How to Use Kong Toys to Help Enrich Your Dog's Life (And Improve Behavior)

Amen to this. I can’t count how many dogs behaviors I’ve fixed or reduced by this tactic. People always hate hearing it or don’t want to but it’s true.

Trust the process. My dog has a severe separation anxiety. Leaving him all alone? A horror story. Step by step, using Kong and leaving him alone from half an hour to hour or two hours we ended up here - where as soon as my dog sees I'm preparing Kong for him, he just cannot wait for me to get tf out of the house. He associated it quickly. Before, he couldn't be left alone for more than half an hour. Now.. the time doesn't matter at all. Up to six hours, no problem. But please, people remember, that this solves a lot of problems yes, but a good exercise for the dog, before leaving him alone, is even more important !<3

I don't even have a dog...what am I doing here. It was still interesting to watch. Good video editing.

Finally someone trains while speaking slowly and articulate

I am a dog trainer and this is precisely how I do it. It makes crate training a puppy MUCH easier. Conditioning a young dog to love the crate is essential in my opinion. Great video.

“Keep it simple, stupid” Still hurts every time....

Many good points, great info. I give my dog one for bed in her crate. We used kongs in the shelter to relieve stress in the kennel. Dogs in shelter are often too anxious to eat well, therefore, Kibble is given in generous amounts morning and evening. The kong would have been ignored if it just held more kibble. We stuffed ours with a small amount of kibble in the bottom, filled the rest with canned dog food and topped with peanut butter for the dogs, then froze them. Hard to imagine, but some dogs don't like peanut butter, we found the canned dog food was usually enough to interest them. Having some dry kibble in the most narrow part of the kong helps immensely with clean up, as the dried canned food in the bottom turns into cement when it dries. Having a larger hole in the larger kong will help dogs get started, but a bigger kong means that there is more that the dog cannot reach in bottom. Thanks for the video!

Jeez, I love the simplicity of this, and how you’ve made sense of everything. As a first time dog owner, I really appreciate the logical way that you explain everything. I’ll definitely be watching more. Thank you!

Will this work for my husband, just curious?

Seriously, Kong should give these instructions out with the toy. The best thing that my old dog loved was the Kong frisbee, and I loved the fact that it took him 5 years to destroy it!

Thank you for going viral with this video. Even if the dogs don't receive what they need in life from owners, it's great that you can reach 6m people like this man. Far out.

I am SO glad I found your channel! You have by far the best training videos out there - clear, concise and chock full of information. Riley is four months old and we have had him for about a month. I can't wait to start training him using your methods. Your puppy biting video is amazing! Thank you for everything.

Thanks for having captions for the deaf.

I stuff my pups kong with dog food pate, I give her it every time I leave her in her crate and I have to go out ! Now she is super excited whenever I get the kong and runs into her crate because she knows she’s going to get her treat haha

Omg I have been struggling so much to crate train my dog and I think you are the only one that used very basic tools, and I am so sure my dog is going to love the crate after follow your strategy. Thank you so much 😊

Thank you for this. Our 7 month old very active pup is recovering from her spay surgery. She’s used to being active all day and now she has to rest and recoup. Even with the meds to calm her, she is bored, restless, and chewing anything within her reach. I’m going to put all of her meals in her Kongs to keep her mind busy and happy while she’s on restricted activity. Thank you.

Great advice! Just tried this with my 3 month old puppy and had over 30 minutes of peaceful bliss as he chewed his little heart out, happy as anything and the constant little drops of food kept him interested. Brilliant canine ninja move

I am long overdue in thanking you for this video. My adult Jack Russell fell into a deep, destructive depression when her Lab/Shepherd brother died and started pretty much trashing my house whenever I went to work. Meanwhile, I rescued another dog (a few months later) who was underweight and needed to put on about a pound and a half. I filled a kong for each day of the week, modifying only in that I topped them with PB before freezing and gave one to each of the dogs before leaving for work. It has worked so well! Neither have separation anxiety and the formerly skinny guy is in perfect shape. Thanks!

So glad I found this video, just adopted a dog last week and she's wonderful just needs some training so I'm really hoping this helps her with settling down and being okay with being alone when I have to go to work. Feeling confident after watching this and will be heading to the pet store to pick up some kong toys today lol

OH MY GOD THIS JUST BLEW MY MIND. I'm a new puppy owner and wanted to train how to crate effectively and to use Kong. This is great!