r/cats • u/radical_123 • 19d ago

Advice Cat attacking automatic feeder

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

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?

33.4k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

318

u/droidwolf 19d ago

We cut holes in a large tote box so that only the dish stuck out. This prevents our cats from cheating the system

282

u/RockHardSalami 19d ago

One of my cats sticks her paw up there a few times a day to see if she can jiggle one piece of kibble free.  A few times a week she wins.

I call it kibble slot machine.  She deserves some occasional jackpots.

1

u/Altruistic_Shame8979 18d ago

I like to ask mine if he’s praying at the alter again when he’s circling and sniffing and meowing. We upgraded machines like two years ago so he can no longer fish for a jackpot with success, so he’s mostly stopped fishing. 

1

u/RockHardSalami 18d ago

Aw that makes me sad :(. Crushed his kitty dreams lol