My cats play tiddly-winks...

[bluegargantua]

...with their food bowls.

Actually, it's usually just one food bowl and I suspect that it's just Thorn who gets carried away playing with her kibble and flipping the dish.

So my thought is to find a sold, heavy food dish (ceramic or metal) with a rubber foot to prevent skidding. Then I'll remove the mat the dishes have been sitting on (because the cats tend to ruck it up and pee on it). This won't stop kibble from slopping out onto the floor, but it should reduce the vacuuming kibble time significantly.

The local PetCo had lots of light/flippable cat bowls. There were ceramic bowls for dogs, but I worried the cats would use them as hockey-pucks even if they couldn't flip it. All the metalic bowls (dog or cat) seemed way too light.

I'm going to give the local PetSmart a try next time I buy groceries, but does anyone have other suggestions?

I also need to pick up a toilet paper storage container to...store my toilet paper (or, as the cats like to call it: Mr. Man's FunTime Confetti).

later
Tom

Comments

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

just get a couple of heavy ceramic bowls - it they're heavy enough the cats won't be able to knock them over then they're be heavy enough that they won't knock them around a whole lot.

maybe get some kind of rubber (rubberized) mat - something with sides, you know? because the cloth one is no good. but something non-skid enough to keep the bowls from sliding around a lot might be good. and it's nice not to have a whole lot of catfood all over the bathroom floor. or, it would be nice.

[bluegargantua]

Like a tray or something. I'll look around.

later
Tom

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

yeah. one with LRF tech on the bottom at least, because then it won't slide around.