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WOpet 7L Pet Feeder-provide a interesting living for your pet!
WOPET Automatic Pet Feeder Food Dispenser for Cats and Dogs - With Wopet 7L automatic pet feeder you can feeder your cat up to 4 times per day with adjustable portions according to your cats need,the feeding schedule can also be customized,because you decide what time your feline friend will eat,The WOpet 7L has a good capacity and it works with AC adapter and 3 D-size batteries as an optional back up power.
Top Review
This is the second automatic feeder for our dog (75 pound mutt) that we've tried; the first was the "PetSafe Healthy Pet Simply Feed" which worked -- ok -- for a little under 18 months. We began to have an issue with the mechanism jamming and not dispensing food on an inconsistent basis. It became a big enough issue where we never knew for sure if our dog got enough food if we weren't there to watch it dispense. She would never let on either way, which didn't help.
This unit is priced much more reasonably, is easier and more user friendly to set up and control, and the mechanism seems to me to be a better design. A few more points:
* The hopper, which I believe is a little smaller than the other unit we tried in the past, has a clear top and the food level is easily seen. There were a couple of unfortunate instances where our old dispenser ran out of food, causing a (temporary) missed meal.
* This unit includes a wall plug, which is available with the other unit but at additional cost. As of this morning, pricing out the other unit with an adapter comes in at just under 150 dollars. There is still a battery back-up for this dispenser, so if you lose power your pet will still get fed.
*This dispenser is much easier to program and doesn't require holding onto a two sided reference sheet of commands for future reference like our old unit. Granted, the old unit allowed other features like slow feeding mode, additional feeding times, and early, manual dispensing of food which then automatically skips the next scheduled feeding. This dispenser is more basic, with 4 available feeding times in a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and "4th meal") which worked just find for us. Our dog's feeding needs are pretty basic.
If I had a complaint, it would be with the initial "fine tuning" needed to get the pet's portion correct. It's based on grams, and each rotation of the hopper delivers 10 grams. So we weighed 2/3 of a cup of dog food, rounded up (our dog would not appreciate rounding down) and we gave that a try. First meal came out a little on the large size (dog did not complain) so we backed it off a bit and got it pretty close on our second try. If I was to do it over again, I'd keep hitting the manual dispense button (each time cycles one hopper of food) until we filled up the appropriate feeding cup. As long as you keep track of how many it takes to do that (6 for us) you should be pretty much set.
All in all, for under 90 dollars my wife and I feel this is a better dispenser than our previous purchase. It includes a power adapter, seems to have a better feed / hopper mechanism, and has just enough features so as to not over-complicate the programming and day to day use. If this continues to hold up for us (and exceeds the 18 months we got out of the other product!) we definitely recommend it. -
Eric Campbell
Top Review
We use this feeder outdoors. The functions of meal control, portion, and time are easy to program and dependable. The battery back-up works perfectly. The most amazing feature is the solid build and security of the unit. It has been attacked by raccoons, clawed, bitten, unplugged and dragged around the deck repeatedly. Other than scratches on the case and the logo wearing off, the feeder is in perfect shape. It has never been opened by the pests. The food inside remains inside. The battery backup retains the settings when plugged back in. Although the feeder is impregnable to the pests, I have finally built a box to surround it and anchor to a pillar on the deck. The cats have good access and the feeder is locked down. No other feeder we have owned could have withstood the raccoon attacks without disintegrating. This unit is well worth the price. I wish I had more stars. -
awright
