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Does Your Dog Play with His Food?
Episode 10
Thursday, 15 July, 2021

Most of us have heard the admonition “Stop playing with your food!” at some point during our childhoods. Although it is rather rare to hear a dog version of this rebuke, there is a version of playing with food that may be acceptable or even possibly beneficial for dogs! A group of researchers studied this and asked "Are food delivery toys a better approach to feeding our dogs than is the traditional bowl-feeding approach?". Listen to this episode to find out what they learned!