Newbie Question - Amusement items?

Hi! I'm a newbie here : ) really enjoying the game so far but can't figure out how you can earn a good amount of amusement  items for your wolves. Is the only way through exploring and finding feathers ect?

Exploring is the best way, especially as you get access to more biomes - the glacier and the swamp are always especially good for me. You can also get them by sending wolves out to rescout an area (that is, send them to an area you've fully discovered already). Or, if you have the SC to spare, sometimes you can have good toy luck with the slot game.