Patent ID: 8342128

Claim:
An apparatus for dispensing viscous food to an animal using its tongue, the apparatus comprising: a container for holding the viscous food, wherein the container has a bottom, a sidewall, and an open top; and a concave dispensing sheet curving upward about a periphery of the dispensing sheet towards said open top and having a plurality of apertures formed therethrough, including apertures located proximate a center of said dispensing sheet, said dispensing sheet having a circular trough profile which allows the tongue of an animal to advance toward and across the center of the dispensing sheet in a downward arcuate path, the dispensing sheet being slideably moveable along the sidewall toward and against a portion of the viscous food disposed between the dispensing sheet and the bottom of the container upon pressing of the tongue of the animal thereagainst to extrude at least a portion of the food through at least one of the plurality of apertures.