LickiMat Casper & Felix

Only day 2 of use and already I've noticed a difference in the speed my cat eats and how more overall satisfied and content she seems. Great idea!

Works for the cat. Slows his eating down.

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!

Fussy cat will eat her food off this but won’t eat the same food in a bowl! Worth it for that fact alone. You need to clean these well - took a soak and scrub.

Bought two of these for my both my cats. Just a 'game' for wet treats. A bit disappointed as they are very shallow holes/shapes so it takes me longer to dribble the treats into it then it does for them to lick it all up! Ok overall though decent size and washes well

I needed to slow my cat down after trying a few puzzle feeder bowls which she just gave up with. She'll eat her food too fast and then she's sick. This mat still slows her enough to stop her being sick.

Kitty loves it, takes her 15 minutes to finish. Much longer than the usual 2 minutes of inhaling her dinner. Keeps her mind occupied while getting a treat.

Bought this to see if it would help slow my boycat down who had suddenly decided to start eating like a feral monster for no reason. They have wet food as their main meals and normally eat from small, flat plates. He ate from the mat for most of his meal but once it got to the parts that were in the grooves of it, he struggled to get the food out of it and mostly just ended up frustrated. He nipped at a couple of the grooves trying to get his food out of it sometimes and dragged it around a bit so I can see if a pet was left to eat from it they might end up tearing up the mat and even eating parts of it. I'm not sure a cat has the right kind of flexibility in its tongue to get in all the tiny spaces of the mat. I tried him with a little bit of dry kibble to see if that was easier to eat from it. The only positive of that experience was he didn't end up with half his snack all over the floor, but again some of the individual kibbles got stuck in the grooves and he couldn't get them out without me using my fingers to prise the now saliva-covered biscuits out for him. It was somewhat easy to clean by hand but I imagine the grooves could easily end up with a build up of trapped bits if not very carefully washed every single time. I think if the grooves were a little bit shallower or further apart it might have been a better purchase. Now it's just sat in the kitchen and will probably be thrown out.