With their giraffe-like stance & deep chests, greyhounds really benefit from having their food dishes raised off the floor. But try fitting 4 separate raised feeders (1 for each dog plus 1 for water) in a small kitchen & you can’t move without tripping over one! Sick of stumbling across what seemed like a sea of dog feeding apparatus, Martin & I decided to create a solution of our own.
before..
When we moved into our house at the end of last year there were several pieces of furniture, presumably unwanted by the previous owners, left in the garden shed. Amongst them was a small laminated chipboard bookcase. Now, we didn’t need another bookcase, but we did need a 4 bowl raised feeder for the dogs & it just so happened that when turned on its side this bookcase was perfectly proportioned to accommodate 4 decent size dog bowls and fit nicely along the one free wall in our kitchen!
…after
So, we borrowed a jig saw from a friend, picked up 4 stainless steel standard feeding bowls from the pet shop & a tin of melamine paint from the local hardware store & set to work on our conversion.
the feeder holds 4 large (1.5 litre)bowls
24 hours later our project was complete & I think you’ll agree looks pretty stylish as well!
functional & stylish?
We unveiled the ‘feeding station’ to the hungry hounds at dinner time, who, after a little confusion over whose bowl was whose (doesn’t really matter anyway as they are all fed the same) seemed to give it their royal seal of approval!
Dennis, Molly & Sandy christening their new feeder
with foster dog Buddy
