The holy grail of cat food bowls?

[Yamyamabroad]

Has anyone found bowls for dry and wet food that stop the food from being pushing around and going over the back of the bowl on to the floor? I've seen tilted ones advertised, has anyone tried them and would that keep the food in the bowl? My cat food ends up with more on the floor than in the bowl 😀

I have tilted ones but use them for dry food as wet food seems to fall out same as the flat ones. I just put a plastic mat underneath.

We’ve had all sorts over the years. The best is really a pasta dish. My cats seem to prefer wide shallow bowls. They don’t move around but still have sides

I made my lad one, he has trouble getting his chops round wet food so i made it with 3 raised lines across it, about 3-4mm deep, so he had something to push against. For the others I made them some wide flat dishes as they just hoover up the wet food.

Thats not a bad idea actually !

Have not found a magic bowl but to save the floor we put her bowls on a purpose designed placement on a tray. So when it needs cleaning we can pick the whole thing up and put it in the sink.

For messy eaters I find the tilted bowl really handy. She kind of throws her food around! One of my cats has this twin bowl and I use a rubber cat mat underneath:
https://amzn.eu/d/02wENkYS

My other cat doesn't like getting his whiskas dirty and squashed and prefers a wide, shallow bowl. When he was younger (maybe 8 years ago), Whiskas gave away a ceramic food bowl with a purchase and he loves it, and it does keep any mess to a minimum. They pop up for sale on eBay and Vinted and last a long time.

They are using the Whiskas free ones at the moment but everything slides out the back of it. I think they are just messy eaters

Penelope is the messiest eater ever. I’ve tried multiple bowls and plates and nothing makes a difference! I’ve accepted defeat

Thanks for all your input, I might try the pasta bowl idea and just feel relieved they are not the only messy eaters

We're using the white version of these. They're excellent. Very stable and also cheap.
https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/nutmeg-home-essentials-black-glass-cereal-bowl/114788086

CatOfHate has Koziol Miaou.

We use tapas dishes from The range - enough of a lip to stop the food being pushed out, but still quite wide

I use a big heavy (human) cereal bowl for cat #1 as he tends to get a scabby chin with plastic ones. He's a big breed and likes a really wide rim bowl.

Cat #2 has a cat bowl that is higher at the back than the front which stops biscuits tumbling out if she eats like a normal cat....

However, cat#2 insists upon flicking the food out of bowl and eating off the floor.

Cat#1 is a clean freak so has to run around behind cat#2 gobbling up all her spillages 😸.