ComSaf Cat Food Water Bowl, Wide Shallow Ceramic Cat Dish, Non Spill Pet Bowl,10oz, Pack of 2
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K LO
> 3 dayWater does not spill when carrying and easy to grip from the bottom. Good for cats
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Aepp
19-11-2024I got these bowls because I came across reviews talking about whisker fatigue - Ive had cats for the majority of my 60+ years and I had never heard of it before. Apparently cats will hold their whiskers back so they dont touch the sides of the bowl because they use their whiskers for information on their surroundings and they can become sensitive. Anyway, though I didnt notice my cats exhibiting and problems (and what do I know?), I decided to be proactive and try to keep them comfortable. Once we started using these bowls, in addition to placing the bowls where they no longer had to step on a rubber mat (our Chrissy used to like to scratch at her water bowl and using one with straight sides and putting it on a mat saved a lot of cleanup), they started eating directly over the bowl most of the time, which is helping control the usual mess. The bowls have a slightly inward curving lip, which helps the food stay inside the bowl, and the downward sloping sides reduces the real estate for the food, though not by much. Cats generally self-regulate their food intake when they are brought up that way, so we just leave dry food out 24/7 and they nibble thru-out the day and night, though they get a small amount of wet food (canned or pouch) when we change out for fresh dry food at dinnertime. (We did have one cat who gained too much weight, but the high fiber diet the vet put her on worked well to help her lose weight and kept her from gobbling up the food all at once when I tried limiting how much I put out, which only made her vomit it back up. We also got one cat at 2 yrs old who must have been fed like a dog [who dont self-regulate] and although she stayed at the food bowl for much longer periods of time, she eventually stopped doing that and started nibbling like the rest of the cats and lost the excess weight she came to us with; her previous people gave her lots of treats because she was always hungry). Anyway, this bowl is big enough for 24 hrs of food for 2 cats, at least the way my cats eat. We also now have two skinny 4 month old stray kittens who showed up in our backyard and who are eating us out of house and home, but they are starting to slow down after a week of all the food and water they want and a full bowl of dry kitten food lasts them well into the morning after replacement at dinnertime the night before. I expect they will slow down even further as they fatten up again. One of the things I dislike about bowls for cats is that they generally have some silly cat motif, which I can do without and my cats generally take some time getting used to seeing in the bottom of their food or water bowl. We recently got some 8 pasta bowls to use as water dishes, both for volume and the whole silly motif thing. Both are an easy cleanup in the dishwasher. I recently got a few more sets of these bowls since I expect to need (at least) 2 bowls for dry food once they kittens start co-mingling with the adult cats, and I think the pasta bowls are just too deep for food for any of them, now that I know about whisker fatigue. All and all I like these bowls and highly recommend. And as an aside, these bowls were very well packaged for shipping. Really good foam padding. It would be have to be dropped very very hard for them to break.
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Alex
> 3 dayGood bowls but a bit small..
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R. Jones
> 3 dayMy little cat has a snub nose, and routinely pushed her food off the edge of any dish or bowl I fed her on. Finally I found this bowl with a recurved edge, and now there is no more wasted food on the floor. I only wish it came in colors other than black. The price is high, but worth it.
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J.M. Rhodes
> 3 dayVery happy with my purchase. The bowls arrived quickly and are as advertised. They are shallow, easy to clean and are quality bowls. Our cat now has a much easier time navigating eating and drinking because of these bowls. We would buy again.