A tray for presenting food to a pet or animal. The tray includes a top side, an underside and a peripheral side extending between the top side and the underside. The topside is moreover partly formed as a number of up-turned grooves and interconnected grooves. When a pet is retrieving food from the
A tray for presenting food to a pet or animal. The tray includes a top side, an underside and a peripheral side extending between the top side and the underside. The topside is moreover partly formed as a number of up-turned grooves and interconnected grooves. When a pet is retrieving food from the tray, the animal will not only he self-engaged and fed during retrieval of the food, but the tray will also ensure that the natural needs of the animal are meet with respect to the use of brain, olfactory sense and feeding. The animal will hereby be more relaxed and behave in a balanced manner.
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1. A pet feeding dish for presenting food to a pet and which, seen in the position of use, is a tray which comprises a top side, an outer side, an underside and a peripheral side extending between the top side and the underside of the tray, wherein the top side is partly formed as a number of up-tur
1. A pet feeding dish for presenting food to a pet and which, seen in the position of use, is a tray which comprises a top side, an outer side, an underside and a peripheral side extending between the top side and the underside of the tray, wherein the top side is partly formed as a number of up-turned grooves, with at least one groove including an opening to the outer side of the tray and at least a part of a bottom face of a groove having an upward slope that is directed towards the top side of the tray, wherein a maze is provided by at least some of the grooves being interconnected, with the maze defining at least one path along and though the interconnected grooves, and wherein the up-turned grooves have bottoms, side faces, and heights, and are spaced from adjacent grooves, with the groove heights and spacing configured and dimensioned such that the pet can reach to or close to the bottom of the up-turned grooves to move the food along the path to the opening or along the upward sloped bottom face with its tongue or its feet but not with its teeth so as to access the food for consumption. 2. The tray according to claim 1, wherein the side faces of at least some of the up-turned grooves converge into a direction towards the underside of the tray. 3. The tray according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of the bottom of additional up-turned grooves of the tray slopes upwards. 4. The tray according to claim 1, which is connected to an additional dish formed along at least part of the peripheral side of the tray. 5. The tray according to claim 1, wherein the underside of the tray is also partly formed as a number of up-turned grooves with at least some of the grooves being interconnected. 6. The tray according to claim 1, wherein the top side and underside of the tray are separated by a common wall which over all has the same thickness. 7. The tray according to claim 1, which is formed as an integral unit. 8. A method for stimulating or motivating a pet or animal which comprises adding pet food to some or all of the grooves of the pet feeding dish according to claim 1 and feeding the pet or animal from the tray. 9. A method of manufacturing a pet feeding dish according to claim 1, which comprises forming the tray by vacuum forming or plastic moulding. 10. A pet feeding dish for presenting food to a pet and which, seen in the position of use, is a tray which comprises a top side, an outer side, an underside and a peripheral side extending between the top side and the underside of the tray, wherein the top side is partly formed as a number of up-turned grooves, with at least one groove including an opening to the outer side of the tray and at least a part of a bottom face of a groove having an upward slope that is directed towards the top side of the tray, wherein a maze is provided by at least some of the grooves being interconnected with at least one adjacent groove, with the maze defining at least one path along and though the interconnected grooves, and wherein the up-turned grooves have bottoms, side faces, and heights, and are spaced from adjacent grooves, with the groove heights and spacings configured and dimensioned such that the pet can reach to or close to the bottom of the up-turned grooves with its tongue or its feet but not with its teeth to move the food along the path to the opening or along the upward sloped bottom face with its tongue or its feet but not with its teeth so as to access the food for consumption, wherein the up-turned grooves have a substantially uniform width. 11. A pet feeding dish for presenting food to a pet and which, seen in the position of use, is a tray which comprises a top side, an outer side, an underside and a peripheral side extending between the topside and the underside of the tray, wherein the top side is partly formed as a number of up-turned grooves, with at least one groove including an opening to the outer side of the tray and at least a part of a bottom face of a groove having an upward slope that is directed towards the top side of the tray, with each groove interconnected with at least one adjacent groove, wherein each of the up-turned grooves has a substantial uniform width, and a maze is provided by at least some of the grooves being interconnected with at least one adjacent groove, with the maze defining at least one path along and though the interconnected grooves, such that the pet can move the food along the path to the opening or along the upward sloped bottom face with its tongue or its feet but not with its teeth so as to access the food for consumption.
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Haynes Graham J. (P.O. Box 413 Plympton ; South Australia ; 5038 AUX), Animal feeder.
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