The 3-in-1 Ant Free Pet Dish (Small YG)

I needed to stop the ants from getting into the cat food that's outside for one of my cats and his feral buddy. At first I was using water in the moat and the bowl but food would end up in the bowl and at least once I found ants all over it. So now I fill both the moat and the bowl with diatomaceous earth (food grade) which is safe and inexpensive and works well to keep the ants out. I put a can or small bowl of wet food onto the DE in the side bowl so that is also protected from ants (but not flies which soon show up in hot weather). The DE lasts 2 or 3 weeks before I need to replace it so it's more convenient than using water which evaporates fast in hot weather. Overall I recommend this product if you use the DE rather than water because water itself can attract thirsty ants!

I am a cat mom of three and SO happy that I found these bowls. Ants decided to invade my cat food bowls this year out of nowhere. I've never had an ant problem and tried fixing it without spending money. First, I tried putting the cat bowls up on a higher surface. That kept the ants away for about a day longer than usual, but did not work. Then, I decided to make my own moat using a smaller Tupperware container inside a slightly bigger one. The smaller one kept getting pushed to the side and ants would get in. The last thing I tried was a cake pan filled with water with a smaller bowl inside. This did in fact keep the ants out, but was disgusting and vomit inducing to clean and had to be done daily. After a full day it would be filled with 20+ dead ants and the rotting cat food that fell in the water and was creating a nasty film over the water. I actually did this for about a month until deciding I'd had enough, and the money spent on these bowls was so worth it.WHY I CHOSE THIS SPECIFIC ANTI WANT BOWL: I decided to go with this bowl over the ones that had just a little 1/4 inch moat around them because sometimes the ants can float across a very small space of water and still make it up into the cat food. This happened a few times when I used the small tupperware in a slightly bigger one. This particular bowl has a larger space of water that they will not make it across (photo included.)EXPERIENCE USING IT SO FAR: I've been using them for a little over a week now and haven't had a single ant in either bowl. I don't fill the actual water bowl, only the bowl under the food, because the cats prefer to drink out of the dog bowl/bathroom faucet anyway and I hate dealing with food that spills into the water bowl. It obviously depends on the climate you live in (I'm in Wisconsin and it's been chilly lately) but the water under the food can last up to a week before I have to refill it. It slides on and off with ease and isn't hard to do at all. Very simple.CONS: The only downside to this bowl is how much food it can hold. It can fit 2/3 cup of food at a time. I have three cats, so I fill them at least twice a day. I ordered a third bowl anyway so that I can start feeding them more wet food again, so not a huge deal. It's cheap enough that I don't mind getting one for each cat. Seems like a pretty good quality bowl so I probably won't need to replace them for a long time.So yeah. This bowl is totally worth it and assuming you don't have huge ants, should keep them out.

We regularly feed two semi-feral outdoor cats, and in the summer we routinely have to deal with ants in the food bowls which translates to ants in the house--it only takes missing one ant when bringing the bowls in for cleaning. I purchased two of these, and they work great. I see ants on the outer base bowl but not on the feeding dish. The food dish has four short tubes underneath that sit on four posts in the water reservoir. You line up the indents on the side edges and place the food bowl on the posts. The water in the reservoir keeps ants away from the food. The food dish slips off easily for cleaning so you don't have to worry about splashing water. My cats eat both wet and dry food. They prefer these bowls much better to plates with water and their food dishes in the middle. Using that homemade remedy, the cats would scoot the bowl while eating until it fell off the plate (or reached the edge which resulted in ants). I'm not sure how long the water lasts before evaporating, but since I refill and clean the dishes daily, I just add water when necessary.

Great dish and design. I didn't really realize it's a fairly small dish (4" diameter by 1ish" deep food bowl). Would be great if they would offer different sizes I would have ordered larger. But its big enough for a daily cat serving of dry food tho. The design is great tho as other "moat" dishes either dried up or created an ant "bridge" when a food morsel dropped in them and were hard to clean water. This one offers more water space and keeps the moat free from food and seperates to clean dirty water much easier without having to dump food. Pretty colors too!

It might be good for indoor use, but that's not why I got this food bowl. I left it outside and came home to about a hundred large ants eating cat food. The food bowl needs a larger gap that the big outdoor ants can't reach across. The attached photo is the bowl after I scared off 75% of the ants.

My first attempt at an ant proof dish was advertised for dog or cat so I was assuming it would be the right size for a cat or small dog. It ended up being big enough for a Boxer or Collie. Way too big for a cat. This one is the right size for a cat meal assuming you don't just give food once a week. I feed my cat twice a day in regulated amounts to avoid a fat cat and this dish is perfect. Attached is a picture of the first one and the light blue is the one I like better.