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E Instructions
General instructions
1. Play this game together with your cat and place it
somewhere, where your cat feels undisturbed.
2. Start when your cat is awake and in playing mood,
1 ½ hours after feeding at the earliest. You can
also use the normal dry feed instead of treats as an
alternative.
3. Sit down beside your cat and watch her unobtrusi-
vely and quietly without staring at her.
4. To motivate your cat, choose treats she specially
likes to begin with, and place these in the game in
her presence.
5. Help your cat with the task at the beginning to
keep her motivated. It is important for your cat to
be successful fairly quickly so that she connects
positive feelings to the game.
6. In case your cat does not achieve a subgoal after
several tries, help her or repeat a task she can do
well and train in smaller steps. Try to motivate
your cat with praise. There should never be
scolding or punishment.
7. Train in small units (max. 10 minutes) and with
small goals. Several training units during the day
provide a lot of small successes and prevent
excessive demand on your cat.
Important notice:
Cats react very differently to new toys. Some are
very motivated to play right from the start while
others have to get used to new things first. They
start by ignoring the new toy but later they play
with it excitedly. In addition to that, there are
cats that like to concentrate on a game for a
longer time, while others prefer to play for a
short while only but more often. Whichever way
your cat chooses, give her time to play the game
as she likes to do it.
Have lots of fun and success with your cat!
The training can begin
The first step is to make your cat feel sure that the
game is a guarantee for a tasty surprise. Therefore,
first spread a few treats on the game board and let
your cat eat them. Once your cat looks on
expectantly when you prepare the game, you can
begin to fill the game elements with treats.
Ball-shaped covers:
1. Place a few treats into a hollow so that your cat
can see and hear you doing it. Then cover the
hollow with one of the ball-shaped covers. Thanks
to a small hole, your cat can smell the treats. Now
your cat will try to paw away the ball to get at the
treat. If she is not successful after the first couple
of attempts, help by e.g. placing the treat only
halfway under the ball.
2. Repeat this exercise a few times until your cat can
paw away the ball without any problem and get
the treat underneath. Then increase the challenge
by introducing the next balls.
Tower:
1. To ensure that the treats fall out of the tower
easily, please use dry treats.
2. Remove all the inserts at the beginning. Throw a
treat in at the top so that your pet can see that it
comes out at the bottom by the outlet. Let your
pet eat the treat and repeat this a few times.
This will help your pet understand that it always
gets its reward at the outlet.
3. In the next step, fill the first layer with a treat and
only half close it. This allows the treat to be
detected more quickly and ensures quick success.
Show your pet how to pull out the pull compart-
ment with its paw using the loop. Reward your pet
generously, especially on the first few attempts.
4. Repeat this exercise until your pet understands
that it will receive a reward when the pull tray is
opened.
5. To increase the level of difficulty a little, gradually
close the pull compartment a little more and more
until you can finally close it completely.
6. As soon as your pet can do this easily, you can start
to include the second and later also the third level.
Supervise your pet while playing.
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