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Hello

I have problems with my mobilty as well. I have 2 of these. They are really good as well, the bowls are stainless steel and removable to clean... although my 4 get the plastic covered in food as well

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alessi-Tigrito- ... 698&sr=8-1

Expensive but worth it. I have a black one and a turquoise one. Got black one from Ebay cheaper.

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Lollo

Also, feel really bad that i never got back to you about the Zylkene. I have had so much on lately that i simply forgot about it. Really sorry. We have weaned our Max off it now... fingers crossed

Again, sorry... my head is a mess at the moment!

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Lollo

I know you don't want to feed them on your worktops but would it be possible to put a low table/cupbooard/uptuned crate in the area where you currently feed them? It would need to be big enough to have space for the bowls and for the cats to feel comfortable eating but you could probably pick something up pretty cheaply.

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Putting their food on a table or windowsill makes it much easier.
I put their bows on a small dinner tray an put it on a table.

You can also try this;


Tobias at the age of 19 got his food in bed.

Rob

Some great ideas. Thanks.

I am quite surprised that there isn't something around for this type of problem. When you think of the number of dogs trained to help disabled people. I would have thought someone maybe in a wheelchair could have difficulty putting food down for their dog or other pets.

Last week was one of my husbands "really bad" weeks not his usual "bad" ones. Most of the time he will kneel, get Max to sit, put the bowl down and make a fuss of him so he knows he has behaved well. Then he has to pull himself up using the table and the worktop. Last week he could hardly get down there in the first place.

I had a fiddle about with one of the simple plastic bowls. I cut a slot in the side then straightened a wire coat hanger, made a loop and bent the excess into a handle. Works in theory but we haven't tried it on Max yet.

The first thing I would do is putting the food somewhere higher, not necessarily in the kitchen. If you put them on a dinner tray it is easy to clean.

A tray with a stick is an other possibility, easy to make. Just get a reasonable large tray (for stability), drill a hole in the middle and attach a stick to it (a walking stick would be perfect).

It does require some DIY skills to drill a hole in the stick for the screw. If you use a screw with a washer (stronger) it will be necessary to fix small (rubber) feet to the corners of the tray, otherwise it will wobble.

Rob

On The BBC programme Dragons Den last night there was a woman showing a cat bowl with a long handle, exactly what you need.