A New Food Bowl For Dogs
About a month ago, I had the chance to try out a new and different type dog food bowl, the DogPause bowl. I agreed to try the bowl with my two Chessie girls who inhale every meal like they hadn’t eaten in weeks and probably wouldn’t see food again for at least a month. This has always been a concern to me since deep-chested, large breed dogs are more subject to bloat than other breeds. I have done many things to avoid the dreaded appearance of bloat such as feed dry food that is in small bits, provide ample water with meals and avoid using raised feeders, but there is always a concern.
The DogPause bowl claims to force your dog to take twice as long to eat the same amount of food offered in a meal as with a regular bowl. You can see the demonstration on their website, dogpausebowl.com. Guess what? It works just as described without diminishing any enthusiasm on the part of the dog. The concept is simple, the bowl is divided in four equal sections. You pour the food in to the bowl in relatively equal amounts. The dog has to work harder to get the food out of the smaller sections. Each of my girls has developed a different approach. One eats all the food in one section before proceeding to the next. The other goes round the circle taking a bite out of each part until the bowl is empty. It doesn’t matter how they do it, they take twice as long to eat their meals. Hooray! Less concern about a dog developing bloat.
There are other benefits, too. Your dog gets more nutrition from its food if it eats slower. Although I haven’t had the problem, apparently, eating slower reduces the occurrence of gagging, choking, vomiting and flatulence. It makes sense that these benefits would come from eating slower.
The bowl is sturdy and well constructed from a durable plastic. How do I know it is durable? My young Chessie had a little extra time on her paws while the bowl was in her crate. She decided that chewing on it might be fun. She is a powerful chewer and good at rapidly doing away with indestructible chew toys, but only made the tiniest marks on the bowl. After this initial attempt, she has decided it isn’t worth the effort. The bowls are easy to clean and dry very rapidly.
This is truly a product that does what is says it does and does it very well. I would recommend the DogPause bowl to anyone whose dog is
a rapid eater.
Thanks for this post regarding elevated feeders! I will be saving this page to my favorites for sure.
Very clever idea. I’m going to hunt one down for my 2 pups.
This is cool!
Solve the problem for big-eaters dog owners.
My silky terrier is those rushing type, will eat very fast and think this new bowl will be good for him!
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Danielle Chua
Dog Care School
Thats a great idea. I’ll be looking one for my cat. Where to find it?
Hmmm - Thanks for bringing this to my attention. as an owner of mainly gun dogs I suffer immenslely from most of the above symptoms. Although involved in Dog Training myself its not something I gave much thought to - shame on me !!
I reckon I will try one of these to see if it slows them down and they stop farting quite so much.
Thanks Again
Terry
http://www.thedogtrainingfiles.com
That’s neat. I’ve been wondering how to get my Peer to chew each bite 20 times. Of course, I can’t get my kids to do that either. I wonder if this would work for them too
We have a similar type of bowl for our Lab. Works great!
Thanks for the great post! - 3dogs
That is a nice post. I have heard of these kinds of bowls. My dog inhales his food like it is the last meal he will eat on earth. It is very cool to see the new innovations in dog products. There are new ‘green’ dog products from small dog beds to hemp dog toys.