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OP here. As my friends have pointed out this wont work so well if you have a dog :(

jaclaz 10y ago
Well, it won't work with cats either, it will take anything between one nanosecond and 15 seconds to rip open the thingy after having taken it out of the wall (high as you might hang it). Compare with this recent post (the OP there maybe overdid it a tad bit, still...): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904
- jasone 10y ago
  I went through a similar process in 2003 with two cats that begged incessantly for food. I had to bolt the feeders (of different manufacture and style) down to a sheet of melamine and add thin metal shielding at the front to prevent the cats from reaching up the chute to the auger, but IMO Furiosa's feeder is grossly over-engineered due to leaping from various half-baked initial anchoring attempts directly to a doomsday device. In any case, our collected experiences suggest that cat feeder manufacturers do not adequately field test their devices.
  - jaclaz 10y ago
    Yep, or maybe we have smarter or more persistent cats. Anecdotally, once I had two cats that I "trained" to use a catdoor I had just installed. Cat #1 learned to use it in like three times I guided him thought the thingy. Cat #2 simply couldn't grasp the idea and after like 100 attempts I gave up. Later I heard "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, tlatlac!", cat #2 never learned to use the catdoor "properly", or maybe he had some vision defect, cannot really say, but he got that it was a way in so it simply went head in on the whole door (from left to right in 15 cm steps) until he got through the cat door. One way or the other, he got in.
    - mattkevan 10y ago
      One of our cats thought velocity was key when entering through a catflap. He'd use most of the garden as a runway, hitting the door at full speed with a BLAM! that could wake you up at night.
  - tlrobinson 10y ago
    "IMO Furiosa's feeder is grossly over-engineered" I think that was half the point.
- pweissbrod 10y ago
  Interesting enough my most troublesome tigers are curiously scared of heights. They dont jump very high so it is not a problem for my household. I do appreciate many cats will have more ninja skills than mine in which case it may indeed cost more than $20 to secure your tiger food

Well, it won't work with cats either, it will take anything between one nanosecond and 15 seconds to rip open the thingy after having taken it out of the wall (high as you might hang it). Compare with this recent post (the OP there maybe overdid it a tad bit, still...): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904

jasone 10y ago
I went through a similar process in 2003 with two cats that begged incessantly for food. I had to bolt the feeders (of different manufacture and style) down to a sheet of melamine and add thin metal shielding at the front to prevent the cats from reaching up the chute to the auger, but IMO Furiosa's feeder is grossly over-engineered due to leaping from various half-baked initial anchoring attempts directly to a doomsday device. In any case, our collected experiences suggest that cat feeder manufacturers do not adequately field test their devices.
- jaclaz 10y ago
  Yep, or maybe we have smarter or more persistent cats. Anecdotally, once I had two cats that I "trained" to use a catdoor I had just installed. Cat #1 learned to use it in like three times I guided him thought the thingy. Cat #2 simply couldn't grasp the idea and after like 100 attempts I gave up. Later I heard "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, tlatlac!", cat #2 never learned to use the catdoor "properly", or maybe he had some vision defect, cannot really say, but he got that it was a way in so it simply went head in on the whole door (from left to right in 15 cm steps) until he got through the cat door. One way or the other, he got in.
  - mattkevan 10y ago
    One of our cats thought velocity was key when entering through a catflap. He'd use most of the garden as a runway, hitting the door at full speed with a BLAM! that could wake you up at night.
- tlrobinson 10y ago
  "IMO Furiosa's feeder is grossly over-engineered" I think that was half the point.
pweissbrod 10y ago
Interesting enough my most troublesome tigers are curiously scared of heights. They dont jump very high so it is not a problem for my household. I do appreciate many cats will have more ninja skills than mine in which case it may indeed cost more than $20 to secure your tiger food