For our 27th foraging Friday I will be reviewing the Nature's Instinct Barrel of Fun foraging toy. Like many of my rat's foraging toys, this one is originally made for birds, but also works as a great rat foraging toy. To use this toy is fairly simple - when you first get the toy it will have some leather tied below, and after untying this and removing it you can just hang up the toy with the large metal clip at the top. After that you just need to open the drawer, add in some treats or other rat food, then close the drawer and gently twist it.
In order for the rats to open the drawer they have to twist open the drawer and pull it out. This is compounded by the fact that the toy is hanging freely from the chain, so the rats first have to hold it steady enough to open the drawer and access the treats inside. One nice thing about this toy is that you can change the difficulty levels. If you only slightly twist the drawer then the rats just need to gently nudge it in the right direction before they can pull the drawer out. On the other hand if you fully twist the drawer then the rats will need to actually untwist it fully before they can pull out the drawer. This ability to change the difficulty is really nice because it means that even inexperienced foraging rats can enjoy this toy, and you can gradually work up to twisting it more and more to provide a greater challenge. As for cleaning and refilling this toy that is all pretty easy. Cleaning it can be done with soap and water, and since this toy is fully acrylic and opens fully you don't have to worry about it not drying. Refill wise you just have to slide open the drawer, add the treats, and close it, and that only takes a few seconds. Overall this is a fun and challenging foraging toy for rats and I'm happy to finally be using it again. This is one of the first foraging toys I ever bought for my rats but I forgot about it for a long while, and I'm glad to see this group is enjoying it as much as my past groups did. Link to this foraging toy: https://amzn.to/3aHMmvx Video showcasing this foraging toy:
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