Move Over Cereal, This Bowl's Just For Cats

Cats have a remarkable talent for seizing upon various things around the house and putting them to their own special use. That couch armrest? Why, it's a scratching post. This toilet-paper roll? How about a front paw treadmill. Those window blinds? Who knows what they're thinking with those.

No doubt with felines' co-opting tendencies in mind, one brilliant Japanese inventor has created what looks to be a regular old cereal bowl, but that's actually designed just to keep kitties cool.

Meet the Cooling Aluminium Kitty-Cat Pot.

The curved bowl, advertised as being ergonomically shaped to accommodate curled up cats of all sizes, evidently helps draw away body heat to give pets some much needed relief on hot days. Plus, its convincing dishware-like appearance will help ensure cats experience the quiet thrill that comes from hanging out in something they think their owners might have been planning to eat out of.

Sure, it might sound a tad gimmicky, especially with a price tag of just over $50, but they've been selling like hotcakes. Cooling Aluminium Kitty-Cat Pots are currently sold-out on Amazon Japan.