"Meet my house cat, Bubba. Bubba is not one of those cats who can have the 'all you can eat buffet' . Bubba definitely abuses the 'all you can eat buffet' concept, as evidenced by his rather large "Buddha" belly.
I got this pet feeder out of desperation to get more sleep since Bubba, who is 16 pounds of fur-covered persistence, kept waking me up earlier and earlier to eat. ;) At first it's cute...the soft 'pat pat pat' of an impossibly furry paw on one's sleeping face is certainly a better way to greet the day than the blaring alarm clock. So you humor him - you were getting up in five minutes anyway - and you feed him at 5:25 a.m. Except soon, the soft "pat pat pat" arrives at 5:00 a.m. After a few days of this ever-earlier routine, it's no longer cute. Attempts to dissuade the large, furry alarm clock don't work. For one thing, shoving a 16-lb. animal with claws off a bed is not always easy - especially when you are only half awake and the said feline is completely awake. And determined. And you are wearing very sheer nightclothes.
So I decided to try and disassociate ME from him getting fed and got one of these feeders.
I got it a year ago and it's taken a LOT of abuse from this cat who knows EXACTLY where the food is! LOL! He has pounded on it, scratched it, flipped it upside down, ripped the lid off of it numerous times (it snaps right back on!) and I only JUST now had to even change the batteries on it.
The top of this thing looks more beat up than the Challenger after re-entering the earth's atmosphere!
Most importantly - Bubba no longer pounds on ME to feed him.
And, oh yea, I guess you could also use the thing to feed your cat when you're away for the weekend. ;)"