Summer has a way of getting away from us. The time just flies by in a flash. That is exactly what happened to July and before I knew it, I was very tardy with my Chewy.com review! My humble apologies!
I chose yet another food puzzle. There's nothing like the dog days of summer to make playing with your food a good past time. It's too hot to spend time outdoors and being indoors is just so boring! Break out the food puzzle, and at least for a short time, there is joyful entertainment!
Outward Hound seems to have the corner on the market of dog food puzzles! This time we tried a ball style puzzle called the Treat Chaser. The ball is weighted in such a way that the holes always return to the sides of the ball and stop spilling the treats. When your dog noses it around, it wobbles and wiggles and the treats fall out. I do think it was a bit too easy. It dumped out lots of kibble at one time so it didn't take long to empty. Maybe a different shaped treat that was a bit larger would do the trick and make the game last longer. That being said, this is still a great toy to slow down your too-speedy eater. It will take a bit of effort to get it all, much more so than hoovering up the dinner bowl!
Disclaimer: I was not compensated for this post other than receiving the toy in exchange for my honest review. Chewy.com is in no way responsible for what I have written! The content is entirely the opinions of my dog and me! Thank you Chewy for another fun product!
First and foremost, did you like my subtle little pun in the title? Stump a corgi? They are already stumpy, so of course you can't stump them!
This is my Chewy.com review for January. I chose the Outward Hound Kibble Drop food puzzle. Now that winter weather has hit, I figured the boys would enjoy a brain-teaser for indoor activity. Since it involves food, I knew it would be an instant hit!
This is a light weight plastic puzzle with four sloping "legs" that have little flaps at the bottom. There is a hole at the top where you drop small kibble treats in and they randomly roll down into one of the legs. Your dog should then sniff out where the kibble went and flip up the flap to get at the kibble.
The feet bottoms have plastic grippers to help stablize the puzzle......
I let Jimmy and Wilson have separate sessions with this toy for ease of learning as well as safety. Food and an exciting new toy together can make Jimmy a bit possessive so I wanted to be sure there were no issues.
I let Jimmy go first. I gave him a very brief introduction to the toy. I showed him how the flaps flipped up, put one kibble in, opened the flap for him to get it and that was it. So maybe a one minute intro.....
I'm a terrible videographer....sorry about that....
You can see by the end of his first test, he had figured out a short cut to the food. Why flip the flaps when you can just dump the whole toy?
His second try was a bit prettier......
Now with Wilson, I did no introduction at all. This video shows him seeing it for the first time.
As you can see, he figured out the shortcut as well. Wilson took a break and then tried a second time. He went straight for the whole flip and got all the kibbles at once.
Now there's no doubt corgis are very food motivated and they also rate high on the intelligence scale, but I do believe this puzzle is rather easy to figure out. Cheating results in a jackpot so cheating it is! I suppose you could hold it down while they play and prevent the total flip. Also, maybe a tiny dog wouldn't flip it?
All in all, I had a lot of fun trying out this puzzle. I know the boys did because it involved food!
My recommendation would be to never leave your dog alone with this puzzle. The plastic is soft enough it would be very easy to chew into pieces, especially the flaps. I think this is a supervised play and then put away toy. It's always best to think safety first! If you want to try it out, at this writing it is on sale! It is an inexpensive puzzle, even at full price!
And of course, my disclaimer. Chewy.com provided me this toy free of charge for an honest review. I was not compensated otherwise. The opinions are all mine and those of my dogs!
New this month, the Chewy.com reviews will be rolled into a blog hop for ease of location. It will be hosted the 3rd Tuesday of each month by Golden Woofs and Oz the Terrier.
