HoneyGuaridan Automatic Cat Feeder for 2 Cats

It's a great product especially for early morning/late night feeding as you can schedule up to 6 meals which is very helpful but also you can change the portion sizes which is handy! The metal bowl and bowl stand ended up being a no go for my kitten as he likes his raised bowl so I ended up putting a brick under the machine to elevate it so that the raised bowl would fit but that's not the products fault.

Found the instructions difficult to follow

My rescue cats have a habit of wolfing the food down and then throwing up. I tried setting their feeder to do small but frequent meals but they still threw up. This bowls work really well and fit perfectly in the HoneyGuardian automatic feeder. Neither of them have thrown up since being slowed down by the bowls. They are a little bit fiddly to wash and dry and feel a bit too expensive to have multiple sets to allow them to be swapped out when being done in my dishwasher.

Following reviews I purchased this for my 4cats.It didn’t work for me. Sent it back

It does the job even if I have to give it a shake often. It also tends to get food stuck in the plastic that pushes the measured amount of food out. It does keep to time, battery lasts a good long time if not plugged in, fits a good amount of food in it though I recommend half that to prevent too much food sticking. Worth a buy but don't expect to not have to give it a shake often!

I ordered this with the steel bowl option but the steel bowl wasn’t included. Overall, the product does as described

Paid extra for the steel bowl but didn't get one

The portion size is rubbish, we have had to set it to multiple servings in order to get the correct portion size for our cats. But on the good side of things this is perfect for consistent feedings for our cats and keeps the cat food fresh. Can't really comment on other products as this is the first automatic feeder we've bought. Overall once getting past the portion size, we are happy with this product.

I brought this product because when me and my partner go to work there is no one to feed the cats. Due to long gaps in their eating cycle they often tend to throw up due to building acidity.This feeder came to our rescue.With the personalised voice recorder the cats feel comfortable around the feeder and eat out of it.What I really like is the simplicity of the device.

Erst waren die Katzen ein wenig irritiert wegen dem Klapper . aber jetzt stehen haben sie die futterzeiten raus und stehen schon vor dem Automat bevor das Futter rauskommt. Hat bis jetzt immer zuverlässig funktioniert super Unterstützung wenn man mal im Urlaub ist. Ich benutze den Automaten allerdings durchgängig so sind sie es gewohnt das trockenfutter über die Maschine zu bekommen.

Jestem bardzo zadowolona zakupem. Spelnia wszystkie moje zapotrzebowania. Często wyjezdzam na 2-3 dni i teraz jestem pewna, ze moj mlody kot nie objada starego kota. :) Každy dostaje swoją porcję.Polecam dla tych, kto ma dwoch kotow.

Que dire sinon que je suis ravi de ce produit. Tout d'abord il est tres esthétique et joli. Il est bien pensé et les différents éléments s'assemblent bien et semblent robuste. J'indique aussi que le packaging est tres bien fait.Le distributeur fonctionne sur prise secteur et a une grande capacité de 6,5l de croquette et a un couvercle hermétique avec un filtre qui limite les odeurs. Il peut être utilisé pour une gamelle ou 2 à l'aide d'un support fourni, et peut être programmé jusqu’à 6 repas par jour et chaque repas 1-48 portions de croquette!une fonctionnalité intéressante est la fonction enregistrement vocal qui permet de diffuser un message pour appeler l'animal à venir manger. Autre fonction intéressante, la distribution de la dose désirée en "manuel" (= 1 clic), qui au quotidien est aussi très pratique.

I originally bought this feeder for our 8 feral cats because I was planning to be away from the house for up to a week. I needed a large capacity hopper and this was about the largest one I could find. I’m happy to say that this feeder exceeded my needs and expectations.It just holds a complete 6.3 pound bag of cat food. I’ve set it to discharge 6 times a day, with a pause from 9PM to 6AM. That schedule was set as an attempt to avoid feeding the raccoons that come around most nights, and for the most part, that logic has worked.I set this under a picnic table with a plastic tablecloth so that the feeder can stay out of the direct rain. It’s close enough to an electrical outlet that I could plug it in and then use the battery capability as a backup. I decided, however, to use only the batteries and not plug it in. I put it out in early September 2021. The batteries finally died on February 5th. That’s 5 full months on battery power alone. What a pleasant surprise that was!The first problem I ran into was those previously mentioned raccoons. Three of them came around after a couple of nights and knocked the feeder over, dislodging the top and exposing all those goodies for them to devour completely. BUMMER!I then tried putting a weight on top of the hopper, thinking that they wouldn’t be strong enough to dislodge that and steal the food again. WRONG. They are both clever and strong. Next I tried duct taping the top on. Another failure on my part. They just chewed right through the duct tape and feasted on the kibbles again. Twice they actually pushed the spring loaded button that retracts the pin holding the top in place right into the hopper! Man, are they persistent. But not as persistent as me…….I found a piece of thin metal and duct taped that over the spring loaded button. I also duct taped all four sides of the top onto the hopper. Then I bungeed the whole machine to the picnic table supports so the little rascals couldn’t move it or tip it over.SUCCESS!!!After a few night of unsuccessfully chewing the duct tape in their attempts to get to the treasures inside, they finally gave up. I won. They lost.The flexibility in setting the individual portion sizes and discharge times are great. Some reviews have commented that there is no “back” button for either of these settings, and that is correct. It’s not all that hard to accidentally go past the setting you desired, but it’s also not that hard to hold the button down to quickly cycle through the settings to get back to where you wanted to be again. No big deal to me.In summary, I love this helpful machine. And so do my cats/kittens. I found the battery life to be such that I wouldn’t hesitate to say you don’t need to plug this feeder into house power. 5 months on a single set of 4 batteries is a pretty long time.I set a voice recording (you DO NEED to do this, even if you chose to record silence instead of your voice) before the feeder will work. A number of reviews claim the feeder was junk and never discharged anything, only to find that they needed to record some kind of message first. Be forewarned.UPDATE: Another 5.5 months on the second set of batteries. It looks like this should be the expected life of the 4 C cells it holds.April 2023. After 14 months of reliable service, the machine just stopped feeding ANYTHING.Why? After about 4 months of flawless service I switched the brand of feed over to Kit ‘n Kaboodles. The cats all liked this food better than the store brand I had initially used, but the kibble size is larger. Unfortunately. The larger kibble sometimes resulted in jamming of the plastic feeder mechanism. Tipping the unit upside down then back up usually freed the jam but sometimes I had to remove all the food, then manually operate the feeder a few times before refilling it.BUT here’s the problem. The jamming on the larger kibble has eventually caused the plastic fins on the feed rotor to break off. There are a number of these fins on the rotor so the feeder had been able to continue dispensing some food even though it was slowly destructing. This week (April 2023), when it stopped dispensing completely I took it apart and found that all of those plastic fins were gone. The Amazon website for Honeyguardian does show a replacement rotor assembly for under $10 so I ordered that, believing that my cat food feeder could be brought back to life again.It appears that I am wrong about that. The only rotor design shown does have those plastic fins that I had broken off, but it does NOT have the extension of the rotor piece required to engage with the drive motor. As a result, THE REPLACEMENT ROTOR DOES NOT ROTATE, AND CANNOT FEED.Honeyguardian does NOT have a website and the only places that I could find a replacement rotor assembly all look like the one from Amazon. There are a few reviews on this replacement rotor that all say the same thing that I’ve said here, so I’m not alone.Lesson? Pay attention to the kibble size. Binding on too large a kibble will cost you $80.