As of 13 August 2026, AI can create enrichment games for your dog or cat.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a chatbot and list your pet's species, age, size, breed or type, energy level, favourite activities, sensitivities, health restrictions and known behaviour problems.
   2. Gather the household materials, toys and foods you are willing to use, and note the available indoor or outdoor space.
   3. Paste the details and the prompt into the chatbot, then ask it to produce five games ordered from lowest risk to highest challenge.
   4. Remove any suggestion involving materials, foods, heights, restraint or chewing that you cannot confidently judge as safe for your pet.
   5. Set up the simplest remaining game in a clear area and read the instructions beside the materials before allowing your pet to take part.
   6. Supervise the whole activity, stop at the stated warning signs, and change or discard any item that breaks, splinters or becomes small enough to swallow.
   7. Save the games that your pet enjoys without distress and ask the chatbot to adapt them using only the safe materials and difficulty level that worked.

   Prompt

   Create five safe enrichment games for my [dog or cat]. Use these details:
   - Age: [age]
   - Breed or type: [breed or type]
   - Size and weight: [size and weight]
   - Energy level: [low, medium or high]
   - Favourite activities, toys and foods: [details]
   - Behaviours or sensitivities: [details]
   - Health, mobility, dental or dietary restrictions: [details, or say none known]
   - Number of pets taking part: [number]
   - Space available: [indoor, garden, room size or other details]
   - Materials I have: [list]
   
   For each game, give a name, its purpose, exact setup, numbered instructions, suitable duration, how to make it easier or harder, and what I should watch for. Use only common household materials from my list. Do not suggest anything involving string, small detachable parts, toxic foods, unsafe foods, climbing, forced restraint or unsupervised chewing. Do not assume a material or food is safe. State any safety uncertainty instead of guessing. Put the lowest-risk games first, require active supervision, and give clear stop conditions for distress, frustration, guarding, swallowing, overheating or rough play. Do not diagnose health or behaviour problems. If any restriction makes a game unsuitable, say so and leave it out.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.