Iconic Pet Stainless Steel Non Skid Pet Bowl for Dog or Cat with Raised Rim Dishwasher Safe Pet Food and Water Bowl in Varying Sizes (8 Oz)

Overall very pleased. Ants were the problem. Looks like they called in the luftwaffe though. And im sure a bug with long legs or pole jumping ability wouldnt find it hard to defeat the intended defense here. In fact, i pray im not promoting increased, problem solving intelligence among the enemy. Damn Darwin was right! They WILL find a way given enough time! Probably stand on each other like the italian gymnasts and make a bug pyramid to get to the goodies.

8 oz dish too small and shallow for an adult cat. Any wet food or water will probably dry out or evaporate quickly outside, so not worth the price of this anti-ant design. Material looked like stainless steel in the photo, but the scratched, rusted bottom suggests otherwise. Returned. Will not buy another. Using instead a ceramic cat bowl within a ceramic dog dish of water to keep ants at bay. Works very well. Cat is happy, ants are not.

Like a lot of people, we get ants in the summer. They find their way straight to the cat bowl. No surprise but our cat does NOT like ants in his food! In the past I'd made do by putting the dish inside a bigger dish and adding water to create a 'moat'. And that worked, unless the cat bumped the dish so it touched the edge... then the ants got in. I got tired of the moat float, so I had a look online for solutions and found this wonderful, simple invention. We've been using it for a couple months now and I've not seen a single ant in the dish. The cat is happy and it's way less of a hassle than the moat. Great purchase, no regrets.

I will pro/con this for you all: Pros First: 1. Keeps the ants out so far, as long as I keep it away from the wall or the lip from the kitchen floor to the living room carpet. 2. Surprisingly easy to clean. We mix in tuna, spinach, peas, carrots and sweet potatoes with our dogs’ food. With the hard plastic or even the copper bowls it was always a bit of a pain to clean out if I didn’t attack it right after they were done eating. However, these dishes… I don’t know why, but stuff just slides right off them, even if my ADHD gets the better of me and I forget to pick them up at night. 3. They are very shiny and they look quite sharp. The anti-ant raised lip isn’t obvious, and they look relatively nice for what they are. 4. I know others have listed the size as a detriment, but I’m using these for very small dogs, and although the food fills up the bowls, they are fastidious eaters, so it works for us and takes up less space than the bowls we had previously. I’m calling this a pro and a con. Cons: 1. Skid-proof? In what universe? When my dogs are done eating, they lick their bowls and they slide those thing all over the kitchen. The bottoms are NOT pretty, but nobody really sees the bottoms, so I didn’t really dock them for that. 2. The price. These things are ridiculously priced for what you get. As others have noted, they are light, thin, very small, and put together rather slipshod for the prices they are asking for them. 3. The size really is insanely small. I feed the dogs 1/4 cup of dry dog food with about 1tbsp of mix-ins and another 2tsp of water. It fills the 1 cup bowls, where it really shouldn’t. *Technically* it *will* hold 1 cup, but it is full all the way to the brim and if you move too fast, you’re spilling, so it’s not 1 cup in any practical sense of the word. If pressed, I would say it’s probably 2/3 cup of usable space, maybe 3/4 Max. Conclusion: Although I can’t say for certain I would buy these bowls again, knowing what I know now, I can say they have done their jobs so far. However, it is the middle of winter and the tiny black ants that like to frequent our building seem to get pretty lazy when it’s cold. We’ll see how they perform in the summer when they are at their peak…

Sturdy and easy to clean . It is small which is perfect for our feral cat . She has a hard time eating out of a larger dish .

Very pretty bowls, but unfortunately for me, and my cats, they did not keep the ants out. My apartment gets ants bad on the summer, and I was hoping these would help, but the ants figured out how to get into them. They are stainless steel, and have never rusted, so they are still great bowls. They are shallow enough that may cats never seem to have any discomfort eating from them, and they are easy to clean. I just pop them in the dishwasher, and they come out looking as new as the day a bought them, and I have had them for almost a year.

Didn’t love it

I'm surprised, but the bowls (I have two) really seemed to deter ants, at least tiny black sugar ants. I have also worked on eradicating the ant problem, but no ants got into the bowls or were present. No skid bottom works well with cats that push bowls around. So, I can recommend it. Updated to add that after almost 5 months still no ants! And they have gotten in everything else that has had food in it.