Your Cat Needs a Puzzle Feeder! Let me tell you why!

Regardless of how pampered your cat is, make no mistake...she's a very

skilled hunter, the tiny relative of the greatest predatory carnivores on the
planet. Modern cat puzzle feeders can help to channel some of your cat’s
instinctual predatory instinct. So let's dig a bit deeper to see just how these
clever feeding tools can help to keep your feline mentally and physically
stimulated and prevent many of the negative behaviors associated with a
bored cat.

First off, What is a cat puzzle feeder?

A cat puzzle feeder is basically, a food dispenser. However, unlike a

feeding bowl, which just gives your cat it’s dinner, a puzzle feeder is
designed so that your cat must work to extract food rewards. It’s this act of
working to get food, which forces your cat to problem solve, expending a
fair amount of mental and physical energy. This channels your cat's natural
prey drives, and helps to prevent boredom by keeping her tuned in, instead
of tuned out!

Let's see why you need one for your cat!

Why does my cat need a puzzle feeder?

Cats are perhaps the most specialized hunters amongst all mammals.

Everything about them, from their head shape and tooth structure to the
length of their intestines and cleverly retractable claws, has evolved to eat
meat.

But the eating bit is only one small part of the story.

The other part involves the catching.

See, like all other cats, both large and small, your cat has evolved over
millions of years to catch prey animals.
And like it or not, this predatory behavior is hard-wired into your cat by way
of its carnivorous ancestry.

If you spend some time watching a domestic cat hunt, you’ll see the very
same stalking and ambush techniques employed by big cats, like lions.

Even the manner in which they subdue, immobilize and kill their prey is
identical to their much larger relatives,

Locating, stalking, capturing and killing are behaviors, that like but noticibly
absent in the daily lives of our housecats.

This leaves your cat sort of in limbo as it does not get to do the very thing
that it was designed to do.

So how does a puzzle feeder help?

See when cats hunt in the wild, they use large amounts of both mental and
physical energy.

What might seem like a simple thing on the surface is actually a finely
orchestrated collection of both mental and physical skills.

Learn the best places and times to hunt, patiently observing prey, learning
its habits and routines. Quietly stalking and the spring-loaded final rush with
all that potential energy, a frenzy of fur and claw.

That’s a lot different that begging in the kitchen.

The simple truth is that your cat is a killing machine.

It's what she was designed to do.

But unfortunately, if your cat lives indoors, these behaviors which are at the
very heart of your cat's biology and personality, have been silenced.

And this can cause your cat to develop some serious problems.

A cat puzzle feeder can help

See, when any living thing is not able to express it's most primal urges, it
suffers.

Every animal lover knows this to be true.

In many ways this is no different than a calf being separated from a mother
cow. The pain can make an animal go bonkers simply because it is going
against such deeply ingrained and hard-wired instincts.

Those large amounts of mental and physical energy that were once used to
find food, now have no way of being expended.

most indoor cats, these activities have disappeared from their daily
routines, only to be replaced with looking out the window or curling up on
the sofa and taking another nap.