Patent ID: 8397674

Claim:
A pet food dish comprising: a bottom upon which pet food is disposed; a generally upwardly extending sidewall extending around the bottom having a plurality of spaced apart food access ports formed in the sidewall that are each configured to prevent pet food disposed on the bottom from being eaten by a pet while permitting insertion of a paw of the pet through one of the plurality of food access ports enabling engagement of pet food disposed on the bottom and withdrawal of pet food disposed on the bottom through the one of the plurality of food access ports; and a top overlying the bottom and defining a food-receiving chamber with the bottom and the sidewall, the top having an opening through which pet food falls downwardly into the food-receiving chamber and onto the bottom, and the top comprising an integrally formed food-receiving recess with the opening comprising an outlet formed in the food-receiving recess that is in fluid-flow communication with the food-receiving chamber through which food from the food-receiving recess flows onto the bottom in the food-receiving chamber.