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This is our final review in our series of Aikiou canine bowl Reviews. In case you missed our first two reviews of the Aikiou Interactive canine bowl then check out the following links:
Aikiou canine bowl – In For Review
Aikiou canine bowl – review – putting It To The Test
If you’ve been following our reviews then you’ve already seen pictures and know a little bit about the Aikiou canine Bowl. After our initial inspection we had a little bit of difficulty deciding if this was a canine toy, canine puzzle, or a canine bowl. According to their site this canine product is actually considered an interactive canine food dish. Whatever it’s considered we think it’s pretty cool and as you’ll see in our video below, Stetson found it to be a pretty cool canine bowl, toy, and puzzle all rolled into one.
Aikiou canine Bowl
Once again here are the stats on the Aikiou canine Bowl:
Here are the stats on the Aikiou canine Bowl:
Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.5 x 13 inches; 1.6 pounds
Product Features:
Encourages your pet to eat much more slowly, which reduces digestive problems and discomfort
Help to prevents the storage of excess fat (since your pet is eating much more slowly, it will feel full sooner)
Provides a food hunting activity your canine needs for stimulation of the brain and the other senses
Helps decrease tension and anxiety through play
Use for each meal or at desired intervals
Aikiou canine bowl video Review
Here’s Stetson’s video review of the Aikiou canine Bowl:
Video review Transcription
Welcome to the PuppyInTraining.com Aikiou canine bowl Review. and there’s the Aikiou canine bowl I’m just taking it apart and we’ll speed it up here just so you can take a look at how we actually load all the food in the Aikiou canine Bowl. That’s about 1 1/2 cups best there and the Aikiou canine bowl is full we just have to put the pieces back together. and that’s what the Aikiou canine bowl looks like re-assembled with food loaded up.
Now Stetson is going to go ahead and put the Aikiou canine bowl to the test. In the upper best hand corner he’s eating 1 1/2 cups of food out of his regular stainless steel bowl and down below he’s eating using the Aikiou canine Bowl. As you can see with the Aikiou canine bowl Stetson has to eat one compartment at a time and it slows him down quite a bit. now Stetson is just about done with the food in his regular bowl and that’s about it that took him only about 20 seconds.
Now we’re going to speed up the footage for the Aikiou canine bowl because it takes Stetson quite a bit longer to eat food out of that bowl. even though the video is going about 10x normal speed you can see Stetson really has to maneuver the bowl around in purchase to get every morsel of food out. Stetson’s all done with his food now as he can’t find anything else left in his bowl. It took Stetson over three minutes to finish off 1 1/2 cups of food in his Aikiou canine bowl compared to 20 seconds in his regular stainless steel bowl.
We noticed a ton of slobber and food residue on Stetson’s bowl so we wanted to show you that it takes a little bit longer to wash the Aikiou canine bowl compared to a regular stainless steel bowl.
Overall we really liked the Aikiou canine bowl even though it took a little bit longer to load up the food and then clean it at the end. That just about does it. thanks for joining us for the PuppyInTraining.com Aikiou canine bowl Review.
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Aikiou canine bowl – final Review
As we mentioned in the video we thought overall the Aikiou canine bowl was a great canine product. It slowed down Stetson’s eating from just over 20 seconds with his regular stainless steel bowl to well over 3 minutes with the Aikiou canine Bowl.
Here are the things we really liked about the Aikiou canine Bowl:
Cool design shaped like a paw
Required Stetson to do some problem solving
Several chambers and Stetson either had to spin or slide the little plastic pieces to access the food.
Learning curve. We had to do a little bit of training with Stetson to get him to slide and spin the pieces on the bowl. We delighted in this and I like spending time working with my dogs.
Rubber pads on bottom decreased sliding
Plastic pieces were easy to pop off for loading food and cleaning the dish
However, the Aikiou canine bowl was not without it’s faults. here are some of the things we didn’t like about the canine bowl.
Made of plastic – our vet has told us that Stetson’s canine acne may be caused by plastic canine bowls. We’ve also heard that plastic is much more likely to harbor bacteria then metal bowls.
Time consuming to add food. As you can see in the first part of the video it takes a bit of time to load food into the bowl (videnull