I understand what you are going through, I had this situation with the yorkie I had before Lola, I spent close to 6 months trying to figure out what to do. Kirby first started with splashing, then tipping his bowls over, then sliding them around the house. I have always put a placemat under the bowls to protect my wood floors. I first bought heavier bowls first, but it did not solve the splashing, I then went to the raised metal stand, that worked with the tipping over problem, but he figured out he could lift the edge of the place mat and drag it all over the house, it was not uncommon to find his bowls still on the mat far away from the original spot. Everything was solved the day I found a heavy rubber place mat with raised sides at the pet store. The place mat was designed for this type of thing, it was not suction mat but it sort of functioned as one, Kirby was not able to get it to move, I keep the bowls in a corner so he could only get to it from two sides, I kept the food stand a little towards the back of the matt, because of the raised sides on the mat he really did not put his paws inside the mat so that made it harder to play with the water and the food. He was not happy though, but LOL I was. he was small yorkie with a slim build and not to strong, but I would still see him put his paw on the top of the bowls, like he was petting the bowls but he was really trying to tip them over. I think if you get raised bowls in a stand and this rubber mat your problems will be solved. |