PetSafe SlimCat Interactive Feeder, Blue

We bought one of these as an experiment for our 3 monsters, and it was such a hit we immediately bought another one. We don't put treats in ours, just regular kibble, and it keeps their interest all the same. At first it's a little tricky to find the right spacing for the food you're filling it with, but I think this is as dependant on the cat as the kibble: one of our boys has a pretty high tenacity threshold and enjoys a more sporadic drip-feed of treats. The other one just loves the game of it, and needs the food to come out at a fast rate otherwise he'll end his play session still hungry and get a little frustrated. We NEVER leave these unattended, as one of the boys got his claw trapped in a hole the first time he tried it. While I'm certain that's just a fluke accident (and no harm was done), he wasn't able to free his claw himself. And, in any case, you should only give your cats fun stuff to do when you're doing it with them to strengthen your bond to them (and their association of you being the exciting cool thing that makes fun stuff happen). Since that first incident, the cats have been using these balls happily and without further issue, and I don't hold the product responsible in any way. But anything with holes runs that same risk, but we're not so concerned that we stopped letting them play. Would still recommend :)

I'm happy with this feed ball, although the cat is less than amused (she has been a pampered puss for too long and is overweight according to the vet). She now on diet food and has half her dried food in her usual food bowl...and the other half in the ball. She chooses the food bowl first (easy option) and hoovers that down...but eventually she realises that the only way she is going to get the rest of her dinner is by playing with the ball! It is very easily adjusted to fit her dried food, I make sure it's not too difficult to get the food out before giving it to her. In contrast to the usual 1-2 minutes it used to take her to gulp down her meal...it takes her approx 30 mins. The one and only thing that worried me slightly initially was when she pawed the ball her claw has become caught momentarily. However over the last day or two she has patted the ball without her claws exposed, so I think she is getting the hang if it. Overall, I'm very happy with product and price I paid. Update 26 February 2015 - my cat has lost weight since my initial review and is more active. Glad I purchased this ball!

My cat Muffin was a stray, purchased from Cats Protection after having been found caught in a badger trap for an unknown period of time. He's tough as the proverbial old boots, and cool as the proverbial cucumber, but perhaps as a result of his trap trauma he does tend to wolf down his food... and in particular his dried food. I've long given my cats more dried food than wet, as a means of keeping their teeth clean and their gums free of disease, so it was a disappointment that he simply swallowed his dried food whole. Then I discovered the PetSafe ball and it saved the day, fantastic ! When he only gets one or two dried nibbles at a time he makes the effort to crunch them. It also gives him plenty of exercise, biffing it around the kitchen/diner floor and leaping on any dried nibbles that fall out. It took him just seconds to work out, perhaps because I rolled it for him the very first time until a nibble appeared as if by magic. Now he eagerly waits for it to be loaded and placed on the floor in front of him. We have experienced a very strange phenomena whereby he manages to lose the ball. We only live in a small bungalow, so it's not as if there is a vast expanse in which a ball this size can be lost, but somehow he's managed to lose two so far and I've just started him on a 3rd one yesterday. This latest ball now has a length of string tied to it, which I'm hoping will make it more visible if he manages to lose it yet again. Can't recommend this product highly enough.

I have two cats, fed the same amount out of microchip feeders so they can only eat their own. One is lithe and muscly and the other, well, to say he has middle aged spread is a slight understatement. He is under active and just loves his food so thought I'd use one to encourage the other. There's only one thing worse than a fat cat and that's a smug one. He looked up at me licking his lips, standing next an empty ball sans lid i.e. he'd managed to remove it so all thekibble fell exposed to his sizeable appetite. I taped up the top and put the food in the holes but even with adjustment, Applaws cat food comes out with a lazy tap of the paw. Hardly the calorie expending exercise I'd hoped for. I've gone back to good quality wet food and plan A - encouraging more exercise. This is a great idea and will definitely work with cats who like to run around and chase things. If you have the cousin of Bagpuss who is far too clever to keep the lid on things it will have to be a different tactic.

My x bengal adores this smacks it all over the room he absoloutly loves it and if if hes hapoy he leaves my feet alone i do love watching him with it

Bought these for our two cats who are absolute gannets and gulp their biscuits without even chewing them. Slow feeder bowls didn’t always work, and they were often vomiting undigested biscuits after they’d eaten. These feeder balls have worked perfectly. They’ve slowed down their eating so it takes them 30-45+ minutes to eat depending on what dispensing hole size you chose, and it occupies their brains as a bit of enrichment too. Would definitely recommend!

I bought 2 of these feeding balls for my cats to try and to help with their weight loss programme, and to keep them entertained (indoor cats). The ball comes apart easily through a screw lid on the top which makes it relatively easy to fill (quite narrow). It seems to fit most sizes of biscuits since they have included 2 sizes of hole that the biscuits could drop out of. I use the larger ones for the larger kibble my cats prefer. The cats roll it in front of them like performing seals balancing a ball. Every now and then a biscuit (or more) drops out and they eat that before heading off again. It took the 3 cats about 10 minutes of investigation before they all worked out how to use the feeder, in fact they are now so adept at it that I have to remove the balls and only use it as a treat instead of another meal (or they polish off the contents very quickly). It does depend on which way they roll the ball as to how often food is dispensed, since the orientation of the holes means they can get a very generous meal or not much at all. Occasionally I get more than one cat motoring off round the room taking it in turns to roll the ball, and trying to pinch the food that drops out before the other one notices. The ball often gets stuck or wedged against skrting boards or furniture which tends to stop the game, but once I move it for them, it's game on... Very easy to wash and will probably last a reasonable time as long as I don't tread on it (which has almost happened a few times)! It has made their meal times more enjoyable for me at least, and I suspect they enjoy it too. I'm not convinced it is brilliant for weight loss since they find it so easy, but it is more fun and slows them down a bit.

I love it. Simple to use just fill it up with cat treats and put it on the floor. Half an hour later I have 4 cats eyeing it up suspiciously. They look at the ball, they look at me they look back at the ball. So thinking I had 4 stupid cats I thought I'd roll it so that they could see what happens. Okay, so they didn't get it the first time so I rolled it again and again. I was like the pied piper, I rolled the bloody ball around the kitchen and they followed me eating the treats as they went. Anyway, half an hour later there was me on my hands and knees, sweating profusely (it's hard work rolling a ball around the kitchen with your nose) with 4 cats waiting for the next lot of treats to come spewing out of the ball. When it was empty I picked it up and threw it i the 'useless things I have bought for my cats' drawer which is becoming quite full. The radiator beds, the igloo beds, the 'stuff a pill down a cats throat' contraption (yeah, like that was ever going to work!), you get the picture. Anyway, once said Feed Ball was safely ensconced in the drawer I turned the kitchen light off and went back in the lounge. I threatened my husband with pain as he sat there grinning like the proverbial Cheshire cat if he uttered a word and then sat down. So it seems I don't have stupid cats, why run around after a treat ball when their stupid human will do all the hard work for them?

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القطوه سحبت عليها ولا تعرفت على اللعبه ، ممكن تنفع اذا عندك قط ذكي او يحب يلعب مع نفسه

I read about 100 reviews of this product before I finally sprung for it and bought it (I'm a grad student....$6 can be up to two meals if I try hard enough!) and all my worries have now gone out the window. I have a 4-month-old kitten, Kiki; and I have had this product for about 24 hours now. This is going to be a long review, so here's the major thing that I was halfway expecting that did not happen: THIS IS NOT AN EXERCISE BALL. By "exercise ball" I mean something like a ping-pong ball or tennis ball that kitty will play with herself like she's trying out for the itty bitty kitty soccer league. I sort of thought it might be, due to the product advertising it as a cat weight-loss aid, but in fact most cats (especially fat cats) will bat at this with their paws and push it with their nose, not smack it across the room. It is not going to travel very far per smack and your cat will not be running around after it. I actually consider this a plus because if she were sending it across the room with every push, it might drop food where she wouldn't find it, but instead she pushes it a little way, sniffs around it for food, then pushes it again. You can see this in the several very excellent video reviews that already exist for this product. Every other benefit of this product that it claimed/that others reported in their reviews has now been validated by my own experience. Here are the things I was worried about that did not happen: Worry #1: That Kiki would not be able to figure out how to use it. She's a pretty smart little cat, but I was afraid she'd dislike the idea of working for her food or something, and keep going back to her bowl. Instead, I filled up this ball with 1/2 cup (=4oz., the daily suggested amount) of her dry kitten kibble (it has pretty tiny x-shaped pieces, <1-cm square and 3-mm thickness), twisted the ball so that the holes looked big enough to let a few kibbles out at once, and put it on the floor. I rattled it around quite a bit as I was filling it/carrying it so she was very interested and seemed to have figured out before I even put it down that her food was in there. As soon as it touched the ground she poked it with her nose, it moved about half a foot away from her, a couple kibbles fell out, and she was munching. I didn't even have to take away her food bowl! (That would have been hard because it's attached to her water bowl =P And by the way, she still drinks her water from the usual place.) Worry #2: That Kiki would be too smart for the ball; i.e., she would manage to get her food out too fast and still be eating it all at once. Since she got the hang of it so quickly the first time, I made the holes smaller the next time I fed her with it (basically as small as possible while still allowing kibble to come out). It's pretty difficult to get the kibble out with the holes this size actually -- I can shake the ball gently with the holes pointing downward and have nothing come out. Kiki still rolls the ball around the floor and the kibble now comes out at a rate of 1 kibble every 10-15 seconds. This does not deter her from continuing to push the ball around, and because it requires a non-trivial amount of effort to get food, she won't continue to eat after she's no longer hungry. Worry #3: That it would not be able to hold enough food to last her 1-2 days (I bought the ball primarily because I'm going on a short trip soon and she'll be all by herself for 1.5 days. For longer trips I'd ask someone to come feed her, but this seemed like a better solution for just a 2-day outing). Last night to test the capacity I filled the ball with 1/2-cup around 8pm, gave it to her, woke up the next day at 2pm (long story) and went to check on her and there was still food in the ball. WIN. Worry #4: That the ball would make a huge mess by leaving lost kibble pieces all over the house. We have hardwood floors so it wouldn't have been such a huge problem anyway, but I was concerned about her pushing the ball under the couch (she always loses her smaller balls under there) because that would be a pain to clean. In reality, two things happen: first, Kiki follows the ball closely with her nose -- if she pushes it and nothing falls out, she sniffs all around the ball before she pushes it again. She's basically a vacuum cleaner with this thing. I left her with a full ball for 18 hours and all I found afterward was 1 forgotten piece of kibble in a corner under the sink (which I brought to her and she promptly gobbled it up). Second, the fact that the ball does not travel very far effectively limits it to whichever room you put it down in. I usually leave Kiki with it in the kitchen and by the time she's done with it it's still in the kitchen. After 18 hours I found her with it about 6 feet into the living room, but there was no breadcrumb trail of kibbles behind her or anything like that =P So, maybe all this tells you is that I worry a lot, but basically this product delivers. It limits the amount of food my cat can eat at once, stimulates her instinct to hunt for food (AND reproduces the natural reward for hunting: feeding!), reduces/eliminates begging, keeps her out of trouble by distracting her for long stretches of time, and prevents the bulging stomach I used to see after her feeding times. It's difficult for me to weigh her but just by looking at her I would guess she has already lost 0.5lbs (and she only weighs about 5lbs so this is excellent) and it is all in the belly bulge area. She seems more active too (running up and down the stairs, asking me to chase her, running after her ball toys, etc). For those inclined to criticize: I know she is a kitten and a lot of people free-feed their kittens because they are supposed to be growing at a tremendous rate for the first several months of life, but the other thing to remember is that what you expose your kitty to before the age of 6 months is what she is going to be expecting for the rest of her life. I don't want to teach her bad habits (like expecting a full bowl of food 24/7) just because I can't resist her sad-kitty-whimper face. I can always tell if she is actually hungry or if she is just begging for lack of anything better to do because if she's just bored she'll stop begging as soon as I pick up a toy.

Lo compre para calmar la ansiedad con la que comen y que les cueste mas, y hace su funcion, tienes que ir jugando con la abertura para no dejar los agujeros muy abiertos y que no caiga demasiado al girar

Der SlimCat Futterball von PetSafe ist genial, um Katzen spielerisch zu beschäftigen. Die verstellbaren Öffnungen lassen sich super anpassen, sodass das Futter nicht zu schnell herausfällt. Das bremst Schlinger beim Essen und sorgt für eine gesunde, langsame Fütterung. Der Ball ist aus BPA-freiem Material und lässt sich einfach reinigen. Wenn man die richtigen Leckerlis findet, die perfekt durch die Öffnungen passen, ist dieser Ball ein absolutes Must-have für jeden Katzenhaushalt!