Last week we posted about how to throw an Easter egg hunt for your dog on Victoria Stilwell’s Positively. Well, on Easter Sunday we decided to try it out with the fluffies.
I had absolutely no idea how this was going to go. We planned on doing the hunt outside, but the weather was not conducive for being outdoors. Mauja and Atka have never done any nose work and Atka doesn’t like to put in effort for treats. Seriously. I can barely get him to enjoy a treat out of a Kong. Lazy pants. Nick and I let them watch us put some smelly treats in the eggs, had them sniff the stuffed eggs, and then we put them in a stay while we placed the eggs.
It was time for the moment of truth. We gave them the release and waited to see how they would respond. Not surprisingly, Atka didn’t even get up. Mauja got up, but wasn’t quite sure what to do. Nick helped her find her first egg and then she did what she always does with her finds; walked to the back door. She wanted to take her treat outside to enjoy it!
After we convinced her to open the egg inside, the game clicked for her. She started searching around the house for eggs, easily finding them and cracking them open to enjoy the treats. Atka had no interest in participating and continued to relax on the floor. After Mauja found her third egg, we convinced Atka to get up. He meandered over to us with an “I’m only doing this to please you” expression. But then, this happened.
He opened his first egg! After that he was a bit more interested in participating and Mauja was really getting into it. With her nose sniffing the air, she quickly made it from egg to egg. She’d immediately crack the egg and move on, while Atka would find an egg and lie down to enjoy it. Much less efficient method 😉
Ready for picture overload? And…. go!
I really debated doing the egg hunt because I didn’t know if Mauja and Atka would get into it. I’m so glad we did it and it’s definitely going to become an Easter tradition! I’ve said before that I wished we had nose work in our area because I thought Mauja would enjoy it. Now I know I’m right!
Did you do an egg hunt with your dog?
Oh my goodness I love the video! Despite being in the hospital this weekend, I got out of bed yesterday morning to do an indoor hunt with Khloee and Wynston. Although it took all of my energy, it was completely worth it. Khloee even went after Wynston’s eggs in his basket because she’s too smart for the rest of us…
I’m glad you were able to enjoy some of the festitivites and I hope you’re on the mend!
LOL at Atka being a total lazy pants. This looks like fun though, and they both seem to be enjoying it 🙂
Such a lazy pants. But a cute lazy pants 😉
I love it! I’m glad they both enjoyed it! I’m thinking of doing another Easter Egg Hunt inside. Luna loves them.
I want to do these year-round now 😉
What fun! I should have done this with ours! We do some nose work games with Luke and Cricket and they love it. Sheba never liked the boxes I used for that, so she might have liked this better. This crew doesn’t share well though so sometimes I have to do things like this individually…maybe next year I’ll give it a try.
You should defintely try! Each pup could have their own room to hunt for eggs 🙂
wow, looks like they had a ton of fun!! Happy Easter!
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They did! Happy Easter to our husky pals!
This is so cute! It looks like you guys had a great Easter! We tried a little bit of an Easter egg hunt, but the kitties weren’t too into it. They found the eggs and went on to play with other toys.
Haha well at least they know what makes them happy!
This is so cute and love the video. We did the same thing and I posted a video on IG. You are such a great dog mom and it shows!
I’ll have to head over and check out the video! Thanks for the kind words – that really brightened my gloomy Monday 🙂