Treatstik Large Meal and Treat Dispensing Dog Toy

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This is a quality product. I used the pink version of this large Treatstik (9.75" long) to feed my 50lb. border collie one of her 2 meals a day of her dry kibble. It both entertained her and slowed down her too-rapid eating. (The Treatstik was recommended by name to me by a dog trainer for this purpose.)

Treatstik is well made of thick, hard, sturdy nylon that is smooth, with no sharp parts. Even the hole treats are dispensed from has smoothed edges. Our border collie passed away a couple of weeks after we got the Treatstick (from a pre-existing auto-immune disorder), so I cannot speak to how long it would have lasted. Of course no dog toy is indestructible if you have a super-strong chewer, and I can't say what a stronger/larger jawed chewer than mine would do with it, but this toy is so sturdy and well made that I fully expect that it would have lasted for years with my dog: she did not seem too interested in chewing on it, mainly just knocking the food out (which occupied her for quite a while, but was not so hard to do that she became frustrated & felt the need to chew it open). I might add that she worked on it quite vigorously, pawing hard at it and knocking it into furniture. There were no furniture scratches since the toy is so smooth, but over time it could mar delicate furniture, of course. But we're dog people, so we're used to this, eh? I toss throw pillows or towels in front of certain furniture legs, etc, when I give my dog this inside.

I've looked at all the treat/food dispenser toys I can find in stores and online, and I've bought several, but this is the only one I've continued to use. Unlike the others, Treatstik is very easy to fill through its large opening; even my sore hands can screw the cap on/off easily (cap even has smooth ridges that help grasp it with wet hands); cap stayed on while my dog played with it; and it's very easy to wash by hand, or it's dishwasher-safe.

Note that the Treatstik website says it is not for "toy" dogs: the hole that dispenses the treats is by my measure approximately 3/4" long by 1/2" wide oval. The small size Treatstik (6" long) has the same size hole. So I believe your dog might be a bit safer if she has lower canines farther apart than ¾" (the latter is just my opinion).

The large Treatstik holds up to 1.5 cups of treats or kibble, and the smalll size holds ½ cup. Although the large size that I already have works fine with my 14lb mini poodle, and she loves it (I supervise her with it, and her lower canines are wider than the hole), I plan to order the smaller size simply because I plan to give the large one to a friend who has a big dog. My little dog eats only 1/3 cup kibble per meal, so I don't need the large size anymore.

UPDATE 10/25/12: I've been using the small Treatstik for several days now with my miniature poodle (14lbs, 11" tall at shoulder, bordering on small enough to be called a toy, but with lower canines wider than the hole). Both sizes have the same size treat dispensing hole, and both are the same excellent quality construction. I thought that the small would be better for this much smaller dog to handle, but I have decided that I prefer the large one that I already have, even for my small dog. The smaller toy is so much narrower in diameter in the part where the dispensing hole is, that if I put her entire 1/3 cup kibble in it (it has a ½ cup capacity per manufacturer), my dog feels she might be able to reach the kibble by just lying down & chewing at the hole to get to the food something she never even tried with the large version, and not what I want her to do with this toy. So I have to feed her the 1/3 cup in 2 installments, a minor nuisance (but not an issue if you're only using it to feed a few treats at a time). Also, I had thought that she would be able to pick up & tilt the smaller version to get every last kibble out, which she couldn't do with the larger one since it was too thick for her small mouth to pick up. However, she still can't pick up the fatter end of the small one, which is where she would need to grasp it to tilt it to get the food to fall down to where the hole is (she frustrates easily & won't experiment with creative ways to tilt it)so she has the same problem with both sizes, causing her to get frustrated & give up on getting the last 6-10 pieces of (very small bites size) kibble out. This is not a big problem since I always supervise her while she uses it, so whichever size Treatstik we're using, I just shake the kibble down to the hole for her a few times toward the end of play. So both sizes work pretty much the same for my small dog, except that I can put her whole meal at one time in the large one, and the small one just requires a refill part way through, so just a little more involvement on my part.

This is just my take on it. My dog gives up easily & never goes back to toys that frustrate her, but some small dogs might work at the small Treatstik until they figured out a way to tilt the food out which might even be a good thing to keep them busy longer?

Please forgive the long wordy review. I wanted to give as much detail as possible, since this is a relatively expensive toy I wish I'd known all this before I invested in the 2nd one that I ended up not needing.

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My dog (lab) has separation anxiety. I put a small amount of his dog food in here and get ready to leave and he couldnt care less when i grab my purse and keys. only toy that has ever done that for him. success! it is heavy and durable.

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He rolls it around until it gets stuck in a corner, then picks it up and carries it around a bit before deciding the best place to drop it and start rolling it around again. :)

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This is one of my dog's favorite toys. She had one that I got at a pet store and finally trashed it but I could not find it anywhere but amazon this time. Happy I did.

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Product arrived without the top and could not be used. Company just told me to order another one. Made of a material that if product was dropped on a floor by pet it would crack. Bad choice for a toy especially for a yellow lab