Crystal said, and when they hit the sides of a bowl during a meal, “that repeated stress isn’t giving the cat
any additional information.” He added, “We don’t want them to have associations of stress while eating.”
Hepper’s Nom Nom bowls have rounded corners, so that food doesn’t get trapped in a tight place, Mr.
Whisker fatigue is a real thing, said Andrew Roost, a general partner at Pet Fusion,
a family-run pet products company that sells feeding dishes for cats and dogs.
Ms. Gardner, the owner of Moon (a black domestic shorthair), said she experimented with many bowls —
including a soup bowl from Walmart — to determine which ones Moon and Rupert (a calico) liked best
“I think it’s just one of those things where people say, ‘Oh, cats are just finicky eaters,’
and everyone thinks it’s a joke,” said Ms. Gardner, a 51-year-old fiction writer and blogger in Langhorne, Pa. “After reading some articles about this, I was like, maybe this isn’t a joke after all.”
What Is Feline Whisker Fatigue?
Some companies have begun to advertise their food bowls as “whisker friendly.” One of them is Hepper, which makes whisker-conscious
Nom Nom bowls ($39.99, or $71.99 for two), which are one inch deep and four-inches by five-inches wide.
‘Whisker Fatigue’ May Be to Blame -
By JENNIFER A. KINGSONJUNE 5, 2017
Moon was having eating issues, familiar ones to many cat owners: He batted food out of his bowl before he would eat it.