It is important to offer your cats different experiences. This means providing the chance to experience different textures, scents, sounds and tastes. Broth flavored ice cubes can be offered in water bowls, but ALWAYS provide an unflavored water source as well. Ice cubes can also be offered in bathtubs, sinks and on cookie sheets. It is simply something fun for them to explore.
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Dog Brick Wet Food Foraging
Another excellent canine toy that is perfect to use for cats for either canned or dry food. The cat must slide the cover to expose the reservoirs to access the wet food. This puzzle can be made more difficult by inserting a doggy bone into one of the center slots to serve as an obstacle to be removed before they can slide the cover.
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The Catit Treat Maze by Hagen
This is an excellent beginner, stationary food puzzle. This toy offers two interchangeable plates to offer different challenge levels.
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A Foraging Pinata!
In this clip you can see the creativity and challenge that can be incorporated in order to make cats work for their meals. Sometimes the smartest kitties are the ones waiting for the others who are doing all of the work to dispense some kibble! I call this opportunistic foraging! The orange cat in this video, Peaches, had actually become blind in this clip, and while not successful in this video, she is still a master forager despite her handicap!
Dixie and Helen Wiffle Ball Foraging
Two senior cats foraging for the very first time from a wiffle ball toy. This object is great for beginners and intermediate foragers. The many holes appeal to their sense of smell and they can even hook their nails into the holes and pick up the ball and shake it!
The Windmill by Trixie Pet
Love how gentle he is at first, then he realizes it is a food dispensing machine! Check out Willow coming in for the straggling bits at the end. We call this opportunistic foraging!
