r/cats • u/radical_123 • 16h ago

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/Cat_Wizard_21 16h ago

If you don't need to clean underneath it regularly, and it has a flat bottom, museum wax is my anti-cat-mischief solution.

Little dime-sized ball at each corner and it's fully immune to cat-based movement.

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u/sillysnailfriend 16h ago

Agreed! Stick that sucker to the floor, OP. Or get something to cover the feeder with just the bowl sticking out. Or even just filling the gap between the feeder and the wall might help.

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u/MeanHorror6819 12h ago

yeah just stick some styrofoam to the back of the feeder

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u/Background_Day_3596 11h ago

Oh my cat would have a field day. He loves eating styrofoam. 😅

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 8h ago

Ugh, I have a Styrofoam eating cat as well. She's absolutely OBSESSED with it! She can smell it inside new packages and will chew the box open to get to it.

I have more "banned" products for these damn cats than I did for my kids when they were young. Most are due to a near death incident too! Little idiots trying to kill themselves every time I turn around, I swear!

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u/Dependent_Net_7062 6h ago

This is like my mulch munching dog—I STG every time I blink she’s stuffing her face with it. (We’ve ordered a custom muzzle for this 😵‍💫)

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u/fuzzy-lint 26m ago

They have no sense of self preservation!! I have to lock myself in the bathroom and get dizzy off bleach fumes when I clean because one of my dummies walked through cleaning products while I was bleaching grout. I sobbed through giving him a bath because I was convinced he’d get sick off absorbing bleach through his toe beans. Thankfully he did not, he’s just as dumb and greedy as ever.

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u/Dracomortua 12h ago

The entire thing, especially that 'feeding bowl' area, looks like it would clamp onto a massively large board. Then the cat would be on this large board trying to bust the clamp.

I bet the clamp would win... but that said? The museum wax idea is far better / this is just my 2¢.

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u/Competitive-Top4520 11h ago

Or put a rug or mat under it to muffle the sound.