Thread: Spill proof water bowl?

Ive got a large stainless steel dog bowl, but I nearly went for a large ceramic dog bowl on the grounds that they are pretty heavy and tend to be quite flat.
Only reason I went for the stainless steel one is that it was already in the house.

Just a random thought.
As a 'bodge it' job you could always get a section of marine plywood. Cut out a hole the size of the water bowl in it and place that on the floor with the bowl in the hole. Cats would be stood on the marine plywood so wouldnt be able to push the bowl along.

You can get travel water bowls for dogs that don't spill. I have one for the car but I can't remember where I got it. If you type in travel water bowls into google they will come up where you can buy them - Think Amazon do them.

As a 'bodge it' job you could always get a section of marine plywood. Cut out a hole the size of the water bowl in it and place that on the floor with the bowl in the hole. Cats would be stood on the marine plywood so wouldnt be able to push the bowl along.[/QUOTE]

Hubby just said thanks Tomian seems like he's going to busy with a bit of DIY this weekend ! great idea though, we'll see if that works

I'm going to have to look at something like that too I think. Currently the cats water dish is an icecream container in teh kitchen which fits just under the lips of the doors on the cupboards. Probably pretty hard to push around.
But outside in what will be the cat run, I'm actually doing to dig a hole for the water dish which will be a large flat tray, so that it sits flush and he won't be able to tip it over, but can play in it all he likes.

http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/item...illbowl---dogs

This is the sort of thing I was thinking - it has a rubber bottom so can't spill. My cat breeder told me not to use plastic bowls - only metal or ceramic.

HarryMC, not a problem

Yep I heard not to go plastic too. Apparently it can harbour germs when it gets scratched , whereas ceramic or stainless steel wont. Plus I tend to soak & wash out their water bowl with very hot water which might warp a plastic one.

All behind I know but have just caught up on this thread,anybody found that spill proof water bowl yet & any ideas on stopping the cats paddling in it anyway...
We have a fountain in one room & they either swipe the water off the dome or lay with their front feet around it getting soaking wet watching the bubbles & as for open bowls I get fed up with mopping the floor after them especially when two of them have a water fight.
Interesting the note someone made about not using plastic bowls because of germs,we had a cat in at work many years ago,violent diarrhoea,all types of tests later,food changes & every drug the vet could come up with cat still violent diarrhoea although happy inself,owners about to give up & have cat PTS as they couldn't rehome with that problem & with three young children just couldn't cope,the dreaded day arrived & they came but said they were going to cancel the appointment as for the last five days everything had been getting better & that morning poos were fine,so we then had 20 questions as to what was different & jokingly the vet said have you been feeding it off of your finest china,penny dropped,about two weeks previous they had thrown out the plastic dishes because they were so rough hadn't replaced because of what might be going to happen,cat fed off of china saucer & water in a china cereal bowl,we had hit the jackpot cat went on to live until it was sixteen years old only saw it for boosters & never had another plastic dish.For that reason alone I have never used a plastic dish for any of my animals .....

EDIT - I replied to someones post above (after jckerrison), which seems to be have been removed.