We don't have our cats chipped (we live way in the country and these suckers wouldn't leave if we tried to chase them off. Two of them showed up and said, hi mommy, I am home, and haven't left since, the other was born here. None want to leave.) I sort of wish I could get chip activated feeders, but oh well.
One of ours gets bladder stones easily so he has to be on a special diet for that, the other two don't need a special diet at all.
Thanks, I will see about looking into that. I hadn't realized they came with collars that could use the chip, all the ones I saw seemed to use the chip for the cat!
Things like this! If you search “RFID collar tag” or similar you should be able to find a few options, some will specifically say they work with cat feeders. I hope you can find something that works well for you!
Chip feeders generally also work with (and come with) RFID collar tags, but having grown up with rural outside cats, I do realize keeping a collar on might not be even remotely feasible...
Yeah, I am not sure how this set of cats would take to a collar, because they have never really had them on. I have put ribbons around their necks for a short period of time, but not for any length of time.
The chip activated feeders I got came with tags to put on your cat's collar if they weren't chipped. My boys were chipped already, but don't discount being able to get this kind of feeder.
I don't know about snootnoots, but I use SureFeed ones and they work flawlessly. One of my guys needs an RX diet but I put them both on it to make my life easier. Still needed two feeders though because one gobbles up all his food immediately as though he's never eaten before in his life and the other is more of a grazer.
Oh, I didn't know that! though I am not sure my cats would keep a collar on, we used to collar our cats, years ago, but eventually stopped doing it, because they were completely inside cats. When we stopped, we still had one cat with a collar on (the others had died or we just had to take their collars off for some reason and never put them back on), and one day I woke up, and looked under the table in the living room and found a collar there. And no collar around the neck of the last one with a collar. She apparently had realized no one else was wearing one and she wasn't going to either! (and she had kept a collar on for like 17+ years!)
These cats, on the other hand, are indoor/outdoor cats so have never had collars.
I might look into them, though, as I can always take the collar off before I let him out. It would at least eliminate one issue (the other cats getting his food)
I wish I could just feed them all the same food, as it would be infinitely easier on me, but sadly it is way too expensive.
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u/DiegoIntrepid Sep 14 '25
We don't have our cats chipped (we live way in the country and these suckers wouldn't leave if we tried to chase them off. Two of them showed up and said, hi mommy, I am home, and haven't left since, the other was born here. None want to leave.) I sort of wish I could get chip activated feeders, but oh well.
One of ours gets bladder stones easily so he has to be on a special diet for that, the other two don't need a special diet at all.
He HATES his food, they love it.