The 3-in-1 Ant Free Pet Dish (Small Blue)

This bowl works great. One tip, make sure it's not pushed up against a wall or the ants will go up the wall to get to the food. You can also use bowls that will fit into the compartments to make it faster to clean. We put diatomaceous earth in the bottom under the bowls to avoid standing water for mosquitoes. It's hard to find something that really works. These work if you do what they say and don't put it against a wall. I get a lot of requests to know where I got them.

I love these. They keep ants away

I am a cat mom of three and SO happy that I found these bowls. Ants decided to invade my cat food bowls this year out of nowhere. I've never had an ant problem and tried fixing it without spending money. First, I tried putting the cat bowls up on a higher surface. That kept the ants away for about a day longer than usual, but did not work. Then, I decided to make my own moat using a smaller Tupperware container inside a slightly bigger one. The smaller one kept getting pushed to the side and ants would get in. The last thing I tried was a cake pan filled with water with a smaller bowl inside. This did in fact keep the ants out, but was disgusting and vomit inducing to clean and had to be done daily. After a full day it would be filled with 20+ dead ants and the rotting cat food that fell in the water and was creating a nasty film over the water. I actually did this for about a month until deciding I'd had enough, and the money spent on these bowls was so worth it.WHY I CHOSE THIS SPECIFIC ANTI WANT BOWL: I decided to go with this bowl over the ones that had just a little 1/4 inch moat around them because sometimes the ants can float across a very small space of water and still make it up into the cat food. This happened a few times when I used the small tupperware in a slightly bigger one. This particular bowl has a larger space of water that they will not make it across (photo included.)EXPERIENCE USING IT SO FAR: I've been using them for a little over a week now and haven't had a single ant in either bowl. I don't fill the actual water bowl, only the bowl under the food, because the cats prefer to drink out of the dog bowl/bathroom faucet anyway and I hate dealing with food that spills into the water bowl. It obviously depends on the climate you live in (I'm in Wisconsin and it's been chilly lately) but the water under the food can last up to a week before I have to refill it. It slides on and off with ease and isn't hard to do at all. Very simple.CONS: The only downside to this bowl is how much food it can hold. It can fit 2/3 cup of food at a time. I have three cats, so I fill them at least twice a day. I ordered a third bowl anyway so that I can start feeding them more wet food again, so not a huge deal. It's cheap enough that I don't mind getting one for each cat. Seems like a pretty good quality bowl so I probably won't need to replace them for a long time.So yeah. This bowl is totally worth it and assuming you don't have huge ants, should keep them out.

I have been feeding a feral cat. This dish keeps most of the ants out of the food. Whenever I clean it, there is always a ton of ants trapped in the water under the food part. It’s not foolproof but it does help

There's a couple stray cats that I feed and the last warm spell ants got into their bowls. These are perfect. No need to remove the food bowl to fill with water just fill the side bowl with water and tilt to fill the reservoir.

I feed a couple of community cats outdoors and ants have been a problem. I tried a waterless dish first, but that was not successful in keeping the ants out of the food. I read reviews on this product saying that the food dish sits too low and ants can bridge the distance between the lip of the base and the dish. I haven't had that problem, but I have taken care anyway to NOT push the dish all the way home on the four supports. If you are feeding cats they are not going to put a lot of weight on the dish so setting it onto the supports more gently and leaving the dish higher will probably solve your problem. Yes, it would be nice if the people who engineered this just had the sense to make the supports a little taller, but it is what it is. Lots of poor engineering out there.

My cat didn’t like it - too small

This is the first effective solution we've found to keep ants out of cat food.We have vast swarms of small ants that get into any open food, anywhere, within an hour, if not minutes. The nearest we've come to success in the past keeping ants out of pet dishes was with a moat - placing a small dish within a larger dish of water, but even that only worked for a short time, and it was a mess. The fact that the food dish covers the "moat" of water in this design is great. It still requires frequent cleaning with messy pets dropping food into the side water dish, but it is sooo much better than past attempts.