Pet feeders

KC Wong wrote in on 18
Feb 2004:

I google searched for term "Pet Feeder" (with the quotes), and found
quite a lot of "Automatic" pet feeders... you can program it to open
at fixed time, fixed amount. Some of them can automatically feed your
pets over 3 days.

Try to get one of those?

I've been thinking about getting one of those for my Shadow who I prefer to
eat canned food because you can put an icer thingie under it to keep food
fresh.

--
Cheryl

Trapped like rats. In a chia-pet.
MIB II

I google searched for term "Pet Feeder" (with the quotes), and found
quite a lot of "Automatic" pet feeders... you can program it to open
at fixed time, fixed amount. Some of them can automatically feed your
pets over 3 days.

I've been thinking about getting one of those for my Shadow who I prefer
to
eat canned food because you can put an icer thingie under it to keep food
fresh.

I googled again... many of those automatic pet feeder have those "reusable
icy insert thingies" you can use to keep the food fresh.

Though some of them claims it can serve food for 96 hours.... I wonder if
the "icy insert thingies" can last that long? Btw the pet will be
scared/bored to death if the master is away for so long...


KC

I google searched for term "Pet Feeder" (with the quotes), and found
quite a lot of "Automatic" pet feeders... you can program it to open
at fixed time, fixed amount. Some of them can automatically feed your
pets over 3 days.

I've been thinking about getting one of those for my Shadow who I prefer
to
eat canned food because you can put an icer thingie under it to keep food
fresh.

I googled again... many of those automatic pet feeder have those "reusable
icy insert thingies" you can use to keep the food fresh.

Though some of them claims it can serve food for 96 hours.... I wonder if
the "icy insert thingies" can last that long? Btw the pet will be
scared/bored to death if the master is away for so long...


KC

The issue is if we are away for the weekend. If we put dry down I
think that Nina would have eaten the whole lot in the first few
hours......
Any probably been sick!!

Mark


Do you have a friend who could come over once a day and feed, clean and
check up on your kitties?

The issue is if we are away for the weekend. If we put dry down I
think that Nina would have eaten the whole lot in the first few
hours......
Any probably been sick!!

Mark


Do you have a friend who could come over once a day and feed, clean and
check up on your kitties?

~*Connie*~ wrote:
actually cats over eat all the time. A cat in good health that isn't bored,
will only eat until he or she is full.. however, lots of cats will eat out

I've only had 8 cats that we've free-feed. None of them are/were
overweight and some are very, very lean. I guess it depends on the cat,
just like people. However, in general, my understanding was that most
cats will not overeat.

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~*Connie*~ wrote:
actually cats over eat all the time. A cat in good health that isn't bored,
will only eat until he or she is full.. however, lots of cats will eat out

I've only had 8 cats that we've free-feed. None of them are/were
overweight and some are very, very lean. I guess it depends on the cat,
just like people. However, in general, my understanding was that most
cats will not overeat.

--
Victor Martinez
Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)
Send your spam he
Email me he

"Mark Irvine" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have an interesting query. My girlfriend has two cats and has to be
away
from her lovely cats for a period from time to time. The problem that we
have is that one cat is a greedy so and so and also the more dominant cat.
We use pet feeders, the problem being that all pet feeders seem to be
designed for one cat. This means that no matter how carefully we set them
one opens before the other and Nina (the more dominant one) ends up eating
the better part of two meals while Misti (the quieter one) ends up going
hungry. So the question is does anyone know of a cat feeder that can open
both doors at the same time reliably. The other option of course is to
bolt
the two flaps of the existing double feeder together so that they have to
open at the same time!!

Thanks in advance for your suggestions,

Hire a professional pet sitter to come and play with them and scoop their
litter boxes and feed them. It costs very little, usually around $15 per
trip, and especially in your situation, it'd be worth it.

"Mark Irvine" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have an interesting query. My girlfriend has two cats and has to be
away
from her lovely cats for a period from time to time. The problem that we
have is that one cat is a greedy so and so and also the more dominant cat.
We use pet feeders, the problem being that all pet feeders seem to be
designed for one cat. This means that no matter how carefully we set them
one opens before the other and Nina (the more dominant one) ends up eating
the better part of two meals while Misti (the quieter one) ends up going
hungry. So the question is does anyone know of a cat feeder that can open
both doors at the same time reliably. The other option of course is to
bolt
the two flaps of the existing double feeder together so that they have to
open at the same time!!

Thanks in advance for your suggestions,

Hire a professional pet sitter to come and play with them and scoop their
litter boxes and feed them. It costs very little, usually around $15 per
trip, and especially in your situation, it'd be worth it.

KC Wong wrote in on 19
Feb 2004:

Though some of them claims it can serve food for 96 hours.... I wonder if
the "icy insert thingies" can last that long? Btw the pet will be
scared/bored to death if the master is away for so long...

I wonder, too. I would never leave mine alone that long. I was thinking
about trying one so I could give my cat smaller meals more frequently (he
has digestive problems). He's also overweight so canned food is better for
him rather than all the carbs and fillers in dry food. A timer-released
food dish with a built-in cooler could make feeding canned food just as
"convenient" as feeding dry food.

--
Cheryl

Trapped like rats. In a chia-pet.
MIB II