This may be really weird but I'll give it a try....Meanow and Sam both do not like to eat out of anything EXCEPT my daughter's really small bowl that goes to her toy dish set. This bowl is the size of a "playdough lid" but maybe a 1/2 inch deep. The problem is they get the food ALL OVER THE floor and when we scoop it up and put it back in the bowl they do not eat it. We are CONSTANTLY refilling the bowl. They make the biggest mess where we are always sweeping and stepping in it...it gets to the point where it is so annoying. They have a normal size cat dish that needs to be filled only twice a day but they refuse to eat out of it and there is NOTHING wron with it....they eat out of this dish ONLY when they are really hungry. We are trying to break them of this habit but it's not working. They are constantly tripping us by rubbing our legs when we walk in the kitchen just so they can get their food in the dish that they want it in. The only way we can get them to eat out of the cat dish is by putting more food in it when there is alot in it already
but they only eat that food until we leave them alone and then they stop...it's so weird. Is there anything else we could try? We rather have them eating out of the normal, less messy cat dish then the little bowl that they rather eat out of...Any suggestions????? Thank you so much