For our 7th foraging Friday focuses I will be focusing on some of the simpler hanging foraging toys. These hanging foraging toys consist of a hard plastic container with holes of varying sizes hung up by a chain. Depending on the version you have it could be ideal for serving larger items like fruit and veggies or smaller items like nuts and cheerios.
To use them the rats must reach with their hands or teeth between the open slots to gnaw at (for large treats) or retrieve (for small treats) the food. This can help prevent hoarding of larger wet foods like fruits and also is just a good way to make them work a bit more for their treats. You can even stuff these foraging toys with crinkled paper or tissue as well as treats to increase the difficulty as I did with my blue treasure chest version. Overall these hanging foraging toys are all pretty similar in function, but if I had to pick a favorite it would be the clear ball. The reason I like that one best is because it opens up fully - its attached magnetically in the center and so its easy to snap apart to clean or refill, and the chain can even be removed easily to make this into a normal foraging ball that can be used on the cage floor. The other foraging toys can also be used like this, but its harder (if not impossible as with the treasure chest) to remove the chain and neither comes apart which can make cleaning and refilling more difficult. Nonetheless my rats seem to enjoy these foraging toys and like with the kabobs they are a great way to offer fruit, veggies, and other large treats without any rat being able to just stash the food! Link to this foraging toy (ball): https://amzn.to/3a74Za6 Link to this foraging toy (chest): https://amzn.to/3aAI08x Link to this foraging toy (mouse, US): https://amzn.to/2X3ZaFX
Video showcasing these foraging toys:
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