PETLIBRO Automatic Cat Feeders, Pet Dry Food Dispenser Freshness Preservation Automatic Cat Food Dispenser with Twist Lock Lid, Up to 50 Portions 6 Meals Per Day, Granary for Small/Medium Pets

This feeder looks modern and well built, easy to clean. Great invention, money well invested. I particularly love the removable stainless steel feeding plates which I feel safer to let my cats lick their food from instead of some plastic plates. The machine comes with a compartment for desiccant which is very useful in keeping the dry food fresh and crispy for a longer time.

This feeder takes a long time to program. Theres no way to go back and review what youve set, and if you accidentally go too far in the settings process the only thing you can do is start all over again, including setting the main clock time. There isnt any back button. Setting AM or PM is tricky also - this has a 12 - hour clock, and if youre setting multiple feedings you have to watch that with every meal as you go. Weve discovered that we probably wont use this feeder while were in town, because we dont get up at the same time every day...

now my cat sits at the bowl and waits for the food to drop. Could be a bit easier to program but otherwise a great solution my pet feeding problems. Not sure if you need to change the silica packets every two weeks though. Maybe in very humid environments but not in NYC so far. That could get expensive if you change them every two weeks.

So it does six portions different sizes but no where is it written on how big that is is so trial and error. Interface is clunky way to much to adjust anything . Does it work yes would I buy it again probably not.

Love it! Using it for cat food. Programming was super easy, didnt even need to look at the instructions. One cat goes running to it as soon as she hears it. The other cat is a little timid around it but eats the food anyway.

Its a great automatic pet feeder. Serving portion X2 with small round kibble is perfect for the chihuahuas. Its real hard to program though and I wish you did not have to have a voice recording for it to operate. The recording should definitely be an option not a requirement.

Works great for feeding my cat when i travel.

Dependable feeder! Works with ease. Easy to fill and see how full it is. would be nice to have a list of how much a portion is equal to but I measured it myself. 6 portion sizes, 6 x a day feedings covers it all. For my 5 cats didn’t have to fill it for nearly 5 weeks!

Well, it does the job. But all in all not very impressed with the engineering of this thing. Fortunately, its not the build quality I have a problem with. It seems solid and like it will last, at least from the outside. Well see about the brains and moving parts that dispense. But, this thing requires 3 x D batteries... for backup. You cant even run it on the batteries alone. So you plug it in, and then also put in 3 x D batteries. I had to go buy D batteries since pretty much nothing uses them anymore. I have an electronic board game from the early 1980s that has a motor, makes sounds, and lights things up with incadescent bulbs... and uses 2 x D batteries. So the engineering of this device in 2022 that has an LCD display and turns a motor once or twice every few hours up to 6 times per day is less energy efficient than a 40 year old electronic toy. Meanwhile, youve got a digital display and clock that stays on permanently using power. Why? Does my cat need to know what time it is? The only time the display needs to be on is when its being programmed. And since you have to hold down the lock button anyway to get access to any control over the thing, even the manual dispense, why not have the display stay off until its unlocked? Save some power? And with the advertisement of up to 50 portions I figured portions would be pretty small so you could fine tune them to your needs. But they arent. I cant even imagine what 50 portions would be. At least half of the 3L storage would be my guess. The bowl would totally overflow. Im currently using a total of 8 portions per day... dispensing 1 portion 4 times, and 2 portions 2 times per day, and tend to empty some of the bowl back into the dispenser every couple days as leftovers pile up. Always thought my cat was a pig, but apparently 8 portions per day is too much even for him. Anyways, itll serve the purpose and dispense cat food, but its really a $30-$40 device at best, with little thought put into a sensible design and very inefficient electronics that make me suspect its longevity will come down to how long it takes the brains to fail.

This was very easy to set up snd I thought the portion selection was easy. I also suggest the stainless steel fountain from the same company.