My terrier is needing surgery on his face. He has lived his whole life chasing toys, playing hard, investigating the yard/city/beach etc.
That will need to be paused for a week while his eye heals and he wears a cone.
He is a terrible patient. Terrible. Not the kind of guy to let anyone handle him if he isn’t instigating it.
He is going to lose his favorite activities of fetch and sticking his head into bushes and his toy basket to rummage. This will last at least 5 days, depending on how things go w the surgery.
I am thinking of scent games I could set up in the house to help bridge this gap and would love suggestions. He’s 15 and he has seen a lot of the country but we’ve never done play with him that wasnt chase type so I’m not sure how that would work. Majority of his play is fetch/chase and super long walks in our area but I want to be able to give him something new and fun if he can’t do an activity that will readily bust his eye back open. (And can scent games work with a cone?)
I will definitely ask the clinic of course but wanted to come in with some ideas before the appointment next week.
Just want to make his weird quarantine engaging and seem less like a punishment for him.
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