When the equines have to stay in their stalls because of bad weather, Sandy gives all or most of them an executive desk toy to help pass the time. A Bubba Keg is a cylindrical, screw-top beverage cooler with a spigot near the bottom. Just pop out the spigot, fill the keg with hay stretchers or other small treats, and let the horse knock it about to make the treats fall out sporadically from the spigot hole. For dogs, I've found the keg more durable (and quieter) than a Bustercube, a plastic toy with a labyrinth inside from which treats are dispensed eratically with motion.
While Reggie the brown dog pushes the keg with his nose, just as the horses do with theirs, he still hasn’t learned the horse-sense technique that gets the highest ratio of treat-release to time spent. While he just rolls it along in one direction until it hits a wall or a piece of furniture, Gus and his cohorts make sure to orient the Bubba Keg with the hole downward and then rock it, in short strokes, back and forth very quickly. Here, Gus provides a brief demo:
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