This is exactly what I wanted, a simple battery operated cat feeder for my outside feral cat while I was on vacation. It works great, is simple to use, comes apart for cleaning. I keep it outside but it's under a covered porch. Hopefully rain won't get to it, the timer is not water resistant.

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The seller contacted me and honestly, was more "on my case" to fix the issue than I was. I don't often do seller reviews, but have made sure to show that this seller is all about customer satisfaction.

So - I did all the steps to fix the "issue" with the pet feeder.. none worked.. that "cute" song was now playing non-stop and making us all crazy.. not to mention a super confused cat trying to eat from 6 (empty now) bowls.

I can't negate my 1 star, but will upgrade.. and likewise, if this pet feeder does not stand up, I will update..

It seems if you use wet food.. and probably clean all parts.. might leave something damp in the inter workings of this... time will tell

I have to say I'm pretty meticulous and neurotic about this stuff.. so I stand by my original review with the one star when it stopped working and longevity..

However, the seller has been SO responsive and helpful to resolve the issue.. I now have a new feeder my cat literally lays by the bowl to wait (could be 8 hours!) and has alleviated his desire to pee in the house. He just wants to wait for food.. We almost put our 15 year old cat down due to peeing in the house and this helped by changing the time durations frequently on the feeder (1 hour, reset to 6 hour, reset to 4 hour etc -lots of work but if you have peeing cat.. it works). Our cat was also only dry food, switched to wet food on this timer and helped us NOT put our cat down due to peeing in the house.

We also were replacing floors - cat kept peeing on the concrete after ripping up the floors... this food feeder with one month of "kitty Xanax" in wet food has worked.. no more meds, still working on floors and 8 months later and kitty doesn't care.. just LOVES this robot food bowl. (past peeing places irradiated) He literally waits in the kitchen for he food bowl to play the song and runs to eat.

So... for ALL of the above.. YES.. your kitty will love it.. we have a new one and will come back and repost if it doesn't make it past 3 months again!

I purchased this little food feeder for our cat that will only take his medicine in wet food and we were going to be traveling and could only get someone to check in every 2-3 days.

Thankfully, it worked for our vacation and our little furball was fed. The unit itself is easy enough to put together and take apart to clean. The timer is a bit undesirable in that you can only set the number of hours or minutes for it to go off and cannot set specific times (like 6 am and 7 pm when he would normally eat).

You also cannot alter the volume of the annoying little song it plays which is super annoying when it goes off in the middle of the night.

My biggest complaint is that is does not last. We are now taking another trip and need it to work but it just continues to spin and play the song. I've taken that batteries out and replaced them and made sure the button isn't stuck.. done everything the manufacturer says to do. It's now useless and literally threw the box out 4 days ago. So, I don't know if there is a warranty or if they stand by it.

Right now I'm just out $40. It's built cheaply. It will likely do the job for a vacation or two, but don't expect it to last.

Over all I love this product. It keeps my cat on a decent schedule and keeps her from waking me up to be fed. However the timing is off, about 10 days ago I set it to adjust every 23 hours and 59 minutes. That's the longest time between rotations, and within 10 days it's already going a full hour early. I would expect this change within two months. So the timing is definitely off a bit.

I want to give this a 3.5 star, but I'll settle on a 4 because it did last me 10 months. Conceptually, it's not hard to use, and the battery life has stayed at full length (however, I do turn mine off when it's done being used). The song is cute and silly, and my cat seems to eat out of it fine.

My biggest complaint (which is why I can no longer use it) is that the spinning lid sets really weird. It would always have to be PULLED off and it seemed like I had to be more aggressive than I wanted to put it back on since it doesn't easily snap into place. Eventually the ring itself got stuck in the motor, so I had to slide the top on (super gently) because the little spokes looked fragile on the spinning lid. The spokes just broke off today (not sure if it was my roommate or if the spokes were at the end of its life) so now it won't spin anymore. So life span, this won't last you more than a year"¦. Maybe if you're more careful with it, it will. But I tried so hard and at the end of the day it only last 10 months.

There should be an option to just buy the lid. If there was, I would've done that rather than buying a new machine (and not from them, might I add. Don't wanna deal with this again).

Absolutely love this . No more fur brat yelling at me cause hes always hungry. You can set the timer. And bam he gets food every hour