For our 39th foraging Friday I will be reviewing the Felix Smart interactive Treat Puzzle. This foraging toy is technically a foraging toy meant for dogs and cats, but its works just as well for rats. Setting up this foraging toy is super easy - its all one piece, so you just need to slide the covers and rotate the inner spinning circle to get to the holes you place treats/food in, then do the reverse to cover them back up.
As far as using this toy goes the rats need to rotate the inner circle and pus in and out the outer circles in order to gain access to the treats/food places in the covered holes. This wouldn't be too difficult if the only thing they had to do was push the outer circles in and out, but by adding the inner circle (which can only be rotated when all 6 outer circles are pushed fully out) that gives it another layer of complexness. This elevates the toy from a fun but easy foraging toy to master to a more complex toy that requires your rats to really think to work it out. Cleaning wise the tis toy is easy to clean due to it being fully plastic. You will need to watch the inner circle since it will always be covering 3 holes, but as long as you dry it after cleaning it should be fine. The pieces also don't come out which makes them difficult to loose but also makes the toy a bit harder to clean, but if you use dry treats/foods you shouldn't need to do more than wipe them out on occasion. Overall I was very happy with this foraging toy and how much my rats have enjoyed using it. I wasn't sure if it would be too similar to their prior toys, but the inner circle mechanic really threw them for a loop and made them think a bot harder than similar toys do. Link to this foraging toy: https://amzn.to/3bBo0Gf
Video showcasing this foraging toy:
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