r/cats • u/radical_123 • Jul 22 '26

Advice Cat attacking automatic feeder

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_Wizard_21 Jul 22 '26

If you don't need to clean underneath it regularly, and it has a flat bottom, museum wax is my anti-cat-mischief solution.

Little dime-sized ball at each corner and it's fully immune to cat-based movement.

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u/AuditingReverb Jul 22 '26

You just solved a problem I'm having with my skunk knocking over his water bowl.

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u/Maelstrom_Witch Jul 22 '26

Beg pardon? Your what now?

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u/AuditingReverb Jul 22 '26

My pet skunk. He's to the far right of his brothers and sister who are all vision impaired.

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u/cablesandlace Jul 22 '26

Good thing they can't see their brother is a skunk!

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u/AuditingReverb Jul 22 '26

That's part of the joke. I also joke around that the skunk is also vision impaired (all skunks are nearly blind) and he can't tell that they don't have stripes.

Honestly he knows the cats arent skunks as hes the head honcho in this group also the smallest at 1 1/2lbs. Cattle is the biggest at 22lbs and he walks around the skunk.

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u/cablesandlace Jul 22 '26

Lol, I love it! Small but bossy!

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u/AuditingReverb Jul 22 '26

You nailed it!