A puzzle you can make harder as they learn.
Both ends open independently and adjust, so the difficulty moves with the dog. A puzzle that is solved and then fixed at that setting stops being a puzzle within days.
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Why you'll love it
Both hatches open is an easy first week. Narrow them and the same toy takes three times as long, which is the difference between a month of use and a lifetime of it.
Kibble that has to be nudged out a few pieces at a time cannot be inhaled, which takes the edge off the bloating and sick ups that follow a bolted meal.
Sniffing food through the holes and pushing the toy around burns mental energy, and a dog that has spent it is far less interested in the skirting board.
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The usual life cycle of a puzzle toy is a week of enthusiasm followed by indifference. The dog works out the trick, the trick does not change, and there is nothing left to solve. What was mental work becomes a slightly awkward bowl, and the toy goes in a cupboard.
Adjustable hatches change that. Open both wide and food falls out readily, which is the right starting point. Narrow them and the dog has to be more deliberate about the angle and force. Close one entirely and the whole problem changes shape. A toy that can be made harder stays interesting for months rather than days.
Set both hatches fully open for the first few sessions so food comes out within seconds. The dog needs to learn that this object produces food before it will invest any effort in it, and a first encounter that yields nothing teaches exactly the wrong lesson.
Once the dog is working confidently, narrow one hatch. Give it a few days, then narrow the other. Aim for a session that lasts several minutes rather than seconds or forever: a puzzle that takes twenty minutes and ends in the dog walking away frustrated is set too hard and is worth backing off.
The rounded dumbbell ends are deliberate. A ball rolls away in a straight line and ends up under furniture; a weighted dumbbell rocks back towards the middle after each nudge, so it stays in the open where the dog is working rather than needing rescuing every few minutes.
It is not quiet. Hard plastic loaded with kibble being pushed around a hard floor is audible throughout the house, which is worth knowing before you set a dog up with one during a work call. On a rug it is considerably better, and the toy still works.
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With both ends open he had emptied it in four minutes on the first day. Shutting one side down turned it into a proper twenty minute job and he is still interested a month later. Being able to change the difficulty is the reason I would buy it again.
The rounded ends do mean it rolls back towards him rather than stopping dead, which is the clever part. It is a solid lump of plastic though and it clatters into the skirting board, so we keep it to the carpeted room. He gets about 150 grams of kibble out of it over an evening.
You can see at a glance whether there is anything left, so I know when to call it a day rather than leaving him nosing an empty toy round the kitchen. The chamber takes a decent amount and fills easily. It wipes out with a cloth and there is no smell to the plastic.
The listed food size is up to about 1.5 by 2.3 cm and that is accurate. Our usual training biscuits go through fine, and the larger jerky strips we tried had to be broken up first. Once you are using the right size it dispenses steadily.
It is well made and the adjustable hatches are a good idea in principle. My collie cross had both settings worked out inside three days and now empties it on the narrow setting almost as quickly. Still useful, but it has not stayed a challenge the way I was led to expect.
He used to get through a bowl before the other one had started hers. Putting his dinner in here means he nudges it round the kitchen for a good fifteen minutes and he seems perfectly happy about the arrangement. He goes looking for the toy now, which I did not expect.
The opening into the centre chamber is smaller than I pictured and I spilled kibble everywhere the first two times. A funnel or a steadier hand sorts that out. Once it is loaded it dispenses evenly from both ends and she is occupied for ages.
An hour of shoving the dumbbell round the kitchen and he is done for the evening, which our woodwork appreciates. The weight means he cannot fling it about, it stays low and rolls. The plastic has taken a lot of chewing and shows almost nothing for it.
I started with everything wide open so she got a reward almost immediately, which is what stopped her giving up on it in the first five minutes. Narrowed the hatches a fortnight later and she stuck with it. That progression is the whole selling point and it worked exactly as described.
Good questions
No. Rinse the chamber in warm soapy water and let it dry fully before refilling, or damp kibble will stick around the hatches.
It is a food dispensing toy, not a chew toy. Dogs that settle down to gnaw rather than push should be supervised with it.
Hand washing is safer for the adjustable hatches, since repeated hot cycles can distort the mechanism and make the settings unreliable. Warm soapy water and a bottle brush for the chamber.
It is a puzzle toy rather than a chew, so a dog that settles down to grind through plastic should be supervised with it and given a purpose made chew instead.
Dry pieces up to roughly 1.5 by 2.3 cm, which covers most kibble, small biscuits and cut jerky. Wet food will not dispense and clogs the hatches.
Last reviewed 30 August 2026
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