( 17 reviews )
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Posted: Jul 5 2009
This thing is a joke. I bought two for my two cats. My husband and I would like to just go away for a day without having to hire someone to feed them. But, like other reviewers have noted, the timers are truly worthless. Yes, they make a reassuring ticking noise, and they do tend to open at some point, but you really have no way of predicting when. So there's no way to get them to open at the same time to feed more than one animal, and inevitably one will go without. You'd think such inefficiency could be managed mechanically, but these timers actually require AA batteries. If you only have one cat and don't really care when it eats, consider this. In the 24 hours I had these feeders on the floor (thankfully I tested them before we went away!), my dominant cat spent all of her time chewing on them and pushing them all over the apartment trying to get the food out. They're very lightweight. Once one door opens and the food is eaten, that bowl is tossed aside and a new route to the second bowl becomes available. In addition, the doors are poorly attached, and had we continued to use them, I'm sure wouldn't have lasted a week. That'll teach me to buy something from a store where I can't read reviews first.
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Posted: Jun 14 2009
The price was reasonable which is why I purchased this auto feeder for my cat. I really like the fact that the feeder can be set during a 48-hour period. What is pretty disappointing is that it does not come with ice packs. That is very important for these types of feeders that I feel are really designed for canned food; unless you have a fat pet that needs small-portioned dry food feedings. The lack of ices packs is the weakest link in this product --- given another chance I would not purchase this.
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Posted: Apr 1 2009
What I really don't like about this is the dial timer. You can never set it for an exact time to get the animals used to a feeding time. Dials are not the way to go, and electronic timer with portion control is.
