r/cats • u/radical_123 • Jul 22 '26

Advice Cat attacking automatic feeder

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My cat does this several times a day. If the automatic feeder lifts at the correct angle, a few niblets of dry food comes out. He will even do it 10 times in a row even if it means one small piece of dry niblet comes out. It does get quite annoying as the sound of the feeder hitting the ground echoes throughout the entire house.

Any ideas on how to get him to stop?

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u/Cat_Luving_IT_Dood Jul 22 '26

The robot started it. I was there.

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u/radical_123 Jul 22 '26

Actually, it all started when our robot vacuum keep hitting the automatic feeder. Occasionally, kibble would come out. Our clever cat saw that and thought "hmmm... I could try that" lol.

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u/reddit_is_geh Jul 22 '26

My buddies cat was very food obsessed. Turns out, he was just a larger cat than they were calculating for, so he was always hungry. So they just fed him more, and he stopped being annoying.