How Can Automatic Pet Food Dispensers Make My Pet’s Life Easier?
Odds are life is chaotic, you’re working long hours and are rarely at the house, or possibly looking to have a small vacation and just don’t want to put your furry friend through the hassle of having to go stay at some kennel or friends for a little while. Having one less stress of knowing your pet is safe at home and it’s tummy is full can provide you with the comfort of knowing you don’t need to hurry to the house so you can make them dinner. Switching their dinner bowl a quality automatic pet food dispenser is probably the solution you were looking for.
Programmable automatic cat or dog dispensers are available in all sizes and shapes, but mainly are composed of the same 3 components: the feeding bowl, a programmable digital timer, and a container for storage. Almost all of the digital pet food dispensers may be digitally programmed discharge food in to the pet’s bowl multiple times each day, every day throughout the week as well as all through the year without having to be programmed again.
Many of the quality automatic pet food dispensers can be digitally programmed to give the pet smaller sized volumes of their favorite food at each meal, allowing you to control just exactly how much food they will get through out the day (especially well-suited for dogs with diabetics or eating disorders).
Be certain when choosing the automatic pet feeder you get one that’s suitable to the size of your pet. Many dispenser manufacturers design automatic pet food dispensers in small, medium and large sizes. Small auto pet food dispensers are designed for pets weighing less than 10 pounds, and usually have a food hopper capacity that can hold up to as much as about 5 pounds of dry pet food. Medium-size automatic pet food dispensers are designed for pets who weigh more than 10 pounds but less than 25 pounds. The units can normally hold up to ten pounds of dry pet food, and can accommodate larger size pellets. Large automatic dog food dispensers are designed to hold larger size pellets for pets that way more than twenty five pounds. Their containers generally can hold up to as much as 20 pounds of dry dog food.
Some units can be quite a bit challenging to set up, needing to choose what time during the day you want your pet to be fed and how much food you want to be discharged. It is suggested that you simply observe how it operates on a day when you are home to make sure it’s performing the way you anticipate it to. Though once you have it’s up and going it should work like a charm. Some dispensers are battery-powered, so always be sure to look at the indicator light in case the battery indicates it is running low. One way around battery failure is to buy a unit that may be plugged into an electrical outlet, nevertheless you may want to think twice about purchasing a food dispenser that comes with a cord should you have a pet that enjoys chewing. You will find dispenser manufacturers out there that have even thought of that and offer units with the protective sheathing wrapped surrounding the cord (good luck with that Fido!!!).
Buying an automatic pet food dispenser makes life less difficult for your pet and you. You no longer need to remember if you fed your pet or not, and your pet no longer has to wonder if you forgot. Being able to load the food hopper every now and then enables you to buy and store large bags of dry dog food stored away and out of sight, away from hungry or playful mouths.