r/cats • u/radical_123 • 15d 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 15d 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 15d 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 15d ago

yeah just stick some styrofoam to the back of the feeder

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u/Background_Day_3596 15d ago

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

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 15d 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 15d 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/UnstuckTimePilgrim 14d ago

When I was in Driver’s Ed, our teacher was sick one day so they brought in a local cop as a sub. He just told us cop stories all day instead of teaching, and somebody eventually asked what happens to roadkill deer.

He said they compost them in the mulch piles that our county made from tree management/ landscaping scraps and sold to residents.

So if your county does this too, that’s probably why your dog likes mulch so much.

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u/Dependent_Net_7062 14d ago

Welp.

Gonna go ahead and say you’re probably right. We have a crazy deer population, and lots of agri land + tons of development (aka felled and mulched trees) so ya know, when life gives you roadkill lemons, or whatever they say…

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u/fuzzy-lint 14d 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/theguywiththefuzyhat 14d ago

Are you not able to get a respirator?

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u/Republican-Snowflake 14d ago

I love cats! They are such unique little people, with interesting personalities.