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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.
July 2011 · Pet Supplies · verified purchase