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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2005-07-08 04:18 pm

More Woodchuck Enrichment



Fold end of a cardboard toilet paper tube down to close it. Put vegetables from woodchuck's diet inside.



Fold other end of tube to close it, and insert into a cardboard paper towel tube. Put more vegetables from woodchuck's diet into this tube. Repeat first step and insert tp tube into pt tube, to create a three-chambered cardboard tube of vegetables.



Give tube to woodchuck. For further enrichment, put tube into a small closed cardboard box, or a paper bag.



Woodchucks will use what I call the "Gordian solution" to get at the vegetables quickly. (This is why several tubes are used: so that the woodchuck will spend more time getting to its diet.)

[identity profile] wakarusa.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
pretty darn cool.

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent.

[identity profile] artemii.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
it is so cute!!

it looks straight out of a beatrix potter book.

[identity profile] momomom.livejournal.com 2005-07-09 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
LOL, They can eat quick...as evidenced by my frequently mowed down garden.

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Farm McGregor
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tubular dishes

[personal profile] frith 2005-08-04 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I've used unblocked paper-towel tubes as an alternative dish for the ed fruit bats in the bat box, and similarly, I've used milk cartons in a box on its side as an alternative to the stainless food tray for the fruits bats on exhibit.