What makes you interested in an automatic feeder for your cat? Do you want to control their portions while you’re away from home? Keep multiple cats’ food separate? Or are you looking for a feature-rich smart feeder that allows you to monitor your cat’s feedings while you’re at work? Let us know in the comments!
When we travel would like to have a cat sitter stop in every other day to scoop litter and to replenish the feeder as opposed to coming in 2x per day. We also have an outdoor cat who comes by AM and PM, and a feeder for him would be ideal as we are never sure exactly when he will show up. price is a consideration, as we need to buy 3 of feeders.
Right now I feed my cat 1/4 cup in the morning and 1/4 cup when I get home from work and sometimes wet food or snacks too. Sometimes I have to work overtime and worry about her being too hungry having to wait hours for me to come home late.
I cannot imagine what your cats think about the multitude of different feeders, litters, watering devices, food, and litter boxes that are put in front of them. They are adorable little supertroopers. Great review.
I bought two catmates for my kitties a few months ago and am loving it! We feed 3 small wet food meals a day and two tiny kibble snacks and our cats have never been happier (and I don’t have to listen to them yell for food throughout the day while I’m working). Watching them go running when they hear them rotating is really adorable, too 😂
I've been seeing a lot of those lately and kept wondering what the deal was since they had no helpful info. I bet you're right, I think those sites are AI generated
On the pet safe youtube channel, they say the petsafe eatwell auto feeder is ONLY for dry food but all the retailers say its for wet and dry. I wish someone would make an auto feeder for wet food with a wide shallow dish slots, these deep awkward dish slots are dumb...
Agree!!! I really badly need wet food feeder 😭😭😭 hard to find cat-sitter where i stay/also we are new in country/ and really worry the go for 2 night holiday abroad :(
The Cat Mate 2 compartment timed feeder has an insert for ice pack to keep wet food fresh and it seems like it has a relatively shallow dish from what I can see
Without her and the poorly written instructions I would never have been able to set up my auto cat feeder(Pet Libro granary) so that I can care for my sick uncle.
Agree. I like the Wopet smart feeder but unfortunately, it's for dry food only. Ipettie has product for wet food but not the smart feature, on sale now on Amazon.
Hi! Great review! In my case, I had to go for the microchip feeder, and we're so happy. I have 3 cats, and two different diets. Therefore, I had to supervise every meal. My youngest cat is a picky and slow eater and the other two eat their meals right away, so I got the feeder for the youngest. That way I make sure she can go and finish her meal whenever she wants and one of the other cats doesn't get diarrhea from eating another diet. My cat, who isn't food-motivated, learned to use it right away. It's different from the rest because you cannot fill it and forget about meals, but it's big enough to fit almost two days' food if I had to go. That's more than enough, as I would never leave my cats alone that long, someone would come over to check on them. Sorry for the long comment, but maybe it's useful for someone with my old problem!
Wouldn't you still have to supervise feeding time though even with the automatic feeder? Wouldn't your cats just eat each others food once it's available? My 2 cats definitely would even if I had then on different diets I would still have to supervise each meal because they would eat whatever food is available.
Okay cat-food-dispenser-inventors, listen up: we need something that does all of this - Wet or dry food dispensing with refrigeration built-in for the wet food (and none of this battery-only bs, I don’t just have a bajillion DD batteries laying around); Smart phone connectivity with camera; slow feed option for hungry hippos; two separate individually programmable bowls with chip or tag recognition; quiet mechanics and shallow bowls. Oh, and make everything dishwasher safe. Cool? Cool, thanks, see you on Shark Tank
The slow feed option is definitely needed for auto feeders. I have an auto feeder, (for dry food) and even on the smallest portion setting, my cat will occasionally eat too fast and vomit afterwards. 🙄
I believe I have glanced at a product you are describing. It's a product from Pet Libro named " Polar Wet Food Feeder" it is being sold on Amazon for 129.99 they have a 10 coupon with it. I have not really looked into this product but, I hope this helped!
@@mochimari01 Thanks. I took a look at it, but it’s just an automatic rotation feeder that cools 3 compartments. I would love something like this that kept one portion cool and covered when not in use, my cat takes hours to eat a 3 oz meal.
Late to the party, and don't have an auto feeder yet (why I'm here! Lol), but, I have trouble going up/down stairs and my cat stays with me in the 2nd floor of my family's house. So, it's hard to keep going to get her wet food from fridge if I forget when I'm last down there, or if when I'm downstairs doesn't line up with her eating. So, currently, I have a very small cooler that I keep an ice Pack in (I just rotate to a diff one each night) and I keep her wet food in can, with a cap, and it honestly works great! So, I feel like, the ice packs in the Cat mate 500 is comparable to my current set up... So it would keep it cold at least 24hrs (depending on ice Pack quality). Just my thoughts. Seems like a good system.
The surefeed microchip feeder is awesome. I have a 15 year old cat on geriatric food and suddenly a kitten landed in our house. The senior was stealing the high calorie kitten food, while the little one was eating the "big boy" food and not getting the nutrition he needed. We got two of them and now the old man is back on his diet while the baby is growing like a weed.
Even with having 2 separate auto feeders now how do you make sure they aren't still eating each others food? Do you feed them in separate rooms? I feel like with my 2 cats nothing stops them from stealing each others food!
@MissRuthless I have the guards on them so there is only one access point. With the target animal eating it is difficult for another to get around them to get the food. As soon as they step (or are pushed) away the door closes. But note it's not auto feeders, those are different from surefeed microchip feeders. Auto feeders just dispense food at set times while the surefeed control access to the bowl.
I got the WOPET feeder from Amazon and it was only 117$, I like to go away for the weekend and it’s nice to be able to see my cat from the camera and track her food. Also my cat spends about 90% of the day in the living room when we aren’t home so setting up the feeder in the living room allows me to see her almost all day.
I hope they make more options for wet food like I really want to try C300 but I’m worried about whisker fatigue for my cats but I love how that brands had ice packs and stainless steel bowls you can buy to replace the plastic ones
the problem with all those feeder is if you have multiple cats you can't individualy feed them. like i have 2 cats 1 eat normaly but the other eat super quick and steal the food of the other. no feeder seems to solve this problem. even the last one . i tryed, the first cat come and open the trap door to eat and the second bully him off the food andd take is place . and the door don't close when there is a cat head in the bowl.
The 5th option will close if the wrong cat has pushed their way in. I have used these for my two cats and all previous problems were solved by this feeder.
the petsafe simply feed automatic feeder works good, but our cat figured out she can knock a few more pieces of kibble into the bowl if she swats at the feeder and obsessed with it
Question. If you have (like your case) more than 1 cat. I am.thinming of even 5 cats. How do they tend to share? Would you just buy 5 feeders? Thank you
Please do not consider Wopet!!! We have had the feeder for a year, the app is terrible, often glitches. We don’t turn it on all the times, only when we are away, since our cats are on a wet food diet. But one time, when we were about to leave for a trip, the app continuously froze when we tried to log in. We tried multiple times, even restarting our wifi and reinstalling the app. Nothing worked! And we had no way to turn on the feeder manually to feed the cats while away! Customer support is a joke as well
I bought three tag id bowls,1 cat was scared of the sound of it opening, and my skinny cat would sit by the bowl and my third fat cat would just eat all his food .... oh cats, so my only option is to lock up the fatty while the other 2 eat then release him when they are done.
I KNOW!! SAME PROBLEM HERE! However, I did put microchip feeder on skinny shelf so only 1 cat at a time can be there. Problem is, now skinny 6 month old kitten has decided she doesn't like it on the shelf and will only eat from it if it's on the floor. Do I let her sink or swim?
Good question. I've tried a number of other automatic feeders since this video came out, and while I would still rate the wet-friendly rotating feeders as the best, I have discovered some more upright feeders that may be a good option (though they're not as easy to program as the ones listed here). You can see them in our recently-updated list of the best feeders published on the AAC website: allaboutcats.com/best-automatic-cat-feeder
Ik heb zelf slechte ervaringen met de Trixie orusuban bowl. Tot twee keer toe was hij met twee maanden defect. I've got terrible experiences with the Trixie orubusan bowl. Two times (two different bowls) were after two months no longer usable because they were destruct. The bowl turned no more, there was only a sound by the time he should turn. Therefore I wouldn't recommend this cat feeder to no one.
I need the auto cat feeder for wet food because my cat needs daily medication which I can only hide in either soft cheese, or liquid treats. Probably in cream but I haven’t tried it yet. It’s once a day. I travel a lot so I need the cat to take it every 24h. My question: do you think it’s practical to dissolve crushed tablet in cheese then leave it for four days? Or will it become solid and unattractive to the cat anymore? Any real practical experience for a similar case would be appreciated plz.
We use the SureFeed for our 3 cats. They work great. Two of our cats are on a different food than the third - keeps them all out of each other’s food. The youngest has hung over the “back” of the feeder while opened to eat another’s food but we just moved the bowls around and he hasn’t done it since. Getting them trained to do it wasn’t too painful. Lol. They are all microchipped so didn’t need the tags (kept them just in case tho). The oldest and youngest were the easiest to train. The middle kitty is a scaredy-cat and his chip is pretty far back so he has to get up in it for it to open. At first he associated touching his butt with the feeder opening. So he’d go up to it and meow for me to come over. So cute, but he’s since figured it out.
Thank you so much for making this video! I know you mostly do reviews- but would love any advice on cat behavior and getting them to sleep through the night or to reduce vocalization and bad behavior to get human attention!
Hey Jacqueline, thank you for the comment. We do want to expand the channel to cover more topics like behavior and health, so you may see some videos like that soon. Your suggestions are much appreciated!
Are the ice packs on cat mate really effective?? Because I want to invest in it for wet food... But I want honest reviews for how fresh the food will be. Given, I work most weekdays and will be gone for 8-9 hours a day approximately so I'm only concerned about how the fresh the food will be for 9 hours or so...
I have never understood the need for a cat feeder. I am 54 and have cats all my life. And never needed such a thing. I have always just left cat food out 24/7. I have even just left out a 10 pound bag for the cat with no problems. I have never had a over weight cat or a cat with a eating problem. I had to leave my cat alone for a few days. I left him bowls of water all over the house and just poured out a 10 pound bag of cat food. Came back and found the cat had eaten only a little bit of the food.
I rally value your opinion. I was looking at Litter Robot auto pet feeder or now it’s called AutoPets auto feeder. It’s $249.99, is that better than Wopet you reviewed?
Looked into the Wopet feeder and jumped on a huge prime day discount. I didn't have many issues in the setup, the only issue I had was it not registering when I held the "set" button but after a second try it worked fine. The feeder would shoot kibble onto the floor to begin with but it hasn't done that in a while, not sure what changed there but I'm happy regardless. Love the camera, the amount of funny angles I've captured of the cats sniffing the feeder has been worth it alone
Sometimes I forget that not all cats “measure” their food lol. My cat since he was little just eats what he needs . We leave a plate full and he’ll eat what he needs thru out the day. He’s never gotten fat or anything .Kinda blessed ngl
We have one very similar to the wopet, just without the Wi-Fi hook up. But the mechanical operations the same. Unfortunately our smarter cat eventually figured out how to get the food out of it by sticking her paw up inside the mechanism. So we had to stop using that because she would just get as much food as she wanted.
Hey, is it even worth all the effort? I love cats as much as the next guy but I think it takes a family to entirely fulfill the cats needs. This might be too much responsibility and money then I expected. I'm not giving up, I could risk here being neglected by another person but I've got my hands full with one cat.
**couldn't. It just feels like I live and work for her solely. And I'm always worried about medical expenses. That really puts a debt in my wage. How has your experience been overall? Forever a passionate cat owner?
thank you so much! this is very helpful :) Can anyone tell me why there is still not a cool combination of a microchip function with multiple meal for wet food to keep food fresh, offer small portions, avoid gulping and prevent others from stealing? Who yould love one of these too?? :)
I've been searching high & low for one of these and it does not exist. Someone who feeds & understands raw should invent a new automatic feeder. Any option I go with I'm going to have to sacrifice as none of them check all the boxes for what I need
Hi! Great informative video! Would be awesome if you could do one on "Best Cat Carriers for traveling ( flights, vet appointments, hiking with your kitty) thank you😄😄
Thanks for your videos. I have one of the SureFeed microchip feeders but cant recomend it if you have a realy hungry cat. He draged the whole machene over the floor. Somedays I found it upp side down. When I glued it with doubblesided tape he bend the plastic up to open it.
I got a microchip feeder around 2 years ago my dog would steal my cats food, that had anxiety. Honestly the feeder has its pros and cons. I loved it because he was able to get his food. The only downfall is if you only feed wet food the feeder does start to stink. And because you can't use water on it, it was hard to clean. Also the issue with the water was a bit annoying. If a little water spilled the feeder would break.But it was really good for when my cat was sick. He was able to get the food that he needed.
What prevents the wet food feeders from developing bacteria? I've understood that wet food should not stay at room temperature for more than a few hours as it will start to breed bacteria. The Cat Mate C500 has ice packs to keep the temperature up; but the Eatwell (Runner-up) does not.
There is some debate about this, but to my understanding, the only potential advantage to dry food is a minor correlation with less tartar buildup. However, it doesn't seem that most dry foods are really able to "clean" the cat's teeth, and you're better off with a combination of wet food and regular brushing and dentals from a vet. Other than that, a complete and balanced wet food, with all of its hydration, seems better than an equivalent dry food, and I can't point to any nutritional advantage to the latter.
I have a cat that starts waking me up at 4 30 am for food. I have 4 indoor cats and have been looking for a automatic feeder for wet food. Thank you for the review
Thanks so much for your recommendations! Ive been looking into getting a automatic feeder since starting shift work. My schedule is all over the place and it’s definitely impacting my cats feeding schedules. Just got two of the ones you recommended the most! So glad i dont have to compromise on the wet food too! So excited to get them set up ☺️☺️🥳
I have a WoPet, but not with the camera and Wifi capabilities. I like it because my late cat who figured out how to trip the last feeder I had couldn't trip this one, and because the dish can be easily removed and washed (even run through the dishwasher). One of my cats is prone to chin acne, so being able to fully clean the dish every couple days keeps him from having breakouts.
I just need a feeder for my cat to automatically feed and clear out the bowl of any scraps of dry food cause he doesn't fully finish every piece and it piles up.
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Do you have any suggestions where the amount of grams are not so much different everytime? I tried the cat mate c3000 but the units are different weight everytime. I got a cat with diabetes so really have to watch her weight.
@@AllAboutCatsYT thanks for your response! I tried one other automatic feeder with units but also too much difference. Got the Cat Mate C500 now and it's purrfect!
Thank you so much for all these videos holding my hand though getting a new cat showing me what is the best to give my kitten the best start in life! I don't know what i would of done without you! Keep doing what your doing. Your doing great!
I have 4 cats now, a kitten, 2 adults, and a senior. So theres 3 types of food depending on age. The problem Im having is they all go and switch bowls around, meaning I have to lock them up in different rooms, which is fine, but its annoying. The microchip feeder would work best, but I cant justify the $150 price tag, especially when I have to buy more than one, honestly I would need 4 to keep them from eating all of the others food. The second to youngest is a bit skittish, so if we do something she thinks is scary (usually in the morning when we have to get ready for work) she will run off and not eat. The oldest will always try and go steal out of her bowl, and will kick her out even if shes eating. Its such a pain, but I do love them so much!
The black PetSafe is hard to program. But You Tube has instruction video that helped this gramma figure it out. I could follow his clear instructions step by step. Stop, back up til I got it. No rambling, no music just video of keys an what to push when. Thank you for this comparison vid. Good job. Texas here.
Did you just have one feeder for both cats? Do they normally share a bowl or have separates? My cats use separate bowls currently and I’m wondering how switching to an automatic would work and if I should invest in one vs two. They’re not aggressive about food it’s just how they were fed by the previous owner so I kept the same system.
I need a way to keep ants away from my cat’s food. I doubt any of these feeders will be up to the task. Maybe the microchip feeder. But I’m skeptical. Right now I’ve had to coat the outside of the cat food bowls with Vaseline. But I think she is put off the wet food when it’s no longer fresh cuz it’s been out for a long time.
I've seen a cool hack where instead of putting the food directly in the bowl, you put another smaller bowl in it, then fill the outer bowl with water (and ice if feeding wet/raw to keep it cool) that way there is a moat around the bowl with food in it. The ants can't get to it then. Of course you'd need a feeder with bigger bowls to fit another bowl in it, like the catemate C200 with the rectangle bowls
Thanks for you videos. I'm a new cat mom and was not aware of all the different litters, litter boxes and so many other things. Your videos have helped me. :)
Yeah I really miss the automatic feeder I had before the surefeed but since one cat is a slow eater and the other needs urinary care food the surefeed is essential. I think the only solution currently for this would be to use a microchip pet door on some kind of enclosure with one of the automatic feeders inside it.
I‘ll study in a different city at the end of the year and of course I‘ll take my cats with me but once a month I want my go home for the weekend to see my family so I would leave Friday and come back sunday so I need something to take care of my cats I invested in a litter robot connect, a dry food dispenser, I have cameras to check on them but my cats normally exclusively eat wet food so I‘m trying to find a way to still give them wet food. They dont have a cat hotel in my area and I dont have a car I dont wanna put them through two 4,5 hour train rides.
Bought the Arf. Great design. Great features. Unfortunately the plastic they used to create it is terrible. The little paddles that dispense the food began breaking off with the first 6 months. This if for tiny pellets of dry cat food so the weight should not have been a factor. Tried to get a replacement paddle wheel and found they were bragging about the "redesign" to make it stronger than before. So they knew it was an issue. Unfortunately, the replacement part was never in stock and no one ever responded to our various messages, emails, FB messages etc. Decided - since I could not get the replacement part, to FIX the old part by building and attaching new little paddles to the paddle wheel. When i attempted to remove the food tray (something I've done a 100 times), the plastic tab shattered. First the left, then the right. Unreal. So now I'm on here looking for a replacement for the Arf. Loved it while it worked. But at 6 months for $80, paid over 10 bucks a month for what we got out of it. Forget about warranties etc. No one will ever contact you. Hoping one of these works for us.
So, I ended up going with an Ipettie Auto feeder and I frickin love it! Seriously. Customer service is amazing. I contacted them before ordering and they responded quickly and thoroughly and followed up a d day or two later to see if had any questions. After I ordered it, they reached out again to make sure I was liking it and if had anything could help with... Wasn't in a badgering way, it was just good customer service. It's extremely easy to set it up. The tray has 6 spots for food, but you can schedule just 5 times... So, one of the slots is considered an immediate feed. But, 5 schedule times is still more than others. And the trays dishes are a good side, not too deep. It's also super easy to clean because the tray sections are rounded, no crevices where food goes, so just wipes up easily! I use the ice packs because I give my kitty, Gwen, wet and dry food, and I'd say the ice packs easily last 8hrs, but depends on temp it'll be sitting in too. They give you two ice packs, so you have to make sure to refreeze them daily. You can purchase extra icepacks if would like to always have ice packs ready to go in feeder. On this topic, the feed tray you get with machine is plastic, but you can purchase a stainless steel one if you prefer that. The machine is very quiet when rotating. It does a beep when in position to alert your pet, but it's rather quiet - I live in a studio essentially, and so the feeder is near my bed, and it never wakes me up, though it goes off 3x over night. She also hasn't managed to pop the lid off to get at all her food (and she did try initially lol, I'd hear her pawing at it and whining lol). I got the non-wifi one, bc my wifi is sketchy where I live and I didn't wanna had issues with setting it up. But, there is one that you can get where you can set and change the schedule using and app on your phone. It also has a safety mechanism, so if kitty was eating or sniffing or pawing as the machine starts to rotate the tray, it will stop moving when feels any resistence or obstacle, it stops, rotates back a little, pauses for 30sec and then resumes. So, yeah, I love mine! Lol, got in Amazon. No, I'm not paid by them to gush about their feeder, lol, I wish!! I know the cat mate is supposed to be the top feeder for wet foods, etc. It's literally #1 on a feeder lists, BUT when you look at actually customer ratings and comments, it's lower than other feeders. My big concern with it was that it doesn't acknowledge if cat gets in way of machine turning. My kitty is young and curious. I read stories of people's cats getting stuck in them, like paws pinched, collars stuck. One guy wasn't home when it happened to his cat - he said he walked in, saw the feeder several feet from where it normally would me and flipped over, his cats collar had been ripped off the cat and the tags were wedged in the machine and his cat was hiding. ☹️ So, after reading that a few times, I was not excited for that feeder. But, again, the Ipettie one has that stop mechanism. Anyway, again, I love the thing, one of my best purchases ever. Highly recommend it!!! (As a PS in case you are planning on getting one or just got it... This is just regarding setting up the feeding schedule. I found it super easy to set it up. The directions are clear and it makes sense. But, one thing I will say is, for some reason, it seemed a lot of people were confused about this and mad at the machine for it (though, I think description/instruction packet are rather clear)... So, you can't set it by a day and time... You're just setting up to 5 times in a 24hr time period. So, say you want to feed your cat 1x a day for 5days. OK cool. You'd just put in that one time and leave all the other time slots as 12:00am (it's their equivalent of null time slot... So you can't actually set the feeder got midnight, but you could do 11:50pm or 12:10am, so, close enough). OK, want 2 feed times, ok put in the 2x and leave the rest empty. The feeder will always just activate when your scheduled time comes up. And, I know one woman was mad be she said her times kept getting changed... So, for example, if you set the times as like 1) 3pm, 2) 9pm 3) 6am 4) 12pm... The machine will actually just reorder them so listed chronologically... 6am, 12pm, 3pm, 9pm. She wasnt realizing it was all the same times she'd done, just put in chrono order. I learned it did that when I added a random night feed in the middle of my schedule and next time I went to update it, I saw it was changed. So, you can't tell the machine, do 8am & 8pm today, then 9am tomorrow.... Because, again, it goes in chrono order for a 24hr period. So if put that in, it'll go off at 8am, 9am, 8pm in one day. Make sense? )
Downside (con) for Cat Mate C500: When device is first fully loaded (5 compartments including immediate feed (position "0"), the two portions afterwards ("1" & "2") are above the ice pack, but "#3" is NOT. Number "4" begins over the ice pack but as soon as it rotates one position, it then is NOT over the ice pack. I have been wracking my brain to come up with various schemes so that portion "4" moves quickly past the unchilled portion (and it CAN be programmed that way) but I have decided to buy a different brand that chills all 5 compartments. (I also have a C300 (3 compartment) model, but I'm sending it back also because one compartment also does not get chilled until it rotates over a chilled position. I think Cat Mate makes a good product, but there being an unchilled position does not fit my pet's needs. NOTE: then unchilled position is the battery compartment. Other brands are designed differently.
I'd like a microchip feeder (or simply a proximity activated feeder) because my cat likes to graze and eat her meals slowly over the course of many hours, and unless I intervene it will dry up until she eventually refuses to finish it. Obviously I can't be there to splash water on her plate several times a day once quarantine ends, so I figure a good microchip feeder will be able to keep the moisture in and keep the food fresh, plus the house will smell less of cat food. My requirements beyond basic function are: 1. Ease of cleaning, since I'll be using wet food. 2. Food can be served on a plate, not just in a bowl. My cat prefers to eat from flat surfaces, if I give her food in a bowl she will move the food to the floor before eating it. 3. Not too large. With cat trees, litter boxes and toys quickly eating away at my available floor space, I'd prefer something compact without unnecessary bells and whistles. And while not necessary, it would be nice if it looks nice as well and not like some cheap plastic toy.
I have a micro chip feeder. My old cat thieves into the feeder (really easy to do and she figured it out immediately). I put it on a skinny shelf so only 1 cat at a time can fit and that worked well. However, now skinny 6 month old kitten has decided she doesn't like it on the shelf and turns away from it. She'll eat from it from the floor but then big cat gets that. Do I just let the kitten get really hungry and pray she will eventually eat from it from the shelf? I feel so mean knowing she's hungry! HELP
The Cat Mate feeder works pretty well for my furboy Spike. The only problem I had with it was ME. It fed him in the morning and in the evening, and since there are only five rotating cubbies, I would forget that I had to refill it after Day 2 (I'm getting old and have many senior moments lol!). He'd holler and yell all the while he was jumping on the bed to wake me up to fill his empty bowl. That wouldn't fly, so I bought the PetLibro where at least I could fill the hopper with a month's supply of kibble. I see you have reviewed the PetLibro, and I'll be interested to see what you thought of it. I will say one thing for the Cat Mate: I really like that you can use it with wet food, which I am trying to get him to eat in the evening. He's a kibble addict...but that's a story for another time. 😼
What I need is a slow auto feeder for my cat that feels as if he's the four legged version of Joey Chestnut in a eating competition.......only unlike Joey, he seldom keeps it down after the fact.
Would like an automatic cat feeder that will despense freeze dried food. I'm going to freeze dry my own raw cat food into kibble-sized bits. That way my cat will continue to get high quality food while I'm away. Is there any reason that wouldn't work with an automatic cat feeder?
i need frequent very tiny portions !!! Please help me pick the right one!!!! how much does 1/8th of a cup look like that might still be to much for my cat
Hi there. While there are some differences between the two, both of these feeders may be products being branded and sold by various companies. For example, this product on Alibaba looks a lot like the Roffie: www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Amazon-Top-Seller-6L-Dog-Automatic_62106998721.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_title.1c0f696at7wBup&bypass=true And this one looks like the Wopet: www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Remote-control-App-Camera-microchip-cat_62480081488.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_title.1c0f696at7wBup&bypass=true All of this is to say that it is possible that you might find these products under several different brand names. In other words, you may find a number of products with the same design under a variety of labels. Hope this clears things up a bit.
I want to buy one because my cat is a pain in the ass on weekends, he does everything possible to wake us. Put his ass on my face, lick my arms, gently bite my hands or scratch everything around. From 6 AM until I get up to give him wet food. He has cat food available all the time, but just want wet food. I love him, but I also love sleeping.
I got the petkit one. It’s pretty good. Try go for one of the newer ones. Better dispensing, won’t get stuck. Also small doing kibbles works better thank large funky shaped ones.
Very informative and thorough! We are considering an automatic feeder because our kitten really starts asking for food around 4:30 am and is waking us up often. We wake up at 6:00 am anyway, but I figure if she’s struggling to get through the night without feeling super hungry then maybe something like this would help. We do feed a huge portion around 9:00 pm before bed but the bowl is always empty in the morning and it seems not to satiate her through the whole night.
Awesome information. I have a colony of 7 TNR'd cats I care for on my parents' property. I can't leave food out at night because of racoons, so, for last three years, have to go out at sun-up to put food out, and sundown to put it away. From your descriptions, it seems as if the PetSafe 5-meal feeder may be the best solution. It looks as though I can ratchet-strap it to the feeding table, to prevent racoon theft, set it to have an empty bowl rotate into position at sundown, a filled bowl to rotate at sun up, with two more meals rotating during the day, allowing me to go out once sometime during the day to refill bowls and refresh their water; though, from the portion size, I may need two or three of them... but it may be perfect! Thanks!
Hi there. As you've gathered from your vet, there is some disagreement on that. From what I've gathered, however, dry cat food significantly increases your cat's risk of chronic dehydration and urinary tract issues. Additionally, most dry foods are carbohydrate-heavy, which raises your cat's blood sugar and may increase their risk of developing diabetes.
The large bowl is good for cats because some don't like their whiskers touching the sides and dry food helps their teeth, just wanted to point that out from the comments in the video
With two cats with different and exclusive diets there is only one option, the feeder with the microchip reader. It works perfect and is even better when the ́backdoor of the feeder is closed with the extra cap
