For our 9th foraging Friday I'm finally going to review one of my favorite ground foraging toys - that being the Ethical Pet Flip 'N Flap Bone Puzzle! Like many of the foraging toys that I've gone over this foraging toy is technically made for other animals (dogs in this case) however it still works very well for rats.
Now to start off this foraging toy is pretty simple. You have two "door" which can be lifted by switches on the side, or simply by prying them up with your hands (or in the rats case their paws...or do they also have hands? Questions for later!). You also have another component, that being the slide and hide bit where you have 3 indentations where treats can be placed, along with 2 "covers" that can be slid on top of these indentations to cover them. When your rat wants to get to the underlying treats they just have to slide the covers to the other side to unveil their goodies. In terms of complexity this toy isn't too crazy, but I feel that it can still pose a challenge to some rats at first. The "doors" in particular can be a bit hard for some to grasp, while others (especially the more digging motivated like Bean) will get those first and only come back to the slide and hide bits later. Regardless of which your rats have an easier time with both require them to use their dexterity to open them up, and even though they don't shut on their own (probably my only downside as I'd love for them to gently close when the rats aren't actively pushing them open) they still provide lots of enrichment for the rats. Overall I feel like this foraging toy embodies just what I want in a foraging toy of this type. Its sturdy, doesn't require any assembly (making it better than the living world teach n treat in my opinion - I don't really like having to assemble each level there lol), has two different tasks, and can be used to easily entertain your rats during free-range (due to it being chewable I probably wouldn't use this in the cage without supervising, but outside the cage its easy to just pop open the doors and covers and put in some treats, then let the rats get to extracting them). Its just a great toy and despite it being meant for dogs instead of rats I feel like it works just as well for them. Link to the shown foraging toy: https://amzn.to/2KbouUH Link to the blue plastic version: https://amzn.to/3cuqbZ9 Link to the red plastic version: https://amzn.to/2K9aSt1
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