Let them snoop for two days
Keep feeding from the old one. They'll investigate the new one when you're not watching.
At the next meal
I didn't realize how bent over she was until I saw her eat from this. Her back is actually straight now instead of curved down to the floor. She's 11 and I feel awful it took me this long to notice.
First meal with the stand she cleaned the whole bowl. She used to sit down halfway through and just walk away. Three weeks now and not one unfinished dinner.
My cat only ever ate from the middle and left a ring of kibble around the edge every single meal. Wide and shallow fixed it immediately. She wasn't picky, the bowl was just wrong.
My Frenchie used to lift her back feet off the ground trying to get her face into the bowl and she'd be huffing the whole time. At this height she eats flat-footed and quiet. Honestly emotional about it.
Used to sweep kibble off the tile twice a day. Now it stays in the bowl. Small thing but it's two less chores a day.
My 14-year-old lab has arthritis in her hips and crouching down to eat was clearly hurting her. She doesn't wobble anymore. Not claiming it's medicine, just that she's obviously more comfortable.
Four months in, dishwasher probably 60 times, zero rust and zero pitting. The last two stainless bowls I bought were rusting at the seam within three weeks.
Bought one for the senior and the younger one kept trying to steal it. Ordered a second the same week. They both eat at their own station now, no more pushing each other off.
Came double-boxed with the bowls wrapped separately. No dents, no scratches, nothing bent. Assembled in about a minute.
Bowls lift right out, rinse, done. Or straight in the dishwasher. No weird crevices where old food hides like the plastic feeder I had before.
My only complaint is that I didn't buy this two years ago. She's been eating hunched over that whole time and I just thought that was how dogs ate.
Switching over
A few days, and most babies never notice the swap.
Keep feeding from the old one. They'll investigate the new one when you're not watching.
Bowl on the stand, food inside. Most dogs switch on the spot. Most cats take a day.
It quietly disappears. That's the whole thing.
The difference
Questions
The two sides of the stand are not the same height, so the bowl sits at 15 degrees rather than flat. The low side is the wide flared lip, and that is the side your baby eats from.
Two things follow. The food slides down to that lip instead of sitting in a ring around the edge, so they finish it. And they reach it without pushing their muzzle down into a deep bowl, which is the whole point for a flat-faced or arthritic pet.
Stand behind your baby while they are on all fours and look at where the bottom of their neck sits. The rim of the bowl wants to be at about that height, so they reach forward instead of down.
Small is 4.3 inches tall; Medium is 5.9 inches. If you are between the two, take the smaller one. Slightly too low is far better than slightly too high.
304 food-grade stainless, and it passes a magnet test. We say rust-resistant rather than rustproof, because that's the truth. The welds are smooth and there are no crevices at the feet, which is exactly where a cheap stand starts rusting in two weeks.
That is usually whisker fatigue, not fussiness. A deep, narrow bowl presses on her whiskers, so she eats from the center only, or takes a piece out with her paw and eats it off the floor.
The bowl is wide and shallow for exactly this, and the 15-degree tilt brings the last of it down to the lip instead of leaving it round the rim.
The bowl lifts out of the stand with one hand and goes straight in the dishwasher. Nothing is locked in place, and there is no plastic housing for food to get trapped in.
Bowl on the floor first, stand after. That transition works for almost every animal, and the steps are on this page.
If yours still refuses, you have ninety days to tell us and we refund the whole order.
We can't promise that, and be careful with anyone who does. Animals bring food back up for many reasons, several of them medical, so see a vet first. What we can say is that eating with a level neck instead of a folded one is easier on the throat, and it's the first thing a lot of vets suggest changing.
Humans slept on the ground for a hundred thousand years and we still buy mattresses and chairs. “Natural” stops being an argument the moment an animal is old, arthritic or flat-faced.
You can, and most people here already have. A cardboard box, a step stool, an upside-down bucket. It works, badly: it goes soggy, it tips, it's the wrong height, and it sits in the middle of your kitchen looking like a box. And a box does not tilt.
He walks up, stands straight, and eats the whole thing. No crouch, no breaks, nothing to mop afterwards.
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