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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / January 2008A different question about cat bowls.
A slightly different question about bowls. Whilst doing the regular litter run, I saw that the pet shop was selling "U" shaped bowls with no (or at least very shallow) sides. The notice beside them claimed that the "stop whiskers touching the bowl!" (their exclamation mark, not mine.) Every cat I've ever seen eat seems to have no hesitation at all in sticking their face straight in the bowl, with no sign of any concern about whether their whiskers touch the sides or not. So, is this a problem for some cats? Or has some canny manufacturer come up with a cure for which there is no known disease?  SignatureDave not-me should be djw401 and there's no need for any wossname >A slightly different question about bowls. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > problem for some cats? Or has some canny manufacturer come up with a cure > for which there is no known disease? there is not problems with whiskers touching bowls that is how the cats tell where the edge is ;-). Just another way to make money just get a bowl big enough that they can get their mouth in at least. I have cats that eat from the can which has been cut by a safety opener >A slightly different question about bowls. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > problem for some cats? Or has some canny manufacturer come up with a cure > for which there is no known disease? Wet food is best served on a flat saucer. If you need a deep bowl I assume you feed dry? I do too, now, as they will not eat enough of the canned food. They just like dry better. As for sticking their faces in bowls, I don't know, but it seems mine prefer not to. Still, they WILL if it is tuna or something they like, and will work at it. I do notice that Gracie licks water off the edge of the bowl, kind of "backwards," it is hard to describe. >>A slightly different question about bowls. >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > I do notice that Gracie licks water off the edge of the bowl, kind of > "backwards," it is hard to describe. TuTu laps the water from the opposite side too. MLB >> I do notice that Gracie licks water off the edge of the bowl, kind of >> "backwards," it is hard to describe. > > TuTu laps the water from the opposite side too. MLB Yeah, that's what I meant! From the opposite side of the bowl, but also, it almost looks like she is scooping it up with the underside of her curled tongue. Odd little beasties, ain't they? :) When I went away for Christmas, I asked my husband to PLEASE change all three water bowls twice a day, but in case he didn't, I set up one of those automatic ones, that is like a jug turned over onto a dish, and as the level goes down in the dish, the water glugs out. I kind of tucked it away near a place where she loves to sit in the window. She loves it, and drinks mostly from it. It ran out and I heard her pawing at the tank, trying to get it to glugglug. It's like, they like to think they are getting away with something. So cute. I've noticed bigger pee balls in the litter box, so she is drinking more. that's a good thing, to a point. >>> I do notice that Gracie licks water off the edge of the bowl, kind of >>> "backwards," it is hard to describe. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > getting away with something. So cute. I've noticed bigger pee balls in the > litter box, so she is drinking more. that's a good thing, to a point. when I used the first fountain with a reservoir, TuTu kept prying the lid off the tank and drinking (or trying to) drink from there. I now leave a large pan of fresh water in the shower stall and a tub of water in the bathtub. She doesn't jump well anymore, so I discontinued use of the fountain which had to be on the bathroom counter top. > Wet food is best served on a flat saucer. If you need a deep bowl I assume > you feed dry? I do too, now, as they will not eat enough of the canned > food. > They just like dry better. Mostly wet, and they have a variety of bowls (more dishes really), and I wouldn't say any were especially deep. I'm not going to mesasure them, though, as they have a very good line in contemptuous "look what the stupid human is doing now" looks! SignatureDave not-me should be djw401 and there's no need for any wossname On Jan 26, 3:08 pm, "Dave Whiley" <not...@d-j- whiley.WOSSNAMEfreeserve.co.uk> wrote: > A slightly different question about bowls. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > not-me should be djw401 and there's no need for any wossname I have been reading all about this very subject in a current cat magazine. The reasoning around the new shaped bowls is because a cat uses it's whiskers to judge size & relativity (ie: if the whiskers fit through, then their whole body will too.) Have you ever noticed a cat pick their food out of a bowl & dump it straight on the floor where they happily tuck into it, until they need another piece? It's because they don't like putting their faces into an opening that their whisker's won't fit in to, so that's why they pick it out with their mouth or paws, & then eat it off the mat, or the floor. It might seem silly to us, but it does make perfect sense to them. Of course, manufacturers cash in this discovery & we tend to follow the trend, if we believe it helps our cat's I guess? Sheelagh>"o"< On Jan 26, 3:08 pm, "Dave Whiley" <not...@d-j- whiley.WOSSNAMEfreeserve.co.uk> wrote: >> A slightly different question about bowls. > I have been reading all about this very subject in a current cat > magazine. The reasoning around the new shaped bowls is because a cat > uses it's whiskers to judge size & relativity (ie: if the whiskers fit > through, then their whole body will too.) > Have you ever noticed a cat pick their food out of a bowl & dump it > straight on the floor where they happily tuck into it, until they need [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the floor. It might seem silly to us, but it does make perfect sense > to them. > Of course, manufacturers cash in this discovery & we tend to follow > the trend, if we believe it helps our cat's I guess? > Sheelagh>"o"< Hmm. I can't say I've seen either Smokey or Fliss doing this (although Smokey does sometimes use a paw to pull food from one side of the dish to the other). Cally would bring food into the dining room and eat it off the floor there, but we always figured that was because she thought that if we ate there, that's where she should eat too. Perhaps it's time for some consumer trials. BTW, when it comes to trying to squeeze into narrow spaces, Fliss is a law unto herself... http://www.pbase.com/djw_photo_42/image/61494192 SignatureDave not-me should be djw401 and there's no need for any wossname On Jan 28, 9:26 pm, "Dave Whiley" <not...@d-j- whiley.WOSSNAMEfreeserve.co.uk> wrote: > On Jan 26, 3:08 pm, "Dave Whiley" <not...@d-j- > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > - Show quoted text - What a lovely photo :o) Thanks for sharing that one Dave. Not sure where you live, but if you are in UK & you order food from Royal canin, they are handing out these new bowls to anyone who orders food direct from them. I have a few of them here, & they do seem to prefer them to the old round ones. Having said that, I'm not all that excited about the fact that they are made out of plastic. I would prefer to have a metal bowl & pay them if I'm honest. I got the information from Royal Canin & there was a spread about it in a magazine that we get over here, called, "your cat".(December, or January's issue I believe.) See what you think, & let me know what you think of them? TIA, Sheelagh >"o"<
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