The treat was near the bottom of the bottle, and their heads are not big enough to get very far in. There were some comical moments as Foehn pushed the bottle along the floor of the tent trying to get her nose further inside, and for a brief second it looked like her head was stuck. She finally jiggled the bottle enough where the yogurt drop came toward the opening and she was able to have her reward. In the third bottle they manged to push the fleece halfway down the bottle, and I didn't think they would be able to get it out since it was wedged in there pretty good. Having tasted victory earlier, Foehn pretty quickly figured out how to work the fleece out of the bottle.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
A Foraging We Go...
A post in one of the glider online forums the other day gave me an idea for a foraging "toy" for the gliders. I finally got the time to try it out on Friday night. I took three empty plastic prescription bottles and drilled several small holes around the sides. M gave me some small fleece scraps, which I used to plug the opening after putting pieces of baby yogurt drops in the bottles. I then left them scattered on the floor of the tent during tent time. It did not take Foehn and CB long to figure out there was something good inside the bottles! They could smell it through the holes drilled in the bottles. It took them a few minutes to figure out how to get the bottle opened by pulling out the fleece. That's when the real challenge started. 
The treat was near the bottom of the bottle, and their heads are not big enough to get very far in. There were some comical moments as Foehn pushed the bottle along the floor of the tent trying to get her nose further inside, and for a brief second it looked like her head was stuck. She finally jiggled the bottle enough where the yogurt drop came toward the opening and she was able to have her reward. In the third bottle they manged to push the fleece halfway down the bottle, and I didn't think they would be able to get it out since it was wedged in there pretty good. Having tasted victory earlier, Foehn pretty quickly figured out how to work the fleece out of the bottle.
The treat was near the bottom of the bottle, and their heads are not big enough to get very far in. There were some comical moments as Foehn pushed the bottle along the floor of the tent trying to get her nose further inside, and for a brief second it looked like her head was stuck. She finally jiggled the bottle enough where the yogurt drop came toward the opening and she was able to have her reward. In the third bottle they manged to push the fleece halfway down the bottle, and I didn't think they would be able to get it out since it was wedged in there pretty good. Having tasted victory earlier, Foehn pretty quickly figured out how to work the fleece out of the bottle.
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