LICKIMATCasper, Fish-Shaped Cat Slow Feeders for Feline Boredom and Anxiety Reduction; Perfect for Food, Treats and Anxiety Reduction, Turquoise

I love this, it's a great idea for greedy pets. My dog-owning friend recommended it, and I'd never heard of Lickimats before.Our cat is completely obsessed with food and gulps down everything far too quickly - so the Casper mat is really useful for feeding him wet treats as it really slows him down. I read that licking is soothing for cats, and stimulates happy hormones, so anything that forces him to slow down his eating must be a good thing!For comparison, we timed him eating a tube of his favourite Lick E Lix treat; when served on a little dish as we previously would do, he wolfed it down in less than 60 seconds, but when served in the Lickimat for the first time he took 15 MINUTES to get every last morsel. Result!You'd need to press the wet food right into the grooves and ridges on the mat to get the most benefit; we use a little plastic knife, or you could use a wooden ice lolly stick.*WORD OF WARNING*As mentioned by a few other reviews, if your pet is exceptionally greedy / obsessed with food, you'll need to supervise them using the Lickimat. No doubt caused by the frustration of knowing there's a tiny bit of food stuck in a crevice that their tongue just can't quite reach, I can see why cats would bite and chew the mat! The material is soft and flexible so it's easy to gnaw on - see my last two photos, only a few seconds with my back turned and our hungry boy had already started to nibble the mat 🙄I'd recommend this, for only a fiver it's worth the money, easy to clean and a nice size so it won't look too unsightly on your kitchen floor - but definitely don't leave it there too long otherwise bored cats will undoubtedly try and eat it!

Sunday is very food oriented. I recently switched her evening meal to wet food, which she absolutely loves. She took to the Lickimat like a pro, with just 2 or 3 tiny morsels left at the end of her meal. She took much longer to eat than usual. Really happy with this for meal enrichment.

This is an amazing piece of kit. Recommended by our vet, it slows my cat down so he doesn't wolf his food.The result has been that, since getting it (3 months ago), there have been NO incidents of him inhaling a bowl of food and then regurgitating it on the carpet. We used to have at least one a week.It's not difficult to clean although it's not my favourite job. However, it's a million times nicer than clearing up vomit!If something ever happened to our LIKIMAT I would replace it immediately, it's absolutely brilliant.

My cats took to them straight away and it has slowed down the eating habits of my Tom cat who normally Hoovers up his food and his sister's as well. They are a bit fiddly to clean but I found a solution was to use an old toothbrush and a sink of warm soapy water and the old food came away relatively easy.

I thought, as many others did too, this would be ideal to help our cat stop wolfing down wet food (she’s far better at self regulating when it’s just biscuits/kibble). But her normal pouch food gets stuck in all the nooks and crannies of this - so yes she eats more slowly, but she gets frustrated that she simply can’t get into the corners of some of the grooves, and tried to chew her way in. So food dries all crusty and is a pain to clean too. If these were all rounded, she could lick them up but as it is, the only thing that works is the Lick-e-stick stuff, the savoury yoghurt stuff in tubes which she loves. And this mat is ideal for that, it has to be said - but at over a fiver, for something with limited use, I’m not sure it’s all that worth it - bit of a novelty.