Part of Puppy Culture is getting the puppies to think and learn how to problem solve. Simple challenges such as putting a small hump or box between the puppies and their dinner and letting them work out how to get over it, or as I tried today placing a puppy pen between the puppy and their dinner and letting them work out that they have to go around it not through it to get to the food.
Some of the pups found this challenging and some of them found it really simple however watching back the videos it seems that the ones that struggled were also having to deal with the other puppies being quite noisy, they have such limited attention spans at this point that they struggled with this distraction. It's hard to find a space in Caroles house that has a wipe clean floor but is out of ear shot from the other puppies so we will try this again at some point at my house and work on other things at Caroles house.
Below are the videos from today, I've cut out most of the bits where they go wandering off otherwise the videos would be quite long! You'll notice that you don't actually see Beige finish this challenge, about a minute in to him working on this Orange decided to throw a strop about the fact that he couldn't get out of the outhouse and when Orange throws a strop he screams and screams. It freaked Beige out a bit so we stopped and had a break but my camera ran out of battery before Beige succeeded. Rest assured he did it, it just took a while :)
Watch for Black pouncing at 1.50min, utterly adorable!
Some of the pups found this challenging and some of them found it really simple however watching back the videos it seems that the ones that struggled were also having to deal with the other puppies being quite noisy, they have such limited attention spans at this point that they struggled with this distraction. It's hard to find a space in Caroles house that has a wipe clean floor but is out of ear shot from the other puppies so we will try this again at some point at my house and work on other things at Caroles house.
Below are the videos from today, I've cut out most of the bits where they go wandering off otherwise the videos would be quite long! You'll notice that you don't actually see Beige finish this challenge, about a minute in to him working on this Orange decided to throw a strop about the fact that he couldn't get out of the outhouse and when Orange throws a strop he screams and screams. It freaked Beige out a bit so we stopped and had a break but my camera ran out of battery before Beige succeeded. Rest assured he did it, it just took a while :)
Watch for Black pouncing at 1.50min, utterly adorable!