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(Please note: this review is for the small size version of this bowl which is not available on Amazon at the time I wrote this).
This bowl is not ant-proof, just ant-resistant.
The design definitely makes it hard for ants to get to the food, but it's not impossible and once one ant figures it out, the chemical scent trail it leaves behind makes it easy for other ants to follow.
(The cross-section of the bowl is like the capital letter "M", but with the center part lower and wider than the outsides, and with 4 little feet under the center, which are the only part that touch the floor/ground. This means that bugs have to crawl up, then down, then up, and finally down again to reach the food. Obviously not impossible for a dedicated bug).
For about 6 months I hardly ever saw an ant in the bowl. But when I was gone for a month and had a friend taking care of my cat who was fairly lax about cleaning up around the bowl, that attracted more ants, and eventually some explored enough to manage to get to the food, and that brought more. Washing the bowl didn't seem to help; that's probably because cleaning the entire underside of the bowl is difficult, and you would have to clean it perfectly to be certain to remove all traces of the scent trail (maybe washing it in a dishwasher would have worked, but I didn't try that).
Finally, I got rid of this and instead made my own bug-proof feeding tray I got a tray with 4 short legs, and sat the legs in 4 overturned jar lids each smeared with vaseline on the bottom. Unlike the fool-a-bug bowl which has no true barrier, the ants simply can't cross the vaseline (and some get stuck in it).
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