United Kingdom
The only feeders on this site that handle wet food
Cat Mate — part of the same group as Closer Pets, also reviewed here — makes timed feeders rather than hopper machines.
Wet food is the whole argument. Every other feeder on this site moves dry kibble through a rotor or an auger and will do nothing with a pouch. A great many cats are fed wet food, and for them the choice on this site is short.
Nothing can jam. There is no auger, no drum and no kibble path — a lid turns on a quartz timer. The failure modes that dominate the rest of this family simply do not exist here.
The limit is stated on the box. Two meals. That covers a long day and not a weekend, and no setting changes it. The five-meal Closer Pets machine is the answer for longer absences, and it is on this site too.
One reference across all six of our markets, and the cheapest feeder we reviewed.
Two meals · 400 g (14.1 oz) per bowl · 48 h quartz timer · ice pack
A two-meal timed feeder with no app, no motor and no jam: the lid rotates on a quartz timer and each bowl holds 400 g (14.1 oz) of wet food, kept cool by the supplied ice pack.
Best for: A cat on wet food that needs one meal while you are out, and anyone who has had a hopper feeder jam.
≈ $30
Microchip · entry only · 4-way timer · cut-out 7 1/16 × 8 1/16 in
A microchip cat door with programmable timer locking, reading the cat’s existing chip and letting any cat out.
Best for: A single-cat or multi-cat house where the only problem is the neighbor’s cat
