Catit Design Senses Treat Maze
Catit Design Senses Treat Maze
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41pYhmBP07L._SL500_.jpg $ 12.99- Smart way to feed your cat and offer various levels of difficulty to challenge your cat's abilities
- Side cut-outs: Cat moves the food through the maze by pawing at it through the side openings
- Food tray: As the food moves through the maze, it collects in the food tray at the bottom of the maze
- Varying levels of difficulty: rotating disc located inside the maze allows you to increase or decrease the openings for a more difficult challenge
- Accu-Pressure Mat: provides pressure point paw massage
Catit Treat Maze
The Catit Design Senses Food Maze is the smart way to feed your cat and offers various levels of difficulty to challenge your cat's abilities. The cat moves the food or treats through the maze by pawing at it through the side openings until it drops down to the food tray. The Food Maze appeals to your cat's sense of touch and taste, while encouraging mental and physical activity. By making your cat work for its food and monitoring the amount of food added to the maze, the Food Maze can be a valuable tool to help with overeating or obesity problems.
Features include:
- Side Cut-outs: Cat moves the food through the maze by pawing at it through the side openings
- Food Tray: As the food moves through the maze, it collects in the food tray at the bottom of the maze
- Varying levels of difficulty: rotating disc located inside the maze allows you to increase or decrease the openings for a more difficult challenge
- Accu-Pressure Mat: provides pressure point paw massage
$ 12.99
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Some design flaws,
This is a good idea with at least a couple of design flaws.
The mat that appears under the food dispenser is actually a ring which is easily displaced.
When you put cat food in at the top it cascades down, this means that if you imagine a sand pile as you pour sand on top it slides down the edges until it builds up enough to make a wider, taller pile. This happens with the cat food until the food reaches the holes around the edge and then it falls down to the next level. This means that without intervention on my part there’s a little pile of cat food in the center that just gets older and staler. Not a hard solution, before I pour food in at the top I knock the food off of that platform down to the middle platform which generally gets cleared off.
When you add more cat food, I add 1 cup at a time for four cats, it starts pinging down through the holes and tends to go flying off sideways into the carpet. Also not a biggie, you can vacuum up whatever the little scavengers don’t get for themselves.
My cats are old, and you know what they say about teaching an old cat new tricks? oh…you say that was an old dog? trust me, it’s hard teaching a young cat new tricks, just try to imagine teaching an Old Cat…ok, so I didn’t try to teach them anything, I just figured they’d work it out. My cats are 18, 16 and 14 (2). My 16yo, Misty, does just what the designers intended, she sticks a paw in and knocks a piece down. She enjoys doing this. One of my 14yo cats, Shroom, takes a run at it and head butts the tower raining pieces (mostly) into the dispenser tray (see problems 1 & 2 at the top). Then everybody chows down on what he’s provided.
Would I recommend this to all of my cat owning friends and family (note, if there’s a dog in the mix this would need to be elevated, my old Golden would have eaten the whole thing, plastic, catfood and all)? Not generally. My daughter’s kitten is very playful and would probably be good at accessing the food. My sister’s cats, I’d guess one would get at the food, one might and one would just sit there looking sorrowful.
So think about your own cats and their problem solving abilities. (And desires, a lot of cats like to solve problems, like how to reach and open the drawer with the baggie of catnip in it, or how to get to the roast beef sub I was planning to have for lunch. Some prefer that the staff take care of all their needs.) Then decide. Certainly it’s not outrageously expensive and it’s fairly fun to watch.
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|Not good if your cat has a brain or weighs more than five pounds.,
I bought this for my very clever and somewhat rotund Munchkin cat, Ember. She weighs eleven pounds, bear this in mind while reading. I set up the food maze, and placed a small handful of her favorite treats in it as the instruction manual describes. She spent all of two seconds figuring it out. I was worried that her short legs (she IS a Munchkin after all) would impede her, but I needn’t have worried. The problem with the maze is twofold: the hole at the top is big enough for her head to fit in, and the maze is extremely lightweight. She stretched up and stuck her head down the hole in the center of the top of the maze, and chowed down. Some of the treats fell through the holes while she was eating…instead of pawing the treats out with her little feet, she instead grabbed the top of the maze and hauled on it, pulling it over. Once it was on it’s side, she pushed it around to get the treats to fall out.
It took her literally one minute to get all of the treats out of the maze. And now that she knows how to “cheat” the maze, that’s all she does…pull it over and spill the treats out. The mat under it does NOTHING to hold it in place.
If you have a cat that weighs more than five pounds, or a cat who is relatively smart, avoid this. They should have made a lid without a hole for the top, and maybe it’d work better if I duct taped it to the floor. I’m very dissatisfied with the product and will be giving it to a friend with smaller (though equally clever) cats to see how they fare with it.
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|Entertaining – Useful,
I originally got this product for my FAT kitty, her name is Naughtya.. I have two cats, one male (Gimli) and one female (Naughtya) I try and moderate their food intake because Gimli eats like a bird and saves his kibble for later (I feed them on two different levels so that Naughtya wont look at his food and immediately eat it) well… that USED to work, until Naughtya realized she wasn’t getting as much Kibble and learned to climb up to the second feeding level to feast on Gimli’s leftovers…BAH!!! now she’s fat again -_- so I had tried as much as I could with as little time that I have to dedicate to hoovering over them while they eat. So now I split Naughtya’s portion into two diff dishes (that way she feels she is eating more) and give Gimli slightly less… but she still tries to steal his food… ENTER: The CatIT Senses Treat Maze!!!
This maze is awesome. I placed a half of a cup of kibble in the center area and the cats watched as the kibble made it’s way down. They were intrigued… I would have rated it 5 stars but Gimli figured out he could stick his head over the top opening and eat some kibble (which is ok by me because he’s skinny as hell and needs to eat more) but Naughtya is too fat to do that so she has to work for her kibble, which is good.
It sort of makes her THINK she is getting more to eat although now she has to work harder to get it
I believe this is one of the best food container investments I have made! Keeps both my Kitties happy!
so overall, if you are getting this as a form of entertainment I am sure that will be a failure… I’ve had this thing for about a week now and because my cats are not allowed to free feast (having a dish full of kibble available at all times) when they get hungry THIS is where they go to get their fix.
If my cats had access to food at all times though, I would see them losing interest in this. But for what I got it for it works wonders
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