PETLIBRO Pet Food Splitter with Stainless Steel Bowls, Automatic Cat Feeder Bowls for Two Cats or Dogs, Suitable for PETLIBRO Automatic Cat Feeder PLAF005, PLAF006, PLAF103, PLAF203 Black

My cat and I love our Petlibro! It was an expensive purchase but the freedom it's given me is priceless. For my cat, it's a guarantee that kibble will fall into his dish on a regular basis (I swear he's learning to tell time!). For me, it's freedom from being the bad guy. It enabled me to transfer Hobson's association of my being in the kitchen equals food for him to the dispenser that sits quietly in the corner now equals food for Hobson. I can now come and go into the kitchen without him wailing at me (ok, well, most of the time).I did not purchase the wi-fi version. At the time I thought why in the heck would I want to access his feeder over wi-fi. I regret that decision. There have been times when I'm out for the day and realize I won't be back in time to give Hobson his wet food dinner, and wished that I could access his feeder over wi-fi and change the time that it would dispense the next kibble run to be at an earlier hour. Live and learn.PROS:-- big container holds lots of cat kibble (and includes a tray in the lid which holds desiccants to help keep the kibble dry and mold free)-- timed release (up to 4x in a 24 hour period)-- ability to pick how many multiples of kibble should be dispensed each release time (for a cat, with dispensation 4x a day, I've never had the machine delivery more than 2 or 3 batches of kibble at once)-- easy to clean-- I like the removable stainless steel dish (so I can easily clean that on a daily basis)-- well made productCONS:-- kibble size limitation (for most cat kibble, this would never be an issue, but Hobson gets dental kibble which by definition are big kibble nuggets--thankfully Purina DH kibble does fit)-- The digital clock isn't accurate, it's slow, losing 2-3 minutes every 4 months-- Maximum of 4 dispensing times during a 24 hour period. I wish this were 6x.Quick hack: Before we moved Hobson to dental kibble, his smaller regular cat kibble would sometimes not clear the dispensing shoot and get stuck on a plastic seam. Easiest thing in the world to fix that was to place a little yellow post-it stickie over the plastic seam and extending into the bowl. This ensured 100% of the dispensed kibble always fell into the bowl. That said, the yellow stickie was not going to prevent Hobson from sticking his paw up into the machine to jimmy loose some additional kibble. (I've seen some posts of people rigging a long shoot between the mouth of the dispenser and the kibble bowl as a means to combat the paw poke. I didn't want one more thing to have to clean.)

The media could not be loaded. I bought this feeder for my 2 outside cats because all the other critters (raccoons and opossums and our chickens) were eating all their food. I've had this on our front porch since November and it's been amazing. Last night 2 masked bandits showed up and tried to steal the food. They got it unplugged but didn't succeed in stealing any food. If you have outside critters stealing your cat's food, I highly suggest in investing in one of these. You won't be disappointed.

I picked up the PetLibro "Granary" automatic pet feeder with built-in camera some time back, but decided that between my "big boy" can and his littler sister, I really needed more than one bowl to prevent them from fighting over access when I feed them. So, I upgraded my feeder with this device. The alternative was to get a second feeder, and that seemed sort of like overkill.My reason for wanting the feeder is for those times when I have to take short business trips... just a few days... and prefer not having to have a petsitter come to my home or having to board my pets. I've made sure I have plenty of feeding and watering options available. The "Granary" feeder is definitely my preferred feeder, though I have both open bowls and another auto-feeder as well, so I can be sure that they won't starve during a few days' absence. (Water availability is a bit more complex, but I've dealt with that too.)What I really like about "camera feeders" is that I can talk to them, I can hear them (they "talk" to me, too... though I have yet to figure out exactly what their "words" mean!), and can watch them as they eat, and can also see the bowls, so I can tell if they're full or empty, and I can actually control the device remotely (skipping servings if the bowls are still full, or dispensing additional food if they're empty).There are a couple of issues I'd like to see addressed in future versions of this. Mainly, associated with the "portion apportionment" setting. I'd really like to be able to independently control, remotely, just how much food goes into each side. Either by an internal "shutter" over each of two food chutes, or a method of rotating the "diverter vane" on the food tray itself.The "diverter vane" is what allows you to control the total amount of food dispensed on the right or left bowl. Shift it further one way, and more food goes into that bowl... shift it the other way, and more goes into the other bowl. Unfortunately, this isn't especially well-calibrated... getting equal amounts requires the vane to be offset considerably!... and so the only way to really evaluate the "mix" is through testing... trial and error.So... being able to move the vane in real-time, remotely, would allow issues in feeding to be resolved even when you're away. And even better, having dual chutes would allow very precise feeding... even shutting one bowl off completely, or providing metered amounts into each.But both of those solutions drastically increases the complexity (and thus cost) of the device, so I can make due with this solution for the foreseeable future. For now, building that solution would result in a product more expensive than two of these are, after all!I'm really very happy with this, but I AM dinging it by a single star for the difficulty of adjusting the "diverter vane" to get the amounts of food you want into each of the two separate bowls. That is something that they could improve, without really increasing the overall product cost, I think. It just requires a bit more R&D time, and an improved "chute" design. Ah, well... maybe next years' model!

After seeing the reviews i was a little weary of it but once o read the Manual and went through the suggested feeding sizes, it made a lot of sense. 1/12 is not 1/12 cups. It’s 1/12th of a cup. It gives you different times a day and suggested portions for the serving size. Works pretty well :)