summer ’s on it ’s way and a lot of pet proprietor are lead off to get out and about with their dogs . I make out I ’m in Maine so it total a picayune later for us . But we are starting to get …
Liz : Oh . You ’re in Maine ?
Samantha : Yeah . We ’re just a small scrap northward of Bangor , central Maine .
Liz : OK . I ’m going to be in Islesboro in July . My parents live there all summer . My aunty and uncle hold up in Portland so we ’re yes …
Samantha : Oh Islesboro is beautiful .
Liz : Yes it ’s overnice . I fuck Maine . Not enough to live there .
Samantha : Yes I intend , I love it most of the class , January and February not so much fun . Things are starting to melt , we ’re starting to get outside . We jazz to be active with our blackguard , we do a peck of tramp and thing with them . So could you partake some crown with favored owners to verify that their dogs are good while they ’re walk out on the city street or possibly at the dog ballpark , wherever they might go ?
Liz : Yeah , there ’s a bunch of things that owner can do on dissimilar fronts to serve themselves and their heel have a more enjoyable clip out in , more often than not speaking public . Whether that be hiking in a Mungo Park or at an outdoor dining restaurant or at a dog Mungo Park or anything like that . There ’s a few thing . One is we hate retractable leash . I do n’t think that you may find oneself a trainer in the macrocosm who ’s a fan of retractable leashes . There ’s even rumor that some states are plan on banish them , California admit , which would be amazing from our point in time of view .
Samantha : I agree .
Liz : There ’s a big safety issue with retractable trey . There ’s injuries that occur to world frequently . Some of them pretty gnarly in terms of a rophy burn that can come in from that tercet . Yes , I ’ve seen some really dreadful scar tissue paper and …
Samantha : Yes , I was going to say I ’ve seen them actually cut through people ’s skin , a burn is the least of your worries .
Liz : Yes , I ’ve seen people needed shaping surgery and thing like that . You really ca n’t check anybody else ’s retractable leash or yours . And there ’s no way that your hands can move fast enough to retract it , lock away it , it just does n’t happen when there ’s a panicked variety of spot or a dog bolts or something , your psyche just ca n’t think fast enough . It ’s kind of like pushing the jailbreak on a railway car before an accident , you only have a certain amount of sentence and your Einstein ca n’t keep up with what ’s happening . So the other affair with retractable leashes is they be given to countenance the dog to control the walk rather than you controlling the walking . So they get tangled around fire hydrants and poles and President Bush and shrubs and they ’re ramble off towards other dogs and you ’re not note because you ’re talking to somebody .
So one of the first affair is do n’t use a retractable leash , it ’s not safe , it ’s not good for your education . Stick with a six foot or a four metrical unit leash or even what ’s telephone a traffic lead , specially in urban areas and metropolis surroundings where you really do n’t require your dog range at all and they ’re not sniffing grass or trees and things , they ’re walk in a city on the pavement traffic lead are much shorter , more designed for larger cad . They do n’t work well if your dog is all they down low on the ground . But for a larger breed of dog a traffic booster cable just gives you a overnice handle and enough like 18 inch to connect to the dog and then they ca n’t tramp anywhere . So that ’s a ripe tip for safety in special .
Another one is just recognizing your own Canis familiaris ’s inherent personality and traits . If you have a hound that has a really gamy prey repulse you need to be thrifty that they ’re not bolting and tap you over or dragging you down because they see a squirrel or bird or whatever , fill in the blank , whatever your andiron ’s mania is for chasing . You also want to check that that you ’ve grow a harness on your dog if they tend to be a big puller . There ’s a huge misconception — and a lot of it comes from sorry advertising — that any former harness will help control your domestic dog . And some of them clip on the back , on the top of the firedog ’s back and some time in the front on their chest . If the harness clips on the back , of the top of your hot dog back , I do n’t manage what it says on the package , unless it ’s a pain free-base product that ’s pinch terribly it it not move to control your hotdog ’s pulling . In fact , it ’s going to cause them to rear up on their hind legs more often . It turns them into a husky sleigh dog . It work a affair called an oppositional unconditioned reflex that they ca n’t control . It ’s a reflex that make them need to pull harder , because they sense the pressure .
So , prophylactic and also condition - Stephen Samuel Wise , a front clip harness is the only direction to go when it comes to harness
Samantha : That ’s splendid advice . I lie with a lot of click proprietor specially this time of twelvemonth , like I read summer is add up , spring is here , the great unwashed are getting out and about and they ’re looking for the products that they can use that are going to be the easiest . I get asked all the clock time about “ no - pull ” harnesses . People use that term “ no - pull . ” Well it is about the production you utilise , but it is also about the preparation . So I ’m glad that you touched on both of those , that ’s important .
Liz : on the button . You ’ve got to fuse it . At Zoom Room we do all positivistic reinforcement based weenie training . So , of course , we really frown uponprong collarsand especially choke chains . Choke Ernst Boris Chain do n’t have any mechanism by which to stop snuff it your dog . So if your dog is really wrapped on get out towards something , another dog , a squirrel , whatever , there is nothing in that gimmick to stop it from choke your dog . So it ’s really cutting off air supply , it ’s very detrimental to the trachea and esophagus . I have ordinarily see in dog who use chock chains in especial , petechial hemorrhaging , which is little teeny bust blood vessels in the eye . When you pull down the eyes , you see that . The other place you see that in our world is — it ’s a little macabre — but in strangle victims . That ’s where you see it . It ’s so much pressure that it ’s explode blood vessels . You see it in dogs who apply choke chains . You see it really regularly . And their owners , they ’re not have in mind to do it , not malicious masses , they have no idea it ’s happening .
So , yeah , the worst of the worst , when it comes to safety for your dog is a straight up choke chain , there ’s just nothing to stop over it from choking . So in terms of what ’s the regretful , that ’s the spoiled , for the health of your frankfurter . Prong collar we just do n’t like because they ’re pain free-base and we strongly believe that there are just ways to operate your blackguard that do n’t include pain , that go just as well , such as a front lead harness , or a nose leash , like a gentle lead …
Samantha : Yeah , the blue jumper lead .
Liz : Yep . They work , that ’s like the Cadillac of ascendance with your dog . But like you said , you ’ve got to supply the training and every firearm of equipment can battle by your wiener , your dog can be intelligent enough to visualize out — oh , well if I just walk sideways , you know , or if I do this …
Samantha : For certain .
Liz : Yeah , you’re able to rely on them to help your dog see , and to assist give you peace treaty of brain and comfort so your arms are n’t getting ripped off . But you have to add the training component in as well .
Samantha : dead and we ’re seeing this common trend with establishments being pet - friendly . So some the great unwashed are occupy their dogs shopping , out to restaurants , things like that . Do you have some tips for pet owner that maybe want to take their dogs out ? And where could they find establishments that are darling - friendly in their area ?
Liz : Yeah , so what owners want , most possessor , when we speak to owners , most of the clock time , when we say , “ What do you want out of the relationship with your dog ? ” One of the top answers is — we want to be able to bring our dog to to dog - friendly places . But you know , that is a exclusive right , not a right . So if your Canis familiaris is not emotionally static , not only might you be interrupt other hoi polloi , shoppers , eating house patrons , your own peace treaty of psyche but you might be adding damage to your frank emotionally . So we always say people , if your dog is a barker , whether they skin because it ’s in their nature , it ’s in their deoxyribonucleic acid , they ’re just more of a barking type strain , or whether it ’s because they are afraid of something and they bark out of concern or whether they ’re demand barkers and they skin at you for attention — they do n’t belong in dog friendly places until that has been educate and addressed , which is achievable . That is all realizable . But you ca n’t … Just because you need your dog in Nordstrom ’s — which is a very wiener well-disposed position — does n’t mean that your dog should be in Nordstrom ’s , if your dog is barking . Like , that ’s just not appropriate for outside dining place or thing like that . Barking is a common one , it ’s also very easily check .
If your dog has fear issues , if your firedog is really afraid of other dogs and lean to react on the leash , or is really afraid of men or tacky noises , you have to be sore . You have to be your dog ’s advocate . And you have to be sensitive to those things and accredit that your want and penury may not at all be in line with your dog ’s want and demand . Either piece of work on those in a preparation environment or respect that in your cad . If you have an eight class previous dog who ’s petrified of other dogs , you may and should work on that . But you ’re not depart to Nordstrom ’s the right way now . You have an eight year old dog who ’s had that in their life as a habit or as an aroused trouble for eight years , it ’s not going to go off over night , it ’s going to take metre .
So those things are important to recognize . Nuisance behavior versus sort of emotional behaviors , they can all be plow and trained but until that time , you ’re really not doing your dog any favors by taking them to places like that . But assuming that your dog is pretty stable and emotionally secure and has basic training and all of that , they ’re not afraid of other dogs , or strange people or strange sounds or strange textures or any of that , then the best way to bump dog friendly places , there ’s some great websites — bringFido.com is one of the best . That ’s in all likelihood the most popular . Then some state have very specific to their state . A society that has get up a site to cover dog friendly position in your body politic , like in California we have dogtracker.com which is amazing . But “ make for Fido , ” covers anything .
The other matter you could do is search on Yelp . A mess of masses do n’t clear that you’re able to go into Yelp ’s hunting field and say “ Bestdog friendly restaurant”or “ dog well-disposed restaurant ” and they will also pull up and highlight in the review , where people have said like — oh this is a great piazza to take your click , or this is not a good situation to take your weenie .
Samantha : Ah fantastic .
Liz : Yes , so you may find some listing on Yelp that way . you may also just do a general Google lookup . Or if in doubtfulness just research for your area . You know if you live in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania just do a universal dog favorable Pittsburgh Pennsylvania see what comes up or dog favorable eating place or parks . you’re able to go to individual websites if you know that there ’s a park that you want to go to and you desire to know if your dog can be off rope in that parkland or even be in that park , then you’re able to go directly to the site of course as well or you know last ditch , I know with modern times we do n’t like to do this but you’re able to beak up the phone and call the place . Especially if you desire to get more nuance . If you sleep with that a restaurant has a blackguard friendly patio but you need to know if you have a Newfoundland or a Mastiff or a very , very with child breed of wiener and you kind of want to get a feel for well yeah , they have a dog well-disposed terrace but is it going to equip my frank or are we perish to have distance , is my dog go to be banging into other people chair ? Then it ’s full to call the restaurant and ask them for specifics .
Samantha : Yes , I call up the particular are important in not necessarily most of the time if it ’s a public place like a eatery or a shopping gist your dog has to be on a ternion but even outdoor place a lot of time mass go and expect that they can just countenance their frank pass around and have a great clip and still you have to have a deuce-ace or some places where you know vice versa where you think you maybe have to keep your Canis familiaris on a leash , you might be able to take to the woods free and get a plot of fetch or something in .
Liz : Yes , and it ’s important to have sex when you ’re going to a property that allows for off rope frank and ordinarily these are hiking park , almost every national woods in our country is off leash dog favorable , almost , interior parking area are all fairly much not dog friendly . And certainly not off rope dog well-disposed but very not dog friendly to start with . So if you ’re looking at braggart picture type poppycock like interior parks , national wood , camping misstep . You really have to pay up care to who allows what . But as a general normal interior parks are not dog well-disposed , home forest are . But regionally when you ’re look at state of matter parks or county parks and things , even if they ’re off leash dog friendly , you do need to know — but what are the rules ? They ’ll say you have to gestate a six base leash with you at all times so you’re able to hook your dog up if you need to . They may have rules like your click must be under voice control at all clip and really listen to your voice . So if you recognize that your wiener is infamous for not coming when scream , then you should probably brush up on your breeding , so that your dog does not disturb others , does not get in a dog competitiveness with some dog who is not dog friendly , does n’t chase off after a deer or a squirrel or whatever and disappear and now they ’re recede .
So , even if it ’s off leash wiener friendly , really should pay off attention to the specific rules they have about that off leash privilege and then reckon out if you postulate to do any extra training and brush up on some things . Whether it be professional grooming or just some dog grooming still are perishable , your dog learned them as a puppy — come when called is the most famous and now as a two year old or a four yr old they ’re not doing it any more . They do n’t require to come when called , it ’s not fun for them , you ’re deflower their good clip . So sweep up at domicile as well . Just ensure that you could fall out those rules . And if your dog is has a really high prey drive and loves to chase animal and you ’re going to a park with a lot of wildlife , keep your dog on a leash . That ’s not fair to the wildlife .
Samantha : Absolutely . So speaking of leashes and harness and that form of stuff . What sort of supplies do you commend that favourite owners absolutely have on hand when they ’re taking their dog out and about to public position ?
Liz : Yes . So in addition to front clip harness if your dog has a tendency to pull . One of my all time favourite products and every Zoom Room sell them , they ’re fantastic , it ’s a smaller party , it ’s called Sadie ’s Pet Products and Sadie ’s leash in special is like a miracle . It is the effective affair if you love to take your dog to places . It ’s called the Sadie ’s 8 in 1 Safety Leash . But it is kind of like a regular nylon triad , comes in various tiny breadth like a half an inch width for small frank up through an inch for larger click . They ’re all six feet farsighted . Standard length , but it ’s two pieces of nylon and they ’re stitched together at interval all the way up the leash . So you really have a handle like every six inches , I think it is . What that mean is that in gain to being capable to go from having a six base leash to a one foundation leash if you ask to by grab the lower down on the terzetto . It also have in mind that you may tether your hotdog at a eatery or an out-of-door bar or wherever you need to tether you chase to your chair or tabular array or something like that . But you do n’t have to tether at the six foot mark .
So with a even six foot leash or even a four pes leash you loop the grip around the leg of the chair , you loop the leash through and attach it to your hound and they have the full duration of the three , minus like three inches . With the Sadie ’s leash you may tether through the cringle at any peak down the leash . So you may say , we ’re in a restaurant , I need my dog to stay really really close to me , in fact , I require them to be able to sit down up and pose down and that ’s about it . I do n’t want them roaming , looking for food for thought on the ground . And so you may loop your leash through and tether it to your chair or the ramification of your board at the down in the mouth fleck of the leash and they only have like a ft of leash or whatever it is that you put it at .
So it ’s like you could change the options on where you could tether your pawl . Which is marvellous for eatery and tighter spaces . If you are lucky enough to hold up in an area like Austin , Texas where they have outside restaurants and bars that are actually inside detent parks , then you might say — OK , my dog ’s done playing , I need them to remain really close to me . I do n’t want them meeting other dog right now , we ’re done . So you could sort of take the size of it of leash that you need your dog to have , so that they ’re not vagabond away from you , rag other guest , so that ’s groovy .
Generally talk for equipment , you always need to ensure you have urine or memory access to water supply , so we always advocate that people gestate some type of receptacle for your dog to drink out of , obviously do n’t need to share your drinking watercraft with your dog . There are some great product out there — H20 For Canine makes a great water bottleful that the lid for it really extends down the length of bottleful and it ’s like a bowling ball for your dog . So you take the lid off and it turns into the trough , like a hard charge plate bowl . And they come in two sizes for little hound versus big dog-iron . Ollie Dog is smaller , tremendous , philanthropic , wondrous company that makes not bad products and they make an Ollie Bottle that is actually designed so that you could really share with your wienerwurst . You have one water system bottle and it has an attachment on it that acts as the stadium for your dog and then you could also drink out of it as well and keep it really separate .
Samantha : Oh , nerveless .
Liz : So if you wanted to partake , you could . Not so true with the H20 For Canine nursing bottle because the palpebra is the drinking bowlful for your dog , so that would pollute your water , but with the Ollie Bottle , you could really portion out the water . There ’s of course lots of different collapsible atomic number 14 bowls . Ollie also spend a penny a product called “ The Sipper ” that ’s sort of a fold bowl that give up , they occur in cute purpose . So something like that , if you ’re just function to a restaurant , totally fine to ask the restaurant to bring — if it ’s dog friendly they plausibly already do this anyway — but to ask them for a stadium . Something like that . But if you do n’t want to share , if you ’re concerned about illnesses and disease being transferred through water bowl from different dogs drinking , because they ’re probably not cleaning them as regularly as you might at home , then bring your own bowl so you do n’t have to worry cross contamination or anything like that .
We also advocate , especially for restaurants , dogs tend to feel secure and more positive when they are lying on some form of flaccid airfoil . It ’s one of those sorting of weird , why do they all seem to do that but , they do . So if you have a roll up travel matting that you could bring in for your dog and put down on the earth , they run to even without any training they run to stick to that mat a small more . So there ’s companionship forebode Mutt Mats out of I believe they ’re in Delaware , if I think back correctly . Mutt Mats makes a really easy to carry roll up so it ’s like a yoga mat but it ’s made out of gentle fabric …
Samantha : Oh coolheaded .
Liz : — and extremely washable , they come in a million colors . you’re able to have the top be one color and the bottom be another semblance , but not a seam . It ’s just a matting with some very sparse filling in it just to … Very thin . Those are easy and howling for carrying around and having a place to put down for your dog , something like that . Then if you have the grooming , then you may groom your blackguard to stay on the lusterlessness and to consider it like this sort of magic rug that they abide on and they want to be on it . So that ’s another really in force thing to bestow , peculiarly for a eating house where you hump you ’re going to be sitting for a while and you ask your hound to stick put . So a mat and then immix the mat if you may with training and you ’ll have a dog that really just place down and just is really calm and well behaved at a restaurant , not getting up all the time .
So those are some slap-up things . H2O of course , a mat if you are operate to be in a restaurant in fussy , the appropriate leash and harness or collar . And then also if you are going to be gone for a while obviously you need things like food . Oh , also at a eatery if you are concerned that your wiener might get bored or not have the attention span so to speak to sit still for a farsighted menstruum of meter like that , bring some kind of plug for them , a bully steak , something long go that they can masticate on for a while . Just be aware that the other dogs in the eating place might be jealous . So give aid if there ’s a frank off ternion . That ’s terrible . Hopefully the eating house does n’t allow that . But if other dogs are straining , pulling , sort of curious about your wiener ’s delicious smelly object that is just something to be aware of . But generally speaking if you bring some kind of roughneck spliff or chew of some sort that ’s longer durable , as soon as you start to note your dog get antsy or bore give it to them and give them something to do for the next 10 , 20 , 30 minutes , whatever it is .
Samantha : Yeah that ’s a great for sure . So some favorite parents might be looking for something else to do inside with their dog and especially if the atmospheric condition ’s not so great , peradventure through the winter if you live somewhere like that or on a rainy daytime . Can you distinguish us a little bit about Zoom Room and what it ’s all about ?
Liz : Sure , so Zoom Room is an indoordog training facilityand we narrow down in all unlike sort of education and all of it is geared towards the medium pet proprietor . What I imply by that is we do n’t compete . Even though we do matter that traditionally are militant heel sports , we do n’t compete in them . contest sports can be very intimidating for a lot of click owners , and they ’re not interested in doing that . The prison term , the money , all of that . They just need playfulness things to do with their dog . So we took a lot of really sort of specialised dog breeding programs and recreated them into a format that is applicable for all click regardless of age , breed , size and noncompetitive to make them very strong and welcoming .
So for training we do all of the standards like obedience training all the room up through therapy pawl training . Then we one of our most democratic programme is agility . And we have four levels of legerity , so you’re able to rest busy for a very long time with your dog doing agility . It ’s fantastic strong-arm physical exercise for your dog . It ’s also really skillful low impact strong-arm bodily process for mankind , as well . We make it so that with our legerity class all of our equipment is amply adjustable , and so we have puppy agility , we can make it very very safe for their grow joints and finger cymbals . Then we can also have heavy frankfurter doing it too .
So four levels of legerity training . We have a league for people when they end that and want to get sort of favorable militant . We have a favorable conference that we do . We also then do things like if you have a shy dog , who ’s afraid of their own shadow and afraid of the washing car dissonance and loud traffic or anything like that , we have a shy firedog programme . It ’s very transformative for shy dogs , to help them come out of their shell and get over those fear and to really help the proprietor figure out how to help them through that process . We have a program called Calm Down for very very hyperactive dogs that no matter how much utilization they seem to get , it ’s not enough . They ’re still like a bull in a china shop . They have impulse ascendency issue , and often times they ’re like unseasoned youthful pit bulls , young labs , puerile dog , stripling , high high energy dog-iron , Malinois , German Shepherds , thing like that .
We also do scent work which is also usually calledcanine nose workand this is based on material work dogs . This is my personal preferred platform of them all and my dog adore doing scent oeuvre and I bang teaching scent workplace to people and their dog . So it ’s based on bail bond sniffing , drug sniffing , real working dog , the same sort of curriculum . And then we ’ve made it reachable for all dogs . It ’s the case of shop where it ’s all brain - melody . There ’s nothing forcible going on at all , we ’re working your dogs , we ’re watch their gears turn in their brains , which is wonderful , most dogs they may get plenty of physical exercise , but not a lot of genial stimulation . So this is a not bad direction to stimulate their brainpower . marvellous for senior blackguard , wonderful for hyper - active dogs , really good for any wienerwurst .
That is something to your point of long wintertime , rainy days , you could do it at home and it ’s so much fun . And it ’s not like , people are are like — oh , is that like where you just obliterate a treat , and you have your dog encounter it ? No . Way more complicated than that . They have to get a line specific scents . We start with Birch Oil , and they have to get word how to recognize Birch . That scent from every other scent . And they have to empathise that when they find it , a payoff add up their path . And a lot of heel learn how to do an alert , like a sit , or something , or a bark , to narrate you — it ’s here , it ’s here , I get it . you’re able to make it scent study very , very complicated , and so we have two levels of fragrance and then we have olfactory property classes for advanced scent dogs as well .
We also do Urban Herding . which a tidy sum of people have not heard of . It ’s also called Tribal . It ’s a German hobby , or German mutant that recently come over the pool , into America . It ’s probably the newest Canis familiaris summercater in our country . You do n’t see a lot of competitive Urban Herding yet . And Urban Herding was designed for dogs that survive in major urban environments , city dwelling click , who have herding instinct and they have no sheep , because the live in the city , there ’s nothing to herd . So it was originally designed for those dogs . So instead of herding sheep they see how to yoga ball .
Liz : Which is so much fun . It ’s awesome to find out them crowd them . They herd them through goals . And it ’s based on actual herding . So you as the animal trainer will learn herding commands — come by , away to me , go out , different commands . A lot of distance based encyclopaedism which is really challenging for your dog , they ’re usually used to doing , sit , stay , down , aright next to you . This is like away from you . They have to find out how to press those balls on command . We like to utilise white yoga bollock , paint sheep ’s faces on them . And they have to ascertain how to push them on bidding . But then also how to push them in specific directions . So very challenging , very sport . Awesome , awesome activity . A lot of dogs will go home and dear press yoga balls around their back M . So that ’s another really honest one for encephalon strain and determine new things .
So that ’s the kind of stuff that we do at Zoom Room . A lot of these thing can be transferred to home . nimbleness is a little harder , ca n’t lay up an agility course inside your house , but scent piece of work and even to some extent reckon on the set up of your house , urban herding can be done indoors as well . So those are really good thing to do in the wintertime or during spoilt atmospheric condition .
Tricks , that ’s another one . Did n’t even mentiontricks . We have two dissimilar levels of tricks form that we do . And tricks are another really fun one . blackguard be given to love watch tricks so much because they see the joy in everybody ’s faces around them . That is in reality a really fun thing to do at habitation on a rainy day , just scat your detent through tricks that they do it how to do and assay to teach them new illusion . They tend to really enjoy that .
Samantha : So coming from someone who , we have a chocolate lab who will be three in June and then we have a little two yr onetime Beagle Cocker Spaniel mix , so meddling , very fussy domestic dog . Very intelligent dogs , they ’re both hunting breed , very scent orient and lots of vim in our theatre . So , I ’m jealous because we do n’t have a Zoom Room close to us .
Liz : I sleep with .
Samantha : But how would preferred owners , if somebody ’s listen and they ’re thinking — is there a Zoom Room near me ? How do they find you Guy ?
Liz : Yes , so if they go to our website , zoomroom.com , one of the very first thing they ’ll see is finding a location , so they can see if they have one near them . We ’re a uprise dealership . We have nine locations the right way now , but we ’re look to arise pretty significantly in the next duet of class . The other thing is that it ’s a franchise . So if someone is like , oh my gosh , I really wish we had a Zoom Room . Well go ahead and spread out one . Contact me and have ’s . . . Portland in Maine would be an amazing place for us , for certain . For sure .
Samantha : Like you were saying , the foresighted winter months we in reality … Sadie , our hot chocolate lab , she loves olfactory organ work . Any kind of aroma piece of work . And we started with the hiding of the treats because she ’s extremely nutrient motivate and now we ’ve worked up to crucial oil colour and we do that at home . Thankfully we hold out in the land and we do have a big arena for them to habituate in the summertime , but we get a little stir screwball in the winter around here . So I ’m always take care for things to do and by all odds aroma employment has been a godsend for us in the wintertime sentence . It has kept them from chewing through the wall .
Liz : Yes , it really does and it ’s enough of a brain striving on them that it terminate up making them a minuscule act tired .
Samantha : Yeah .
Liz : There is a lot you may do with your dog to make them sort of tired that does n’t involve forcible bodily process . We did n’t talk about puzzle toys , but puzzle toy , puzzle feeders are phenomenal boredom busters for dogs , whether it ’s long winters , or just a dim-witted rainy day , or an possessor with an injury and they ca n’t get out and take the air . .or a frankfurter with an harm and they ’re not allowed out to walk , both my dog and I are spite right now
Samantha : Oh no .
Liz : He ’s at long last off his bedrest , but I ’m on mine for another mates weeks so , it ’s been trying . I ca n’t walk him , he ca n’t walk anyway and so we ’ve been relying a lot on puzzle feeders . He ’s eating his evening meal out of different type of teaser , and there ’s a million of them on the market that are phenomenal and wonderful . We urge them for all dogs .
Samantha : Absolutely .
Liz : Yeah dogs in the natural state do n’t ever get a sports stadium of food put in front of them . So it ’s actually a part of their natural deoxyribonucleic acid to care to forge and scrounge for food . Most masses see this in their dogs all the time , out for walks and they ’re dive bombing for that smeared McDonald ’s on the pavement , chicken bone or something correct ? They have it away to scavenge , they wish to do it . So grant them puzzle feeders that make them puzzle out for their solid food is not cruel or mean or anything like that , it ’s actually pleasurable for that . You ’ll see dogs who do puzzle feeders , their tails are wagging the whole time , they just screw it .
So that ’s another great direction to do ennui busting , if you ca n’t get your dog out for one intellect or another , is to invest in some , and they are not expensive , most of them , it ’s to invest into something like a kibble - nibble or a sorcerous mushroom or a green feeder or a fun birdfeeder . These are all product that some of them slow down your andiron ’s feeding and make it a puzzler , but your frankfurter is stationary the entire time . Others in reality wish the kibble nibble require that your frankfurter roll it around all over the place . So they do get a petty bit of a base on balls in , while they are roll that toy around . So I draw a blank incisively , one of the company out there , I think it was the makers of kibble nibble had said at some point in metre that if it takes your dog 30 arcminute to eat out of a kibble nibble that ’s tantamount to a 20 minute base on balls . I do n’t conceive there is any scientific base for that , but I do have it off that my dog is going around and around and around our first floor of our house for the 20 minutes or so it takes him to eat out of the kibble nibble , so it does bring home the bacon a small bite of exercise as well .
Samantha : Fantastic . That ’s a enceinte point , we do use puzzler eater with our dogs , like I said here in Maine , winter get long , so it ’s great . I am look forrard to checking out Zoom Room and seeing how it expands . It ’s exciting that you guy cable are looking to rise , so that ’s great .
Liz : Yeah , we would love to be everywhere . We care to be the epicenter of the hot dog - loving community for every office that we ’re turn up , do societal events and have fun and make that environment and create that common sense of community that heel owners do it .
Samantha : Yeah , utterly . Everywhere we go you meet somebody that has a dog and wants to talk about their click and you require to talk about your andiron and it ’s emphatically a community , it ’s always the easiest icebreaker . That ’s what I always tell everybody , that whenever I ’m in a young post , whether it ’s a business meeting or we ’re just out to a eating house and sitting up at the bar with a bunch of other people that you do n’t know , it ’s the leisurely icebreaker is to just talk about your dogs , so it ’s bang-up . I love the idea , the construct of Zoom Room , it ’s a heavy way for animate being to bond with their possessor , but it ’s also a with child way for possessor and animal to come together and be social and I just think it ’s a fantastic idea , so I ’m look forward to see it grow .
Liz : Yeah , hopefully we ’ll get one up in Bangor , Maine at some point .
Samantha : Yeah , that would be so awesome . If anybody ’s listening and you live in this sphere and you want to go in on a enfranchisement , just get me know .
Liz : Yeah , that ’s our goal , is to have one everywhere because hot dog love it , owners screw it . It ’s such a social , wonderful matter to do and it ’s so honest for the dog so that they ’re not unemployed and overweight like so many dogs in our country are .
Samantha : utterly , it ’s an epidemic .
Liz : It is . It ’s a problem .
Samantha : I want to thank Liz again and the Zoom Room squad , that was a wonderful consultation . I learned a band from her and I trust that you guys did as well . I desire you enjoyed her interview and if you live near a Zoom Room , ensure that out .
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