
Available now: Dog at Heart
Available July and August
Dig into what emotions feel like for dogs, which emotions dogs do and don’t experience, how to tell what your dog is feeling, and how to use all this info to help your dog thrive!
Take a look inside our Dog at Heart kit
- Dogby Quiet Mat: Work with your dog to strengthen their emotional regulation and help them stay calm in exciting, stressful, or stimulating situations.
- Messy Mutts Puzzle Bowl Mat: Encourage self soothing and reduce boredom-based naughtiness with this lick mat.
- Wag and Bark Snuffle Ball: This snack-sized food puzzle is a great tool to help your dog transition from excited to calm after walks, games, and greetings.
- Walking Paws Boutique Treat Pouch: Work to change your dog’s emotional responses on walks to make them more fun and less stressful for both of you.
- Doggie Language by Lili Chin: Learn the nuances of interpreting dog body language and behavior to increase your fluency in speaking “dog.”
- Polka Dog Bakery Chicken Little Treats: These low calorie, shelf-stable treats are great to have on hand as you and your dog work on emotional regulation skills.
The exact items in your Discovery Kits may vary slightly in color or style.
Complete list of Discovery Kit themes
January - February: Smellscapes
Explore how dogs' heightened sense of smell changes how they perceive and interact with the world around them.
Did you know? Dogs can smell many things that we think are odorless.
March - April: I Woof You
Take a deep dive into your dog's heart to learn more about how their capacity for love influenced their evolution and how they like to give and receive love today.
Did you know? Dogs, humans, and chimps are the only species known to catch yawns.
May - June: Dumpster Thrivers
Learn how scavenging played a critical role in the evolution from wolf to dog and is still a huge part of our dogs' behavior today.
Did you know? Because dogs evolved as a part of human societies, they can eat almost everything we eat.
July - August: Dog at Heart
Discover your dog's emotional range, how their emotional experience do and don't overlap with ours, and how to interpret their feelings.
Did you know? Happy dogs laugh. It's a soft, non-rhythmic panting sound.
September - October: Naughty by Nature
Explore the many dog behaviors that we find gross, destructive, or irritating but dogs find normal, acceptable or even polite.
Did you know? There is no consensus on why dogs roll in stinky stuff. A few top theories are that they are masking their scent for hunting, that they are spreading the scent of a resource to help others find it, or that it's just for fun.
November - December: Playful Predators
Delve into each of the skills involved in hunting and how they shaped domestication, breed differences, and our dogs' behavior today.
Did you know? Unlike cats, most dogs no longer have the entire set of hunting skills needed to catch and eat prey.
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