Cat pawrent buys automatic feeder to de-chonkify her fat cat, husband finds the happy feline face first in overflowing food fountain: I set the stupid feeder to give him 3 cups of food 3x that night!’

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    'He is very very food motivated.'
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    So I bought my cat, Oliver, an automatic cat feeder. He is very very food motivated and I wanted to have a way to feed him lots of tiny meals throughout the day and night plus one big meal. The one I bought has
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    6 programmable meals and you can choose what time it feeds him. So when the box got here I opened everything up and set it up.
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    Then I read through the manual a few times to make sure I understood it really good. It let's you choose how big of a portion for each meal. I set
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    it to size 16 (the highest portion size) and pushed the button to see how much came out. About a tablespoon popped out and I was like "ooo perfect I'll set them all to 16 and
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    then 6 tablespoons throughout the day equals about 1/3 of a cup how wonderful!" Then I went to work cause I work night shift. It had 3 meals for night time. One at
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    midnight, 0300, and 0600. My husband got up for work before I was home and sent me a horrific picture. A veeerryyyyy
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    mightgrey OP Here he is before it ever fed him
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    happy 16 pound cat (on a diet) and an overfilled food bowl that had filled so much it clogged up the little food chute and spilled out onto the floor. Turns
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    out, all the portion sizes are the same. One tablespoon. And I set the stupid feeder to give him 16 TABLESPOONS OF CAT FOOD 3 TIMES THAT NIGHT 3 CUPS OF FOOD!
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    and I did not put 3 cups back into the thing when I cleaned it up. Maybe a cup and a half went back in.
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    Safe to say Oliver was very pleased with himself with I got back at 0830 and by 11am he was back at the feeder with his paw up the little food chute trying to get more food. No where in
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    the manual did it say that the portions were one tablespoon and that the higher the number you set it to the more portions it dumps out. I have added
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    pictures for your amusement yes he is tubby and yes he is on a diet
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    The overfilled bowl
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    leenapintob... He's thinking that you finally understand what he wants.
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    And the very pleased man in question. Would like to add Oliver was a stray I found outside when he was already at least 7 years old. He was 19 pounds at the time because a lot of people in my apartment complex were feeding him. 3 pounds down. Let's hope his little party dosent ruin all the hard work
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    Cat_stomach Reminds me of the time my grandma came to feed our cats while we were on vacation.
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    Long story short, she ran out of dry food because she was a bit generous, went to the supermarket and bought treats instead of dry food. We came
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    home to a happy happy cat which was fed treats for the last three days. And a
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    grumpy grandma that questioned our sanity because "cat food was so expensive!"

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