There were always some loose pieces near the end of the conveyor, and jostling the machine would send a few out. Sprocket’s first gambit was very simple- she would nudge the machine with her little eight pound body, and some food would fall out. The food falls off the end of the conveyor and down a vertical chute into an attached bowl. The conveyor is gravity-fed by a hopper above it. A microcontroller times the servo’s operation to control portion size. The machine has a silicone conveyor belt driven by a continuous servo. The allegedly cat-proof PetSafe food robot. With infinite time, you can escape anything, and (it turns out) break into almost any robot. If there’s one thing I learned in this odyssey, it’s that automatic cat feeders are the equivalent of giving a piece of dental floss to someone serving life in prison. Those people have never met Sprocket H.G. The reviews were positive, and people also said that the cat can’t get into it to steal food. Sprocket seems to be much less stressed having her dinner spread out over the course of the evening. For cats with food-security issues (common in rescue situations) this machine can be programmed to feed in multiple stages throughout the day. It has a large capacity, and really extensive programming options. It’s also very handy for travel.Īfter some research, I decided on this model- the PetSafe programmable automated feeder. An automated feeder would save me one chore per day, and I wouldn’t have to worry about getting home late in the evenings. The latter has the advantage of being easily dispensed by a robot. She gets delicious healthy wet food in the morning, and less-good-for-her but nice-for-lazy-human dry food in the evening. You see, the four-legged tenant of Dunki Freehold, who goes by Sprocket H.G. “I’ll get one of those high-tech automated cat feeders!” “This will be great,” I thought to myself. The trick is to be smarter than the animal with a brain the size of a walnut
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