AiKiou Interactive Pet Feeder Giveaway
The U.S. has an epidemic of overweight and bored pets, but there’s AiKiou to the rescue. The Canadian-based company AiKiou (pronounced as I.Q.) has a line of inter-active feeder and puzzle toys designed to make pets work for their meal as they would in nature. They are ideal for pets who eat too quickly and bored pets needing stimulation. As an ex-pat Canadian, I was delighted to connect with Alex Tremblay, the company’s co-founder and fellow Montrealer who sent me a big box of their products.
It quickly became clear all the products can be used for both cats or dogs and even their popular squeaky toys for dogs could be sprinkled with catnip for furry, feline fun. Even a blind cat like Merlin was intrigued. After all, cats rely largely on their sense of smell.
The star attraction though is their newly improved award-winning Stimulo Cat Interactive Feeder which won “Best in Show” at Global Pet Expo in 2012. The sturdy and easy to clean feeder and interactive toy consists of a series of hollow tubes that can be inserted into holes in the base in any configuration. Dry cat food is sprinkled into the tubes and cats use their paws to hunt and fish the morsels out. For those who don’t want to use it as a feeder, can sprinkle a few treats or stuff little catnip balls or mice. Our Odin thought the tubes make good hockey pucks!
I love pet companies that give back and AiKiou does big time. They’ve donated over 15,000 feeders to shelters and for every 50 new Facebook likes, they donate one to a shelter. So please go like their AiKiou Facebook page! where they also hold contests. You already follow us on Facebook right? If not, head over to Facebook.com/Cat Wisdom101 and like us. We post lots of fun stuff.
For our giveaway, I decided to offer our winners a chance to give back to shelters too. Our giveaway will have two winners who will win a Stimulo Cat feeder and a Paw Plunger. They will receive both but we hope they keep one and donate the other to a shelter. Sound good?
To Enter our AiKiou Giveaway, leave a comment before 11:59 pm EST, October 12, 2013. For extra chances to win, subscribe to our Friday photo quote newsletter, social media share and tell us where you shared in a separate email. If you like, tell us what shelter you’d like to donate to.
This giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY to anyone 18 and over. Good luck! To see the entire line of products and videos on how they work, visit AIKiou.com
The winner of our Nordic Naturals giveaway is Sometimes Cats Herd You. Congratulations. Please look for an email from Layla requesting your shipping address.
47 Comments
Nancy Blue Moon
This would be such fun for my cats and for me to watch them..Thanks for the chance to win!
Catherine Turley
I have some really smart cats who drive me crazy. they need this desperately.
Kyo
Very curious about these products. We would love to try them
Annette Prejean
I shared the giveaway on Pinterest. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/245446248415203282/
Annette Prejean
I subscribed to the Friday photo quote newsletter.
Annette Prejean
My cats would enjoy this. One of them loves to eat with his paws – he uses them as forks/spoons, so he’d be especially intrigued with this feeder.
Milene
Looks like a great way to slow down my greedy eaters.
Karen Higgins
My sweet orange tabby Abigail would benefit from this! She eats too fast and then upchucks! I shared this on Facebook also!
judle
Love this! Entertains and slows down eating. Excellent.
Mags E
I shared on Google
Mags E
I shared on Twitter
Mags E
I shared on Facebook
Mags E
With eleven hungry mouths to feed and as many interests to peak, I sure would love to have one of those feeders to keep my guys busy for a bit! LOL ^..^
Mags E
With eleven hungry moths to feed and as many interests to peak, I sure would love one of those auto feeders to keep my guys busy for a while!
Lillian Stobbe
I would love to win and would share with Parkland Humane Society and with my foster cat Tori the tortie cat.
Cynthia Southern
I shared on Google +.
Cynthia Southern
I shared on Facebook.
Cynthia Southern
I shared on Pinterest.
Cynthia Southern
I would love to win. I love the Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary in NC.
Heather and Ellie Mae
We would love to try one of these. If we win the second feeder would go to Paws & More Shelter in Washington, IA This is the rescue group that took good care of Ellie Mae O’Cat until she could rescue me. 🙂
Prickly Pinecone
I have never seen this before! Such a great idea!
Susan Rutter
I can’t believe how fantastic and fun this feeder would be for my 2 cats. It’s a game and also a nutritional blast 🙂
Laurie
These look really cool! I have the balls and stuff that you put food in, but these look like they would be more challenging and slow down eating. I have one dog that inhales her food!
Melissa M
This looks so fun!
meowmeowmans
OOOOOH! Those sure are cool, and we know some kitties who they could benefit. 🙂
Sometimes, Cats Herd You
Oh, we’ve been trying to remember the name of this for a week. What good timing! We’ve been trying to think of a way to slow down Cousin Earl’s eating, and we remembered reading great things about this after last year’s Global Pet Expo.
Skeeter and Izzy
Hooray for Aikiou for giving to shelters!!! Stimulo Cat Interactive Feeder sounds like a futureistic gadget fur sure. Izzy loves to “hunt” for her food, we have a treat egg that she adores. We would most definitely donate one!
Concats to the winner of the other contest!!!!
We LUV AIKIOU!!!!
Luvs Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang >^..^<
Monica
What a great idea. My cats would love it.
Carolyn
I think Austin would not bother. He would give me “The Look” and go outside and kill something!! But I would have lots of fun with it!! lol
Leanne Rioux
With 6 cats 2 overweight and 1 diabetic this would be a fabulous product. My cats are basically lazy only indoor cats i think they are often bored
Tricia Janes
what a great giveaway for a fun product!
Milene
Looks like fun, I would like to try it.
Brian
Hmmmmmm,I think that is interesting!
Jenn
Pinned and shared on Facebook.
Jenn
That is so cool! I think the kitties would really like this. 🙂
The cats at Garth's Place
AiKiou to the rescue!!! The three of us would go nuts for an inter-active feeder…not that any of us eat too quickly, ahem… Gretchen. We’re sure our furry friends at SpokAnimal would love one too!
Amanda Heck & Cat Rocco
Rocco weighs in at 17 pounds; the AiKiou Interactive Pet Feeder and Paw Plunger will help promote exercise for Rocco and shed a few pounds in the process, too!
Thanks,
Amanda Heck & Cat Rocco
Angel Abby
*tweeted*
Angel Abby
Oh we love it! We would donate it to No more homeless Pets!!!
The Island Cats
Hmmmm….the mom says this feeder would be great for us. But we’re not sure…we don’t wanna work for our food!! 🙂
Layla Morgan Wilde
It’s fun and not hard work :-0
easy rider
That looks great, not just a toy, thats a science project and you could look very important while you playing :o)
Fur Everywhere
I shared the giveaway on Facebook.
Fur Everywhere
Something like this would be perfect for Milita!
Tamago
This looks fun toy/feeder! And what a great giveaway, one for shelter and one for yourself!
Katie and Cocco
Ooh great giveaway! Those are such unique feeders. What a great way to make things more interesting!
carmen
what a great idea!