With temps still reaching the 70s in SF lately, North and I have been taking advantage of the weather, and going for nice long walks on the weekends. You can pretty much bet that two out of three times, I'll forget to grab his pop-up bowl from my car, leaving me to buy a sports cap bottle in the nearest convenience store and play drinking fountain with it as he laps water mid-air. Although there's nothing wrong with this practice, I've found a solution I will never run out of the house without (unless I forget my wallet .
Eating off the ground . . .
Wine is definitely my weakness and, even though I've yet to
share it with my pooch, I love the idea of this cork-designed placemat ($4.50). It's totally perfect for my wine cellar . .
Pet Fashion Week's over 'til February, but
New York Fashion Week starts soon! I can't get enough of the
Lifestyle Innovation Awards from this event, and you may recognize several of the designs from past posts on the site (like
Whiner and Diner,
Tigrito, and
Kevy K.). Even though, the grand prize winner, HugX, is stunning, if you had to choose with money as no object, which style best fits your home's décor?
My fave competition at
Pet Fashion Week is the Lifestyle Innovation Award offered to the company that has the top product design in a different category each year. This year "pet dinnerware" was displayed and this super-cute bowl won. Learn all about it in this slideshow!
Now I've been a fan of the well-designed
Wowo feeders for quite some time now, and I am totally digging the new metallic models. There's something about the tiny circles and glossy red underbelly that makes my heart pitter-patter.
The
Aluminum Wowo 2 Series HD Feeders ($165 and up) still come with removable stainless-steel bowls and in three heights, but now boast a pebbled or hammered aluminum veneer option, in addition to the four wood finishes.
Sometimes I call it a bowl, other times a dish – what do you call the receptacle for your pets' food and water? I simply can't decide and often see the products labeled as one or another — technically a dish is "a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food" and a bowl is "a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids," so either word can work . .
Remember the
DogPause for those speedy eaters? Well, there's another version, the
EatBetter, as well as this model especially for fluids. I'm especially interested because, although my pooch is quite the gobbler, he most often gets sick by throwing up some clear liquid when he drinks too much too fast.
When I
spotted these bowls, I thought they were pretty mod and super affordable (
$15 and up) . . .
My greedy lil guy gobbles up his food like it's gonna disappear if he even looks away. I definitely keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't choke or start one of his typical
reverse sneezing attacks. Because some owners interpret a pup's enthusiasm for yums for hunger, it can cause pets
to be overfed .
