the dish is a plastic top from the plastic food storage box, it's she shallowest I can find. It doesn't seem to bother them to climb into it or walk inside. I guess, I can just cut and pile up the food higher so that they wouldn't eat it from the bottom of the dish. Before I would be spread evenly on the bottom and then they have difficulty to pick. I'll do it tomorrow.Is it a smooth dish? My little guy has some trouble eating from a glazed dish. I feed him in a little pile on a slate rock so he can get some traction with those tiny little legs.