Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We purchased this feeder to replace an older one that was no longer reliable due to the food not being fully dispensed. The old one could only dispense up to 3 meals a day and we were never truly happy with the design. This feeder is so much better. The locking feature on the top of the feeder ensures that the food won't come out if your cat tips it over. The feeding bowl locks tightly so it would take a pretty strong or smart cat to dislodge it from the feeder. I really love the colored light bar that makes it easy to see the status of the feeder at a glance. If it's all steady blue, you don't need to worry. Although the portion size if fixed, you can totally control the number of portions (up to 50) per day and allot them among the 6 potential feeding times. This gives you a ton of flexibility. We have two cats and this one is going to our older cat that is obsessed with food. He absolutely needs a feeder to control his food intake, or he will just eat until he is sick. I was having a little bit of difficulty converting the ml to cups, but I ended up setting up 6 feedings a minute apart and measuring the total output to arrive at the right number of portions. We give him 3/4 cup a day, which equaled 10 portions for this feeder. After getting the number of portions down, I set up the feeding times to spread out the 10 portions among the available 6 feeding times. The process to set the number of portions and the number of feeders is a little tricky at first, but once you become familiar with the control panel and the buttons, it is very simple to set. I love that this feeder came with the power supply and also has the battery backup built-in. I have included a picture of how we cat-proofed our feeder. It's not a pretty solution, but it works and it's in our basement so we don't really care how it looks. Our cat is an expert at getting to the food and we had to go to a lot of trouble to secure the old feeder. The shape of this feeder made it much easier to keep him from breaking into the food and he hasn't even tried to tip it yet. I highly recommend this product.