Pet Zone IQ Treat Ball Adjustable Dog Treat Ball (Slow Feeder, Dog Puzzle Toy, Treat Dispensing Toy

Product Description

Pet Zone IQ Treat Ball is a fun alternative to slow feed dog bowls that promote a healthy lifestyle for your pet. Add your dog’s favorite treats or kibble in the dog toy ball, only allowing them to eat what is dispensed when they roll the treat dispensing dog toy. It can be filled with treats or kibble and set to the desired difficulty level using the ball’s adjustable interior disc. Our food-dispensing dog toy promotes active feeding, giving your dogs the exercise they need, and then rewarding them for it!

Top Reviews

20 minutes of FREEDOM!!!!!!!! Lol, TWENTY MINUTES!!!!!!!
by PJ (5 out of 5 stars)
February 3, 2018

This IQ treat ball is the third mind game I have purchased for my six month old puppy. For reference, she is a 6.5 pound Chorkie and I purchased the 3" ball and fill it with small breed puppy dry food.

About this ball first,......it is the least expensive and most engaging of all three games that I have purchased. I will list the other two below. This ball takes her twenty minutes to eat the same amount of food that previously took her two minutes. Now, anyone with an active puppy knows the value of anything that will keep your puppy occupied for twenty minutes. The only thing previous to this ball to keep her occupied for this long was a brand new pool cue!!! Yes, I did say pool cue and brand new, .....and six pound puppy, lol. My husband says that's okay, the other dog owners in the park with their frisbee will have nothing on him when he takes that pool cue out and flings it and yells fetch and our little Chorkie picks it up and comes running.

When I first got this ball, I took it apart to fill it,......big mistake!!! It took me forever to get it back together with food inside. Instead, I find it easier to just drop the pieces into the hole from the top and shake them down. Keep it screwed tightly, as it can pop open with all that action. The only reason I will take it apart now is for cleaning.

Now, the other two games I bought for her were the Trixie treat tower (think doggy Kerplunk) and the Trixie level 2 flip board. Both are cute and fun for her, but she figured them out in five minutes and now can do them in less than two minutes. Nevertheless, they are fun for her and make her feel smart. If I could only afford one game, it would be this ball, as it keeps her busy for twenty minutes, 20 full minutes,......imagine what you can do with twenty minutes of freedom!!!!!
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Dog ended up in the Emergency Room last Night
by Elke Eason (1 out of 5 stars)
July 17, 2019

I got this Ball in the Mail yesterday for my Yorkie/Maltese/Bichon Frise Mix..she is 7.2 lbs and played with it for like 10 minutes before she got her bottom Jaw/Teeth completely stuck in the ball and we could not remove it at all.. We had to go to the Emergency Vet and she was sedated and had to have that Ball surgically removed from her Teeth/Jaw ...The Ball cut into her Gums and made them Bleed and left her with abrasions on her Neck as well... She is now on Antibiotics and will not be able to eat her regular Food for a few Days till her Gums heal... She is still groggy and sleeps a lot... I would like to know why there is no Warning what so ever about this being able to happen to small Dogs?? I ended up paying $245.00 for the Vet Bill..I think you Guys should pay that ...
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My dogs love this! It's perfectly challenging for hours of fun
by Future MD (5 out of 5 stars)
June 17, 2015

My dogs love this! It's perfectly challenging for hours of fun. They get so excited playing with it and I'm happy that it worked out. The 3-inch ball is great for toy/small breeds. The kibble and treats for this sized dog are the perfect size for this toy. The toy also comes with a guide and tells you which size treat/kibble to use. The photo attached shows a size comparison between the Roku remote and the toy.
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Good Puzzle Toy
by Alex (5 out of 5 stars)
January 11, 2018

My corgi eats SO FAST. We got him a puzzle feeder, and he still tears through his food like you wouldn't believe. We feed him his dinner after we sit down to eat and is done within minutes, and then is at the dog ringing his potty bells like a mad man.

I tried this out the first night it arrived. I put in 1/4 cup of his dinner (which I think is the max we could probably get it) and it took him a good 20 minutes to work it all out so we were finally able to eat dinner in peace. After he got it all out, we put the remainder of his dinner in his puzzle feeder. It's super easy to clean and take apart! We'll be trying to feed him his whole dinner out of this eventually, it's good to keep him busy for a while!
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Great idea but flawed design - will work if you give it time
by Lanatec (4 out of 5 stars)
April 16, 2016

Bought this hoping it would be a good distraction for my dog who chews his paws excessively. As great as this toy sounds, it is a very poor design and does not work.
1. The sizes of the treats required in it is just too small. We used some of his dog food which matched the treat size on the enclosed picture but because the hole in the toy is oval, the food would rarely come out unless they were positioned exactly right.
2. When rolled, the ball will only roll along the edge where the two halfs come together and doesn't roll so the part with the hole is on the bottom for treats to dispense. It's like the ball is weighted and doesn't roll the way it should to dispense treats.

We tried smaller items (dried macaroni) to test it as well as removing all the plastic inserts and it still won't dispense items. My dog lost interest in it quickly. On the plus side, he does spend some time guarding it as it has treats inside but he has no interest in it otherwise. Wish I had bought one from a store where I could have seen how it would roll or how big the hole actually was. Save your money and try something else.
**UPDATE** - One day after posting the above review (with 1 star), my dog finally figured out how to use this treat ball. I still believe that the design could be better as far as the size of treats you can insert and the size and shape of the dispensing hole. However, my dog enjoys to play with it now and we have since had to insert two of the plastic inserts to increase difficulty. He will search it out and play with it or guard it from the cat about once a day. Has held up to his gentle pushing - he isn't aggressive with it and doesn't chew on it. I would not recommend it for a large dog who chews on everything.
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Hours of dog-soccer entertainment! A godsend for rainy days...
by Nattylou (4 out of 5 stars)
August 22, 2016

How do I love "Kibbleball"? Let me count the ways...

We've had ours for probably two years and our very smart, very active little Min-Pin mutt has never gotten tired of it. God bless the makers of Kibbleball. We give them as gifts. We live in a rainy climate, and on days when the weather is just too awful to do our usual walks, this thing is a life-saver. We fill it with little pencil-eraser-sized "Zukes" treats, which are perfect, or wee cubes of homemade "tuna fudge" (Google it!), or chunks of freeze-dried liver, and it provides hours of entertainment, for both the dog, and the people, who like to watch him get ridiculously rambunctious. Over time, he has figured out how to game the system, and developed a whole repertoire of moves designed to yield maximum kibble. He is the Pele of Kibbleball, and clearly loves this thing more than he loves us.

It has only two drawbacks: It is a bit loud on hard surfaces, and gets more loud and rattly over time, so we don't love it when he suddenly gets inspired to play Kibblesoccer at 2 a.m. And, even though we switched to the bigger size, it still rolls under things, and gets stuck - the equivalent of a crisis in my dog's world. When this happens, he will come and make tragic faces and little moans at us until he can lead one of us to it, to get it unstuck for him. Which is cute and funny, unless you can't find the darned thing...
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Will drive you insane but entertain your dog...
by SleepingKnight (4 out of 5 stars)
February 22, 2019

If you have a food/treat motivated dog this is the toy to get. Be warned though, the dog will also drive you insane playing with it if they are anything like mine because they will do nothing but chase it around the house until every scrap of treat is gone.

I do enjoy that this ball has 3 levels of "difficulty" meaning it takes longer for them to get the treat out and have to roll it around more before they get a reward which means play time is longer. I started out with none of the trays inside so she understood that rolling the ball rewarded her with food, and then gradually added difficulty so she wouldn't give up or get "bored" with the toy. But really there was no risk of that because food was involved so she was all over it.

I have noticed that if she's been playing with it for a long time it's good for me to pick it up and make sure it's still screwed shut all the way, because it has come unscrewed before from where she had it pinned in a corner and was turning it over and over and over. So it is possible for it to open, but only if left "unsupervised" for a long time and even then it's only happened twice.

The other downside to the ball is it's size, it's very small and easily goes under every single piece of furniture in the house. We have hardwood floors, so when she's pushing it on the ground and it's rolling she sometimes pushes it under the couch or chair. Which in her mind is a tragedy and then must come find a human to fetch her ball for her. She will literally stare and us and bug us until we get it for her to play with again, of course sometimes it goes immediately back under the couch, so again, they might drive you insane playing with it if they keep losing it.

A small trick I've come to do is I've gotten a really really large cardboard box that's shallow but wide (usually the box her dog food is delivered in) and put the ball in the box and then she plays in the box with the ball but since there are walls the ball doesn't go under the furniture as much. Over all, a good price for a toy that hasn't been destroyed yet and one that she loves, because food.
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Great toy for high energy, intelligent breeds
by Aeryn Kelly (5 out of 5 stars)
November 10, 2017

5 year old Pomeranian - afraid of it, too lazy to hit it for food, though appreciates food comes from it.
14 wk old Golden - ADORES this ball. He only stops with it if it's out of food, or if he's lost it behind/under something.

Recommend high energy dog, intelligence a plus (especially with the higher difficulty rings) and while puppy food fits perfectly in this I doubt adult Golden food will work at all. Consider a small dog treat or kibble (even if you're giving to a larger dog breed). You *can* use this as their only meal dispenser, if you like, but I found that giving him half his meal properly in his bowl and half in the ball works best. Highly food motivated dogs obviously are going to have a better time with this, and the puppy seems more concerned with hitting it and rattling it and hunting down the kibble it leaves behind later. Though I *am* giving this to a puppy, and thus we're in a room with a wood floor, I recommend supervising a fully potty trained dog on a carpet as this ball does make quite a lot of noise, both from the kibble and the dog hitting it. Supervision recommended mostly so the ball is not lost (my puppy will dig into anything to try to get it back) and so they don't chew on it. It withstands chewing, but there's risk of teeth getting caught in it as per other reviewer reports.
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Didn't even survive an hour...
by BME (1 out of 5 stars)
November 16, 2017

Gave this to my 14lb dog who brought it onto the couch to try and get to the treats. Naturally, this resulted in the ball falling to the hardwood floor several times, only to be picked up and brought back onto the couch. Less than an hour into play, the ball fell onto the floor and cracked at the seam, along the threads holding the two halves of the ball in place. Ball pops open, treats go flying, and now the ball is too damaged to close and use again. Overall, rather useless.
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We love this!
by Hannah (5 out of 5 stars)
January 4, 2016

I have a miniature dachshund who is almost a year old. He got this you for Christmas and he loves it. It rolls on both the carpets and tile. But he usually plays in the kitchen because it rolls farther and faster. We put Purina puppy chow inside and it's the perfect size to fall out every so often to keep him entertained! I would definitely recommend!

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