This video just goes to show how incredibly easy it is to DIY your own food puzzle. Quick, simple, and inexpensive!
DIY food puzzles
The Wine Box Food Puzzle
Any ole wine box will do to make this super easy and cheap foraging toy. Watch to see how these three silly’s utilize this object. They are pretty hilarious. It helps if you have long legs for this one!
A Nestle Quick container? Why yes!
Gus so nicely demonstrates the difficulty of oddly shaped items. When full this object can be quite heavy making it difficult to manipulate. For Gus it is no problem! Eating this way has helped Gus loose weight. Please share this video if you know an overweight kitty who could benefit from learning to forage for their food.
Twine, cardboard tubes and a rock!
This is an earthy, natural style food puzzle. I used a leftover rock from our catio, some cardboard tubes that already came cut just like this as packing material from a mail order and some garden twine. It’s a little rickety but a fun impromptu puzzle.
Something Outta Nothing!
This video shows Willow foraging from a protein shake container. You truly can make a food puzzle out of just about anything in your home and the goal here to show you how to do that!
It is nice to offer a variety of commercially available and homemade puzzles. Remember this is not only a feeding protocol but mental stimulation!
IKEA hack-DIY Food Puzzle for Cats!
I am excited to share my latest homemade foraging toy!
I have constructed a stationary food puzzle out of an Ikea chair! That is right, you heard me correctly, an Ikea chair!
There is no limit to what you can use to make cool, interesting and engaging food puzzles.
Check out the instructions below to create your very own stylish foraging board.
Thrilled with how this turned out.
Simple Ikea chair sans hardware.
Flip chair over!
What you will need:
An Ikea "Jules" chair available in adult and children's sizes
Some sisal carpet
Glad/Rubbermaid small storage cups
Velcro
Materials in place ready for crafting!
1. Staple & glue sisal carpet to chair seat.
2. Use Velcro to affix cups to chair back.
3. Secure cups.
Assembly Tips:
Place the plastic like side of the Velcro on the cup and the fuzzy side of the Velcro on the chair. This will make the cups easier to wash later and keep the Velcro from getting wet and soggy.
Be sure to place bottom edge of the cup in line with the hole if your cats are not master foragers. Leaving a "lip" it can make it much more difficult to remove a piece of dry food. However, this "lip" could be great for the cats that need more of a challenge.
Bam! Foraging board and scratch ramp in one.
A shot from underneath showing the cups.
A view of the dry food in the reservoirs.
Hitch is the first to check it out, no surprise there!
Simultaneous scratch ramp and puzzle use.
Foraging frenzy!
