An Elevated Double Dog Bowl For Your Dog
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When it comes to a pet’s eating needs, an Elevated dog bowl could be a good choice for your dog. In fact, you might try to use one whenever possible, as their height helps in preventing something called bloat. Bloat is a potentially life-threatening medical issue that’s second only to cancer in causing death in dogs.
A typical elevated dog bowls averages about ten inches tall. Good ones also use stainless steel or ceramic bowls, which are better than cheaper plastic models. Steel and ceramic aren’t easily gouged or scratched, unlike plastic. These gouges and scratches can allow food born bacteria to thrive, which can be harmful to a dog’s health.
Some of these Elevated dog bowl are also height-adjustable. The good units are sturdily-built and will have non-skid bottoms on their legs to prevent the station from being pushed around when the dog feeds. The bowls will come in sizes ranging from one pint all the way up to three quarts.
Taller or larger dogs – those fifty pounds in weight or nineteen inches high at the withers – will benefit from their own elevated feeding stations. These can range upwards in height to sixteen inches. And they’re also designed in an ergonomic manner, which accounts for the particular needs a big animal might have that a smaller dog doesn’t have to deal with.
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Tall or elevated feeders can also reduced dogs’ bone, joint, or musculo-skeletal stress through enabling better posture when eating. The cumulative effects of a lifetime of hours spent hunched over eating can combine to impact any dog regardless of outward health. There’s also an elevated feeding station for your small dog or other pet, such as a cat. They, too, can provide a healthy and comfortable feeding position for your animal.
Some of these units also provide a gravity feed system for watering that your pet will be sure to enjoy. An upside down bottle is screwed into a built-in hole, which then lets water flow down into its water bowl as levels in the bowl are reduced through the pet’s drinking activities. This ensures the water in the bowl is always fresh and pure. It’s also the case that many of these feeders come in portable or right-size models, perfect for when you and your pet travel.
And just because your pet isn’t human (at least biologically), that doesn’t mean it has to put up with drab or boring design and style in a feeding unit. They come in a variety styles and materials, from ornate wrought iron all the way over to sleek, futuristic Danish Modern and everything in between. This is more for our esthetic benefit than for the dog’s own benefit, of course, but it’s always nice to have functional, stylish household pet accessories whenever possible.
These stations could be the perfect accessory for you and your pet. It can have its food and water in a safe, healthy manner very easily, and you get a good-looking addition to the home’s look. Remember to try to use stainless steel or ceramic bowls whenever possible, though. And look into one of those self-watering feeding stations if you want to combine both functions into one convenient package.
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