Ye Olde Green Hay Bowl
I dropped Beorn’s hay bowl while washing it, and it broke into four large ceramic shards. The hay bowl matched the food bowl — they came as a set — and we returned to the store to get a second bowl, but Petco no longer sold it. I couldn’t find the set online because it has to be three years old. So we went with a different, slightly larger, tan bowl.
And Beorn will only eat the hay down the rim with the new bowl.
Meaning, anything below the rim remains in the bowl. Beorn happily consumes anything above the edge. He stands over the bowl so he can see the rest of the hay, but he refuses to eat anything below the rim of this new, suspicious, terrible, tan hay bowl.
I’ve apologized non-stop, and he looks at me dryly while I explain for the 900th time that I messed up. That soap makes your hands slippery, and I will take more care in the future when washing the remaining green and white food dish. But he won’t budge on this.
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Have you checked eBay? Or a google image search? You’d be surprised what you can find even if it’s several years old. Pets can be so funny about changes, just like us.
Animals are so funny. A friend was commenting yesterday that her partner fed the cat, but the cat yowled for food. So she went and put a tiny bit of food on top of the food her partner had given the cat. The cat only ate the food she put in the bowl. lol
I hope you can find a solution.
Can you switch the food bowl for the hay bowl? Size obviously doesn’t matter much, if he’s only sticking to the rim. And he’ll probably stick his whole face into the bowl for food…