I have three cats. Cat 1 has to be on a special Rx food, Cat 2 is a ravenous monster, and Cat 3 has health concerns & needs his food intake monitored to ensure he is eating. I have two of these feeders, one for Cat 1 & one for Cat 3. Without these feeders, I would never be able to keep my cats healthy!
The feeder itself is very easy to set up. It does require 4 C batteries to work, but I have had the feeder for Cat 1 for over a year & I have only needed to change the batteries once. To get it linked to the cat's chip, all I had to do was press the button on the back for the feeder to be ready to read the chip, then put my cat's head under the white arch, where the sensors are located. That was it! Easy peasy! With Cat 3, he is not the kind to let me pick him up to put his head under the arch, so I just pushed the learning button on the back, put some treats on the closed lid, & waited for him to put his head under to eat them. Then it was linked to him.
Some things I really really like about the feeder are:
1. The training mode. This was great for Cat 3. (Cat 1 didn't need it at all, he caught on super quick that putting his head under the arch opened the lid & he got to eat). Cat 3 is really easy to startle and fairly anxious, so the training mode, where the lid doesn't open/close all the way, was great for him to get him used to the sound & movement of the lid. He was able to get the hang of it in about 2 weeks.
2. The ability to change the speed of the opening and closing. This was a nice feature for Cat 3, since he likes to take his individual bits of kibble out of the bowl, set them on the ground, and eat them one at a time. This pulls him out from under the arch. I put his on the 3 second delay before it will close the lid, and this delay means he can pull out his kibble, eat it, and go back for more before the lid closes up again. Since he is so nervous, if it closed up right away, he probably would get freaked out and confused and not go back for more. Cat 1 scarfs all his down right away, so I have his set at 1 second delay before closing up. This is a nice feature so you can adjust to your cat's needs.
3. The intruder cat feature is excellent! As I said, Cat 3 needs the 3 second delay. So when he is done eating for the time being (he is a grazer) and walks away, it will stay open for 3 seconds. Cat 2 (the only cat who uses a regular dish bc he doesn't have health concerns) eats everything all the time, so he will try to sneak in to eat the food in the other cats' bowls. Cat 1 feeder is set to close after 1 second so it's usually too fast for Cat 2 to get there, but Cat 3 feeder stays open for longer. So Cat 2 tries to go to that to eat the food. But once he sticks his head through the arch, it reads his microchip as an intruder cat & will immediately close, even if it hasn't gotten to 3 seconds yet. This is important for my cats, because I have to monitor Cat 3's food intake and it's great that the feeder will not let any of the other two cats eat from his feeder once it reads their chips.
4. The bowls are dishwasher safe. The dual bowl is good for Cat 3 who gets both soft food and kibble.
5. The lid movement is not loud at all.
6. The battery drain is minimal so you won't have to be buying C batteries all the time.
Things I wish were improved in the feeder are:
1. The sensor only works if your cat puts his head under it, both for authorized and intruder cat's. Which means sometimes, Cat 2 will be able to come at the food by putting his head behind the arch & snatching up food without the sensor reading him as an intruder cat. I believe they sell a hood piece on the company website, but given the price of the feeder to begin with, it feels like the hood piece should just be free/come standard. The point of this item is to keep other animals from accessing the food, so this oversight defeats the purpose of the feeder. However, since the lid will still close after 1,2, or 3 seconds depending on your settings, this negative isn't a major deterrent for me, since I bought a second one when Cat 3 got sick & I had to start monitoring his food intake.
2. I wish there was an option to pick different colors for the bowls when you buy the feeder itself, instead of it coming standard with gray. It would make it easier for those of us who have more than one feeder to designate which feeder went with which cat. I can remember easily enough, but I travel a lot and hire a pet sitter to come feed my cats, and I have to specify "Cat 1 feeder is on the table, Cat 3 is on the floor" or whatever each time. It would be nice if I could have selected a different colored bowl when I purchased my second feeder. There is an option to buy different colors separately but again, these aren't exactly cheap feeders & I don't want to have to buy additional stuff if I don't have to. But again, not a big enough issue to deter me.
If you have more than one pet, need to have some pets eating different foods than others, have a pet who eats all the food before the others can get any, etc. then I can't recommend this enough. It's not cheap, but it has been a necessity for me to keep my cats who have health problems healthy!
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Requires effort and creativity for extra greedy cats
2 year update: we've had to replace 2 of thesedue to them breaking down (maybe from the savannah constantly messing with them and the other cats puking on the feeders which then gets to the motor), and contact surefeed customer service to get new lids because the savannah managed to break them. Their customer service was excellent though. We have a new setup that should finally stop the stealing. we used an ikea kallax with doors, cut cat sized holes in the doors and put child locks on. Unfortunately it's hard to find this version of the feeder anymore and we had to get the newer model (which could be cool but not necessary for us and more expensive). But still no other product on the market that we have found to do what this one does, so I'd still recommend it. Updated pics with new setup.3 month update: we've had to change the batteries on a few of the feeders already but no big deal. One of the cats tends to vomit sometimes which on occasion has gotten inside the device, which required full on dismantling and cleaning, but it still works. We've had to modify the shelf a few times because the savannah can still steal their food. We're still working on that but it has improved. We have to make it so only one cat can fit on the shelf, but the feeder is so wide it's hard to do that. Adding updated picture.---‐------------Some background: we have 4 large (~15lb) male cats, one of them is a savannah. The savannah along with one of the others both have urinary issues, but the others do not. We decided to try switching them all to all wet food as it should help alleviate the urinary problems, but this caused some major hassles at feeding time. The savannah had his own "feeding tote" (clear plastic storage container big enough for him to stand in we drilled holes in the lid), because he is super greedy, and just a plain jerk to the other cats and steals all their food. Feeding would take 20-30 minutes since one cat in particular is a slow eater, and we were feeding them 3x a day. Both my partner and I work full time and needed a solution to reduce the amount of time feeding and the hassles involved.So i did some searching and found that this feeder is the only product out there that at least claims to do what we need it to do, which is keep mainly the jerk cat out of everyone else's food (he's gotten pretty fat), but we needed something that works with wet food.Pros:- super easy programming and use- only opens for the programmed cat- seals the food and keeps it fresh longer- cats can graze all day- battery powered, easy portabilityIt's not great, definitely could use some improvements but so far it's working.Cons:- No option to plug in, only takes C batteries- too shallow, it gets really messy and requires cleaning with every change of the bowl, at least for wet food (one of my cats is an especially messy eater but the others don't make as big of a mess. Still needs cleaning often)- non dishwasher safe bowls included, and theyre plastic. If i can't run it through the dishwasher it's too much work, but we bought extra stainless bowls which are dishwasher safe.- extras/accessories are expensive. Really, almost 40 dollars for two stainless bowls, 30 for a pretty much required back cover, it's ridiculous. Those things should be included.- no ice packs or space for them to keep wet food fresher longer, but the seal still helps- if your cat is extremely clever and determined (like our savannah), you will need to get creative and find ways to keep them out. The back cover wasn't enough, he would just push himself in next to the other cat while they're eating and start eating their food. When this happens, the feeder will not close, so it's pretty useless without some extra effort.Another thing to note, we purchased only one feeder at first to test the waters. The cat we used it for got scared of it, so I did use the training mode on it. It worked like a charm and now he has no problems. He doesn't understand now that there are more of them that only one opens for him. They all still sit in front of the wrong feeders and wonder why they won't open, but they're slowly starting to get it. For some reason they never want to eat out of their own bowl but want to take the others'.We made a custom shelf set up for our situation, which cost about 100 dollars in materials but we couldn't find anything more affordable that would suit our needs. (We also have 2 dogs who are ravenous for the cat food. One of them could literally climb to the top of a 6 foot cat tree to steal their uneaten food, another reason we needed something like this feeder). The important thing is to keep another cat from getting to the food before the lid can close. Once the lid closes it won't open for the wrong cat, but there is plenty of room for 2 cats to stick their head in at the same time and keep the lid from closing on them.Anyway, photos included of our custom solution..first photo is comparing/showing how messy one of the cats is compared to the not so messy eaters. we've only had these for a few weeks but so far it seems to be working. You can see the savannah is still trying to get to the other cat's food (even though he has his own full bowl and the food is exactly the same. Jerk.) But so far this has kept him from being able to get his head in fast enough. We also put the closing speed on the faster setting, that helps.
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Die Automaten sind recht groß, was natürlich an dem großen Sensorbügel liegt, sowie an der Aufnahme für Antrieb der Klappe und des Napfes. In der Verpackung ist neben dem Futterautomaten, eine Anleitung, zwei Näpfe in grau (davon einer mit zwei Kammern), eine Gummimatte in grau, sowie ein Chip für ein Halsband (dazu später mehr. Des Weiteren werden vier C-Zellen (R14) Batterien für den Betrieb benötigt. Diese sind nicht im Lieferumfang enthalten.
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Inbetriebnahme
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Der Futterautomat ist komplett montiert. Es müssen lediglich die Batterien eingelegt werden und Napf und Gummimatte eingelegt werden. Schon ist der Automat betriebsbereit. Futter in die Näpfe rein und dann die entsprechende Miez anlernen mittels der Taste. Das ging ohne Probleme, da unsere beiden gechipt sind. Der Automat hat den Chip sofort erkannt und seitdem zuverlässig reagiert, wenn sich die entsprechende Katze dem Sensorbügel nähert. Alternativ gibt es einen Chip für ein Halsband für Tiere, die nicht gechipt sind.
Es gibt ein "Trainingsmodus" - diesen sollte man laut Anleitung und auch nach meiner persönlicher Erfahrung unbedingt nutzen. Die erste Fütterung am Automaten war bei unseren Fellnasen von Neugier bis sehr großer Skepsis begleitet. Der Trainingsmodus sorgt dafür, dass die Verschlussklappe des Automaten nicht komplett schließt und am Anfang nur minimale Bewegungen macht. Mit jedem Druck auf die Trainingstaste schließt die Klappe etwas mehr bis sie komplett aufliegt. Nach 3 Tagen hatten unsere beiden Fellnasen sich komplett an die Automaten gewöhnt und keinerlei Berührungsängste mehr. Wir haben zwei Norweger, d.h. die sind entsprechend groß - der Bügel ist jedoch so groß, dass auch größere Tiere da problemlos futtern können z.B. Maine Coon. Für einen Löwen oder Gepard würde ich aber größere Automaten verwenden, denn da wird es in den Näpfen auch eng mit der Antilope am Stück.
Positiver Nebeneffekt bei den Futterautomaten: Da die Näpfe einen Gummirand haben, liegt die Verschlussklappe nahezu luftdicht auf, so dass Nassfutter auch am Abend oder über Nacht noch "frisch und saftig" ist und nicht ausgetrocknet.
Unser verfressener Kater hat am Anfang auch ausgetestet, ob er an das Futter seiner Schwester rankommt durch Schieben und Stupsen des Automaten. Er hatte jedoch keine Chance - weder die Verschlussklappe konnte er aufschieben noch hat er es geschafft den Automaten umzuwerfen. Hier ist die Größe der Apparatur vorteilhaft.
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Reinigung
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Sofern man keine Ersatznäpfe hat (wir haben hier noch farbige hinzugekauft). muss man die Näpfe unter fließendem Wasser vor jeder Fütterung reinigen. Laut Hersteller sind diese nicht für den Geschirrspüler geeignet. Ich vermute, dies ist wegen des aufgesetzten Gummirandes geschuldet. Ob die Näpfe dauerhaft eine Reinigung im Geschirrspüler vertragen, müsste man austesten. Ab und an muss man auch den Automaten selbst abwischen, was aber auch kein Problem ist durch die glatte Oberfläche ohne irgendwelche Vertiefungen. Die Gummimatte vorn ist ebenfalls einfach zu reinigen, da diese abnehmbar ist.
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Fazit
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Was soll man sagen: Tolle Technik, qualitativ hochwertig und zuverlässig. Der SureFeed Mikrochip Futterautomat ist für alle geeignet mit mehreren Haustieren, wo es Futterdiebe gibt und man sichergehen will, dass jedes Tier auch seine Ration bekommt. Wir und die Fellnasen sind begeistert. Uneingeschränkt zu empfehlen!
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