Fun with Dogs!

I love food puzzle toys. I love them almost as much as my dogs love them. Here is a video of Jellybean (Australian Cattle Dog), Britney (Jack Russell Terrier) and Blue (ACD/JRT mix) having breakfast on my freshly mopped kitchen floor this morning. Brit has my original favorite kibble dispensing food puzzle: The Atomic Treatball. Blue is knocking around a pink Treatstik which was briefly my favorite until Kong unveiled the Wobbler which is what Jellybean starts out using.

I love the Wobbler and Treatstik because they can very easily be taken apart for cleaning and can be filled with specific amounts of kibble.  The Treatstik and the Atomic Treatball come out ahead of the Wobbler for smaller dogs though since they both come in small sizes while the Wobbler is huge.  Hopefully Kong will release a smaller version of the Wobbler soon.

Poor Brit has never gotten to play with small dog toys because I always also have a larger dog and fear the larger dog could choke on a Brit-sized toy but I have clients with small dogs who would LOVE a size-appropriate Wobbler!

Another advantage of the Wobbler and Treatstik which may not be apparent in this particular video is that the dog does not need to move them around a great deal in order to get the kibble to fall out of them.

Jellybean and Blue sometimes quarrel a bit about the food puzzles.  If I were not recording the experience I would have separated the two of them and I would not have had to stay on hand to make sure everyone was playing with her own toy.