Necessity prompted our family to buy an automatic pet feeder when we needed to take a road trip which would last many days. We had tried gravity-type self-feeders in the past with less than stellar results, so we decided to try out some of the new breed of automatic feeders. Our first purchase was the PetSafe Eatwell 5-meal automatic feeder, which has proven to be a rock solid performer from the very first day.
…If you have read my previous post reviewing the PetSafe 5 Meal Self-Feeder, you would know that our family began exploring automatic feeders as a must-have purchase to prepare for an extended road trip. We initially purchased a PetSafe 5 Meal automatic feeder as an alternative to simple gravity-type self-feeders which had proven unreliable in the past. The PetSafe 5 Meal feeder worked flawlessly; but was limited to 5 meals. We purchased the QPets 6-meal automatic pet feeder as a cheaper additional feeder to provide us with one additional meal over the 5 meal limit of the PetSafe unit. The QPets feeder has proven to be a less expensive add-on feeder to supplement the PetSafe feeder; but cheaper construction has resulted in reliability concerns that make us hesitate to replace the PetSafe with the QPets feeder.
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Our family planned a vacation last year which would leave our cats unattended at home for several days. Rather than board them in an unfamiliar place, we decided to try to set up automatic feeders, water fountains, and sand boxes to provide them with their basic needs while we were away….