I am looking at this cat dish:
Kitty has trouble eating food from corners and leaves food in dish. This looks like an excellent solution. I feed dry and wet. Anyone have experience with the bowl and if they feed wet and/or dry in it?
save the twenty bucks and feed on an old, heavy plate or even a pie tin.
I buy small flat plates at Goodwill for my kitty.
This is kind of the same idea but only $5.
My cats eat so quickly that they don’t have time to get “whisker fatigue”!
Seriously, just use a flat, heavy plate.
Thanks, all! For some reason, my old kitty just can’t get at the edges, which is why I was looking at this dish. I’ve tried using a plate, but the food gets pushed off the plate, onto the floor, and is deemed inedible, which is why I was looking for some type of bowl.
Thanks for all the ideas! I think I will try the chewy dish!
Didn’t realize that whisker fatigue was a thing…who knew!
I don’t think my cats get whisker fatigue. I often see then laying with their whiskers all mashed up, pushing their lip up and they’re happily dozing away.
My cats eat out of wide cereal bowls with no edge in the bottom so food can’t hide. They eat dry food only.
I use stainless steel bowls about 6 inches across. Mine don’t seem to have whisker problems with those despite them being a bit deeper. A lot less than $20.
Susan
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I don’t think my cats get whisker fatigue. I often see then laying with their whiskers all mashed up, pushing their lip up and they’re happily dozing away.[/QUOTE]
Your cat called: He has to sleep 18 hours a day BECAUSE HIS WHISKERS ARE TIRED.
And then sleeping hard means one side is squished. Or you have to hold your head up. Well, that’s work and not rest.
So sleep isn’t really doesn’t solve the problem.
Or maybe it only rests 50% of one’s whiskers at a time…so…(do the math) your cat is sleeping the same 9 hours you are, but he’s got two sets of tire whiskers to refresh. Hence the 18 hours.
It’s not laziness. It’s whisker fatigue.
Maybe if you guys bought these bowls the GDP would be raised up… by cats sleeping less and working more. Or someone working more. Or the GDP raised somehow involving these expensive bowls.
I use a plates. Much cheaper.
Thanks again, all! This particular cat does have a dish problem - who knows why, but he does! I appreciate all the responses (and the funny ones!)!
My cat eats on a plate or she will scoop her food (wet) eat it from her paw, then flings it everywhere.
They don’t like their whiskers touching the sides
Thanks MVP, it all makes sense now.
And now I know why I occasionally find whiskers on the floor. They die from exhaustion and fall out!
