Patent ID: 7789041
Filing Date: 2010-09-07
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A pet feeding and watering device comprising: (a) a double walled bowl defining a dish having a generally parabolic sidewall and a rear wall, said bowl having an edge extending around the feeding dish between an inner and outer wall of said double walled bowl and defining a compartment adjacent the rear wall, an audio transmission channel extending from said compartment between the inner and outer parabolic sidewalls, said outer parabolic wall having sound apertures at opposing sides of said parabolic outer sidewall; an aperture located in the inner rear wall for insertion of a motion sensor; said edge of said bowl decreases in height from said rear wall to said parabolic sidewall such that a sensor inserted into the aperture is directed downwardly across said dish to an opposing location of said parabolic inner wall; and (b) a voice recording module, said module having a speaker, a motion sensor, a microphone, circuitry and a power supply, said module removably mounted in said compartment with said motion sensor positioned to detect the presence of a portion of a pet within the dish to initiate a calming recording which is transmitted via said channel to said sound apertures in the area adjacent the pet's ears when the pet is feeding or drinking from the bowl.