Bowl guide

A custom pet bowl with their name: what you are actually buying

A custom pet bowl with a name on it is a straightforward product, but the details matter: the size, what it is made of, how the name gets there, and how long it takes to arrive in Australia. This is what you are buying from us, without the fluff.

What it is

We sell one bowl in two sizes, both made by Printful: a double-wall stainless steel bowl with a white outer wall, an anti-slip rubber base, and your pet’s name printed on the side. It is not a sticker, and it is not a hand-painted bowl. You type the name at checkout, up to 16 characters, and choose the lettering and the name colour. We print exactly what you type.

There is no photo upload, no logo, and no illustration of the pet. If you want a picture of them on the bowl, this is not the right product. If you want their name, in clean type, on a bowl they will actually eat from, it is.

Which size

• 18 oz (about 532 ml), 12.5 cm wide and 7 cm high, A$69.95 including GST and delivery. This is the everyday size for cats, smaller dogs and smaller meals.
• 32 oz (about 946 ml), 17.2 cm wide and 8 cm high, A$84.95 including GST and delivery. This is for bigger meals, or as a water bowl for medium and large dogs.

The measurements are Printful’s official ones, not ours. If you are choosing for a dog and are unsure, use the size guide, which is written around meal size rather than breed. For a cat, the 18 oz bowl is the one we recommend; the 32 oz is usually larger than a cat needs. There is a separate cat-bowl guide.

Why stainless steel

Stainless steel is the material most often recommended by veterinary sources for everyday bowls, because it is non-porous and can be washed clean. Ceramic can also be a good everyday bowl if the glaze is intact. Plastic is the material a bacteria study has flagged as harder to keep clean. We walk through those sources, and what they do and do not prove, in our materials guide. We sell stainless steel because it is the bowl we can source, print and deliver reliably, not because we claim it is the only safe option.

How to wash it

Printful’s care instruction is: dishwasher safe with the rubber base removed. It is not for the microwave. If you put the bowl through the dishwasher, take the base off first so water does not sit under it. We have not yet used one of these bowls in our own kitchen, so we are repeating the maker’s instruction rather than our own test.

Delivery in Australia, and Christmas

We only deliver within Australia, and delivery is included in the price. Printful holds these bowls in an Australian warehouse and prints the name after you pay. We estimate 1–3 weeks. That is an estimate, not a promise: we have not shipped a sample yet, and December post is slower.

For Christmas 2026 we suggest ordering named bowls by 10 December (our estimate). That date is a two-day buffer inside Printful’s published Australian cut-off for this category, and we checked on 12 November 2026 that every bowl variant we sell was in stock in Australia. We still cannot promise a Christmas arrival, because the courier controls the last leg. If you need it for a fixed date earlier than that, order sooner, or choose something already on a shop shelf. See delivery.

Before you pay

• Check the spelling. Because the name is printed to order, we cannot take a change-of-mind return. If the print is wrong, the bowl is faulty or the parcel is lost, email us within 30 days with photos and we will reprint, replace or refund. Your Australian Consumer Law rights are not limited. Details in returns.
• Short names look bolder. Longer names still fit, at a smaller size.
• To send it as a gift, enter the recipient’s Australian address at checkout.

What we will not claim

Dozy Haus is a new shop. We do not have customer reviews yet, and we will not invent any. Photos with a name on them are illustrative previews we drew on Printful’s catalog photos of the blank bowl, not photographs of a finished order. We do not claim the bowls are made in Australia.

Shop the 18 oz bowl, A$69.95 Shop the 32 oz bowl, A$84.95

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