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Once again I was woken up in the middle of the night by strange noises coming from the living room. This time I heard what sounded like something rolling around on the floor, coupled with intermittent crunching sounds. When I got up to investigate, I found Sadie in the pitch darkness playing with her treat/food dispensing ball. Technically the model we currently use is made for cats, but it was pretty, and pink, and is actually a round ball that Sadie can successfully roll, unlike many of the strangely shaped treat dispensing toys made for dogs. Anyway, Sadie was head butting the ball around the floor until some of her kibble fell out. Then she would sniff the pieces of dry food and pick only certain ones to eat. That meant that there was a trail of rejected food all over the living room floor, marking the path that Sadie was rolling her ball. Since I was now fully awake, I stayed and watched the proceedings. She would use her head to roll the ball around until food dropped out, but occasionally the ball would hit an obstacle and get stuck. She would then make frustrated noises and swipe at the ball with her paw, trying to dislodge it. Of course I would jump in and rescue the ball if she couldn’t unstick it, especially when it went under the couch. I ended up having to refill the ball twice before she was tired of the game and had a full tummy. While I would prefer she play and eat at a more reasonable hour, I’m glad that turning her food into a game can sometimes entice my picky eater to eat full servings of her actual dog food.
This post is part of the Tasty Tuesday blog hop brought to you by Sugar the Golden Retriever and Kol’s Notes.
Thanks for liking us! Sadie and I really appreciate the love!
LOL – poor Sadie was hungry! 🙂
What a fun game.
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so cute!! Nothing wrong with a woofie using a kitty treat dispenser, but I bet you weren’t thrilled that it woke you up!
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I think dogs just like to play/work for their food sometimes. I know I just love when Ma sticks treats in my puzzle game…I will work on that until every last treat is devoured. It might have been an inopportune time of night but if she is a picky eater, then more power to that treat dispensing ball getting her to eat a meal!
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Oz
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It is interesting that she gets hungry in the middle of the night … maybe just want to play. Happy Tasty Tuesday. Golden Woofs
We don’t understand dogs that are up at night. We go to bed early and sleep all the way through until Mom wakes us up. The pesty cats are up in the night, though. You need to eat all your food at mealtime, Sadie 😉
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We have a similar plastic treat ball that was meant for my mom’s cats (we stole it). Linus loves pouncing on the ball against the hard floors and shooting it across the room. Oh and occasionally he eat some of the treats that fall out. However, nocturnal my dog’s are not. They are sound sleeper thank goodness 🙂
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It seems strang to us that Sadie would get up to eat in the middle of the night. That is the only time we have any peace from Prince whinning for food. The only thing he is as good at as eating is sleeping 🙂 Glad Sadie enjoyed herself and got a full belly 🙂
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