Foraging FAIL!

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So, a while back I set up a foraging toy for my ferrets to use. It's the Barrel of Fun toy, it has a drawer you twist and pull to open. My breeder hob, Finn, figured it out quickly and he loved to open it and get a treat out of it.

I assumed that my Marshall ferrets Fenton and Fiona eventually figured out how to open it too. Well, a while back Finn had to move to his own cage, separate form Fenton and Fiona. The foraging toy stayed in the cage with Fenton and Fiona. I put some freeze-dried raw in there and assumed someone would open it and eat it like always happened in the past.

Well, that was a couple months ago, and today I checked the foraging toy... Guess what...


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Nobody opened it! That NEVER happened when Finn lived in the cage, the treats were always gone in no time ;D

So, apparently Fenton and Fiona DIDN'T know how to open this toy after all ;D DOH!

I think I will stick with easier foraging toys for them, for now anyway, and leave the tricky stuff to Finn ;D

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P.S. - There were actually TWO of these Barrel of Fun foraging toys in the cage, and BOTH had old rotten, moldy, bug-infested treats inside because Fenton and Fiona never figured out how to open them up after Finn moved out

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Ummm, EWWW!
You sure it's Finn that's stinky and not the foragers? Haha.

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Nasty! I really wanna get a few of those toys for our babies too

Off topic, what in the heck is that glove thing?

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If you can get them cleaned- start showing them how they work. Treat in while open, half closed, mostly closed, etc.

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Yeah they probably need to be shown how its done.

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Yeah good idea, I'll try to teach them. Fiona after all learns tricks faster than any of my 3, i'm sure she can learn to open it

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Gross! How long has that been in there?!

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Apr 5, 2012 15:05:31 GMT -5 riley said:

Gross! How long has that been in there?!

I think it was in there for 2 months

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2... UGH! Gross, and you didn't smell it at all??

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Apr 5, 2012 16:06:12 GMT -5 riley said:

2... [img src="http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h352/JW_2012/Emoticons/i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h352/JW_2012/Emoticons/0_0.gif"].gif

[/IMG] UGH! Gross, and you didn't smell it at all??[/quote]

Nope, I don't think there was any smell, even when I cleaned it up I didn't smell anything. It was a chunk of Stella & Chewy's freeze-dried raw. Probably not wet enough to rot, mainly just grew mold lol and the bugs ate it lol...

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I'd soak them in a weak 10/90 bleach/water solution, and rinse several times before tossing them in the dishwasher to make sure the mold is all killed.

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haha guess you be checking them more often now? Did you give the grubs to your weeze as a tasty treat?

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Odds are they'd love them ;D

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OMG Mike! You didn't notice how long it went without being opened? [img src="http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h352/JW_2012/Emoticons/i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h352/JW_2012/Emoticons/0_o.gif"].gif[/IMG] You's is just as nut-so as your ferts LOL!! At least I can see that your still getting use out of the bedding you got from me. ;D

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