Hagen Living World Ergonomic Dish - For Small Pet - Blue / S

The Hagen Living World Ergonomic Dish is the coloured version of Living World's slanted small pet bowl. The sloped front lets a short-necked animal eat without craning down into the bowl, and the weight in the base is what stops it being shoved around the cage.

Key Features

• Slanted Design: Brings the food up towards the animal rather than making it reach down
• Weighted Ceramic: Heavy enough to stay put, which is the single most useful thing about a small pet bowl
• Non-Porous: Glazed ceramic does not hold grease or scratches the way chewed plastic does
• Two Sizes: Small for hamsters and similar, large for guinea pigs and rabbits
• Three Colours: Blue, green and pink

Why Ceramic

Glazed ceramic is the easiest bowl to keep genuinely clean. It is non-porous, so it does not hold scratches and grease the way plastic does once a rabbit has chewed the rim, and its weight is the real selling point -- a light bowl gets tipped, pushed into the bedding and filled with droppings within an hour. Check the glaze for chips now and then and retire a bowl that has cracked, since a crack is somewhere bacteria can sit.

Who Makes It

Living World is the small animal and bird brand of Rolf C. Hagen, the Montreal company founded in 1955. The range covers cages, hay feeders, houses, dishes and supplements for rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and cage birds.

Good To Know

• Two bowls beats one in a cage with more than one animal, placed apart. Food is what small pets argue over.
• Wash it every day and scald it now and then. Hot water does more than detergent, and detergent residue is what makes a pet avoid a clean bowl.
• Put the bowl away from the toilet corner. Small pets choose a corner and stick to it, and a dish in it will not get used.
• A rabbit or guinea pig that stops eating, stops passing droppings or sits hunched and still is an emergency, not a wait-and-see. A gut that stalls can kill within a day.