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Morning summons.
She decides it's breakfast. You disagree, but only briefly.
Edition No.001 · Slate
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Premium ceramic for the modern cat
The bowl your catdeserves.
A one-piece, raised, kiln-fired ceramic slow feeder. No plastic base. No chrome ring. Just heavy, honest ceramic — built to outlast the next four bowls you'd otherwise replace.
Lead-freeCadmium-freeDishwasher safeWhisker-friendly heightSlow-feed mazeOne-piece kiln-firedAnti-tip weighted baseDesigned in the U.S.Lead-freeCadmium-freeDishwasher safeWhisker-friendly heightSlow-feed mazeOne-piece kiln-firedAnti-tip weighted baseDesigned in the U.S.
Four glazes, one form
Drag to rotate. Each piece is a single ceramic form — bowl, rim, and pedestal fired together. Pick the glaze that matches your kitchen.
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Glaze color shown is rendered live in 3D — final ceramic shade may vary slightly with each kiln batch. We consider that a feature.
The Slate
One continuous ceramic form.
Bowl, rim, base, and maze stay visually connected as the piece turns.
The Slate · single-piece ceramic
Why this exists
Each one chipped, separated, or stained. We finally went looking for a single piece of real ceramic and couldn't find one we'd put in our own kitchen. So we made it — for our own cats first.
Pain point
Plastic bowls trap bacteria.
Hairline scratches in plastic and silicone harbor biofilm — the leading cause of feline chin acne. Ceramic doesn’t.
Pain point
Most ‘ceramic’ bowls aren’t.
They’re plastic with a stoneware shell, or ceramic glued to a metal base. They wobble, separate, and end up in the trash.
Pain point
Whisker fatigue is real.
Deep, narrow bowls overstimulate whiskers and cause refusal to eat. Our shallow, raised dish solves it without thinking about it.
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No narration. No transitions. The bowl, the floor, the cat — that's the whole thing.
Concept reference · production Slate ships soon
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A morning, in four frames
A day in the bowl.
Mealtime, when it goes right, is small and quiet. Here's what we're making it possible for.
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Bowl arrives, weighted.
Heavy ceramic, raised base. No skating across the kitchen tile this time.
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Slow eating, on purpose.
The maze does its quiet work. Ten minutes of meal, instead of ninety seconds.
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A grateful loaf.
She chooses the rug she always chooses. Naps. The bowl waits, patient.
Materials
Stoneware-grade clay
Fired above 1,200°C until it vitrifies. The result is non-porous: liquid can't soak in, bacteria can't hide.
Food-safe glaze
Hand-tested, third-party verified. Every batch ships with a current lead and cadmium report on file.
Maze molded into the clay
The slow-feeder pattern is part of the same piece — no insert to lose, nothing glued in place. A cat eats around it, naturally slower.
Packed as one heavy object
Cream box, slate top, the sitting-cat silhouette stamped on the foot. Heavier than it looks coming through the door — the way good ceramic should arrive.
Real cats. Real homes.
We sent the first batch of bowls to six cat parents we trust. Here's who they live with — and what changed at mealtime.
Mochi
4 years · feline
“Will only eat if the bowl is at exactly the right height.”
— Sasha, Brooklyn
Pebble
8 years · feline
“Senior gentleman. Slow eater. Loves the maze pattern.”
— Mateo, Austin
Olive
2 years · feline
“Inhaled kibble in 90 seconds. Now lingers for ten minutes.”
— Priya, Chicago
Captain
6 years · feline
“Skated his bowl across the kitchen for years. Not anymore.”
— Leila, Portland
Mira
3 years · feline
“Cured of chin acne after switching from plastic. Vet approved.”
— Eleanor, Boston
Bean
1 years · feline
“Feral kitten turned indoor gourmand. The bowl helped.”
— Theo, Seattle
A note from the kitchen
From one cat parent
to another:
If you've ever bent down to pet a cat who's eating —
and noticed her whiskers brush the rim of her bowl,
and seen her flinch, just a little —
you understand why we made this.
We aren't a pet brand. We're two people who count six bowls
in the trash over four years, and decided that was enough.
Every piece we ship is the bowl we'd put on our own kitchen floor.
Heavy, glazed, kiln-fired. Easy to clean. Quiet to look at.
If she likes it, that's the only review that matters.
Humza & team
Tabby & Slate · founders
Our brief
The kind a cat parent buys once and forgets they ever had a problem.
— Founding principle
Early reads
Heavier than I expected. In a good way. Lola can't scoot it across the tile anymore.
Beta tester · #014
First bowl I've owned that doesn't look like pet equipment. It just looks like… a bowl.
Beta tester · #021
Three weeks in, no chips, no stains, no chin acne. We're sold.
Beta tester · #007
Waitlist
We make small, careful runs. The first piece ships when our lead- and cadmium-test reports are signed off. Get the email the morning it goes live on Amazon.
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