PETLIBRO RFID Multiple Cats Feeder 2 Packs, Tag Activated Exclusive Meals, 5G&2.4G Wi-Fi Auto Food Dispenser for Pets with Different Diets and Stop Food Stealing

These are 4.5 stars. There are a few glitches that can be worked around. Overall good feeder. First, the stupid tag and collar. I hate them. I don't like the collar because it is far too difficult to get undone. I can't imagine putting it on a cat and trying to take it off without strangling the cat. I bought 2 sets of feeders they came with slightly different collars, but both sets of collars were equally difficult to get undone. I bought 2 RFID tags from somewhere else (you have to get the right kind or they will never connect, but say they did), the ones I bought work well, and they hang down lower, which brings me to the second issue. Second, 2 feeders do well with the tags (the ones the feeders came with or the ones I bought separate) just dangling higher in front of the feeder. However, 2 of the feeders did not work like that. The feeders would not open unless the tag was touching or almost touching the pad. That isn't the way that's supposed to go because when the cat goes to eat, the tag is not touching anymore. I had to add a 1" loose leaf binder ring to the tags so they would hang down low enough. I feel like this is not a permanent solution, but it works for now and doesn't seem to have interfered with their bathing. The little dry bags are not necessary to buy if you don't put a ton of food in at a time (but who wouldn't fill it all the way up?) I have had a non-RFID feeder that I never put a dry packet in for and the food never went bad or moldy, so I will see what happens. Maybe the tank is different than the other one? Setup was really easy and quick. Zero issues. I thiught there were issues when the door wouldn't stay open for the cat, but that is not a setup issue. I wish the app would let you permanently decline the service they try to sell you, or even snooze it for 30 days. It gets irritating if you tap on something and then it suggests a subscription. I have had the foo(Solid Gold Everyday Nutrition) jam in the shoot. If that happens, clear the jam, then do a manual feed, too. I have seen other cats go to other feeders, get confused, and tey to open the other feeder by different means. They could not get in. We had old RFID feeders without a hopper, and those worked well until the dogs realized if they just shoved the cat out of the way and shoved their own head in and did noy remove their head until they were done, they could eat all the cat food. That is not the case with these feeders. They could get a little food, but the door gently pushes under the snout. The only option for the dog is to try to flip the door before it fully closes, to keep the door from latching. I don't knkw how well that would work out for them. They have not attempted that. The hopper holds a decent amount of food. The old non-RFID feeder was diuble the size and feeding 2 cats, so this is about right, you would want to check the food every so often anyway. And, the dish has little side walls, so the prevents unwanted sniffers from getting into the food while the cat is still sitting there. The display is kind of cool because you can change it to a picture or change it to the cat's name. I have it on the name because there are 4 feeders and I need to remember which one gets the prescription food. The display IS nice to have, but it isn't anything fancy. Just basic dot clusters for the display. I like the stainless steel dish, and that it's removable. Now I get to see if the weird chin stuff on one of the cats has to do with the dish he had previously been eating out of. The app is really nice. The non-RFID feeder worked with an app, but would not tell me if the food ran out. It let me schedule feedings and notified me of jams. The Petlibro lets me set up feeding schedules, manually feed, manually open the lid change the name on the LED, and tells me if the food is out. Only issue is with clearing a jam. I cleared a jam on one feeder and the app said it was clear, but the feeder, itself, said it was still jammed. I did a manual feed and that cleared the error message on the feeder. Portions. The portions of food are odd. They almost seem like too much food. My chunky cat (13 lbs British Shrot Hair/Scottish Fold) cannot keep up on the volume of food a 1/2 cup per day. That would be 2 feedings at 3/12. I have to turn her feeding schedule off until she catches up. I haven't tried to change the meal call, and actually never hear it, so I don't know how it sounds or if it does anything. I do know the cats can hear the food dispensing because I can check their eating history and see that they went right after food was dispensed. The eating history on the app is nice. I've had to tell a vet if a cat has stopped eating or decreased, and you can tell by the history if they are eating less or about the same. This is helpful. If my litter robots break, I may try the Petlibro litter box, and just be full circle with their product line. For sure having a litter box that weighs the cats has been useful for telling a vet when the started losing weight and having it all in one spot would be fantastic. So far, good product, with minor mods for the RFID tags, and I would not use the collar the tags come with. All 4 were difficult to undo.

My oldest kitty, Donut, was recently diagnosed with urinary crystals and requires to be on prescription food that other kitty, Mabel, cannot be on. He is also not allowed to eat her food to try and keep everything under control. Feeding them at certain times was difficult to do as Mabel is a big foodie, and if Donut didn’t eat all of his food, she would eat it all. So after much research on the many different covered automatic feeders, I decided on purchasing two of this one. It is a bit expensive but absolutely worth the price, and the kitties took up to it immediately! The setup isn’t too hard as long as you follow along with the booklet they provide, then the PETLIBRO app does the rest. Very simple and easy to set up. What I like about it is that it only opens for the specific cat whose tag you register to it. Mabel did try to bite her way into Donuts bowl, but was unsuccessful thankfully. That proves how durable it is!!! I also like that you can set up meal times to automatically dispense at a certain time at a certain amount. If you free feed, this is still possible to do per pet if you just keep track of how much food has been eaten and just refill when it gets low. You can set dispensing schedules by day and time and if you prefer for the kitties to get fed a certain amount 3 days a week and differently the other 4 days, you can absolutely easily set it up that way. The ability to also put batteries into the feeders to allow it to work in case of a power outage is a lifesaver!! If you have a kitty that is also food crazy, you can adjust the cover closing times and speed to try and help ensure that the other kitty does not steal food. I’ve also placed the feeders in different rooms to avoid this. While there are a lot of pros, there are a few cons but it isn’t necessarily a deal breaker for the overall feeder. If you schedule meal times, if the kitty hasn’t eaten the full amount, it will obviously pile onto the food in the bowl already. If your kitty isn’t much of an eater, the food will pile up and cause the dispenser to get blocked. It’s easy to fix, as I usually just open the cover in the app and use my finger to pull the blocked food down. For my kitty who doesn’t eat a ton, I have turned off scheduled feeding to avoid this from happening and just refill when it gets low. This isn’t a deal breaker whatsoever as he is still getting the food he needs! When setting up, the feeder also does talk, which may be startling for some skittish kitties. Luckily, my kitties were not fazed by it; although, I did completely turn down the voice as soon as I could to avoid them getting scared if it did talk for any reason. Lastly, the last con is the often changing and cost of the desiccant bags; although, there are alternatives that you can find online and use in place of the PETLIBRO branded bags that work just as good. Overall, this is a great product given my situation! It does its job perfectly and helps keep my mind at ease that my kitties are getting the food they need. 100% recommend!

I have had a problem in the past with my two cats stealing each other's food and over-eating. I bought two feeders about a year ago, so here has been my experience so far. Pros: • My cats can't steal each other's food! - This was a big issue for me as they'd make themselves sick from over-eating or just getting downright chunky. • I can set how frequently they're fed and manage how much they get with each meal time • They have the option to be battery operated in the event of a power-outage • You get alerts on the app when the feeder notices something is wrong, such as food stuck in chute, low food in the reservoir, or the door won't close properly • Hands-free management of pets, you can leave home for a couple days and know they'll still get fed • Relatively easy to set up and program! If you're not tech savvy, please take the time to read the instructions carefully and anyone can do it. • Easy to take apart and clean! Really helpful if you have messy eaters or cats that slobber Cons: • If your cat is a messy eater like my elder cat is, there is a good chance food pellets will get lodged in the nook and not allow the feeder door to close properly. This defeats the purpose of keeping the food fresh and not allowing my other cat to eat from the bowl. • Does not work well for smaller pellet food, if it lands where the door latches, it will not allow the door to close and it will leave the door WIDE OPEN • They way the door folds back partially covers the bowl, so they may not eat all the food in the bowl. As more food dispenses, it can gradually accumulate in one spot and clog up the dispensing chute • Some of the little foam/rubber feet come off and don't seem to want to stick back on • Must have a 2.4G network to connect them to Wi-Fi. This may not be an issue for everyone, but most newer internet plans don't carry this network anymore and require special access to set-up, it was a HEADACHE when we moved. All-in-all, I have been relatively happy with the feeders, they have made my life easier and helped me manage how my cats eat without me having to constantly supervise the sneaky food thieves. Yes, they have their issues, but checking them once daily for build up helps maintain them fairly well. Most of the pros outweigh the cons for me, I will definitely keep using these feeders, but hopefully PetLibro will come out with a better version that addresses some of the issues this model has.

These feeders are great! We have four cats and two of them are on special diets, one having prescription food that makes another one sick if she eats it (chicken allergy! D:), but bowl-swapping started to become the norm when their other automatic feeders stopped working. We were using the SureFlap feeders, but we always had trouble with them due to being on battery power only, where they would stop opening and closing consistently when the power ran low and then, of course, stop working entirely when they were dead. This PetLibro one doesn't have that issue, since it runs off corded power. It does have battery backup that takes 3 D batteries, BUT it cannot connect to the app when on battery power (likely to make the most out of the batteries) so if it needs to go on battery power due to a power outage, you won't see any updates in the app telling you the feeder dispensed food or that your pet came to eat. Also, because it disconnects from the wifi when on battery power, you MUST have it on corded power in order to connect it to wifi and use the app with it in general. This wasn't an issue for us, but this might be an issue for someone else. With 4 of them, I figured setup would take a good bit of time. Fortunately, I had absolutely NO issues whatsoever, besides finding out that the feeder won't connect to the wifi without being on corded power. I put together the feeders without needing to look at the directions, it only goes together one way and the parts are shaped a certain way to make it impossible to put them on wrong. As for the app, I was able to add all 4 feeders to it as I put the next one together because it's just plugging them in and then hitting the "add feeder" button on the home screen of the app. You can set a picture for each pet when you add them in and tell the app things about them, like their sex, if they're spayed/neutered, and what their personality is like. This is mainly for their feeding suggestions section, which you have to pay for, but the app is perfectly usable without paying any money whatsoever. Connecting each pet to the feeders is super easy too, just add the collar, pick the pet you want to have connected to it, put the collar on them, good to go. The app's interface makes things like that very easy to get to and understand how to use. In the app you can change what message is displayed on the feeder. I set mine to have their names on them. That setting is a little difficult to find as compared to the main functions, though. I also set up feeding schedules for all four of them. You have to do each one individually unless you pay for the subscription, which doesn't bother me because they all eat different amounts at feeding time anyway. You just go into the feeder settings, hit the schedule button on the bottom menu bar, and set it up. Super easy!! The feeding amounts are measured in 1/12 cups so you can control the food to a micro level. The ONLY trouble I've had with them thus far has nothing to do with the feeders themselves. Since they used other microchip feeders before, when we put the new collars on them a couple of them didn't get the old RFID tags removed from their collars. Because their feeders were getting two different signals, the lids kept half-closing on them while they were eating. This caused one of my cats to just walk away from her bowl when that happened and thus she started eating less and still being hungry later. I took the old tags off their collars and it didn't happen again! As for how pet-friendly they are, the tall walls around the bowl keep the others from being able to eat from the bowl at the same time as the one who owns it, as the one needs to completely move out of the way and thus away from the microchip reader in order for them to get in. The shortest setting for the door closing is 1 second, so at max they would get 1 second to eat from the wrong bowl. I haven't observed any of them being able to get in that fast, though. One of my cats was intimidated by the walls, so he would pull the food out one piece at a time and eat it off the floor. Because he was one of the two affected by the old feeder's tag, he kept doing it because the door would close on him *anyway,* so it seemed like he was pulling it out so he could get some before it closed again. After fixing the tag situation, he started eating out of his bowl again instead of pulling pieces out. I think they didn't have much trouble getting used to them because they were already used to the old feeders, so if this is your cat's first microchip feeder, the walls, needing to wait for the door to open, and the sound of the door opening might scare them. If they aren't very food-motivated, they might be too intimidated by the walls to want to use it, because it does box their heads in pretty well to protect their bowl. The door itself is a lot quieter than the old feeders we had, and it doesn't make a lot of noise when dispensing the food. The loudest part is when the food hits the stainless steel bowls, which I can hear from the next room over. However, I don't mind that sound because the cats can hear it too and they all go running to eat! Our house is very small, though, so it might be harder to hear if you're not as close to them. The app works great and you absolutely don't have to pay for the subscription in order to use the main functions like attaching multiple feeders/pets and setting individual schedules, the only paid part is if you want to use the feeding recommendations section. It does have a pop-up when first setting up each feeder telling you that you can buy the subscription, but there's a button to skip it. There's also a section on the bottom menu bar specifically for the paid content, but all it it says is that you can buy the subscription to see feeding recommendations for your pets, and you can leave that area easily. There's also a button, "select pet," on the feeding schedule menu which states you need the subscription for that, but since you're already in one of the feeders' menus, you can just set up the schedule and it applies to that feeder. I think that's the section for setting a schedule for multiple pets at once. They dispense the little round food pieces without issue *and* elongated rabbit pellets (yes, we have one for the rabbit too, just because we needed a feeding solution for when we go on vacation! haha!). You must pair a collar + pet to the feeder or else you can't use it, but you can set the door to always be open so they don't have to wear the collar (like for the rabbit!), although that kind of defeats the purpose of it. I'm assuming you can do that to help them get used to it so it's not the intimidation of the walls *and* the annoyance of the door at the same time. Overall I consider these to be pretty excellent. Definitely recommend!

Petlibro RFID Feeder Review PETLIBRO One RFID Automatic Pet Feeder PLAF301 THE BAD: MAJOR DANGER-PINCH POINT-COULD TURN DEADLY I have 2 senior cats, a 5 month old kitten, and I foster kittens constantly. I have a constant flow of kittens due to my fostering which their size can range dramatically. My 2 senior cats are on prescription diets for health reasons so I needed to get a feeder for my 5 month old that they could not access. I did my research and this one checked all of my boxes. THE DANGER-One of my current foster kittens is TINY. ¾ of a pound. He wiggled his way in to share food with my 5 month old, which is fine as they both eat the same kitten kibble. When my kitten walked away, the foster kitten continued to eat but the feeder began to close. The foster kittens paw became lodged in between the feeder bowl and the lid, which latched with the paw in it. Since my kitten had walked away, I could not reopen it immediately, the lid release button on the feeder did not work immediately as it was in a locked state and had to pop the lid open with my fingers. I assumed maybe this was a fluke since this kitten is soooo tiny. So for the next few days I monitored the feeder extremely close but it happened again and this time could have been deadly if I had not been right there. That same tiny kitten had the lid close on his neck and latch. His head was in the bowl and the lid actually closed and latched. I was in absolute shock. I again had to pop the lid open with my fingers. I do not want to think about the outcome if I had not seen this happen. He has been examined by a Veterinarian and was thankfully ok. After this incident I did further research regarding the “safety sensors” on the Petlibro RFID Feeder and found that the infrared sensor detects objects in front of the feeder, the bowl lid's closing time is delayed by 2-3 seconds for safety. (The sensors are located at #4 on the photo attached) There are 2 issues I recognize immediately with the sensors safety. 1. The sensor itself is located on the upper middle front of the feeder. Which in my situation, probably did not even recognize there was a pet there due to the size of the kitten. 2. The sensor only triggers a delay in the lid closing but do not stop it. In my situation, even if the sensor had recognized the kitten, it still would have the pinch and lock point. Additionally, I am disappointed with the issue concerning the lid release button unable to be utilized in this type of emergency if the buttons are locked. To unlock the buttons on the feeder, you need to hold the unlock button down for 5 seconds to unlock all of the other buttons. In a true emergency, 5 seconds can make the difference between life and death. My concern is that without a sensor near the bowl and one that does not allow the lid to close and lock if there is any movement, not just delay it….is there a chance one of my resident kitties can get their paw, tail, or other part closed into this feeder lid? Yes, that possibility is very real. THE GOOD: Not to minimize the events I had occur in any way, but other than those two incidents, I have been pleased with the feeder, and it met my pets needs. Initially I wanted a feeder that recognized microchips as my kitties do not wear collars, but I decided on this one. The RFID tag was easily removed from the collar that it came on and was put onto a breakaway collar. It is a bit bulky on my little kitty’s neck but she does not seem bothered by it at all. The physical setup up was very easy and straightforward for me, which I loved. The app was also very easy to setup and customize everything from the display, to my voice as her custom meal call, to the amount she is fed and when. I love that it logs what time she goes to the feeder to eat and the minutes and seconds that she ate for. Overall, I am pleased that my other 2 seniors can not get to her food and disrupt their medical care but I am extremely disappointed in the major safety flaws. Sadly, I am on the hunt for new feeder as their safety is my biggest concern and priority.

Starting with unboxing, everything was safely packed and not damaged. The packaging ensured this. The plastics are high quality and don’t feel flimsy or breakable. The instructions for putting it together were super easy to follow. Setting it up on my WiFi and using the app to customize feedings, amounts, notifications, and pet info was incredibly easy. You don’t need the paid service if you got this feeder to limit which cat can eat, and/or when, and/or how much. I have found it FANTASTIC over the last three weeks. My kitten has expensive food she needs for her sensitive stomach and my older cats were eating it ALL. It works exactly as I need - only the kitten gets the food now and there’s plenty of it - no empty bowl. You can schedule it to add food at the frequencies and amount that you want. The food stays in the bowl even when you have a crafty, ninja cat trying to get into it, sitting on it, and desperately trying to figure out how to get in to steal the kitten’s food. It doesn’t tip with the cat sitting on top while she contemplates the break in, and is very stable. No food spills or device tipping. The notifications provided via the app are helpful in letting you know when the cat eats. for how long, when food is low, when food is stuck in the dispenser, etc. My kitten hasn’t been microchipped, but I’m hopeful to get her chipped for various reasons and when I do, I can add her chip to the device and then her own microchip will open the food cover. I won’t need her to wear the collar. Speaking of the collar, there are only two things I wish the company would consider - neither would stop me from purchasing another should I need it. The first is that the charm on the collar that makes the food door open is a little large, especially for a kitten. Smaller would be nicer. The second suggestion would be to have a button on the feeder that the owner can press to open the food door if they need to open it for some reason. If there is one I haven’t seen it and you have to use the app to open it and sometimes my phone isn’t with me so that’s really just a minor inconvenience, not a feature that doesn’t work, but it would be nice to have a button to open the food cover. I really have nothing negative to say about it and would highly recommend it to anyone that needs to control which cat can eat where. It’s a little pricey, but for me, the sacrifice has been completely worth it. More people might purchase if the price point was a little lower, but I feel confident in saying it’s a durable, well-made device. It even has battery back-up should you lose power - so your cat can still eat! I have had the feeder for three weeks now and it has worked perfectly and has completely taken away stress that I had over trying to feed my kitten separately.

On the whole, we like the feeder. It's easy to set up, and delivers small portions. The collar sensor works great. At a glance it's perfect for letting our little cat eat in peace without the big cats butting in. If you have multiple pets who are all well behaved, this is a great option. .. If your pets are well behaved you probably don't need the $150 feeder. Our cats are out to test the build quality of this thing, and from day one it has lost the battle. They pop the side barriers off from around the bowl area. It snaps into place, but can easily be popped right back out. They claw the lid from it's "latched" position. The very first day, they tore the silicon trim around the lid at the latch. Our little kitty has special prescribed kibbles, which is why we need the special feeder, to keep the big (punks) out of her bowl. Her kibbles are just small enough they get stuck in the little space where the lid should latch closed. I get multiple alerts a day that the lid can't close, and have to manually clear it. The big kitties have learned to just wait for the lid to not close completely, and pry it up easily. Which brings us to the buttons. They're not labeled; they're touching screen icons. We had to go out of town the first week; we had someone coming over daily to check on the critters and he had trouble with the feeder. I hadn't left the manual out (why would I?), and he couldn't immediately identify which icon does what. One of said buttons is a WI-FI RESET?!?! He thought that was the manual feed and instead of serving kibbles I lost all remote connection to the machine AND IT CLEARED OUT THE FEEDING SCHEDULE. My cat did not receive her scheduled feedings for four days before we figured that out. There's plenty of room on the face to add keywords. I guess I'm hitting it with the label maker. (That reset button needs to be in back or below with the batteries.) Oh, and the touchscreen buttons? Thank goodness one is a long press lock/unlock, because I've heard one of the cats tap them while trying to break in. It's only a matter of time until she figures it out. Aaaand hope she doesn't lose the collar 'cause you only get the one tag. The dispenser itself works as well as the $50 dispenser we now use for the other cats. It may not have Wi-Fi and a fancy display, but it does have its feeding schedule programmed directly into the machine. TLDR: very pretty feeder, not very durable. Functions as well as cheaper models, but needed the collar/chip option. Making it work.

We’ve got two cats - one 7 years old and one 5 months old. Both are insanely food driven. We initially were using a timed feed release product (no collar ID/no dish covering), but couldn’t figure out a system of feeding them both with the timed release, even with it releasing into two bowls. Plus, they needed different food for another 7 months till kitten transitions to adult food. The kitten is bold and will push our chubby ginger aside, so the adult cat was beginning to eat fast and vomit. All feedings required adult supervision and it was becoming a real pain since our adult overweight cat needed to also be kept out of the high calorie kitten food. So we broke down and paid what felt like a lot (IS a lot) for 2 of these reader feeders. They are nearly perfect for us, and the downsides are mentioned in some of the reviews I read before buying, but I’ll mention them in my detailed review below to be thorough. BOTTOM LINE (if you don’t like long reviews): I’d buy them again without hesitation but I look forward to future models that improve the products further. Read on if you want the nitty gritty. PROS: The feeders are easy to set up. I hit a few hiccups with the pairing steps initially, but just kept fussing with WiFi and Bluetooth settings until something finally worked. Took maybe 20 minutes of random trouble-shooting (& I’m unsure what made it work). The app is super easy to set up and has a very intuitive interface. Along with setting up feeds (with lots of flexibility across days of the week, etc, the feeders also send usage info to the app telling you when the pet “fed” and for how long. Note that it doesn’t really know they ate, just that they went to the feeder and stood at the open feeder for c minutes. I was into looking at this data the first 48 hours and then quickly realized I didn’t care and haven’t used that info/feature since. But if you have a poor eater or elderly cat, I could see how that would be handy. I was able to “name” both feeders so the kids would mix up food type when reloading the generous canisters on top (will probably last 2 weeks or so). I tried out the recordable audio call, but it was too loud on the feeder and I could immediately tell that it would be annoying to hear when we were home and so I disabled it. The feed release options are in portions of 1/12 (yes, twelfth) of a cup of kibble, so I was able to set up two feedings (am and pm) for the kitten (1/3c am and 1/3c pm) and chubby (1/4c am and 1/4c pm) so easily after some quick mental math. If the kitten seems extra hungry mid-day and guilts me into it, I can do an extra single 1/12c (mouthful) kibble release manually directly from the app from another room to avoid him getting the idea it’s me breaking down when he meows at me. Disassociating me from the feeds has been a game-changer for begging (harassing) behaviors in both cats and we can finally go about our business in areas around the feeders without the cats acting like we came to feed them. Highly recommend. The top of the feeders has a generously sized canister and the lid seems to have a nice gasket seal to keep the food fresh. The tag readers on the cats collars never glitch and sense the target collar when the cat is within 1-2 inches of the reader pad in front of the feed bowl, so it starts opening as they finish the approach. The side guards work well to discourage stealing from the non-target cat, but it won’t work if you have very pushy stealers who smush their head in next to their buddy. We got around this issue by setting both feeders to release at the same time and keeping the portions small - both cats run to their feeders and tend to finish about the same time, so there’s no opportunity for one to come try to steal while the other is finishing. We also set the feeders on opposite sides of the room to further encourage going to their own dishes and focusing on their own food. I have both plugged into the wall, so I can’t speak to the back-up battery life. The door mechanism has an audible opening sound, but it’s not loud or annoying. Just a faint hum as the door opens. They aren’t small, but for what they are I find the low profile. The feeder plastic is thick and seems sturdy. I can’t imagine either cat opening the storage area because the gasket creates a significant suction and there are two release buttons you have to press to open it too. But maybe a batshit crazy cat could attack it and knock the whole thing over to get it to open? CONS: Price. These aren’t cheap and if you have to buy multiple, it’s a tough pill to swallow. For us, it was worth it. The drama and hassle around feedings had just become overwhelming and having it instantly solved is something I would pay for again without hesitation. Other reviewers have mentioned the slow lid closure. It’s true - even the one second closure setting is pretty darn slow. The open speed in my video is the 1 second setting and it closes at exactly the same speed. So if you have a food thief willing to hover nearby, they very well may get some gulps in before the door closes them out (which, by the way, won’t decapitate anyone - my son tried it out with his finger and while it kept closing, the force was mild and he easily removed his finger). I think I saw other reviewers talking about the dish and lid mechanism, which I agree could be a lot better. The dish is metal, which is good for cleaning and longevity, but the food dropping into the small metal dish is LOUD. So loud that I adjusted the morning feed time to be later on weekends because it was waking us. As others have pointed out, the door folds open and partially covers the rear of the food dish when in the full open position. This means that “sensitive” cats won’t find it easy to get the kibble toward the back. Our adult cat uses her paw to pull it forward and our kitten just presses his face back in there - that guy doesn’t care about anything but getting every last bite. The dish area is kinda small and with the side guards on, it’s (by design) a small space. Cats sensitive to whisker fatigue will have an issue with it. Ours seem to manage ok. My last critique is the collars and reader dongle thingy. The collars are not cute (very disappointing for a pricey feeder kit) and the dongle hangs down, dipping into the water bowl when they drink and clattering on that metal food dish when they eat. The collar IS breakaway and neutral light tan, so there’s that. But I plan to swap the collar out for a nicer break away collar and with an AirTag holder made for pet collars. I’ve seen a few Reddit posts of people who have done that and it worked well. The dongle is a little smaller than an AirTag and has a weird raised part where it fastens onto the collar ring, so not all holders will work with this dongle - the first one I tried had too big an opening and it fell out when the kitten got too rowdy. Work in progress. Oh, and in that note, there ARE alternative feeder models that read the implanted animal ID chips. Only one of our cats has that and the feeders I saw that read the ID chips weren’t as well-featured, didn’t hold much food, and looked ugly (IMO). IN SUMMARY, this feeder is pricey but it works well. A few features (bowl, bowl opening area, and collar/reader) are in separate need of an upgrade, but I shopped extensively and this model is the best of its kind for all these features. So we just have to wait a little longer until they or a competitor improves it. I’m nit-picky, but this is a “go for it!” if you need a well-featured feeder solution so you can eliminate the headaches of separate feedings for multiple cats. If we only had one cat, I’d have stuck with our old timed release feeder with no collar reader.

Es increíble! Mis gatitas no se llevan muy bien asi que nos evita muchísimas peleas! Te notifica cuando hay que rellenar el alimentador y puedes cambiar los horarios de alimentación desde la app.

Broke down in three months

ممتازه… مصنعيتها جيده لكن مسألة ان كل جهاز مايقبل الا طوق واحد قاهرتني و لهذا السبب نقصتها نجمه

Sirvió los primeros 5 días, ya después empezó a hacer polvo las croquetas.

Great product, even if you cant get one of your cats into their collars...