Wet food foraging can be a great way to slow down voracious over-eaters that later vomit their canned food meal. This stationary foraging board is fantastically versatile. In this clip Samson is demonstrating how the tongue module exercises their tongue and jaw muscles!
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Dog Tornado Wet Food Foraging
This video illustrates how this can be used for canned food as well as for dry as previously shown in Lefty’s Dog Tornado video. Canned food can be a bit of a challenge to offer in a food puzzle and this one works perfectly!
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Willow Skating and Giving “10”
I make a lot of mistakes as a trainer in this video. The timing of my rewards are not great and I even miss a few entirely! Willow had only learned how to give “ten” just the day before. We were both still learning. I share this because it is important to have realistic expectations, try your best, and push forward. Just because it is not seamless does not mean you shouldn’t try to train your cat! You will learn together and from each other. Just keep trying.
Foraging Cup by Fundamentally Feline
Some cats “nose” food puzzles while others use their paws to manipulate the toy. Here Soren is nosing the toy. Notice how he is only able to acquire one piece of food at a time. This limits the amount of food most cats would eat in one sitting which is why foraging can be useful to achieve weight loss in some cats. Buy this toy here.
Soren clicker training at 5 months
Soren’s clicker training performance at just 5 months of age! He does everything just as well as Willow but slower and with slightly less enthusiasm. He is just an easy going guy! It is interesting to see their differences. Do not be discouraged, they are all individuals!
Unconventional enrichment: a cat that LOVES to be vacuumed!
Have you ever had a cat that loved to be vacuumed? Lefty does! Check out this tripod and how much he loves this scary beast of a machine! He would chase us from room to room as we vacuumed the entire house. He truly sought it out!
