Two meals against five, both wet
A day out, or a weekend away?
Neither has a hopper, so neither can jam. The choice is capacity — and, on the C500, a lid a cat cannot lever open.
| Compared on | C200 two-meal | C500 five-meal |
|---|---|---|
| Meals | Two | Five |
| Bowl capacity | 400 g (14.1 oz) each | 330 g (11.6 oz) each, stainless |
| Bowl material | Plastic | Stainless, dishwasher-safe |
| Timer | 48-hour quartz | Digital, five settings |
| Cooling | One ice pack | Two ice packs |
| Tamper resistance | Not stated | Stated |
| Price | The cheapest feeder here | Around half as much again |
| Listed on amazon.com | Yes | Yes |
A tick marks the better answer on that line only. Counting ticks does not decide the page — the two verdicts below do, because these machines answer different questions.
Take the C200 for a working day. Two 400 g (14.1 oz) bowls, an ice pack and a mechanism that cannot fail — and it is the cheapest feeder on this site.
Take the C500 for a weekend. Five stainless bowls, twin ice packs and a lid built to resist a paw are what turn a day out into two and a half days away.
Yes, and both are wasted on it — a hopper feeder holds two weeks of kibble in the space these use for two meals. Their reason to exist is wet food, which no hopper machine can dispense.
Ice packs slow warming; they do not refrigerate. In a warm room, five wet meals across a weekend is a food-safety question rather than a machine question, and dry food in a hopper feeder is the safer plan.
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
Five meals · 330 g (11.6 oz) stainless bowls · digital timer · two ice packs
Five stainless bowls of 330 g (11.6 oz) on a digital timer, with two ice packs and a tamper-resistant lid. It is the wet-food feeder for an absence longer than a day.
Best for: A weekend away with a cat on wet food, or a cat fed several small meals a day for medical reasons a vet has set.
≈ $41
