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Posted December 30, 2004
If, over the
holidays, you traveled a bit and had to rely on a friend
to feed your cat for a few days—and you felt sort
of bad about imposing—then consider investing in
the Cat Mate C50 for the new year.
The Cat Mate has hidden compartments for four meals and
a hard plastic cover for those compartments; the cover
rotates open and the hidden compartments come into view
according to a battery-operated timer that you set manually
on a dial. You can set any feeding time you wish for each
of the next four days, and at those times on those days,
the cover will rotate open, exposing a specific day's
meal for Miss Kitty's or Sir Cattington's delectation.
The lid and partitioned container are dishwasher-safe.
The whole thing is incredibly easy to set up, and it takes
a single AA battery which triggers a visual indicator
to let you know when it's starting to run out of juice.
It works best with dry food, obviously, though there are
two removable cooler-style ice-packs you can freeze and
stick in their compartments within the Cat Mate to keep
the slop fresh (though I wouldn't try it with more than
a day's worth of wet food).
It is, of course, cruel to leave a cat alone for days
and days—so you wouldn't really want to use the Cat
Mate to the full extent of its full 96-hour programmability.
Also, this simple, sturdy automatic cat feeder will not
prevent your kitty from destroying your upholstery in
retaliation for abandonment.
$46.99 (on sale from $49.99) at PetGuys.com.
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