I do wish the instructions were a little more clear on how to change the settings but once I figured that out - everything was golden. Love that it has battery backup. Havent tried voice recording based on other reviews but overall I am very pleased.

After almost a year of use, the feeder no longer dispenses the right amount. It gives only 1 portion when it’s supposed to do 3, and it’s not even consistently off for me to work around it. It’ll do whatever the f it wants and do 3, or 2, or 1 randomly. Stay away from this unless you want your pet to starve when you are away.

My cat was getting me up every morning at 4:30 by jumping on me and licking my face. This auto feeder works very well. It took a little time to adjust the food amount but now we are locked in. Worth every dime

The instructions were a bit vague and although it has lots of portion sizes, it would have been good to have a list of how much food each one dispensed. Only reason not a 5 star.

Love these feeders (I have two) and they work great for the feral cats outdoors..initially had raccoons getting into them and pulled them off the deck, but we built a containment system for them and screwed the system onto the deck as well…as well as the the bowls and nothing can get to them..I would purchase them again

Fairly simple to set up. Dispenses consistently. Plug-in with battery back-up. Directions for portion size could be more clearly written.

I really enjoy this feeder for my cats. The settings aren’t hard to manage and the portion control is quite accurate. It’s a sleek design and fits a variety of kibble sizes. The only thing I’d like is to have an option to buy cat friendly bowls separately to avoid whisker fatigue.

This item is fantastic. You can program several different feeding times with their own specific portion sizes, as well as manually dispense food. There are two ways to power, by plug and by battery - when unplugged or the power goes out, the battery takes over with no disruption to the programmed cycles. We used this for our two cats while we went out of town for a few days, and it really gave us peace of mind that our cats were being fed and not over eating at an endless food bowl, which one of our kitties tends to do when we are gone. Even if the food piles up, I have not experienced any clogging or backing with this feeder, which is something I worried about. The programming was a little cumbersom, which makes wanting to edit or change anything not as easy as it could be, but that is something that I can deal with for the peace of mind this offers.

I love the lock unlock feature on the unit. I also enjoy that a fresh packet insert is included in the cat food dispenser so the cat food doesnt get stale. Has six feeding schedules. Works great. Wish it had an alarm of some kind when its empty.

So our chub chub is obsessed with food and eats what ever is in front of him. Before we did 2 feedings a day and he was annoying for a full hour before each feeding, knocking stuff off of tables and getting in our business. Our previous cats could have a bowl out all day and graze when they were hungry, but not chub chub. So we got this feeder to do 4 smaller meals and to disconnect food from our attention. Chub is no longer annoying, instead we can hear him run across the house when the food drops and its adorable. I wish we could do 6 feedings a day to really encourage grazing but the daily portion would be too large for chub. Please make the portions smaller so that 1 cat could do more than 4 feedings.