For our 35th foraging Friday I will be reviewing the Super Bird Creations SB965 Mini Seagrass Foraging Wall Bird Toy. Like many of my rat's foraging toys, this one is originally made for birds, but works just as well for rats. To use this foraging toy you have a few options. First, you can use the cup foraging toys to give your rats treats and regular food. I'd recommend filling these with tissue or crinkled paper after you place the food/treats into the cups in order to add a bit more foraging aspect. You can also add extra crinkled paper to the wicker ball, and slip some treats inside it as well. Finally, you want to hang the foraging toy on your cage bars using the handily provided c-clips.
As for the rats the way they use this foraging toys is by either digging around in the cups and wiffle ball to get out any treats and food placed inside. They can also chew on the wiffle ball or the cups or even the seagrass itself. This foraging toy is almost fully destructible and while I usually prefer to have more reusable foraging toys this toy can still last a while depending on how chewing obsessed your rats are, plus even if it gets destroyed its a nice change that allows the rats to enjoy chewing up and nesting with the materials. And while the wiffle ball and seagrass themselves are likely to to be destroyed pretty quickly the cups will likely last longer, and can be reused after the seagrass is gone by tying them onto a c-clip and clipping this onto the cage bars or top. As for cleaning since this toy is fully destructible (with the exception of a few plastic pieces on the cup toys) you likely won't have to clean it much. You could wipe it down, but personally I just leave it and similar toys in the cage because their position on the cage wall makes them unlikely to get dirty before the rats have a chance to tear it up. And as for refilling the only things you really have to refill are the cups, which can easily be popped open and filled with food/treats/crinkled paper/etc. You can also add food/treats and crinkled paper to the wiffle ball, which also only takes a minute or two (although my experience has been that wiffle balls get chewed the fastest so I almost never have to refill them because they get destroyed first). Overall this is a fun foraging toy that makes a nice change over other foraging toys by being destructible and fun to chew up. They enjoy foraging with the cup toys and wiffle ball, and enjoy chewing up the seagrass and wiffle ball and then nesting with the resulting materials. Its not the most complex foraging toy out there, but its not meant to be and it works well as a hybrid foraging/chew toy. Link to this foraging toy: https://amzn.to/3dMxBJg
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