FEEDING DEVICE FOR SMALL ANIMAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a feeding device for a small animal, preventing a feed from dropping at eating, the feed from being scattered, the feed from being contaminated with excrement, bedding or the like from polluting, and the feed from attaching, and capable of accurately measuring the amount of the fed feed. SOLUTION: The feeding device for the small animal having a feeding hole, a feeding dish and a feeding pilot hole is formed as follows. The feeding pilot hole is tilted downward to the feeding dish, and the lower part of the lower terminal of the feeding pilot hole is communicated with the space between the upper opening of the feeding dish and the opening at the lower terminal of the feeding hole to form a feeding opening. A feed-scraping off opening comprising a vertical notch extended to the lower end of the feeding hole is formed at a part contacting with the vicinity of the lower terminal of the feeding opening at the upper part of the lower terminal of the feed-guiding hole, and the length of the feed-guiding hole is regulated to the length in which upper half of the body except the excreting part of the small animal can be housed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT