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An Object No One Needs: Raised Pet Feeders
It's called arthritis and your comedy career is going exactly where it belongs.
They mostly just keep the bowls from traveling around a slick floor. I have a small kitchen and it helps keep things tidy.
First and foremost, dogs can and do die from drinking out of mud puddles. Second of all as a vet tech who studied animal digestion, there are certain breeds who need a raised feeder in order to protect against something called gastric torsion. There are also dogs which have arthritis. This is a very poorly thought-out ignorant and harmful article. It should be removed.
You call out 'pet feeders' and then only talk about dogs. All of the cats I've had have benefited from easier feeders, especially as they got older. It helps prevent vomiting & I'd rather buy or build a raised pet feeder than clean up cat vomit.
WOW....a narrow one-sided observation that is lacking the open-mindedness of discovery that made me fall in love with design. There is a lot of fluff in ANY product category no matter the design thinking process that brought someone to justify it. The whole digestion thing is a bit of marketing stretch but by no means should that justify a soapbox bashing for a very useful product when done correctly. I designed products in the pet industry for 5 years and was always amazed at the quirks and uniqueness of animals. I assure you that dogs will not all like to drink muddy water from a hole because your farm dogs do. I have to go now and make a call using my bullroarer because modern phones are useless.
It's a matter of tuning the height just right. In my observation, the exact right height for a dog water bowl is the height of a toilet bowl rim.
It can also reduce the number of times the bowel get kicked by people and the resulting spills
I have a chihuahua with protein-losing enteropathy, and very strict dietary restrictions. By using one of these, I can keep the food for my big dog elevated so that the chihuahua can't get to the wrong food. So, I consider it something I need.