Metal or glass bowls for automatic feeders?

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mimi4neeyah and Loki

mimi4neeyah and Loki

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Hi, all
Loki is allergic to plastic bowls, he brakes out in pimples in his chin when he eats or drinks out of them, he has no problem with glass or stainless steel bowls. I need to get him an automatic feeder but not sure which one (cost is important) and cannot seem to find one with glass or stainless steel. Has anyone changed the plastic bowls in the feeder and did it still work well?
Any ideas are most welcome.
Thanks
Michele and Loki.
 
Since I mix their food with water, I prefer ceramic or glass vs. stainless steel (metal-on-metal is more grating to me than nails on a chalkboard!). I use glass custard cups from Target or these brown ceramic creme brulee cups I still have left over from a creme brulee dessert Trader Joe's sells (not sure if they still do; haven't looked for it in a while). They fit perfectly where the plastic "bowls" in my timed comparment used to be and they don't have BPAs or allergy-inducing plastics. :-)
 
I have a cheap-o two-compartment feeder I got on sale from my local pet store for like $10-20 bucks. It runs on batteries and is so silent that I had to test it a few times when I first got it to make sure it worked. I have heard from others that this type is easy for cats to break into, although I haven't had that problem (yet) with my cats.
 
I used the PetSafe 5 section auto feeder and I found small glass bowls that fit into each section nicely, and allowed the feeder to turn with no problems.
If you have the same type of feeder, you can take out the 5section feeder tray with you to shop for tiny glass bowls. The ones I found at a market held about 1/2 can fancy feast maximum.

http://www.petsafe.net/products/feeders ... pet-feeder
 
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