Let Em Forage!

Feeding your critter the right foods is important—but how you feed them can be just as important as what you feed them. While a spacious habitat, toys, and bedding all provide necessary enrichment, mealtime is another great opportunity to keep your exotic pet’s life interesting, stimulating, and active.

Why Foraging Matters

In the wild, grazers, foragers, and hunters spend significant time and energy finding their meals. By recreating that natural challenge in captivity, you can help your pet stay both mentally and physically engaged. Providing forage toys allows you to hide food or healthy treats so your pet must figure out how to get them out.

This kind of enrichment is especially important for highly active animals like sugar gliders. Simply changing the location of food or using forage toys can keep them curious, busy, and healthier overall.

How to Use Forage Toys

Forage toys are simple to use: place them in the cage, hide food nuggets or treats inside, and watch your pet go to work! It encourages natural instincts while also turning mealtime into playtime.

Exotic Nutrition offers a wide variety of foraging toys to suit all kinds of small exotics:

• Rolling Forage– a rolling puzzle that encourages chasing and nibbling.

• Triple Treat Forager– multiple compartments for hiding a variety of treats.

• Mobile Forager– hangs in the cage and swings while pets try to retrieve food.

• Nectar Pod Forager– perfect for holding tasty nectar pods.

• Forage Globe– a round challenge toy that pets roll and manipulate.

• PVC Forager– durable and reusable, great for hiding small treats.

• Forage Cup with Beads– adds a sensory element while hiding treats.

• Cage Enhancement Set– a bundle of enrichment items that keep your pet entertained.

Choosing the Right Treats

What you hide inside forage toys matters, too. Choose sensible, species-appropriate treats, such as:

• Hay and greens for grazers.

• Seeds and whole grains for grain eaters.

• Fruits and vegetables for most small exotics.

• Live or dried insects, eggs, or meats for carnivores.

By pairing the right nutrition with fun challenges, you’ll provide your exotic pet with the nutritional, mental, and physical stimulation they need—all tied together through the joy of mealtime.