ANIMAL TRAINING AIDS AND TOYS

摘要

The invention provides an animal training aid or toy for use in scent based animal training or activities. The aid or toy comprises: a housing comprising an interior cavity configured to contain a scented material that releases substantially no scent that is desirable to the animal in an unactivated state and releases a scent that is desirable to the animal in an activated state; one or more vents on an external surface of the housing, each vent in communication with the interior cavity so that a scent from the scented material can be released from the interior cavity to the exterior of the housing where it can be detected by the animal; and an activator for activating the scented material from the unactivated state to the activated state, the activator being operable from the external surface of the housing.

主权项

1. A scent disk, comprising:
a disk-shaped cardboard substrate; a plurality of rupturable microcapsules disposed on the disk-shaped cardboard substrate, each of the rupturable microcapsules encapsulating a liquid or oily material containing a volatile scent; and an outer coating covering the plurality of rupturable microcapsules, wherein the outer coating is abradable to remove selected portions of the outer coating and rupture selected rupturable microcapsules, thereby releasing the volatile scent from the ruptured microcapsules.