Closer PetsC200 2 Meal Timer-Controlled Automatic Pet Feeder - For Cats and Small Dogs, Wet or Dry Food, Stainless Steel Bowl Inserts and Ice Pack, up to 400 g Each, White

I have a cat that gobbles all the food straight away whenever I have to leave for a day. This automatic feeder prevents her from doing that and means I don’t walk back through the front door amidst deafening cat screams of hunger or face a house trashed because the cat has plundered it looking for food. I refused to pay for an expensive one because I don’t use it everyday and if I stop manually feeding my cat, it will have no further use for me as it’s bald monkey slave. This feeder is great, I can keep wet food fresh with the ice block and set the timers to release the goodies at intervals during the day. It is tried and tested and works reliably well, great value for money and even I can programme it easily. The only criticism I will make is that it seems you have to set the timer for over an hour in order for it to register.

So far so good - works as expected and useful to have if we need to be out for a little longer during the day.We haven’t used the ice block yet (as just using with dry biscuits for now) but the timer works as expected and it’s good that you can have them set to open at different times. The metal trays make it feel a little less plasticky and are really easy to clean.

Does work..The clock time has 24hrs split into 30 mins around the clock so you turn the dial to how many minutes or hours you want the flap to open .As it’s not digital you can be 100% accurate or know what time is left so will open around the time you wish give or take a few minutes.I guess my only concern will be when the dog knows this has food in it could it kick the unit around ending up upside down and not open.All good so far..

Easy to use, easy to clean, not noisy. The cat has used them without issue. The ice block to keep food fresh is a fab idea. Now have two, so going away for a night is a less worrying ordeal!

Well made, removable stainless steel dish sits inside removable plastic dish. Not supplied with ice pack, my error I’d looked at that many but simple,enough to make a little ice pack to fit with frozen water in a bagI’ve tested it out over a few days, left tinned food in cooler place in kitchen out of direct sunlight for 6 hours yesterday and food was still fine.You need to line the timer back up to close the top down, and won’t actually lock until you turn the timer and set a time

Brought a second one as the first has been so good at freeing up our lives a little. Our old rescue cat needs feeding every 3 hours or he is very sick. This has helped us get some sleep or allow for a longer time out away from home. Currently using 10 year old rechargeable battery and it runs perfectly for weeks. Not ran out yet but I recharged anyway just incase. Probably cost £10 to make but it works great and the quality is good enough, especially the metal food trays.

Cats will eat from it okay and seems to work fine just yet. Simple mechanism. Bought two more so we can set different timings and get away overnight. You’ll need an AA battery.Eventually bought the stainless steel trays too. The basic plastic trays are so shiny and smooth the wet food just slides into the corners. The stainless trays have a mat finish which goes some way to reduce this.Went away and left these afternoon/overnight/morning - success - ordered another to give easier ratio of cats to mealtimes.One cat did need a little coaxing early on to use it but we restricted feeding to only these trays for a while and she eventually ate from it with no problem at all.

Seemed that it was big enough and would do the job but timer doesn’t stop when gets to 0 which is a waste of the battery or you have to take it out . Bad design.timer a little variable (which isn’t a huge problem)Too late to send it back but find something more accurate and better designed