Hagen Living World Ergonomic Ceramic Dish - For Small Pet - L

The Hagen Living World Ergonomic Ceramic Dish is a slanted, weighted ceramic bowl for small pets. The slant is the point: a flat-sided bowl makes a short-necked animal push its whole head down, while a sloped one brings the food up to meet it.

Key Features

• Slanted Design: Food and water sit at an angle the animal can reach without burying its face in the bowl
• Heavy Base: Weighted ceramic stays where you put it. A light bowl gets tipped, pushed into the bedding and filled with droppings within the hour
• Non-Porous Glaze: Washes genuinely clean, unlike plastic once it has been chewed and scratched
• Large Size: Suited to rabbits, guinea pigs and ferrets rather than hamsters
• Food Or Water: Works for either

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

• Wash it daily if you use it for water. A water bowl grows a film faster than a food bowl does.
• A bowl is better than a bottle for water in most cases -- rabbits and guinea pigs drink more from an open bowl, and a bottle nozzle can block without you noticing. Many keepers offer both.
• Retire a chipped or cracked dish. A crack is somewhere bacteria sit that no amount of washing reaches.
• 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.