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With this dish, the bits of food Cat D noses off the rim of the bowl get trapped by the CatGuru “Table”’s rim & I have to separate both pieces to scoop perfectly good food back into Cat D’s dish.With the Cat Guru “Torus”, that problem disappears. Twice the price though, and available in one color though, so I hope CatGuru restocks VERY soon!I adore this dish because it came in a pair so I could get started with the new concept of product matching ‘feeding mat’, ‘table’ to elevate, ‘dish that doesn’t touch sensitive whiskers’.Cats A and C also have minor whisker sensitivity issues, but we’re content to lump it and shrug it in life. Then we got a new, young, newbie, with whiskers so sensitive he was getting weird and jumpy. I tried a few solutions of tilted and ‘no-spill’ but they were imperfect fixes. CatGuru makes Cat D: “HAPPY”.Spunky and playful again, instead of needlessly concerned about food issues other cats don’t give a tail-flick about (like his obsessive ownership of a particular dish: other cats honor it and don’t give a tail-flick about his weirdness either way - it’s important to him, right? ‘Whatever.’)However: As to Catguru’s claims about each bowl holding ONLY enough for 1 cat/1 day: if you trust that, you will overfeed your cat. Yes: even if he’s a big guy.Right now I refill every 1.5 to 2 days, and 3 bowls are good enough for 4 cats, including ‘a big guy’.Usually when I “refill”, I’m just scooping perfectly good, unused food off the ‘place setting’ mat (with an amazing ridge to keep the tossed food from going everywhere - that actually works for all but one or two kernels from a giant pile bulldozed (nose-dozed?) by a cat!) and from the edges of the rim of the elevated ‘Table’ and dropping them back into the bowl for another day and a half!!The Cat Guru system inadvertently plays a Dieter’s Optical Illusion Trick to make an over-eater “Think” he’s eaten 1.5 cups of dry food, when it’s more like 1/3 - 1/4 cup!!I’m actively trying to calm down Cat D’s fear that The Food Will All Vanish! If he doesn’t eat it right away upon refill - at the same time that I’m trying to help his whiskers not feel uncomfortably over-stimulated: in that way; in the Optical Illusion Mind Trick, does this dish help Cat D to eat less. But it has nothing to do with how much or how little the dish actually holds, at least at my house, with my wonderful animals.
