A funneling system i made to keep my automatic dog feeders topped off. - eviltoast

My automatic dog feeders work great but only hold enough food for a few days so I designed and printed a funneling system and a resovoir to hold the entire bag so all I have to do is fill the resovoir when I get a new bag. Works great.

Edit: don’t know why the photo uploaded sideways. Sorry about that.

  • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How do those bowls work for slowing down their chow time? We’ve got one dog that eats so quickly, he throws it back up sometimes.

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      1 year ago

      They’re on a timer and I can set how much food is dispensed. I feed them twice a day different amounts for each dog and they know (most of the time) which bowl is theirs and don’t touch the other one.

      EDIT: I realized you might be talking about the puzzle bowls specifically. The food fills the crevices and it’s harder to get the food out so it slows them down some.

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      1 year ago

      What’s the problem? I assume your dog just eats it’s vomit like a good pepper right?

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      1 year ago

      Great as long as they don’t figure out how to knock the bowl over and eat off of the floor. Went from about 5-10 seconds to around 30-45.

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        1 year ago

        You can’t see it in the picture, but I have these braces I printed that holds the bowls in place. They can spin but they don’t come out.