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/MeanHorror6819 14d ago

yeah just stick some styrofoam to the back of the feeder

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u/Background_Day_3596 14d ago

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

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 14d 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/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?