Catit Senses Food Maze

The cats took a look at this and wondered what was going on. When the biscuits went in they had a sniff and look. Then the bigger cat grabbed it, pulled it over it sort of twanged and threw biscuits all over, once they recovered from the shock they pigged out on the biscuits. After that they settled down to use the tower normally. The younger and smaller cat steadied herself and ate the biscuits out of the top until she couldn't reach them, the old cat tried that but his head was too big to fit the space and had to do it properly. The two cats have different methods for getting the biscuits out, but both methods are hugely entertaining to watch. It's so much fun to watch we have the tower in the living room in front of the telly, as they're usually more entertaining eating their biscuits than the offerings on the TV. On a practical note the tower is easy to assemble, it's easy to clean, and the cats like it. They seem to like the rubber pad round the base. The downside is large cats may struggle to get their head in the trough at the bottom, but they soon work out to use a paw to scoop the biscuits out onto the mat. The cats are much less messy with this than they were with a bowl and they only eat biscuits when they want some, and they have to work for it to get them. I am impressed with the simplicity of the product, and I believe the cats are very happy with their biscuit tower and the fun it provides for them in getting a treat to eat.UPDATE: Sadly due to divorce I no longer have my two cats, however, I am getting a new cat and given how impressed I was with this item the first time it was the very first thing I ordered for my new cat. The quality is excellent, the design simple, easy to clean, practical, and entertaining for the cat and for anyone watching the cat.

This has to be one of the best pet products I've bought. Keep my twin kittens entertained. Even if Miss Harmony has figured out that shaking it will release the food easier.

The idea is fantastic and stops our cats from eating their meals too fast as well as providing them with grazing and entertainment throughout the day. However, we found that one of our cats (who is really quite small, only 3.2kg) found a couple of design flaws:1/ The hole at the top is large enough to stick his head through2/ With the anti-slip mat on, due to a high centre of gravity and lightweight base, it was very easy to knock over. Without the slip mat it just kept skidding away from him and he couldn't get any food!However, with a few bits we had lying around, we solved these problems and even made the product continue to look nice! Our steps were:1/ Glue the maze and base together2/ Turn it upside down and fill the base with quick-dry cement (this is super cheap). Put a flat surface over the cement while it's wet and then quickly turn it all right-side up again so that the cement sets flat3/ After the cement has begun to set, turn it upside down again and take off the surface so that the cement dries faster4/ Get a decent size floor tile (we had a few left over from doing our shower room), place the maze on top (right side up!) and use clear or white mastic to seal the edges and fix the maze on the tile; this both made it look better and made it easier to protect our floor. Using mastic also meant that it's still really easy to keep clean, too.5/ Put floor protectors on the bottom of the tile.That may sound over-the-top, but it only took about twenty minutes of my actual time and all the required pieces were super cheap. Most importantly, the cats love it and I can watch them use it and go "awwww"!

I got this because the vet nurse said I needed to start my kitten on 'foraging' and I didn;t fancy hiding food around my house. At first my kitten really didn't get it and cried for the first day. We taught him how to use it with treats, once the food was in it he used it but for some reason when the food had dropped into the tray he wouldn't eat out of the tray, preferring to stand on the top and eat out of the big hole.When the food drops out of the bottom it does occassionally bounce on the plastic and land on the kitchen floor so I'd suggest you bear that in mind if you have other pets.Overall we have started it using it as a fun toy that rewards with treats rather than for regular feeding as he started eating A LOT less which i'm sure would be fine for an overweight cat but not for a kitten who is still developing, he just didn't bother eating the food for most of the time.The other thing I would say is it's very hard to clean and can be knocked over easily.Not a bad product but maybe more of a toy than anything else.

We have hijacked our cat guardian's amazon account to leave a review for this CatIt food maze feeder!! My name's Sylvester, and I'm 10 years old - quite the elder statesman these days, although I still love to go out and hunt and bring back my contributions to the family larder). My cat-mates here are Smudge (he's a young 'un, only 2 years old, too full of energy he doesn't know what to do with half the time - I'm trying to teach him to hunt, but he's not very good at it!) and Tosca (she's 9, and quite a reserved lady really - doesn't go out much). Mrs Cat Guardian and her family adopted us all at different times from our local shelter, and weirdly we're all black and white too! We're not related to each other as far as we know, but hey - this is a small island, so you never know (but that's another cat's tale for another day!). I'm really here to tell all you fellow cats about this puzzle toy Mrs Cat Guardian bought us this week!After hiding from the postman when he rang the bell (it still catches us by surprise!) we emerged from our various hiding places to see what all the fuss was about. We saw Mrs Cat Guadian open the box and watched Miss Daughter Cat Guardian assembling this strange, plastic thing that looks like some kind of human modern art with a real 60s vibe. We didn't know what it was, but curiosity had got the better of us (yes, we know all about curiosity and cats, but we decided to take our chances!).Even more intriguingly, Mrs Cat Guardian got our dried cat food box out again. She shook it to get our attention, but we were not that easily won over - we usually only get 'extra' cat treats that early in the morning when we need to be 'persuaded' into the plastic carry box which means a ride in the car to the strange man in the place with lots of other strange animals where they do things like weighing us and propelling worming tablets down our throats against our will! We were a bit suspicious that this strange contraption, and the food Mrs Cat Guardian was putting through the hole in the top of it, was just a ruse, and that somewhere the boxes were lurking!However, after a few minutes, it was clear no boxes were around - this weird plastic tower thing really was innocent of any subterfuge! So we took a closer look... and there was the food, just inside the device on the top layer. But it was stuck inside, and we couldn't get it out! Then we spotted the paw-sized openings all around the edges of the device. Aha! Got it now - stick in paw, get food. This is too easy... oh... hadn't spotted the little holes around the edges of the 'floor'. The food's disappeared down one of them, and now on the level below. Bother! So near and yet so far!It was Tosca who worked it out (I hate to admit it, but she really is the cleverest one out of all of us) and she took over and showed Smudge and me what to do to get the food all the way to the bottom. We realised it just took a bit of perseverance and patience - I'm not known for those, but I learn fast!That was two days ago, and now the feeder with the 60s design vibe is a fixture in our Cat Guardian's living room. Mrs Cat Guardian saves some of our dried food each day to put in the top, and then just leaves us to it - no more miaowing to get their attention for a snack, and even though it takes longer than it used to to get our snack, even we have to to admit that it's much more stimulating than just having it put into a bowl and not having to work for it - I mean, where's the fun in the easy life?!So, to all you cats out there who want to add a bit of variety into your life, and need a way to make food more fun, ask your Cat Guardians to get you this feeder - we're sure you'll love it as much as we do!So long for now, we're going back for another play with the feeder!Sylvester, Smudge and Tosca x

I have two elderly rescue girls, who had never been outside before they came to live with me, and who I still don't entirely trust to allow outside unsupervised as they have little to no road sense and get lost easily. I am not happy keeping cats inside as they are designed to hunt and roam, and so I try to enrich their lives by providing them with puzzle feeders dotted around the house. They love their feeders, they love trying to work out how to use them, and they are so motivated by the reward of food and play, so it's wins all round.When I first bought this Catit Tower Feeder I assumed it was going to be too easy for them, and worried they'd lose interest in it quite quickly. How wrong I was! Yes, it didn't take them much effort or time to work out how to get the food out of it, and my larger cat (Maisie) quickly worked out that she could tip the whole thing over and roll it about and the treats would fall out pretty quickly. However, I resolved that by cutting a circular hole in the middle of a desk mat I had but didn't use, which fits snugly onto the base of the tower and weights it enough to prevent Maisie from tipping the whole thing over. It's easily removable for cleaning and looks a whole lot nicer than the grey rubbery base which is supplied. (If you're interested the desk pad I cut the hole in is, I think, the PLÖJA from Ikea, which costs about £5).Both my cats love this tower and spend hours hooking out tiny bits of food from all its crevices. It's a fabulous feeder, and I can recommend it.

This is a really great item. I think the manufacturer has modified it since some of the reviews were written, as the one I received only had a narrow hole in the top so the cat can't eat the biscuits straight from the top, which seems to be the previous problem that resulted in many poor reviews. Mind you, there are 3 levels that you can put biscuits on, so if you do have an older version the simple solution is to just avoid using the top level! I bought this to encourage my cat to get a bit of excercise and not wolf his dinner down, as I'm trying to get him to lose some weight. When I first put it down for him, I put a few biscuits in the base tray to get him used to eating from it. After putting biscuits in the maze, it took him all of 10 seconds to figure out how to get the food out (he is very motivated when it comes to food). He is getting the excercise by moving round it to reach the food, and it's great entertainment for we humans. It's easy to put together and comes apart just as easily for cleaning. The middle level has a disc that turns so you can make the holes smaller that the biscuits have to fall through, thus increasing difficulty level. Mind you, if he can't get the biscuits to drop, Ginger does cheat a bit evry now and then by gripping the biscuits between his toes and pulling them through the sides. It's great fun to watch, and his face is a picture when he's looking for the fallen biscuit in the tray, but all he's done is knocked it down to the next level. From my own experience I cannot fault this item.

I work for a vets & wondered why this product wasn't available from any of our usual suppliers....having purchased it from Amazon now I know why! It just doesn't work! Its a shame as Catit Senses are usually very good products & I expected better from them.I have a 2.5 year old bengal & a 9 month old moggy, both very active & confirmed indoor cats, so exercise & stimulation are a priority. Plus lately the bengal has taken to bolting her food, leading to vomiting & this seemed a catch-all solution. Sadly the bengal just sat around the kitchen waiting for the kitten to knock the biscuits out then snaffled them...she wasn't going to demeen herself by working for her food! The kitten worked it out very quickly but wasn't interested in using it for regular food, only when treats were added. Also the gaping hole in the top provided easy access instead of going through the maze (easily fixed by putting a saucer over it, but a fairly major design flaw!). You can't actually put very much food in it in one go: had mine taken too it I wouldn't have been able to put 2 cats meals into it & would have had to keep topping it up. Its lightweight, flimsy & the wrong size in just about every dimension, but the most annoying feature is that the biscuits fall down into the shallow tray in great showers & just bounce out all over the floor.I'm returning it & going to try the Trixie Cat Activity Board instead. Here's hoping......

I actually think designers should receive some public recognition for saving domestic cat lives.Cats in the nature tend to have many small meals instead of the large 1-2. Modern life is busy so people give domestic cat bowl of some dry food... and cat eats it in few minutes not even feeling that he/she is overfed. Not healthy at all. If cat had hungry 'on the street' life before - this is normal behaviour to think 'food is never enough'. Especially if cat has half-domestic life.This product solves majority of the problem. Cat is active, should apply some smartness and (main reason) stops when had enough.Small disadvantage - feeder is not fixed on the floor so our cat learned many ways to 'speedup the feeding process' by pulling and even shaking the feeder. But usually this happens only when she is really hungry and then goes to the 'normal mode' - 'one by one pulling'. So it is self-regulating process.Nothing to say this product comes with a lot of fun for the whole family.

Partially works. The issue is that it is not stable and falls over to easily causing the food to spill all over. If it does not fall over it is good.

Ich bin von dem Catit Senses Futter Labyrinth absolut begeistert. Es ist eine tolle Herausforderung für meinen Kater, der nun deutlich langsamer und spielerischer frisst.Spielspaß & Lerneffekt:Herausforderung: Es hat etwas gedauert, bis er verstanden hat, wie er das Trockenfutter von oben nach unten durch die Ebenen befördern muss.Erfolgserlebnis: Mittlerweile ist er ein Profi und angelt sich das Futter geschickt aus der untersten Ebene. Die geistige Beschäftigung ist top!Mein Tipp zur Stabilität:Die Original-Matte: Diese habe ich entsorgt. Sie ist in der Mitte hohl und hat sich so stark gewellt, dass der Futterturm immer wieder aus der vorgesehenen Fassung gerutscht ist.Die Lösung: Ich habe statt der Original-Matte einfach eine eigene runde Gummiunterlage genommen. Darauf steht der Turm überraschenderweise absolut stabil und sicher, auch ohne die hohle Original-Halterung.Fazit:Ein klasse Produkt für alle, die ihren Stubentiger fordern wollen. Mit einer eigenen Unterlage kombiniert, ist es für mich die perfekte Lösung. Klare Kaufempfehlung!

Gillas av katten. Nu kan jag ha torrfoder framme hela tiden utan att han äter för mycket eftersom han får jobba lite för att få ut maten.

Comprato su consiglio del veterinario alla mia Lea che e’ una mangiatrice senza tregua! Sicuramente non se ne riserva un po’ per “momenti meno favorevoli” ma almeno mangia con un ritmo più lento e quindi le sembra anche di mangiare di più! Consigliatissimo!Ps. L’altra mia gatta Clio, sempre più sofisticata, non mangerebbe dal labirinto neanche per salvarsi la vita, troppa fatica