My daughter (Dale's mommy) has been doing some reading on the elevated bowls since Dale's breed and also Bella's breed (standard poodles) are susceptible to bloat. It seems there are good points made on both sides of the issue. So, I started using a little stool for Bella's food (actually it was a stool I made for Trevor when he was little and used to like to look at the fish and he would sit on it). Well, when I put Bella's and Ripley's down on the floor Bella insists on eating out of the one on the floor and poor Ripley can hardly reach the one on the stool. I have silly dogs.