Benefits of Scent Work

Here at APS, we try to enrich the lives of the animals in our care as much as possible. Enrichment stimulates their minds and encourages them to engage in natural behaviors. Scent enrichment is a great way to provide enrichment for dogs’ all-important sense – smell! We all know that dogs have great noses and love to sniff, so we’re giving them something new and interesting to smell. We hand out non-toxic cardboard and paper towels with scents on them that dogs love: things like fox, pheasant, quail, and more. The dogs can sniff and rip up this item to their hearts’ content. We switch up the scents frequently, and the dogs love it!