Are you adding enrichment activities to your services… or actually building a business where your whole team understands enrichment?
Could there be dozens of opportunities inside your facility to create calmer, happier and more stimulating experiences for the dogs in your care?
And what happens when your staff finally understand the why behind enrichment, rather than simply being told what activities to do?
In this episode, we're just THREE DAYS away from the 2026 Pet Care Enrichment Summit, so I'm giving you another sneak peek at some of the incredible training we've got coming your way.
First, you'll hear from DDSA member Alex Varney, who'll be speaking at this year's summit about something slightly different: creating enriching experiences for your employees. Alex shares a brilliantly simple way she combines positive reinforcement, team education, core values and a bag full of cheap, silly prizes to make learning more engaging for her staff.
Then we go behind the scenes with Enrich U Dean Tim Jackson, who recently spent two days at Royvon Dog Training carrying out an enrichment audit, training the team and helping them identify ways to weave more enrichment into the services they already provide. And this is where enrichment starts to become much bigger than a lick mat, snuffle mat or occasional activity.
It becomes part of the culture of the business.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why Enrichment Starts With Your Team – How getting staff excited, educated and involved makes it far easier to improve the experience you provide for the dogs.
- How to Conduct an Enrichment Audit – Why walking through your facility with fresh eyes can uncover hidden opportunities to improve your environment and services.
- The Importance of Understanding the "Why" – How teaching the principles behind enrichment creates better decision-making than simply handing staff a list of activities.
- How to Enrich the Employee Experience – Alex Varney's simple positive-reinforcement approach to making staff training, core values and education more fun.
- How to "Disnify" an Existing Service – Why enrichment doesn't always require completely reinventing what you do; sometimes it's about fine-tuning an already great service and making the experience even better.
You'll also hear directly from the Royvon team about what they learned from Tim's visit, including the five pillars of enrichment, scent, creating calmer environments and how the training reignited their enthusiasm for putting enrichment into practice.
The 2026 Pet Care Enrichment Summit starts in just THREE DAYS, with speakers from dog training, daycare, scent work, pet sitting and the zoo world all sharing their expertise.
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