#limaplay

[furrypawsitive]

Back in August/September of 2020, I attended Shelter Playgroup Alliance workshop on shelter enrichment, play as enrichment, canine body language (play or non-play), and how to manage play. The first workshop of this year is happening today (or tomorrow, depending where you are). . Workshop 1: Saturday, January 9, 2021 ▶ 1PM-6PM PST Sunday, January 10, 2021 ▶ 4AM-9AM WIB . Workshop 2: Saturday, January 10, 2021 ▶ 1PM-6PM PST Sunday, January 11, 2021 ▶ 4AM-9AM WIB . Check out @shelterplaygroupalliance Facebook for full details and the link to join. This event is free. Get your notebook and brain ready! . What I learned from the last workshop series: 🔹Recommend this series not only for playgroups in shelter settings, but also for understanding of canine body language and canine interactions to ensure safety, positive experience, and fun enrichment. 🔹Not all dogs are good candidates for playgroup. 🔹Playgroup is not recommended as a behavior assessment, but as part of enrichment. 🔹Just like when we ask ourselves when making enrichment (is it enriching or teasing?), we should ask ourselves a similar thing when it comes to play. Is it enjoyable or frustrating overall? How do you think the consequences of this interaction will shape each dog's behavior in future interactions? 🔹PLAY should be enjoyable for both, or all for more than 2 dogs, parties involved. If only some dogs enjoy it and others don't, it's not a fair or safe interaction. 🔹Often, to the untrained eyes, stressful interactions can be seen (or dismissed) as play. That's why we keep learning! 🔹Supervision 👀👓 🌠🌠If you take your dogs to dog parks, the interdog play section is very valuable.🌠🌠 . . #shelterdogs #animalshelter #dogbodylanguage #shelterenrichment #rewardbasedtraining #dogtraining #humanedogtraining #positivereinforcement #shelterplaygroupalliance #LIMAplay https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ0dRNeh-T3/?igshid=ohz53ztrilf5