What kind of bowls do you use for food and water?

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Acne, is like humans - they are small blackheads on or around the chin area. If you wash the chin you will get "dirt" from the area. Its more noticable with cats with white or light color chins.
 

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Stainless steel for my girls. Jazz developed some kitty acne on her chin when I was using plastic. I switched to stainless steel and her chin cleared up!
 

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Never knew that about the plastic bowls. I have one of those that I use for his wet food servings. I'll be sure to get a new bowl now to replace it.
 

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Originally Posted by jcat

I have a whole collection of bowls: glass salad dishes for canned food, ceramic and stainless steel for dry, china for cat milk, and ceramic for water. Everything goes through the dishwasher, so I've got several of each type. The only plastic I use is the Petmate fountain, which also goes through the dishwasher once a week. The funniest thing is that we can't use the "wrong" type of bowl, for example, put canned food in a steel bowl, or cat milk in a glass dish, as Jamie will complain and refuse to eat or drink.
It drives my husband crazy, and makes my mother-in-law paranoid when she cat sits. When he was a kitten, I would just grab the nearest bowl and fill it, but he had his own ideas about "proper" bowls for certain things, and now there are ironclad rules.
I stopped using plastic years ago, when we had a dog that would tip all his bowls - I finally started giving him his food and water in heavy stainless steel pots.
You've got the Martha Stewart of cats


I use ceramic bowls for both wet food and water- bought on sale at Target. About $3. each.
 

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Whoa, I did not know that about the plastic!!! I have all types of bowls, earthware, plasic (eep!), stainless steel, glass, ceramic, etc. Right now, Cody and Dolly are using a plastic automatic feeder, stainless steel water bowl, and a glass bowl for wet, treats, and stuff I save for them from my dinner. My momma cat has a plastic food bowl, plasic water bowl-think glad ware, plasitc wet food bowl, and a stainless steel bowl for KMR. The ferals in our kennels eat off of paper plates-it would be too many bowls to clean, lol. But they have plastic 2-3 gallon buckets for water... *sigh* It's going to take some searching for some good heavy duty water bowls for them.

All of this is about to change in a few seconds... But hearing about the plasitc makes me wonder, is it sanitary for humans to use? I mean it sounds like we could get sick from the bacteria that is in it...
 

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I use stainless steel bowl for their treats/wet food and thier normal water/food. In my room I also have the large flying saucer type dishes(looks like a cake pan but its stainless steel) I keep the cat food supply in closet off my bedroom and thats were they get majority of meals. So that makes it eaiser for me
They eat a pan worth of food a day if not more so its always kept clean. Great place for stainless steel bowls is the dollar store-I get a bunch when they get them in-currently have about 50 bowls-some in use others as my back up when I throw a bowl out(they don't rust but after a while they are harder to clean and I drop bowls often and dent a few...:S) Also my strays have thier own bowls that are used for only them. RJ
 
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Wow, thanks for all the replies. I went to PetsMart and bought ceramic bowls last night, and ran them through the dishwasher. I'll be chucking the plastic bowls today.

I plan to handwash the ceramic bowls daily and run them through the dishwasher once a week. Does that sound sanitary enough?
 

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Could be wrong but isn't ceramic the one to make sure they were made in usa..as bowls made elsewhere can have lead which will leake into the water/food? RJ
 

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I use a mix of stainless steel, plastic and ceramic dishes. 8 cats with 2 dishes each plus several water dishes, not to mention the dogs too, means lots of washing up in my house
 

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I bought some stainless steal plates from Ikea, they work great for my cats, they are not too shallow, almost like a really shallow bowl.

I like stainless steal because I feed raw, steal is not porous so it washes cleaner and I have no worries about using bleach or anything I choose to clean it.
I also like stainless steal due to that reason it helps ward off feline acne (for example on a plastic bowl, it's porous so the surface is never cleaned as well, causing build up) which can lead to acne on the chin.

I try to use plates rather then bowls or at least very shallow bowls because some cats are more apt to eat all of their meal if their whiskers are not touch the sides of the bowl while eating. That bothers some...
 

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Originally Posted by blue Ash

I bought some stainless steal plates from Ikea, they work great for my cats, they are not too shallow, almost like a really shallow bowl.

I like stainless steal because I feed raw, steal is not porous so it washes cleaner and I have no worries about using bleach or anything I choose to clean it.
I also like stainless steal due to that reason it helps ward off feline acne (for example on a plastic bowl, it's porous so the surface is never cleaned as well, causing build up) which can lead to acne on the chin.

I try to use plates rather then bowls or at least very shallow bowls because some cats are more apt to eat all of their meal if their whiskers are not touch the sides of the bowl while eating. That bothers some...
These are awesome. I have these for my kidlets.
 

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Question... Those very heavy plastic pet bowls, are those bad too? God I love those! I bet you could literally run them over with the car and they probably still wouldn't break! I think it's Van Ness brand, and they are way thick, oanyone have issure with those? Think they are cleaner than the regular plastic ones?

 

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Stainless steel and ceramic bowls for canned and kibble. Plastic water fountains that are cleaned & scrubbed daily.
 

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Originally Posted by babyharley

Wow, those are awesome - I might have to order them!
It's a local woman -- lives maybe a half hour's drive from us. I'm delighted to see her on the Internet. She deserves the recognition and the business.

My MIL gave one of these to Shasta (the old lady) for Christmas one year, which has passed down to Nibs, and then to Suzy. We got them for Cindy and Fawn for their first Christmas.
 

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one is on glass
one is on ceramic
one is on the plastic crocks
 
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