Six cups of soft jelly with blueberry flavour. A sweet treat for rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, hamsters, mice and gerbils, at most 2 per animal per week. Not for degus. Read more.
A treat is part of building a bond with your pet. Back Zoo Nature Fruit Cups Blueberry are small cups of soft jelly with a sweet blueberry flavour. The jelly is easy to eat, even for small animals, and many rodents like the sweet taste. The pack contains six cups. Peel off the plastic film and the snack is ready.
Before we go on: this is a sweet snack. According to the packaging, the jelly consists of sugar, fructose, fruit syrup, blossoms and gardenia flower, with preservatives and a mixture of flavourings. Back Zoo Nature itself says fresh fruit remains the best choice. The feeding advice is a maximum of 2 cups per animal per week. For a small mouse, a whole cup is a lot. Let it lick for a moment and then take it away. Snacks remain a small extra next to the regular food.
That is why we do not recommend this snack for every animal. Degus are sensitive to sugar and should not have sweet snacks. Dwarf hamsters, especially Campbell's and Russian dwarf hamsters, are also sensitive to sugar. Give them very little, or preferably none. Rabbits and guinea pigs may have a little now and then. Hay remains the basis of their diet, so see the fruit cup as a small treat and keep it to a few licks. Gerbils may also have a little now and then: a few licks is enough. Remove any leftovers afterwards, so no jelly ends up in the bedding. Rats, fancy mice and Syrian hamsters can also have a little now and then. Rats put on weight easily, so keep it a real treat. For everyday use, the Zooply snacks for rats or the Zooply snacks for hamsters are a better choice. For rabbits and guinea pigs, have a look at our rabbits and guinea pigs sections.
What is the easiest way to give a fruit cup? You can simply put the cup down, but a special fruit cup holder keeps it cleaner. In a cage you hang the holder on the bars. In a tank you place it on the floor. Preferably put the cup on a flat spot, not in deep bedding, so no shavings or fibres stick to the jelly. On warm days you can put a cup in the freezer first. Then you have a cool snack. With rats it is fun to hold the cup in your hand and let them lick from it. That helps with taming. With rabbits and guinea pigs, hold the cup for a moment and let them take a few licks, for example as a reward after brushing or nail clipping. Then take it away.
Remove a half-eaten cup after a few hours. Jelly is sticky and gets dirty quickly. With hamsters, make sure no jelly ends up in the cheek pouches or the nest. Throw away the empty plastic straight away, so your pet does not chew on it. Store the rest of the pack dry, cool and dark, and out of reach of children.
Yes, a little now and then. The jelly is sweet, so hay remains the basis. Give a few licks as a treat and stick to at most 2 cups per animal per week.
Yes, a little now and then. A few licks is enough. Remove the rest afterwards, so no jelly ends up in the bedding.
No. Degus are sensitive to sugar and should not get sweet snacks. Choose sugar-free herbs for them.
Preferably not, or only very little. Dwarf hamsters such as Campbell's and Russian dwarf hamsters are sensitive to sugar. A Syrian hamster may have a little now and then.
According to the feeding advice, at most 2 cups per animal per week. A group of rats can share one cup.
Yes, Back Zoo Nature itself recommends this for warm days. You then have a cool snack.
According to the packaging, sugar, fructose, fruit syrup, blossoms and gardenia flower, with preservatives and flavourings.
Knaagplaza is the online shop of 't Knaagplein in Bodegraven, specialised in rodents and rabbits. We tell you honestly which animals a snack does and does not suit. For everyday snacks and food there is Zooply, our own brand.
