{"id":19148,"date":"2019-02-03T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=19148"},"modified":"2020-01-26T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T20:14:03","slug":"super-bowls-for-a-happy-and-healthy-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/super-bowls-for-a-happy-and-healthy-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowls for a Happy and Healthy Cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jazmine enjoying her dinner in her Dr. Catsby feeding bowl.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey everyone! The human is taking a break today, leaving us kitties the responsibly of blogging today, and since it\u2019s Super Bowl Sunday, we thought we\u2019d talk about bowls. We\u2019re not sure why bowls can\u2019t be super on Friday, or Monday, or even Wednesday, because for us, any day with a bowl full of food is a super day. But to be honest, we\u2019d be happy if you put food on a plate, on the floor, or just about anywhere else, if it was something yummy to eat! Our human, she\u2019s a bit more rigid when it comes to eating etiquette, insisting we eat from special, ergonomically correct bowls designed specifically for us kitties!
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\nWhy? Well, since you asked, apparently it has to do with our senses and anatomy. We kitties have very delicate and sensitive whiskers. They almost act like another set of eyes to us and are so sensitive we can detect even the slightest change in our surroundings. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen us with that faraway look, seeing something you don\u2019t, and part of it is because we can sense things before you do.<\/p>\n

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A cat’s whiskers are a marvel of technology.<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyhow, there are some bowls that can force our whiskers into close contact with the sides of the bowl, causing us stress and discomfort (known as whisker fatigue), which we translate to things like leaving food in our bowl even though we\u2019re still hungry, pulling food out of our bowl with our mouth or paw to eat off the floor, leaving a mess on the floor (a classic favorite of ours), only eating from the center of the bowl, acting aggressive toward each other during mealtime (another favorite of ours), and standing by the bowl before eating for a period of time, pacing around the bowl, or being hesitant to eat.<\/p>\n

To remedy this, our human feeds us from bowls made with a wide and shallow design, slightly raised from the floor to promote better digestion for us. One of her favorites is the Dr. Catsby<\/a> feeding bowl. Its bacteria resistant stainless steel makes cleanup a breeze (for her, never once have we lifted a paw to wash a dish). It also has a removable rubber base underneath it, so our food doesn\u2019t slide all around when we eat.<\/p>\n

She likes a bowl that\u2019s elevated because it\u2019s a healthier way for us to eat. This brings our food to a more comfortable eating level \u2013 especially for our senior buddy, Zee, who is becoming arthritic and finding it difficult to stoop down to floor level to eat. Raised dishes also help prevent vomiting, something that is caused by a reflex muscle in the throat that reacts when we lift our head after eating from a level below our stomach.<\/p>\n

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Zee eating from a bowl with a raised pedestal to help with his arthritis.<\/p><\/div>\n

As we said, we\u2019d be fine eating off the floor, or stealing food from an unsuspecting human\u2019s plate, or even rummaging through the garbage if you\u2019d let us, but I guess it is<\/em> nice of our human to be so concerned about our health and well-being. And it is nice having a bowl that makes it easy to scarf down every morsel of food, without any of it getting stuck to the sides of the bowl.<\/p>\n

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Poor Mia…not a single bit of air time about super bowls…<\/p><\/div>\n

We hope you enjoyed our super bowl post today. And if you\u2019re bored today, we overheard the human saying there\u2019s something on TV later called the Super Bowl. What an odd coincidence. Do you think they know about how super our bowls are? Do you have a favorite super bowl for your cat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone! The human is taking a break today, leaving us kitties the responsibly of blogging today, and since it\u2019s Super Bowl Sunday, we thought we\u2019d talk about bowls. We\u2019re not sure why bowls can\u2019t be super on Friday, or Monday, or even Wednesday, because for us, any day with a bowl full of food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1098,1096,1216],"tags":[1145,844,944],"class_list":["post-19148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-behavior","category-general-cat-care-and-health","category-sunday-selfie","tag-cat-whiskers","tag-feeding-bowls","tag-super-bowl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SuperBowl.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19148"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19707,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148\/revisions\/19707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}