Nice to see the results
A real mixture of answers were given by the looks of it

Don't worry Cinderella, I took the server down after I published the results. I've got all the data I need now. Thanks for trying though!

Thanks Callie - I am one of the respondents and am pleased that you did post up the results to share with us. It makes interesting reading.

I was interested to know how many others did things like hide food to encourage foraging. I have tried this before - with my cats, but they look disdainfully at the 'muck left about' and will not touch unless food is properly presented, in a clean dish, in their (nursery) or my dining room.

I was also interested to see how many others used the treat ball. My lot were offered an empty loo roll with the ends loosely sealed up so that treats would spill out if the thing was rolled. Once again, they were more pleased with rolling the thing about than picking up the treats but even then, they got bored of it so I had to take it away and offer them something else.

... and yes, I do rotate the play items so that they occassionally have some in the draw whilst others are out for playing with.

Some things work for some cats and not for others.

I hope the survey helps with your studies - let us know how you get on Callie.

Best purrs.

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best purrs

Ra

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Hey Rraa I was one who clicked no to treat balls he just wouldnt be interested as he is a ganit lol. I tried once and he just batted it out of the way and looked at me as if to say "do you really expect me to work for my food " so i gave up hehe.

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Yeah Rraa, the results have been a lot of help, of course I did have to qualify them with "most participants were from cat fancy websites and as such were likely more involved with their cats than average owners." but I praised you all and said they "showed a surprisingly good understand of enrichment techniques"

But yes, I agree, all things are not for all cats! (Even have a big chunk about that in my conclusion) My cat won't eat anything that's not in her bowl either- unless it's treats, and in that case it has to be from your hand. A very picky little girl!