What’s your pet’s food bowl like? Plain and simple? Personalized? An old people dish making due as your pet’s food (and/or water) dish? Or did you buy one sold in a pet store?
I got to thinking about pets and their food bowls because of a quirk the cats have when it comes to their bowls. And that led me to thinking about even more things, as represented by the headings below.
How Many Bowls Do Your Pets Have?
Do you have one food bowl and one water dish per pet? (For multi-pet households.) Or does each pet have more than one bowl and they get rotated out?
Murphy, Mr. Meow and Tabby each have their own food bowl, but share one drinking bowl.
But the cats are funny about their food bowls. The dirtier and more used the bowl, the more food they’ll leave behind.
Which led to my next question…
How Often Should I Wash Their Bowls?
Most pet experts recommend washing the bowls daily, if not after every use. Except for a friend who had sugar gliders, no other pet owner I know washes their pet’s food bowl daily.
Growing up, Mackie was lucky to get his bowl washed once a week. As was Budly, because I raised him how I remembered Mackie being raised.
With Murphy and the cats it’s slightly different. The cats, as I mentioned before, snub their food and take great offense if I don’t provide it on clean serving ware. So now I have taken to washing as needed, which usually equates to more than once a week.
How Often Do You Replace Pet Bowls?
Because I switched from plastic bowls to ceramic, I only need to replace bowls as I break them. However, I have toyed with the idea of buying extra bowls. (I always find some really cute ones but refrain from purchasing because, after all, my pets already have perfectly good bowls.)
And where would I stow extras? My cabinets are barely equipped to hold my stash of plates. I can just see me buying a specialty pet food bowl hutch. Wayne would for sure think I had lost my mind.
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