Pawbot automatic feeder

[badw0lf]

Pawbot
A couple years ago I saw this auto feeder on Kickstarter. They were asking for too much $3000! So they finally were like ok we will build one for less than $500. They keep pushing the date back, but a part of me wants this real bad.

I’m a real automation advocate if you look at my post history lol. But what I LOVE about this one is that it holds up to 18 cans!!!!, opens cans, dumps the food in a bowl, serves with your audio recording, throws bowl away, self cleans the robot arm/s. The cherry on top of the cake is they confirmed to support raw and home cook. Now I don’t know how it will work for multi cat households, but this looks super promising now that I know it will support all types of diets. Also a plus for when you go away for vacation, you won’t have to worry about your cat sitter messing up specific diet needs. I am so excited for its release. I know it’s gonna be expensive, but what really got me now is that it can support all diets.

 

[daftcat75]

Pawbot
A couple years ago I saw this auto feeder on Kickstarter. They were asking for too much $3000! So they finally were like ok we will build one for less than $500. They keep pushing the date back, but a part of me wants this real bad.

I’m a real automation advocate if you look at my post history lol. But what I LOVE about this one is that it holds up to 18 cans!!!!, opens cans, dumps the food in a bowl, serves with your audio recording, throws bowl away, self cleans the robot arm/s. The cherry on top of the cake is they confirmed to support raw and home cook. Now I don’t know how it will work for multi cat households, but this looks super promising now that I know it will support all types of diets. Also a plus for when you go away for vacation, you won’t have to worry about your cat sitter messing up specific diet needs. I am so excited for its release. I know it’s gonna be expensive, but what really got me now is that it can support all diets.

I wouldn't put raw food in this. I don't leave raw food out of the fridge for more than 45 minutes. I wouldn't trust any type of ice pack solution to extend this time. Raw is something I serve on demand and Krista has a time limit to finish it.

I don't know if I'd trust this machine. It seems like it could fail easily enough and then your cat starves until the failure is detected and corrected. I use timed feeders that cost me under $40 for a pair. They can hold small ice gel packs underneath the food trays to keep the food fresher longer. Even still, I only trust food in these for about six hours. If I were able to travel again without Krista, I would pay a sitter to come two or three times a day and load the feeders to cover the times between. I deploy my feeders in pairs in case one fails to open. This has happened less than a handful of times out of the hundreds of uses. But the first time it happened, before I deployed them in pairs, my cat was throwing up stomach acid from going too long between meals. The only way you could convince me to use a Pawbot is if I could afford to deploy them in pairs.

Even then, Krista doesn't eat whole cans. Does it weigh out portions and refrigerate the remainders?

 

[badw0lf]

yeah so same with Roman, he won't eat the entire can in one sitting. If you leave questions in the comment section, they answer pretty quickly.

 

[daftcat75]

I enjoy feeding time with Krista. Most meals, she will join me on the kitchen counter and su-purr-vise. Depending on what I'm serving, she may also try to "help." She gets especially perky and pushy about her raw portions. I use the feeders so I have some freedom to leave her in the day and I can get sleep at night. But otherwise, I wouldn't want to automate away that special time we share several times a day.

 

[badw0lf]

ok, I am not telling you or trying to convince you to change your routine. I wrote this to express excitement and inform people that there are options available for those who may be interested. While I understand that this doesn't appeal to you - understand please, that I found this and just observing it from what the company has advertised for.