Here’s an interesting device that provides a solution to a common problem. In multi-pet households, it can be a challenge to keep larger pets away from the smaller pet’s food. Feed Safe — from Automated Pet Care Products, makers of the Litter-Robot — gives smaller pets a safe haven where they can dine in peace.
The size of the opening can be adjusted to allow smaller pets inside the Fee Safe where there are two stainless steel bowls in a built-in bowl holder. Simply remove the top for cleaning and refilling bowls. I’m glad to see that there’s also an alternate exit door on the side, just in case someone is guarding the main door from the outside. The Feed Safe also contains spills inside the easy-to-clean dome, a nice added benefit.
Feed Safe is made in the USA and can be purchased from www.feed-safe.com.
An idea whose time has definitely come — thanks for sharing this, Kate! The only thing I don’t like is the locking funciton on both doors — one should not be locking-enabled, so that cats always have a way to exit.
Excellent idea. But what it could use is an opening mechanism that only lets in a specific pet.
Nice features, certainly a product that would resolve a big headache in many households, including my own. Unfortunately, the expense is more than my budget can bear. 🙁
Nice idea! Now they should make one for same size pets where only the one wearing a certain tag can enter, in the case of pets with medical diets.
Pure Genius!
To those commenting about a tag-triggered food bowl option, there was one on Indeigogo a while back that didn’t meet its funding but looked promising:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rfid-pet-food-bowl/x/812014
The Gatefeeder uses RFID technology to allow only certain pets to access the food, but it’s a smaller unit, only their head fits through the door, not their entire body.
http://www.gatefeeder.com
We had a similar issue with litter boxes a while back, and came up with a solution that would work just as well here. We got one of those electromagnetic flap doors (where only the cat wearing the magnet on their collar can go in), then installed it onto the side of a huge rubermaid container with a lid, poking holes in the lid. Now that cat has a litterbox that the other cats can’t access, which also means that he stopped peeing on the floor! The whole cost was about $65 and a little elbow grease. I should note that I got the idea from someone who uploaded their pictures of a similar contraption to the amazon product page for one of the cat doors. I would link to it, but I can’t seem to find it now.