Outward Hound Nina Ottosson Lickin' Layers Interactive Puzzle Game & Slow Feeder, Multicolor, One-Size, 2 cup

Our old girl doesn't play much anymore and mostly sleeps. I've been looking for something for her that she could still get excited about and would be mentally stimulating to her. We tried the licking bowl with the ball in the center and she absolutely loves it but she finishes it in about 5 minutes. With this bowl, it comes apart easily for cleaning so I took it apart and smeared peanut butter into the bottom later, sprinkled small training treats in the middle later, and poured a dog gravy on the top. She has been steadily licking at the peanut butter layer for a half hour. Every now and then she licka the other 2 layers. She's tried to bite the thing a few times but it holds up well and doesn't tip over. I put a towel down because I wasn't sure if it would be stable but it hasn't made a mess at all. I'm so happy with this find because it makes my fur baby so happy!

I put little treats and peanut butter throughout and gave it to my dog (120lb German Shepherd) who just had surgery. He sort of figured out how to spin the tiers, alternately he slapped his paw down on it and tried biting it, that wasn't hugely successful, as it turns out. The plastic is pretty hefty in my opinion. Now, I'm sure a heavy chewer could absolutely destroy it, I'm fortunate enough my boy doesn't gnaw on anything but bones. But as far as smacking it around and biting at it? It did great. The pieces come apart reasonably easily. If you flip it over there is what looks like two crescents, if you squeeze them together the lip of the crescents gets out of the way and the pieces come apart. I ran the pieces through the dish washer. Not sure if it's "dishwasher safe" but it worked for me lol.

I have two dogs, a dachshund and a red tick coonhound. I got this because my red tick eats so quickly he’s done with his food in about a minute. Not even joking, he will scarf down 2 cups of food in one minute. I’ve tried the bowl with the swirls in the base and it didn’t slow him down at all. So I decided to try this one. Definitely worth the investment. I fed him his breakfast, putting one cup of dry dog food in it this morning. Took him 8-ish minutes just to eat a cup when in a normal bowl it takes him 1 minute to finish 2 cups. He did get frustrated for a minute at the beginning and tried to lift the bowl and dump the food out. Jokes on him because the layers are too close together to dump it out. Smaller dry dog food may be easily dumped out but I have not tried it. For reference, he eats the standard Pedigree Adult dry dog food (yellow bag). He’s a very energetic hound so I think this will also help stimulate him mentally.

I have a largeish (80lb) mutt and we like to alternate between a few different mazes for his food. I just used this for the first time and it took him about 5 minutes. He is highly food motivated so I didn't expect it to be much longer, but it still tired him out (at least mentally) a bit, and he's panting next to me as I type. The problem I wish I noted before purchasing is that large dog kibble is tough to toss into the maze; the interlocking levels are too close together to move for large kibble pieces to be in the same honeycomb/compartment together. We use Wellness Large Dog Dry Kibble, which are about the size and width as the tip of my thumb- probably on the larger dog food size. So, it took me 1-2 minutes just to get his food into each level. I wish they were spaced a little further apart, and might take the maze apart to fix this issue myself. If you have smaller dog kibble (say, smaller than the Goldfish snack) this won't be a problem for you, but I wish I had known it! Like I said, we alternate between this and a few other basic mazes (the large red Kong food dongle being my favorite, although it can be messy it takes him at least 10 minutes) so I won't be returning but I definitely won't choose this one when I'm in a hurry.