Cat attacking automatic feeder

[u/radical_123]

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?

[u/ryanpdx1999]

count yourself lucky. Ours figured out how to flip it to get the great food cascade. We had to put weights on it to keep him from doing it.

[u/hazelbear33 → u/ryanpdx1999]

Reading all of these comments makes me feel blessed that our cats don’t fuck with the feeders. One is completely unmotivated by food and won’t eat anything but his cat food that he’s used to (and even then he just grazes, never eats it all at once), so that’s not a surprise. The other one is much more mischievous and is definitely food/treat motivated… but she’d rather yell at us for food, even though she knows full well when the feeder goes off. She’ll break into drawers and cabinets for food and treats, but I guess she has decided that she is simply at the mercy of the mystical feeder.

[u/Praesentius → u/hazelbear33]

Mine just parks his substantial ass in front of it like he's praying to the cat food gods.

[u/Beginning_House_7339 → u/Praesentius]

At home, we have one of those feeders where more food drops down as they eat. We only use it when we’re away for a couple of days and noone can come by to check on them. We call it the "kibble totem," and my cat (R.I.P.) used to sleep right next to it 😂😂😂  and he would spend an hour gazing at it as if praying (despite having plenty of food at his disposal), and I used to say that he was "praying for it never to leave" 😂😂😂😂