How to build an Enrichment Rope Ladder
Today’s post comes to us from Stephanie Beatson, a Zookeeper with a passion for enrichment building. In this article, you will learn how to build an enrichment rope ladder that can be extremely useful...
Category: Small mammals
Hanging Barrel Shelf
Quite often, when trying to make enrichment items, you have to make do with what you have laying around behind barns and in sheds. This project was no exception, I had quite a few...
Hanging PVC Tube Feeder
Continuing on with my PVC enrichment projects, here is an extremely easy to build Hanging PVC Tube Feeder. This is potentially the easiest item to build I have ever posted and really only requires...
PVC Teeter Feeder
As you can see by my last few posts I’ve been on a bit of a PVC fix lately, just really playing around with different enrichment variations and goals that can be achieved with...
Tube Teeter-totter
A PVC Tube Teeter-Totter for Small Mammal Enrichment This simple PVC tube-teeter totter is ideal for many small playful mammals such as meerkats or even skunks. This is also great because it is clearly...
Small Mammal Chute
How to Build a Small Mammal Chute with only Scrap Materials For this project I set off to make a functional small mammal chute that could be used to injection train a pair of...
Block Puzzle Feeder
Description A puzzle feeder is simply a device that has some sort of complexity involved in order for the animal to obtain food. Puzzle feeders are very popular with pet owners as it can...
How to Build an Animal Crate
Description Have you ever been in an animal emergency and gone to grab a old plastic cat carrier only to find one of those tiny pins is missing or the bottom is cracked or...
Custom Cat Tree/ Small Mammal Tower
Description People pay hundreds of dollars for poorly built cat trees at pet stores all the time, but why not just build your own? The cat tree featured in this article was not build...
Fire Hose Triangle Enrichment Toy
Description This is a fun and simple toy that can be used to enrich a variety of animals. The durability of the fire hose and the rigidness of the plywood means is can be...
