Which cat dishes should I get?

September 30, 2022 12:11 PM

I need some new "wet food" cat dishes. And because Reasons, I'd like to order something off Amazon ASAP. I was using these, which are fine, but I'd like something that has a higher side (so less food gets pushed out) but also I know about whisker fatigue so I'd like to avoid that as well. Suggestions?
posted by BlahLaLa to Pets & Animals (17 answers total)

Honestly I got cereal bowls from a local charity shop for my cat - they work perfectly well to keep food in and the slope is gentle enough to avoid whisker fatigue.
posted by HypotheticalWoman at 12:13 PM on September 30, 2022

Seconding that, or brand new ones were at the market for $1.27 each, yesterday.
posted by Oyéah at 12:20 PM on September 30, 2022

Response by poster: Yeah, I need an edge. Y'all, my cats are slobs + ants are real, yo, so my goal is to keep as much food in the dish as possible.

I use something like this for their dry food, but I don't have enough of them to also do the wet food. (And I realize I could purchase more, but I think bowls would be cheaper.)
posted by BlahLaLa at 12:36 PM on September 30, 2022

We use small Corelle bowls, which you can find in any thrift store or order new, because we can have plenty of extras for washing and I don't break them when I trip over them with my big human feet.
posted by fritley at 12:36 PM on September 30, 2022 [2 favorites]

I eventually settled on pyrex loaf pans to feed my cats. They have high sides and are impossible for cats to knock over. Square baking pans have somewhat lower sides, so might be easier to use (I used these more when I was going to be gone a few days and wanted to leave a lot of dry food). I don't fully understand whether either of these would result in whisker fatigue, but I never had any issues with cats not using them.
posted by FencingGal at 12:38 PM on September 30, 2022

I recently got these for my cats, elevated bowls, as one of mine is a puker
posted by poppunkcat at 12:49 PM on September 30, 2022

Best answer: These work for me.
posted by nkknkk at 12:52 PM on September 30, 2022

I have three of these elevated Yummy bowls for my cat, one for dry food and rotate the other two for wet food. Very little food spillage ever and it's supposed to be better for their digestion if they eat from a raised dish.
posted by sk932 at 1:08 PM on September 30, 2022

elevated, tilted bowl works well for my two
posted by supermedusa at 1:24 PM on September 30, 2022

Search for soup plates on Amazon--those are wide shallow bowls with a lip like the W-S ones you linked to. Not much cheaper though. If you have time, any thrift store will have odd soup plates like this for cheap.
posted by Nosey Mrs. Rat at 4:04 PM on September 30, 2022

Owner of another slob cat here. I found some saucers shaped like miniature soup plates at a discount store which are perfect. I also got an ant proof tray ( it has little feet that screw into blobs of gel- called the antswer on Amazon) which was a godsend
posted by genmonster at 5:19 PM on September 30, 2022 [1 favorite]

I use mismatched fancy china soup plates/shallow bowls that I buy at thrift shops . They are usually not quite as deep as modern bowls and the designs are pretty.
posted by The Elusive Architeuthis at 5:39 PM on September 30, 2022 [1 favorite]

I have a lot of back pain when doing dishes, so I've been giving the cats one of these plastic plates of wet food every meal. I set the plate on a silicone trivet, similar to these trivets, so they don't slide around. It actually has worked great for quite some time now.
posted by limeonaire at 8:42 PM on September 30, 2022

My cat eats off these and while there's a little mess (she doesn't have any teeth) it's not too bad.
posted by The corpse in the library at 10:11 AM on October 1, 2022

Best answer: I got a 6-pack of cheap gratin dishes (4oz, roughly 5 inch diameter). They're okay. Something like this.
posted by ambulatorybird at 7:34 PM on October 1, 2022

My cat would push the wet food to the sides of a flat bowl and not finish her meal. We use a bowl with higher sides and she does a better job of finishing her food.
posted by dorkydancer at 6:55 AM on October 2, 2022

Best answer: I bought stainless steel bowls, and I think I have 12 of them. They go in the dishwasher, and they fit into a raised bowl that I use like a stand.
posted by gladly at 8:53 AM on October 2, 2022