Feline Digression

Getting ready to leave town for the weekend and I realized I hadn't made arrangements for someone to come and feed the cat.  The cat is a recent addition to the household so we don't have all the feline necessities in place, like the automatic cat feeder.

There's no pet store nearby so with the hour I had before having to hit the road, I thought I'd try, in the best DIY tradition, to make my own automatic cat feeder.

I remembered the basic principle of one that I owned many years ago which was a container for food that emptied out into a dish.  When the cat eats dry food from the dish, the food that's in the container fills in to take its place.

I sketched a drawing on the back of an envelope and began cutting up a cardboard box, making marks for folds and flaps.  Adjusting the design on the way, I was able to come up with a reasonable solution.  Of course I won't know for sure if the feeder worked until we get home in a couple days.

Ramon helped with the problem and came up with his own design that I've included here...

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Comments

[nc roofer]

The cat will survive weekend without feeding, don´t worry. A short hunger strike will only help:-)

[James Graham]

The auto-feeder worked out fine. In fact the cat enjoyed it so much he gorged(sp?) himself to the point of throwing up twice. His other dangerously self-indulgent habit is falling asleep inches from the wood stove. Anybody know at what temperature cats self-combust?