PetSafe Busy Buddy Tug-A-Jug Interactive Dog Toy - Slow Feeder & Training Puzzle for Small Dogs - Perfect for Mealtime Enrichment & Boredom Relief

We were so excited to get this Tug-A-Jug! Veronica had one years ago, and it lasted quite awhile, but eventually the base cracked and it wouldn't screw shut. Veronica had developed a very efficient system in which she picks the jug up from the bottom, holds it upside down while at the same time stepping on the rope. This causes the kibble to fly out of the jug. Unfortunately years of gripping the end of the jug took it's toll.Our second Tug-A-Jug was just plain weird. For awhile they were replacing the rope with a rubber *rope*. It totally didn't work for Veronica and she hated it. Just recently I saw the Tug-A-Jug here on Amazon and it looked like the original design - with an actual *rope* made of rope (and yes, it is). It didn't take Veronica long at all to remember her old technique.Despite that she is a bit of a whiz at food puzzles (as most slightly overweight, extremely food motivated, convinced they are in a perpetual state of starvation, dogs tend to be); the Tug-A-Jug does slow Veronica down some and makes mealtime more of an "event" as opposed to over before I turn around from putting her kibble back in the cabinet.We love the Tug-A-Jug, reasonably sturdy and well made and a ton of fun. The sizing however is way off, and I first ordered the medium/large for dogs over 40 pounds because Veronica is 55 pounds and I didn't remember the size of our original toy. The medium/large is ginormous. Even with the small, Veronica's kibble dinner doesn't fill 1/4 of it (full disclosure, she also gets breakfast, lunch and snacks in addition to dinner - so we are not by any stretch of the imagination starving her). Still the small is plenty big enough. The mediem/large would have been too unwieldy for her. I had no problem at all exchanging my medium/large for the small.