Neater Feeder for the Drooling Dog in Your Life

by Ann Brenoff (RSS feed)
Feb 28th 2011 at 4:01PM

"Don't blame your pet, blame your bowl." Easy for the Neater Feeder people to say. With a 90-pound Golden Retriever whose middle name is Slobber-Puss, I was anxious to try the patented feeding dish with the logo, "Spoil the pet. Spare the floor."

A simple construction that basically provides a dish with a perforated drain and an overflow catch basin below, it is nonetheless nothing short of brilliant. Sign me up, no more wiping up the wood floors or having the mat under the dish get sopping wet. It also eliminated my Mommy Dearest moments whenever my son would inadvertently kicked the water dish with his foot or roll his soccer ball into it. The water still spilled with the Neater Feeder dish during these family life moments, but immediately drained into the basin below and protected my distressed cherry-wood flooring from yet another encounter with water that destroys.

The sample product sent by Neater Feeder was the small size, which retails for $34.95, so despite our Golden's desire to use it, possession was immediately claimed by our 20-pound Poodle-Bichon mix rescue -- another messy eater who tends to distribute food with abandon at mealtime. Again, what she spilled just dropped into the catch basin and we weren't stepping on hard little dog food kernels, crushing them and grinding them into the hardwood floor.

The Neater Feeder is made of recyclable polypropylene plastic and has protective walls to contain splashes and spills from eager eaters and the lower reservoir can safely hold more than an entire bowl of spilled water until you're ready to dump it. The product has non-skid feet so it stays in place instead of being pushed by a dog nose around the floor at mealtime, leaving scratches and scrapes. The small Neater Feeder for dogs has two one-pint bowls. A one-pint bowl holds about 1.5 cups of dry dog food, approximately the recommended daily feeding amount for a 20-35 pound dog. The larger size has two 2-quart bowls. A 2-quart bowls holds up to six cups of dry food.

The large size of the product retail for about $65. There are extension legs that can also be purchased to raise the height of the dish to accommodate your pet. They also sell Neater Feeder for cats; the product's bowls are shallower. Gee, aren't cats supposed to be neat eaters naturally?

Tags: dog dishes, neater feeder, pet dishes

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Deannea Mar 2nd 2011 6:41AM

You forgot to mention one of it's BEST features! The entire thing is dishwasher-safe!

cari Mar 2nd 2011 7:46AM

where do you buy this pet dish? I would love to buy one for small dogs.

vendelavee Mar 2nd 2011 8:01AM

Yeah its nice. But its just a piece of molded plastic and a piece of stainless steel. Both of which are CHEAP, and they're probably selling if for $99.00 when it is MADE IN CHINA costing them almost nothing to manufacture. Everything is SO OVERPRICED anymore. And they wonder why the economy is so bad.

grapost Mar 2nd 2011 7:58AM

davisamr Mar 2nd 2011 12:31PM

$35 as per the story I D I O T

vendelavee Mar 2nd 2011 7:59AM

MARYANN Mar 2nd 2011 8:46AM

i bought it and my little dog hates it

m00npearl Mar 2nd 2011 9:42AM

This pet dish works great! My Cat throws and pushes her food onto the floor all of the time and i was sick of vacuming it up. Now everything stays in the overspill part and clean up is super easy!

ccmcgo Mar 2nd 2011 9:44AM

You can get these pet bowls on QVC.

carole Mar 2nd 2011 9:50AM

by any chance does anyone know the price and for me it would be for my cats also where is it made????

glenbark5 Mar 2nd 2011 10:40AM

Great idea... now can someone make one for my ferret? The mess he leaves behind is unbelievable; he is worse then any dog I have ever owned.

seechel100 Mar 2nd 2011 11:33AM

FYI--- I just purchased this thru QVC. They have in 2 colors: cranberry and bronze... .they have for cats (25.00) and small dogs (27.00) med dogs (36.00) and large dogs (46.00)
cat and small dog feeded are same size but dog comes with leg extenders to raise up if needed. Best purchase yet!!

http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx?view=2&app=detail¶ms=item^M19773,RecTypeInd^IOFFER,navlist^M19773*M22447*M19774*,cp^detail,tmp^related,cpprod^M19771,cm_scid^dtlr&walk=&cmtags=

Susan D. Mar 2nd 2011 1:53PM

Where can I get one at the QVC price. I do not watch QVC ( in hopes) to catch the dish on sale. I would need the largest one and would rather pay the tv price then the higher on on the internet.

Maureen Mar 2nd 2011 12:39PM

I don't think that would work in my house. We have 3 cats, and two are sibling rescues. Those two always eat together - literally standing on opposite sides of the bowl so that each one's head is halfway between the ears and neck of the other as they eat.

It's like they're trying to recreate the feel of being next to each other when they were nursing (not surprising as they were abandoned at 1 week old and I had to feed them with eyedroppers for weeks). They'd never be able to get both heads in that opening at once, and since they enjoy eating together so much, I'd hate to deprive them of that.

jacmar5362 Mar 2nd 2011 1:53PM

I was reluctant to purchase the Neeter Feeder at first. but then I decided to try it. I have a Yorkie that seems to be always eatinf all around his double dish off the floor. The Feeder seems to be working though I thought for awhile that his neck was to short to reach the dishes. but he made it and it has made keeping the floor clean around his dish much better. I still think for small dogs the width between the openings and the dish should be maybe a half inch less. that would take away just a very small portion of the opening grate in front of the dishes. that is my opinion and I think it would be an improvement for short neck, short mussle dogs.

njleranian Mar 3rd 2011 12:42PM

I actually have a medium Neater Feeder for my shiba. It is made in the USA not China. I love it! Saves me lots of time! Before I purchased it, I was cleaning up spilled food and water daily and wasting lots of paper towels. Not anymore! I think everyone with a dog or cat should own a Neater Feeder.