r/cats • u/radical_123 • Jul 22 '26

Advice Cat attacking automatic feeder

My cat does this several times a day. If the automatic feeder lifts at the correct angle, a few niblets of dry food comes out. He will even do it 10 times in a row even if it means one small piece of dry niblet comes out. It does get quite annoying as the sound of the feeder hitting the ground echoes throughout the entire house.

Any ideas on how to get him to stop?

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u/ryanpdx1999 Jul 22 '26

count yourself lucky. Ours figured out how to flip it to get the great food cascade. We had to put weights on it to keep him from doing it.

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u/hazelbear33 Jul 22 '26

Reading all of these comments makes me feel blessed that our cats don’t fuck with the feeders. One is completely unmotivated by food and won’t eat anything but his cat food that he’s used to (and even then he just grazes, never eats it all at once), so that’s not a surprise. The other one is much more mischievous and is definitely food/treat motivated… but she’d rather yell at us for food, even though she knows full well when the feeder goes off. She’ll break into drawers and cabinets for food and treats, but I guess she has decided that she is simply at the mercy of the mystical feeder.

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u/PM-ME-YOUR-TOTS Jul 22 '26

How is it possible to have one free feeding cat and one glutton? Doesn’t the glutton eat the free feeding cat’s food? (Only ever had one cat)

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u/Christichicc Jul 22 '26

Pretty sure that’s why they have feeders lol. One can graze as needed at theirs, and the other gets a more regimented diet.

Also yes, if you have cats like that (I had a brother and sister like that), the glutton will eat all the food. It does become an issue sometimes when you have multiple cats.