For our 28th foraging Friday I will be reviewing something a bit different. Usually I review toys meant specifically for foraging, however today I will be reviewing a more novelty item used as.a foraging toy. With that being said the foraging item I will be reviewing today is a mini piñata. You can find these tiny 5-6 inch piñatas in stores like Target or online and they often fit the theme of whatever holidays are occurring that month.
Now to use these piñatas as foraging toys is pretty simple - all you have to do is open the flap meant to insert candy, add in some yummy rat treats like cheerios or gerber puffs, optionally add in some tissues or crinkled paper to add more of a challenge, then close the flap and hang it up inside the cage. After that your rats should be able to sniff out the flap pretty quickly, then open it up and get the treats inside. Once they've emptied out the treats the piñata acts as a chew toy, and since its made of cardboard and crinkled paper they will enjoy chewing it up. My rats seemed to enjoy chewing them so much that they even started chewing up the piñatas before finishing the treats, something they haven't done with most of their other destructible foraging toys. I really like that these piñatas are so easy to use, and its nice to give my rats a destructible foraging toy for once. The only 2 downsides I have with these piñatas are that they can be a bit pricey (if you wait until after a holiday they will sometimes go on sale, or alternatively you can find some of them cheaper online), and the fact that some of these piñatas are a poor shape for the rats to remove the treats from. In my case I had a carrot piñata and a rabbit piñata and while the rats could use the rabbit piñata just fine, the carrot was so long that any treats fell to the bottom and out of reach. I think I could have prevented this by adding more crinkled paper to boost up the treats, or by hanging it sideways, but I ended up cutting a slightly larger access flap and that also did the job just fine. Overall these miniature piñatas are super cute and a lot of fun for the rats to destroy and forage with. My rats ended up destroying the first 2 but I plan on stocking up when they go on sale at my local Kroger/Target/Dollar Tree! Link to an example mini piñata from amazon: https://amzn.to/2YBC2jR Link to an example mini piñata from Target: https://www.target.com/s/mini+pinata Video showcasing this foraging toy:
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