A watched clock never boils!
Just like workplace clockwatchers
Hey ! He his holding on the braincell for a whole 5 minutes! Other orange cats need it !
it would be hilarious is someone made the clock run five minutes late.
My automatic cat feeder was cheap and runs a few seconds earlier everyday. It’s now a full hour and half ahead of schedule (I never updated it for daylight savings time, I figured by the time the hours are set back I can tune the clock back to the right time)
The cat will drink more water (hydrate better) if it’s moved away from the food area. Instinct to avoid contamination.
my first thought as well, it’s so imprinted in my brain now, just like the whiskers bothering bowls
We somewhat recently got an automatic feeder and realized cats (obviously) don’t understand the concept of daylight savings time
Yeah we just keep the feeder on one time for the cats since theres no reason they should suffer for our mistakes.
Having had one for almost our cats’ entire lives, I can confirm that they do not.
It also creates something of a pavlovian response; it doesn’t matter if there’s still food in the dispenser’s bowl or he’s literally just eaten, the sound of more biscuits dropping is enough to make him absolutely hoof it in the direction of the feeder. Sometimes doesn’t even eat anything, just has to run over to it.
Like humans and our phones.
bzzzt
instinctive pickup
“ah fuck”
I, too, often dissociate around 11:58.
I just got the exact same feeder! Like, genuinely ten minutes ago. Except it’s white. Ended up going with this one based on some good reviews and a homeassistant integration.
In my experience, you can get away with going really cheap for dry feeders though. They really aren’t that complex. I got like the second cheapest one I found on Amazon and it has been working great for the 6 months since I got it.
I mean, I do think this one was fairly cheap. And home assistant integration was a must for me.
So uh… got a link?
Looks like a PetLibro product. I have 2 of their dispensers and one of their water fountains and they’re all great.
The cat needs something to occupy it before feed time
need to setup a moving laser pointer on another clock 40 minutes before the feed time so he can go stare at that for 4 minutes.
yup. if this cat is SO obsessed with feeding time, he likely needs more enrichment.
Hence the clock.
My cat just attacks the feeder
I don’t get why people buy these water fountains when the whole point of running water is that it’s freshly produced from a faucet then flushed down a drain. To run it in a circle is the same as leaving it to sit stagnant in a bowl except with extra dust collected from the air. Rig up a constantly dripping faucet and maybe your cat’s kidneys will stop failing after a few years.
You’re supposed to change the water as often as stagnant water bowls and it comes with filters that you’re supposed to change regularly (carbon and fiber)
“freshly produced”. You think it’s magic? Do you only drink from “freshly produced” sources as most of it goes down a drain?
What aspect of it do you think is offered for the cat if it’s an infinitely dripping tap vs being changed regularly? Putting kidney failure on the fault of water quality alone without a source is pretty asinine.
