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Fummel board for cats cat

As mentioned in a previous article, we want to be working properly cats. Normal toy is nice and has your cat probably very good, but would not you find it better if your cat at the same time learn something while playing? Believe us, not just you find it good if your cat has to exert their brain!

What is a Fummel board?
So-called "Fummel boards" offer brain teasers for cats, where it comes to "free" goodies from an unusual situation. Good feet and some skill is necessary to think in most Fummel boards to reach the goal.

What is the idea behind it?
cats are actually very intelligent animals in the wild very creative when it comes to get their food. Domestic cats, especially those who only live indoors, are rarely faced any challenges in order to get their food. A certain amount of mental inertia may be the consequence.

Fummel boards should not take the place the food bowl. "Ins" Fummel board is not a full food but special treats (we recommend boiled chicken), the cat likes to think. A Fummel board is therefore not only good for employment in a boring winter evening, but also the intelligence and promotes satisfaction of the cat.

Can you build Fummel boards themselves?

course! All Fummel boards were built up until a few years themselves. The whole thing is (with a little bit of technical skill) is also not a problem and can be done by anybody, ask his cat intellectually wants. Document for an ordinary Fummel board is usually a normal particle board or other large piece of wood. Now you should cellar, barn, shed, etc. Search for suitable materials. These are:

• tube remnants, which have a diameter of at least 5 cm but less than 10 cm (so it's not too easy)
• long thin wood materials (1-2 cm in diameter, at least 5 cm long and naturally sanded properly, so that your cat does not get splinters in the skin)
• Large, hollow articles, in which one can make a paw-sized hole (eg a sealed cardboard box, an old soft ice-box)
• kitchen towel rolls
• cork
• Remnants
• What you else seems likely

How can you make your Fummel board

• tube remnants, kitchen rolls etc. you can easily put back on the wooden board, adding she festtackerst or nail or stud. Keep an eye that nothing stands out so that your cat does not hurt it. Within these tubes are then treats that your cat must be out there digging with their paws. The thin pieces of wood
• and the cork to form on the board Fummel an area from which to pick out the cat treats. Therefore, they may not be too close to each other his (the paw should fit comfortably in between) and need to be sanded smooth so that no injury occurs. This is useful to use toys glued.
• The hollow objects should be provided with one or more holes (also the sand down cleanly) and then mounted on the board.
• the fabric rest you can on the wooden plate to nail clean, so is only on one side of an opening in which the cat can stick their paw

The best (we know) Fummel board page is this: www.katzenfummelbrett.ch . There are not only great instructions (all levels), but also reviews Fummel Board of happy owners.

can buy Fummel boards too?

After Fummel boards have found great success in the U.S. and were sold there massive, spilling over the whole now to Germany. You can in well-stocked pet stores buy Fummel boards, or alternatively buy on Amazon.





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