I'm excited to share this handout from a paper I co-authored for the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery on helping clients use food puzzles with their cats! The final version is available at the publisher's website. As a supplement to the article this handout was created and you can download and share with others!
Please feel free to distribute so more cat owners, veterinary professionals, behaviorists and shelter staff can learn about the importance of this type of enrichment.
Opaque, cube-shaped toys are among the most challenging you can offer your cat. Paige shows you how it is done! Not every cat becomes this skilled or manipulates toys with this much gusto. A goal for you and your cat to work towards.
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!
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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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.
In this clip you will view cats exploring and foraging from a doggy toy! Do not let the dog photos on the packaging deter you from trying these toys out with your cats. Notice how only one piece of dry food is obtained at one time. If your cat scarfs and barfs, foraging is for them!
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