Treat ball success!

We have 2 treat balls. One really easy one (red and yellow) where the treats practically leap out on their own and one challenging one shaped like an egg (purple) where the dog has to get the ball up on the egg's end to get a treat to fall out. It also has little internal spikes to keep too many from coming out at one time.

The pictures are of the balls after they have been depleted of treats. Sunshine is giving them a wide berth because if he touches them they make noise but he knows they recently contained treats so he is interested in them.


Prior to today Sunshine was scared to death of them. However, today he managed to work the really easy one. I put him in the living room on the carpet with the yellow and red one and Blossom in the kitchen on tile with the purple one. All he has to do is give the yellow and red one a nudge and a treat falls out. He was fairly hesitant but I put a starter treat under it to get him interested. Eventually he became bold enough and then got it nudged against the dog bed where he could work it with it creating a minimum of noise.

Blossom was in charge of getting the treats out of the purple one and she has no problem working it.