Closer Pets MiBowl Automatic Selective Microchip Feeder, Cats & Small Dogs

Fonctionne très bie, facile à mettre en oeuvre et à programmer pour le chat concerné. A recommander

This pet feeder is great. The tag it comes with to open the feeder is quite large so I highly recommend using the pets microchip as a way to open it instead. With either option, it is easy to set up and works very well. The cat I bought it for loves it. She can have her wet food in peace thanks to the fully enclosed back and sides. She has no trouble eating out of it. It did take a little bit of work to get her used to it but she is also quite nervous. Her brother tries so hard to open it but often just resorts to licking the lid so i'd say the design works perfectly. Its honestly worth every penny.

Se ajusta a la descripción. Mi gata se adapto enseguida a usarlo y he evitado los problemas de comida con mi otro gato que se comia lo que no era suyo. Muy recomendable

**EDIT** Now April 2025 time, and current updates on how the microchip feeder is doing. The microchip reader I can confirm works without the collar and recognises Jinx's chip. No issues with it, been using it everyday without fail. Only thing I took off the plastic "defence" guards as jinx didn't like it so much, so they are permanently removed. Moonie still can't access it so I'm pleased overall with the product. ------ I originally brought this to help my first cat (Jinx) who is a natural grazer help get her food as normal, without my other chonky cat (Moonie) trying to steal it. (He was adopted in the streets originally and takes any opportunity to get food including human food if he can find it. He still healthy and monitored by the vet before internet cat warriors mention about his weight in the photos.) So I have been trying to find a way to keep him out of Jinx's food but hard when you live in a one bedroom flat and have so little wiggle room to prevent him without him getting smart about it. I did find another similar product on Amazon but smaller and minimalistic design but costed over £100+. So I thought I would try it and see if it works out and test run it as nearly £80 wouldn't be as bad as over £100+. If the product would work with my cats. So far it's worth it's money. However I wasn't suspecting Jinx to take to the food bowl so quickly and learned quickly how to use it (She also 8 years old). I tested as recommended on the book to put treats in the bowl and she went in with confidence. So I tried registering her microchip (without the tag first) it did flash to registering her microchip. (Also did it with the tag and working okay with the tag better so far still early stages of testing it out.) As you can also see in the photos Moonie the culprit of stealing food isn't able to access it!! Woo hoo 🎉 The product itself is an okay size, it's not too bulky and the instructions were simple enough to follow. I did find it more troubling to find C batteries in shops for the product but got some in the end!🤣 Still trying to test out if the scan by just her microchip along without the tag as it mentions in the book. The product itself is a sturdy quality the noise is very minimal, little robotic sounds for the opening and closing so it's a bonus, didn't freak out jinx much , more confusion than anything 😂 The tray is easy to take out the food bowl and clean as it's plastic. I'm cautious of the side clear parts to take apart as it's still a bit stiff at the moment and I dinnae want to break the plastic. (I should also mention Jinx is used to wearing a collar/ harness which helped a lot for wearing the tag on the collar. But to folk who might have indoor cats that's not used to wear a collar often or at all to try and practice run or get used to a collar with a tag shape before trying the product out, just incase they hate the collar altogether)

I bought the MiBowl looking for a less expensive alternative to the SureFeed Microchip Pet Feeder (which was out of stock at the time of purchase). Some key points: 1. We are a 3 cat household, 2 grazers and 1 greedy eater. The grazers have shared their food their whole life and they're not food motivated enough to finish a meal in its entirety even when hungry. The greedy eater will eat everything that isn't locked up. 2. Programming the MiBowl was very easy, it took about 30 seconds in the training mode to get it to recognize the microchips in both my grazing cats when they came to eat. I wasn't sure that it had worked because the feedback blinking isn't really distinct from the other functions. 3. It has let the programmed cats access their food 100% of the times that they've approached the feeder - it seems to open sooner for the girl cat than the boy, but I think that is due to the placement of the microchip in their bodies. Both cats only took 1 day to understand how to get it to open for them - it hasn't closed on them unexpectedly either. 4. The greedy eater hasn't been able to break into it at all - he has pushed it around the room and tried his best to steal some food, but the feeder has remained upright without spilling. My one complaint is that the stainless steel inserts for the plastic feeder bowl (which come with an ice pack) are quite pricy for a single stamped piece of metal ($39.99 CAD). If Closer Pets could come out with a 3 pack of the metal inserts with no ice pack, that would be a lot more convenient for cleaning especially if you intend to put wet food into the MiBowl.