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I'm gonna be away for some days with noe one to give my cat food; if I just put all of her food in her bowl at once, chances are she's also gonna eat all of it at once and will starve for the following days.

Is there a lifehack/diy-solution for a timed feeding device?

>> No.265893

Put out several bowls of food. She can't eat all of it at once.

>> No.265896

>>265893
You don't know my cat.

>> No.265897

>>265893
This. Put them in different places so that she'll have to seek them out. This is what we do when we go anywhere overnight.

>> No.265899

Timed cat feeders, you can buy them at any petstore.
Down the street some people have two cats with an illness that also nags 90% of the population on /v(g)/ (diabetes), they use them all the time.
Whenever we take care of the cats we basically only have to inject their catinsulin (?), and refill the feeders from the top.

>> No.265901
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265901

you could buyfag one of these
http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Electronic-Programmable-Portion-Control/dp/B004SBSNB0/ref=pd_sim_pet
supplies_1

and one of these
http://www.amazon.com/Pureness-AW3-3-Liter-Auto-Waterer/dp/B0002DK6EU/ref=pd_sim_petsupplies_22

other than buying that shit i could only imagine some sort of rig using an alarmclock & soldering & levers & slushgates & fun stuff, but I think that wouldn't be worth the time.

Or you could do some sort of super ghetto thing with a command to open and close your computers DVD drive via interwebs and just have some food set up to slide down when it opens.

pic related

>> No.265917

If you've got a desktop computer, put the food on top in some sort of enclosure, then use a cron script with eject in linux to scoop out a set amount every day.

>> No.265925

>>265917
You made me think about some sort of round dish with bowls of a predetermined size set in it and then set to a clocklike timer, and the food being gravity fed, or a flywheel with some sort of triggers on them to open the bin above the cat bowl for a cetain amount of time, or even to open the lid of the fod bin for a certain amount of time every 4 hours or something.

>> No.265985

Most cats will auto-regulate their food intake, at least with dry cat food. I just fill up the bowl when it's empty, which is every 3 or 4 days. This has worked with several cats over many years.

>> No.266057

lifehack a thing called a friend you fucking loser