Cat food bowls

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Love our cats dearly but bloody hell they're messy eaters. Not sure if it's a result of them getting on a bit now or came after we switched to a different food brand but after they've had their fill we have to scoop quite a bit back into their bowls.

It occurred to me that maybe a better design of bowl might at least help a bit, what would the powerfully-built PH director's cat's food bowl of choice be, if there is one?

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Thanks. We have the food bowls on a tray to contain the mess, would just be nice if it stayed in the bowls. Should have said, the bowls we have now are fairly shallow, flat bottomed with vertical sides.

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Kirkmoly said:

If only there was a simple way to pick up the errant cat food pieces. Someone should invent fingers.

My god why didn't I think of that...

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jules_s said:

MBBlat said:

Get a raised/tilted bowl, turned my Rosie from a messy eater to a tidy eater.

Yep - especially when they get older

I actually just put the bowls on a 2" box to help. Seems to help to stop them chucking up as often too

Thanks both - actually that second point is very interesting, ours have gotten a bit pukey now they're older, that might be worth a shot.

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MBBlat said:

Supper being scoffed from the bowl, she likes her food.

Can I ask where you got that please?

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Many thanks, will order a couple of those and see how they get on.

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The raised, tilted bowls arrived yesterday so we used them for the first time this morning. Cats don't seem impressed, they're not keen to eat today. Wondering if they might just take a little time to get used to this idea?

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Thanks. I did wonder if the smell of new plastic was putting them off perhaps. Other thing is, it's a food flavour they've been a bit hot and cold on lately. At least they haven't made much mess with their food today

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Will do. Cat food is normally gone within about an hour of being put out so this is unusual!

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The eldest would pick slowly at it but the youngest was essentially just not eating. The previous dishes were very shallow, the ones in the set we bought are much deeper and spherical, wonder if they were just bothering her whiskers too much. The other thing was that the dishes on the stand are very close together, maybe that was putting them off eating at the same time.

We've ordered a couple of individual dishes which look a lot shallower, until they arrive we've reverted to the previous bowls for now. Fussy sods...

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Thanks ali, will bear that in mind. We've got a couple of these coming this week, hopefully they're to the liking of our overlords:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08JYMBBT2/ref...

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Well so far we've tried two raised, tilted bowls and not had much success, certainly the younger cat doesn't like them, we think because they're quite a lot deeper than the original bowls. We also found out recently that our older cat (16) has gastric lymphoma so we've been trying not to do anything which makes him eat even less.

Mobile Chicane said:

I bought these since the ceramic ones keep getting knocked off shelves and broken (cats are fed separately at various heights):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B094J9VS5F/ref...

So far so good, everything eaten since the cats can get into the 'curves' of the bowl.

Think we might end up going for something like these, do you find there's any less spillage with these bowls compared to whatever you used previously?