How you feed your small animal pet is completely up to you. In this post I will be giving the pros and cons of scatter feeding and feeding through a bowl.
Feeding your pet by a bowl gives you the chance to keep their cage clean and tidy of food. You are able to monitor the amount of food that is being eaten. It also gives you the chance to be able to determine what food they eat, and what the leave (if you are using a meusli mix).
However, small animals, like all animals, are originally from the wild. In the wild they would not have access to a bowl. They would search for their food and eat wherever they find food. By scatter feeding them their food or gives them a more natural environment in a not so natural home. It can also be used as a form of enrichment as they are required to search for/hunt for their food.
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