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33 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 Vid Demo Works good Oct 17, 2007
By Max Corbett
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RJIS193LGHDJ9 My girlfriend is a vet and says that cats should be feed twice a day the recommended amount on the food can. Open feeding leads to over weight, knee problems and diabetic cats. This feeder works decent. Positives include easy to program, different or same feed times everyday, ability to adjust amount of food easily, chew proof cord and it is quiet. Negatives include auger is easily reached by cat allowing about 10 extra kibbles to fall out if the cat plays with it enough. It only took my cat about a week to figure this out. I have not had any problems since its purchase and my cats no longer wake me for food at 3 am. I built a divider so the food goes into two bowls, one for each cat, and it works good.
This unit is pricey but works well. The quality of the product seems cheap for the price, but nothing has malfunctioned. Definitely recommend to anyone who is annoyed in the middle of the night for food or needs to leave the cat alone for a weekend.
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Best on the market but not perfect. Nov 20, 2005
By J. Johnson
After several days of research, I decided this model was probably best for feeding dry food to our cats. The precise timing in nice because we have a cat who eats too fast and throws up so we are able to feed her a few kibbles several times a day and avoid that problem. It also allows each of them to eat their own special diet food without trying to steal from the other's dish.
My cats also discovered they could get more food by slipping a paw into the auger but we solved that with a small hood made of sheet metal. There is enough room for the food to come out but not enough to get a paw inside. I agree that the company should design a better cover for the auger.
The biggest problem we've noticed is that our cats have become very obsessed with food and will scramble madly to get off our lap/bed/etc when they hear the feeder.
Overall this feeder has been much more convenient than feeding by hand and lets the cats eat when we are at work. I'm not tripping over hungry cats when I get home from work. Our overwieght cat has lost weight and the other one doesn't throw up as often.
24 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 It is Junk, But..... Feb 06, 2006
By B. Walker
"bwalker5"
With a little bit of work... Which you shouldn't have to do...
I have had 2 of these for 2 years. I used to have problems with the timer locking on and dumping all of the food....I cut the cord off of the timers that came with the units and installed a plug. I then purchased a good digital programmable timer and used this to power both units. I never had an "over feed" again.
My Smart cat also learned quite early that he could get food from the auger door... I made a shield out of Lexan that goes under the door to keep him from getting in. He then realized that he could use his 22lbs of mass to knock the entire feeder around and get more food. He doesn't realize that he is robbing from his next meal and seems to be happy with that... Kind of a game I guess....
These things were a life saver being that I had to travel for work during the time I had them... I didn't have neighbors close enough to feed them regularly....
If you buy them, be ready to "rework" them....
B
37 of 41 found the following review helpful:
 Not Good For Smart Cats or even Kind of Smart Cats Oct 01, 2005
By V. Gage
I really wanted to like this feeder, as it has many great features (digital timer, large capacity); however, one of my cats quickly figured out its fatal flaw: the cat can get "extra" food from the feeder with just a little work.
The feeder uses a horizontal auger with a locking cover, but does not completely block off access to the food. So, my brilliant little kittie quickly (i.e. less than 5 minutes after first being introduced to the feeder) figured out that it could reach its paw under the cover and knock out more food. As my cats are on a diet, the access to extra food just doesn't work.
I called Ergo Systems, the manufacturer, and was sent a replacement auger cover, which turned out to be exactly like the cover that came with the autofeeder (so, no fix there). [I will say that Ergo Systems was good to deal with -- helpful, quick response].
Depite my attachment to the feeder, it is being returned as it is defectively designed and will work only for cats that either aren't really tenacious about food (if you know any I would like to meet it) or are capable of handling unlimited access to food (in which case you really wouldn't need the feeder).
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Good feeder for fat dog Jan 10, 2007
By S. Pritchard
"all things family"
This item works very well for our Beagle. If we let him he would eat a 50lbs bag of food each day. It was our children's job to feed him 1.5 cups of food each day, prior to this purchase, however, upon seeing the dog's sad puppy eyes pleading with them for more, they would willingly fill his bowl with two more cupfulls. This feeder has helped very much. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because while we were gone over New Years the feeder did get stuck ON, delivering our over anxious beagle with a pile of food he was happy to dispose of. We aren't sure if the problem was the timer having to change to the new year or if we had a power outage during the time he was to be fed or what. Before that and after that one time it has worked wonderfully and it is so funny to sit and watch him come to the feeder precicely at 5pm and wait for the motor to spit out his food. It used to take him about 1.2 seconds to wolf down his 1.5 cups of food. Now he has to wait and eat like a civilized dog...I think that's great. When the feeder is done, he will still sit there for a few minutes...JUST IN CASE another pellet is despensed and at first he would paw at it and try to stick his nose in the hole to reach for more, but now he knows it's in vain. Anyhow, I recommend the feeder as we've had good experience with it.
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