Give your pets a fun way to relieve stress, fight boredom, and enjoy their favourite treats for longer with the Lickimat Buddy!
This innovative pet treat and food mat makes your pet’s favourite treats last longer while helping relax and soothe your pet’s anxiety or simply to cure their boredom, especially when you’re away from home. The LickiMat Tuff is designed for teething puppies and naughty dogs that would chew anything as well as the convenience of using the dishwasher.
As your pet scrapes their tongue over the textured surface, they will experience a relaxing and cleansing sensation. The textures will help scrape away food particles and bacteria from the tongue, which aid in improving overall dental and oral health. Repetitive licking also boosts saliva production that leads to better digestion due to the enzymes found in saliva. You can freeze treats (e.g., homemade bone broth, softened dog biscuits, treat pastes) on the Lickimat Buddy Tuff to give your pet a cool treat to enjoy in the heat.
Benefits of Licking and Slow-Feeding Your Pet
Repetitive licking can help calm and soothe your pet by releasing a certain hormone (endorphins) that aids in relaxation and de-stressing. Licking is like a massage to your pet, so using a Lickimat product can help make stressful situations, like going to the vet or being at home alone, easier to handle for your pet.
Adding treats to the Lickimat entices your pet to the mat and encourages them to lick over the textured surface to stimulate the calming hormone and keeps them focused on a certain activity. Lickimats can also help redirect their licking behaviour to a specific point rather than all over your furniture, carpets, etc.
You can use Lickimats to help slow-feed your pet. Slow-feeding is the process of forcing your pet to eat more slowly, and it’s ideal for pets that gulp down their food, eat other pets’ foods, and/or eat their food too fast, which can lead to indigestion and even choking. Lickimats like the Lickimat Buddy Tuff give you a surface with limited space to help slow-feed your pet. Use the spaces between the textured patterns to sprinkle kibble around the mat and make your pet take their time with eating. You can also use these slow-feed pet aids to your advantage by controlling your pet's portions. Slow-feeding can help improve overall feeding experience and digestion for your pet.
Features:
- Textured pet treat mat designed to help combat boredom and calm your pet to improve behaviour
- Can be used as a slow-feeding treat or food mat to help prolong meal and treat times – great as a hide-and-seek type pet toy
- Great to use as a medical-free way to help calm and soothe your pet during stressful times or when they’re bored at home by themselves
- Provides a way for your pet to release a calming hormone to help them relax
- Stimulates saliva production to better digestion/gut health and helps clean the tongue to improve dental and oral health
- Makes your pet’s sense of taste more pronounced due to repetitive licking.
Material: Non-Toxic, Food-Grade TPR and PET materials
Measurements: 20cm x 20cm
Give your pet better entertainment and oral health in one fun boredom buster!