A25 Automatic Pet Feeder Food Dispenser - Removable Food Container, Portion Control & Voice Recording - Timer Programmable 6-Meal for Dogs & Cats & Small Animals

This is a great pet food timer and ideally sized for cats. You can select up to six times in 24hrs for the food to be released and you can also set the portion size needed at each of these times. Helpfully you can turn on/off any or all of the six times, so you could set all six up for when you're away but then turn off some when you're home and still use the feeder. For example, we use the feeder every day even though we're here so it gives Mokie some biscuits at 6am and stops her asking for food as soon as we're awake, when we go away, I just turn on all the other times I've previously set up and it's ready to go.I found the instructions easy to follow by looking at the button pictures. The text suffers a bit in translation, but it's not awful and you still get the gist. I would say that you don't want this delivered just before you go away, you do need to set up the times and also the portions. The portions have taken quite a while for us to get right, so you do need a few days to test it before going away to make sure your pet is getting enough food and at the right time. On the flip side, we no longer have dry cat food wasted as Mokie now eats all of it.Despite having this pet feeder in our kitchen all the time, it's not in the way and actually has quite a small footprint considering the amount of food it holds. This is because it's fairly tall, so all the size is vertically spread. You can see from the photo the size compared to our regular duo cat food bowl.It feels substantial and I've had no problems with worrying it would fall over. I hope it will last a number of years.UPDATE: We’ve had this cat feeder a year now and have changed the batteries. Surprised that the feeder remembered our settings despite flat batteries. Still delighted with it.

Jun2021 update. This machine is still working fine 4 years after install. Dispensing everyday for diet control and no issues leaving it outdoors for 2 weeks (under a cover I built for rain protection. It has now endured - 5C winters to 30C summers . Batteries last longer than 6 months dispensing twice a day.Nov2019update: machine has been on, dispensing twice a day since purchased (2 years. Not a single issue. Batteries last many months.OMG! This is an amazing product. 5stars +!! I had previously bought the "Andrew James Large 90 Day Automatic Pet Feeder" and it was a nightmare to set up and unreliable, 2 (error modes, not dispensing, blocking, etc best way to starve your pet). So, I decided to try this one and I'm so glad I did. Leaving for a couple of days is now stress free. This machine is very easy to set up. I can configure it on the fly ( only had to read instructions once as the buttons are intuitive), feeds up to 6 times per day and can decide the portion amount for each one. The portion size goes for 1 to 80 and from my test 1 = 4g (the instructions are not clear on this and on my first attempt, I set it up to 50 and my cat thought it was xmas already!). The machine also allows recording your voice which is nice. The design is quite clever ( gravity does the job, no vibration needed = battery saving) and as long the pellets are of recommended size, it will not jam.In operation mode, the recorded voice comes up, my cat moves to the front of it, then 10 sec later the voice calls a second time, my cat starts salivating and then 10 sec later the portion is dispensed. My was not fun of the delay times at the start but now he has learnt the benefits of patience.I have the machine dispensing 3 times a day ( with portion control to help his diet plan) for the last 2 weeks and not a single issue.

Arrived promptly and after watching the useful Youtube instruction video, I found this really easy to set up. The cat ate from it instantly, although he is 'obsesssed' with food, so I wasn't too surprised. The voice recording sounds like me, and the cat now runs to the machine as soon as he hears the first call. My cat is on a measured diet, so I was hoping that this would alleviate all the prep work I was doing before and would deliver the correct amount of food to him. So far this seems to be doing the job really well, so much so, that whenever I go into the kitchen, the cat follows and sits in front of the machine in the hope that I will put food in it. I hoped this would also stop the early morning wakeup calls from Mr cat, as he would begin to disassociate me with delivering his food, but alas 'No', he still does this!We have used it when we went away for a few days, although we did have a friend to pop in twice daily to give him wet food too, but again no complaints with the machine at all. The only thing that I will say is that a couple of times in the morning I have heard the voice call but haven't heard the food dispense, or the cat has continued to meow to wake me up in the morning. I think that the machine is working fine and the issue is that I now get more of a 'lie in' so haven't heard the machine and/or the cat is just a greedy boy and wants more food even if he's already eaten!If you are looking for something to delivered measured amounts of food, at specific times when you might not be home at the usual time, or as a back up when you need to go away for a few days, then I would recommend this machine very highly!