Welcome to the DIY enrichment toy section!
This section mostly focuses on foraging toys that can be made with common leftover household items (such as food boxes, tubes, etc)
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Pinecone Foraging Toy:
Cut a cardboard tube into strips, cut a hole in the center of each strip and interlay them (this example uses apple stick).
Use up to five strips per layer, but you can use more less. Number of layers depends different difficulty levels and how wide your strips are cut.
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Puzzle Toys:
Make by taking three or more same size pieces of coardboard. The bottom level uncut, the other levels cut space for treats. Last layer is the doors
The flap door has an apple stick taped the the door bottom, teh stick hinged via a hole on a side flap.
The roating one has a stick stuck through all layers (tape optional).
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Floor Slider Foraging Toy:
Using a box as a base (any that fix your desired tubes), cut out a section for a small layer of cardboard on the inner sides (this is to hold the tubes in place).
May or may not cut holes in the tubes, depends on what difficulty level you want to create.
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Hanging Slider Foraging Toy:
Starting with a tube, cut out a section (just enough for another tube to fit over) and tape back togeather. For no tape option can create two tubes and put them opposites seams.
Cut holes for attachment and larger holes in the side of the tube for placing treats. Recommend Making these large
Cut another carboard tube into strips and put those over the oringal tube.
Recommend that the strips can both move freely and have a minimum gap to avoid an injury via getting caught in loops
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Cube Toy:
Take a box and cut circles into, insert cardboard tubes