Three brothers, one big bowl

Well, I bought little kitten bowls before the boys got here. Day one and their heads were too big to get into them - we are now using them for dipping bowls for humans. :smile: Luckily I had also bought three proper sized cat bowls on a recent trip to Waitrose. They are happy eating out of all three of those, one each. That said however, the brothers tend to rotate between each other's bowls and there is no noticeable fighting or shoving.

So, today I got a big (but shallow) stainless steel dog bowl and they seem happy. I am no cat behaviorist though, so is this building up trouble for the future ? Dickie is already trying to "mount" / dominate the other two a bit so I don't want to establish a situation where they fight for food in a negative way.

I quite like the routine of feeding mine in their own seperate dishes,they all have their own individual feeding stations either in their own room or out in the cat pen,they have always been fed in order of age but when the two babes came together Welly was the more dominant one pushing to get food so I always put Shimbas down before Welly,sometimes think Welly might like to have a younger playmate so he wasn't last in line {now could try that reasoning on hubby but still don't think it will be good enough}.As I put the dishes down I always have a kiss & cuddle with each one & they wait for that now before they start eating,so do find it works as an extra bonding session,because Merlyn had to come out of the feeding line due to his diet he has to have extra attention before going to his feeding post in the sitting room,he must be told he is a super boy,he paddles on the spot,then rolls over for a tummy rub,then his kisses, then the best part food.
Just so pleased that we all do daft things on here because what would a normal none MC owner think about such a stupid way of putting your cats food down....!

Oh bless them Peter, reminds me of the Isle of Man logo!

Our two each have their own bowls for wet/dry food and kitten milk and a water fountain - having said that they always seem to swap over half way through feeding - even though it's the same food in each bowl - have to laugh at their funny little ways :LOL:

We have two large dog bowls and they all share no problem. They're all different ages and there has never been an issue with fighting over food.:smile: