Features:

  • REDUCES BOREDOM, ANXIETY, & DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR: Ease pet parent guilt with our medicine free treat delivery system. The LickiMat is designed to reduce anxiety and promote calm behavior in your pet while home alone or during stressful times such as thunderstorms.
  • SERVE YOUR PET HEALTHY DOG TREATS: LickiMat slow feeder dog mats are non-toxic and designed for your pet’s favorite grain free, natural treats. Your dog or cat will happily lick peanut butter, yogurt, pumpkin, or cream cheese from the feeding mat. To extend the fun, we recommend freezing prior to serving. Reward your pet by adding dry dog food or dog treats into the small grooves on the mat.
  • MAKE TREAT TIME FUN & INTERACTIVE: Serve healthy snacks on a LickiMat and keep your dog or cat occupied for extended periods of time. Our interactive feeding mat turns treat time into a fun, enjoyable game and entertains your pet longer than traditional cat and dog treats. This dog calming mat is also a great alternative to a slow feed dog bowl.
  • RECOMMENDED FOR BOTH DOGS & CATS: LickiMat slow feeder mats are the perfect treat solution for both dogs and cats, and the perfect gift for every pet lover! Dogs and cats alike enjoy licking the surface of this calming mat, and the textured pattern will help promote dental health with clean teeth, fresh breath, and healthy gums.
  • EASY TO CLEAN: Simply hand wash with soap and warm water to remove any residue after each use.
Great for all ages and sizes

I originally bought this for my younger dogs but soon realized how perfect it was for my 14 year old with a heart condition so I can't exercise her body.... this helps her exercise her mind and she loves it! Takes at least 20 mins. Lots of choices but please remember to use low sodium, low sugar, full fat foods.. pictured is frozen pure plain Greek yogurt, low sodium peanut butter and pure canned pumpkin. Also it doesn't move on hardwood or carpet

Two tongues up!

Edit: no change to star rating, but a caveat - I used one of these with a friend’s visiting dog, who likes to chew enthusiastically (about 25 lbs, much bigger than my pups). He managed to chew the silicone bits off VERY fast, so it’s clear that these will NOT be a good product for avid and effective silicone toy chewers. :-) Original review: My two highly anxious PTSD rescue chihuahuas struggle with worry when I leave the house for even 15 minutes. They do well enough by the time I return if I leave for longer (1-6 hours), but they still both tremble convulsively whenever it’s time for me to go grocery shopping or to an appointment. I also have trouble keeping them out of the cat food - elderly cats can’t be converted off free feeding kibble for health reasons - and keep my way-too-clever pups from trying to get to the “kitty roca” in the litter box. Ewww. I previously was having to periodically feed them whenever they start trying to get to whatever they aren’t supposed to eat... and they are trending to overweight (super bad for their troubled joints). I use fatty treats such as peanut butter veeery sparingly and spread very thinly across large areas of the mats, which is something that they both will lick for most of an hour with none of their usual anxiety. The mat instructions suggested yogurt. Turns out that they love nonfat plain yogurt just as much as peanut butter, which keeps them occupied long enough that they are still licking when I get back from my errands. These two mats relieved my discomfort about them being anxious when I am out of the house for a bit or running the vacuum cleaner. My clingy insecure male chi even likes it better than following me around the house. So 2 enthusiastic “tongues up!” I pay full price, and write reviews for others with the hope of paying forward the help I get from others who write detailed reviews on things I might buy. Please let me know if this particular review was useful, by clicking the “helpful” button? It helps me stay motivated to keep spending time writing reviews. Thanks!

... they’re just finishing up have been completely silent and loved it!

Just got my mats and “hours” is a bit of a stretch but we’re 15 minutes in and they’re just finishing up have been completely silent and loved it!

Licky McSlobberson (a.k.a. Oswald the lick monster)

We have a whippet that LOVES to lick. He licks pretty much anything, but prefers fabric, especially the couch. He will lick for hours. It is obvious how psychologically gratifying it is as his eyes close/roll back and he gets a peaceful air about him. He also has near-benign breath and great teeth for a needle-nose so we don't want to discourage the incessant slurping and wet-spot making, but man is it annoying! I saw the Lickimat as a mention in an older Instagram post and thought maybe it would work. Sure enough, Amazon to the rescue! They carried it- available and affordable. it felt a little gimicky perhaps, and I was skeptical, but wow- what a simple, cost-effective means to at least limit the furniture assault. We just plop a little coconut oil on the Lickimat, rub it into the nubs juuust a little and Oswald goes into a first frantic lick frenzy, followed by a zen-like licking trance. We got the green nubby mat and the nubs hold whatever we slather on just long-enough to get him in a good psychological state and their tactile nature seems to sooth long after the goop is gone. The mat washes super-easily too (although we haven't tried peanut butter or canned meat- yak!). Tip- The coconut oil is perfect for us and our mat- clean, healthy, affordable and smells nice! I love simple ideas like this- no moving pieces/parts, low-cost, durability, functionality, but I hate (not really) the people that conceive of and develop them- why can't I think of them and deliver them to market?!?!?!? Thanks for the help Hyper Pet. The Lickimat works awesomely well for our problematic tongue dragger.

Great option for “canine enrichment” activity!

I have an obsessive border collie and try to always make him work for meals with Kong’s or slow feeders. This is a GREAT little treat for him that he gets very excited about! It holds just a couple spoonfuls and keeps him focused for about 20 minutes.

Worth every penny

These lickimats are worth every penny. Even though they're not big, and you would think that they wouldn't last long for a larger dog, they actually do. I put some peanut butter that I had had without a lid to dehydrate and make it thicker on these, and it took both our tiny and our two large pups 20+ minutes to finish them. And the portion size was small as compared to stuffing a kong. Really awesome enrichment tool.

A spoonful of peanut butter and no more separation anxiety!!

This thing is great!! We get to eat our entire meal without "someone staring at us"!!! Just a tablespoon or so of peanut butter spread on this keeps our 80-lb baby busy for about 20 minutes. I'm not sure how much he likes it, but he can't stop licking it. He seems a bit perplexed when we clear the table and do the dishes and he has not gotten to "taste" what his parents were eating because he was too busy with his licker-mat. I need a couple more and maybe bigger ones to keep him occupied while I do things like try to change the sheets (he thinks it's an invitation for him to jump on the bed and play), run the vacuum (he thinks it's going to kill him), or just try to get ready to go somewhere. Speaking of going somewhere, this has proved to keep him occupied with whatever is spread on it instead stressing about my leaving the house. Really a great product. Thank you, Hyper Pet!!!

Solved Our Dinner Problem

Alpha kitty used to gobble up his dinner and go to Beta kitty’s dish and steal the rest of it, or he would be really upset that his brother still had food left and he didn’t. Now Alpha gets his dinner on his lickimat and happily savors his dinner, while Beta eats out of his old dish. It’s been about a month now of nightly dinners and it’s such a relief not to have to babysit them at dinner anymore. We thought for sure Alpha would just usurp Beta’s dish and take the easy way out, but that’s not the case at all! Alpha loves his lickimat and the challenge of eating his wet food out of the grooves. THANK YOU!!!

2 Huskies. 2 Mats. 2 Uses. We’re Happy!

I got these to help get our two rescued Huskies used to climbing onto and settling down on a small sailboat we’ve been fixing up and where we’d like to be able to have them with us at times when hanging out. They’ve always been scared to climb aboard and never “settle.” Enticing them with treats doesn’t do it (or only for a second). I spooned a bit of real savory soft dog food onto these, set them on a towel on the bench seats, climbed aboard and held the leashes but didn’t pull or try to force them to climb on. They were nervous but pretty soon our more curious dog climbed aboard. Our more anxious dog followed suit. They settled into licking on these for a long time and when each done were content to just rest for quite awhile. I’ve done this a few more times. They’re starting to be happy going down to the boat. Another Use: Last week one of our dogs had a minor injury, restricting her activity for a few days. It was so helpful to put a bit of canned pumpkin, natural almond butter, a bit of yogurt, whatever, on this and let her burn energy off licking. She’d work at it for awhile then fall asleep with her face on the mat (and of course our second pup didn’t have to be left out since this was a 2 pack). I can see various purposes for these. Personally, though these seem very safe, I’d probably monitor until knowing what your dog does with this (ours have been happy to lick and work at the grooves, not destroy). Food obviously gets in the grooves, but the soft silicone cleans up easily with warm, soapy water and a dish brush. We’re super happy with these!

Very helpful for dog with anxiety and food issues

Several months ago I adopted a dog with anxiety and anxiety-related food issues. When I first got her, she was so stressed from the rehoming that her anxiety prevented her from eating much of anything. As she grew more comfortable with me I discovered that she has a lot of anxiety about eating more than a bite or two out of a dish or bowl. I also found that her favorite foods are those that can be licked. She loves peanut butter, yogurt, ice cream, cream cheese, whipped cream, kefir, banana, sweet potato, etc. She hates wet dog food, but does like eating her dry dog food (but not out of a dish or bowl). LikiMats have been a great helper in feeding my very unique Shiba girl. I can give her small amounts of higher fat foods such as peanut butter, ice cream etc. and mix them with banana or yogurt, spread them on the LikiMat, and they last for much longer than licking off a spoon. I also use the LikiMat for her kibbles, and it works great. She doesn't see the LikiMat as a dish or bowl, so it doesn't trigger her anxiety. If I were to have any criticism it would be that the mats require hand-washing, but it's really not that difficult to wash them by hand. I do recommend using some type of brush when washing in order to scrub all the food out of the mat.

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