Offering stimulating toys can be an excellent way to keep guinea pigs happy and healthy. Toys made from natural materials like wood or twigs encourage chewing, helping their teeth naturally wear down over time.
DIY toys such as toilet paper rolls stuffed with hay or cardboard boxes transformed into tunnels are easy, economical, and fun projects to tackle. Others like this insulating JanYoo bed provide cozy spots where children can rest or hide.
Foraging Tray
Our Foraging Tray is an effective way to encourage your pet to spend more time exploring. Perfect for use in their cage, on a play stand or foraging box. Simply add in their favourite treats as well as some edible logs made of wood fibres mixed with vegetable-based ingredients and they offer all of the texture of solid wood without the risk of splintering – not forgetting they also help wear down teeth as they’re chewed!
Non-edible materials suitable for foraging trays include raffia (cut them short so your bird doesn’t become tangled), paper shred, cardboard, popcicle sticks, foam beads, plastic toy parts, straw pieces and wooden blocks. Many pet stores sell specially marked “foraging materials”.
This product comes to you in an A4 letter box style parcel which should fit through most letter boxes with free shipping!
Puzzle Feeder
Feeding puzzles are toys designed to engage your pet’s senses by holding food inside them and requiring him or her to use their paws or nose to open a container, navigate a maze, or otherwise interact with it in some way. There are many commercial manufacturers out there with suitable feeding puzzles – you could also create your own!
While you could simply place a food bowl in your pet’s cage, these toys encourage foraging to satisfy its natural instincts and promote activity and exercise that help combat boredom-related issues like overgrooming, aggression or obesity.
These items are readily available from various stores, such as eCOTRITION. Each model varies in terms of shape, size and difficulty level – for beginners we suggest starting off with something simpler before progressing to more complicated ones over time.
Balls
Many pet owners purchase large plastic exercise balls to let their guinea pigs run around on, yet these balls may cause injury to their backs when being run over by their animals and don’t provide sufficient ventilation, leading to respiratory problems for your pet.
Guinea pigs love playing with this wooden ball that they can roll and push around. Guinea pigs use these toys to satisfy their natural chewing instincts, which help keep their teeth short and healthy.
This treat ball can be filled with various treats such as chopped vegetables and dried fruit as well as portion-controlled pellet food, all within its adjustable opening for varied difficulty in reaching for food. This prevents overeating while keeping guinea pigs active and mentally stimulated.
