My Food Auto-Feeder

I am given 2 meals a day and sometimes when they are out... I only get my dinner after 9pm.... woof ... woof.. not acceptable...!!!

Occasionally, I am do not get my breakfast around 7am if they sleep late too.... woof ... woof...!!!

So they bought this food auto-feeder that dispenses my food in the morning and evening......hurray....

Sometimes, it takes so long to give me my food ... ???

So I sometimes scratches and pull the auto-feeder... so they taped the cover ... woof... woof...

At last, food is served.... a happy woof.. woof....

Auto-Feeder Still Working

Hi,

Jack is used to the 2nd auto-feeder now but I can only set it for one meal only though it is capable of having 4 timings; eg can set one meal a day for 4 days.

Jack can smell that there is more food in the other trays and would spent the whole night digging and scrathcing at the cover to get at the food even though I tape it down.

Eventually, I only set it for a meal only at night; eg set the timer to open the tray with food at 7am on the previous night.

With lots of pateince and talking to Jack, he has stopped trying to open the cover but he still pushes and drags the auto-feeder when it takes a bit longer for the food to comes out.....ha...ha....



Jack waiting for the tray with food to open; still early in the morning around 6am+ .


I have to put masking tapes to hold the cover down else Jack will paw it open and help himself to the food.

At 7am, the tray with food opened and Jack was eating it as shown in the photo above.

This auto-feeder has shown to be quite robust so far....ha...ha...

David

Auto-Feeder Survived

Hi,

After a week of locking down the auto-feeder, it seems to work so far though I caught Jack trying to open it up and dragging it out of its place.

I gave him a good scolding and pushed him away once so I think he more or less got the message.

But as you can see in the photo below, he has scratched the plastic covering the auto-feeder.

I need to replace the plastic bag and find a better way to hold it down.

David

Auto-Feeder Locked Down

Hi,

I have to do something to prevent Jack from tearing my auto-feeder apart overnight for his food inside it.

I wrapped a plastic bag and tied some string around the auto-feeder and tied it to a hook on the wall as I do not want Jack to drag the auto-feeder to the gate and I may lose it....




So that's how I tried to lock down the auto-feeder.

Well, it worked last night .......

And guess what happened in the morning...?

I found Jack hiding in his crate when I came out to check the auto-feeder....

Why?
You can see Jack's nose in the middle hole of the crate.....ha...ha......

I think he must have felt guilty as he did tried to push the auto-feeder and it was out of its original position.... he must be scared of being beaten on his backside again or scolded by me...ha...ha...


I also only put food into one tray now so as not to tempt him to break into the auto-feeder as I think he can smell the food inside it....


Well, let see how long this will work.....ha...ha....

David

Auto-Feeder Forced Open

Jack is getting out of hand as he forced open the auto-feeder and ate up the next few meals in the tray....sigh



Greedy dog....!

Naughty dog too...!

He did it twice over 2 consecutive nights ....sneaky old dog....!

But say that he is smart too as I put 4 tapes to hold the cover down and he managed to figure out how to remove the tapes after a few attempts...!

Jack, what am I going to do with you...?

No treats for a day as I am so mad with him today.

He could have spoilt the expensive auto-feeder.


He also pushed it out of the gate and it could have been removed by passer-bys or the garbage collector thinking it is meant for disposal......sigh

The purpose of the auto-feeder was to feed him around 7am so that he will not bark for his meal and wake up the neighbourhood.

Also, if we are out in the evening ...so he can still get his meal at 7pm.

Jack, you better behave or else......

David

Video on Jack's New Auto-feeder

Here is the video taken recently....




Jack is a very smart beagle as he figured out on how to open the lid or cover and I have to re-inforce it by putting some tape to hold the lid to the feeder. I also have to train Jack not to bite the lid too....!

So we can now sleep in a bit and not worry about our neighbours complaining about his barking early in the mornings.

My only compliant about this feeder is the difficulty in setting the schedule or timing to release the tray of food and there are only 3 trays that I can put in the food. Apparently, the timer stops after the 3 trays have been released and I have to reset the timer again......sigh

Otherwise, it is working fine and better than the first feeder I bought.

David

New Dog Food Auto-feeder

The old auto-feeder somehow broke and the food did not come out at the schedule time.

So we are back to waking up early to feed Jack before his barking wakes up the whole neighbourhood.....sigh

He only started barking a couple of years ago.....not sure why?

Did my housekeeper forget to feed him, I wonder?

Anyway, we bought another simpler auto-feeder and I am trying it out to ensure that it is properly set up.

Here is a photo of Jack waiting for his meal.... he actually scratched the cover but I managed to get him to settle down and wait for his food.

I put 2 pieces of heavy duty tape to keep the main cover on the feeder bowl...ha...ha....

Hope it will work well and Jack will accept it too....

Will keep you posted on the progress.

David

Pet Food Automatic Feeder - Progress

Jack is slowly getting used to the pet food auto-feeder but he still barks for his food during the meal times....... sigh.....

At least, he is not running away from it, as shown in the first video in my earlier posting.


But I have to reinforce the auto-feeder as Jack would push and claw at it for more food..!


So I have to surround it with a wire fence and hooked it to the wall, and finally covering it with a plastic bag so that he could not see the food inside else he will not give up on it..!


So far, it is working fine ....... but we are still monitoring it closely...

Here is a short video of Jack having his dinner.....

Pet Food Automatic Feeder

Hi,

Jack likes to start barking for his food as early as 6am and to-date, my Filipino housekeeper has been waking up to feed him......

It used to be 7am but Jack has started to feel hungry earlier now.....?

It could be quite annoying to my neighbours on weekends so I bought a Pet Food Automatic Feeder.

So what does this gadget do?

There is a timer and I can programmed the times to feed Jack and also the portion of food..... only dry food though..!

Our initial concern was that Jack could 'attack' the container as he is always greedy for food and treats....... Beagles are known to have a bottomless pit when it comes to food....!

This video shows the first encounter of Jack with the automatic feeder..... quite funny...

First time that Jack ran away from his food...ha.....ha....




Hope Jack will get used to it ...... so stay tuned as I will keep you updated later on the progress.

David

Jack Getting His Food Automatically

Jack has been barking at early as 6am for his first meal of the day.

We have decided to buy an Automatic Pet Feeder to solve the problem of having to wake up so early to feed Jack especially on weekends, before our neighbours start complaining to us.

Here is a video of Jack's first encounter with the automatic feeder.....

Quick funny as Jack run away from his food as he was startled by it.




Jack is still barking at the auto-feeder and pushing it around for more food.....ha...ha...

He should be getting use to it slowly...... but we are still keeping an eye on him during his meals for the time being.

David