iPettie Donut Frost 6 Meal Cordless Automatic Pet Feeder, Dry & Wet Food Automatic Cat Feeder with Two Ice Packs, Rechargeable Massive Battery, Programmable Timer, Holds 6 x ½ lb. of Food

Great tool for when you want to go away for a night or two
I am currently fostering a cat, and I wanted to go away for the weekend. I am a cat person, and I’ve had cats before, and I know they can be left a few days by themselves with dry food – however, this cat is on medication that needs to be mixed into wet food, so I knew I needed to come up with a solution. I had heard of automatic feeders with ice packs before, and this one seemed to fit the bill quite nicely.First, I want to say this – when using this device, use common sense. You can’t leave wet food in this thing for a week. Obviously it will not keep even with the ice packs, and there is even a warning in the instructions telling you not to do so. However, you can use this to portion out wet food for two-ish days, or dry food every day. Someone suggested freezing food into pucks to help the food last longer, and I do feel that helps a lot. I also purchased a separate set of ice packs so I can freeze one set while the other is being used. Still, I only portion out wet food for MAYBE 18 – 24 hours – I don’t trust the food to be well enough to eat past that time. So again, use common sense.The next thing is the instructions do not use the best grammar, and so it makes it a bit confusing, specifically how to set up a feeder schedule for more that a day. Here is what I have learned – if you want the cycle to feed your pet TWICE A DAY (once at 9am and once at 9pm, for example), set the feeding times for two meal periods – one to 9am and 9pm – then don’t set any more meal times, aka, leave the other four remaining times empty! (which, by the way, happens when you set those times to 12am) Then feeder will continually rotate at those two specific times – 9am and 9pm, or whatever two times you have set. The 6 meal times are for 6 specific meals out of a 24 hour period (such as if you want to feed your pet at 4am, 8am, 12pm, 4pm, 8pm, and 12am again). If you just need TWO meal periods (or three, ect), then just set two times and leave the other 4 blank. It took me a while to figure that out because the directions kinda/sorta say that, but again, the English isn’t the best so actually using the machine is what helped me figure it out. I found that when setting Meal 1 to 9:30am, Meal 2 to 9:30pm, and Meal 3 to 10AM, and meal 4 to 10PM, the machine would override the separate meal periods at rotate at 9:30am and 10am on the same day. I hope this makes sense! This was the biggest stumbling block when getting this machine, but again, playing around with it helped me figure out the correct way to use it.As for the physical set up – I am not sure how people can’t get this thing aligned, it’s really rather straightforward, but perhaps I am missing something. I have taken it apart to clean it and put it back together a few times at this point and have had no issues with realigning it.Another tip – every time you turn on the machine, you have to reset the current time, but your meal periods will be saved. This may be annoying to some but I don’t mind having to set the current time every time, it’s very easy to do so. And the battery life is great, too!This thing has come on handy many times since I purchased it. If I want to go out for a late night and want to ensure the cat is eating at her specific time, I can turn it on and put the food in one slot, and just use it for one night. It gives me peace of mind knowing she is getting fed!And for those complaining about ‘whisker fatigue…’ If you are using this for one to two nights, your cat will be fine, I promise. My foster cat has eaten meals out of this thing with no problem. If you were using this around the clock, I can understand why the cat would get whisker fatigue – but again, every cat is different.Overall, I am very pleased with this purchase!

Great feeder & Great customer service too! See vid for how to set it up!
UPDATE NOV 2025:So, I figured I would give an update on this feeder after having for just over a year. I still really love having it.When I first got my cat, she had just had kittens a few months prior, she’d also been pregnant prior to that (so twice before she hit what we believe is her 1st birthday!). So, she was ravenous from having been pregnant, and once that passed… She was ravenous because she experienced a giant growth spurt! So if you see my original video, that’s why her feeding chart was so crazy – cuz she was eating constantly and I was working to wean her down so that she wouldn’t get super overweight, but that she wasn’t also super hungry. So the feeder was extremely helpful during that time, when I was having to feed her very often so that I could limit the amount of food she was getting.We still use this feeder, although it’s just twice a day now – she gets one feed overnight and then one feed late morning it. It’s still working quite well, nothing is broken on it (I know I’ve seen some people on here complaining about it breaking, we’ve not had that problem at all, it’s been extremely durable.) It’s very easy to clean, which is a huge relief – I’m not having to scrub all the wet food out of the tray, it’s really easy to get that cleaned (totally smooth and no corners). My cat was very quick to pick up on the tone that it makes once the food is in place. I was concerned it would wake me up, as I have essentially a studio type setup so feeder is near where I sleep, but it is not woken me up once.The one complaint I have is related to the charging. It doesn’t have batteries, you have to just charge it up. My first issue was for some reason for me it doesn’t matter when I charged it last, it always seemed to suddenly start flashing red on me in like early to late evening, which meant by the time we hit midnight it would be not working. So, then I’d have to plug it in somewhere where she could still access it, so that it could charge but she could also still eat overnight. Luckily I was able to figure out a spot for that, it’s not the easiest location for her, but it works well enough. So that’s the sort of a minor complaint and a weird thing that no matter what, it always seems to die out at that time of day. The big complaint I have is that it used to last 30 days on one charge. And I know because I’m OCD and I would put it in my calendar when I charged it so that I could keep track of when I would be getting close to it needing a charge so I could watch for the red light and I could get it started right away. Unfortunately after about 4-5 months it dropped down to 3 weeks on one charge. About 2 months after that it dropped down to where we are still today, which is anywhere from 14 to 17 days. And just to clarify… I hadn’t been charging it until I would get the red notification on the feeder. I also check in on it often when it is going through the charging process so that I can unplug it as soon as it’s done so that I’m not overcharging in that way either. (Now, that might not matter because I think you can just leave it plugged in all the time if you prefer… but I’m not 100% sure on that, I’d have to pull out the manual again.) At this point, I just have a reminder on my calendar to charge it every 16 to 17 days. But at least if I do it on my own terms, then I can get it plugged in in early afternoon, so that way, by the time we’re going to bed, it’s all charged up.So, that’s my one big complaint about it. I’m not sure what happened and why the charge suddenly doesn’t last as long (literally only lasting half as long). But that’s the ONLY issue I have with it. It works like it’s supposed to in all other ways. It does a great job at keeping my cats food cold. I do add an extra step of freezing the food since I tend to set up her feeder anywhere between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. and her first feed time is 3:30 a.m. and then the second one is 11:40 a.m.. Now, if forget to freeze it or I’m not able to freeze her food one day , and I have to just put her wet food in from the can, it’s still completely fine. I just freeze it because I think my cat honestly prefers that, I think she likes it a little bit cold. BUT, again, the ice packs are completely good at keeping the food truly cold for I would say 8-12 hours (part of that depends on the temperature of the room where you have the feeder – for example if it’s really hot in the summer, the ice pack clearly is going to heat up faster, versus if you’re room is an average temperature, like 68° F for example, then your ice pack is going to stay cooler for longer… Obviously, lol)One of the other nice things that because of the design, the food in each tray is pretty well covered, so it’s not being exposed to a lot of air. I’m sure that most people here who have put down wet food for their cat or dog only for their pet to not eat it, knows that when wet food has been sitting out for a while, that starts to get dried up and really icky , like a dried coating over the top of it. Well , you do not have that problem with this feeder. I honestly was concerned about having the food open and out for such a long periods of time, I knew the cold would help keep it fresh, but I was concerned about it getting that coating…It does not get it. So, that’s really nice, i really like that and so does my cat. I would still recommend this feeder to anyone who needs a feeder for wet or dry food, you can just use this for dry food and just don’t put the ice packs in. But it is really very good for wet food, especially if you need it for long hours. And again my only complaint after a year is that the charge isn’t lasting as long. But having to charge it every 2 weeks isn’t the end of the world.ORIGINAL REVIEW, AUGUST 2024:I was searching for a feeder that could handle wet & dry food for overnight feeds. I adopted my kitty a couple months ago and we’re still trying to figure out a schedule that works for both of us, especially overnight! I went with this feeder bc I liked that it had 5 scheduled feed times (6 tray spots, one is for immediate feed), has ice packs, and had safety feature to stop the tray from turning if the pet gets in the way! I has some concerns so I reached out to customer service before I ordered it and they were awesome – replied quickly, followed up to make sure they’d answered everything. Just great! So, I decided to go for it. And I’m thrilled I did. The feeder is very quiet when tray rotates, I don’t even hear it if my fan is on. It beeps when ready for pet to go eat, but very light, so it’s not waking me up, but still alerts my kitty! Day one I put some treats and kibble in it and just set the times to go every 10-20mins so she’d learn “beep = food”, she caught on fast. Setting up the schedule is super easy. The trick is to remember, it’s not a day by day schedule, so your not setting times for mon/tues/wed, etc… Your setting times for it to go off in a 24hr period. So, if feed pet 2x a day, you only set 2 times. For me, I just enter then chronologically so I don’t forget one…So I put her trays together at 730pm most nights. I’ll set 1) 12:30am 2) 4:30 3)6:30am 4) 8:30pm. So, even though I put 12:30am in first, it doesn’t mean it’ll wait til next time it hits 12:30am… No, it goes by the time in the feeder… So when it hits 8:30pm, it’ll feed her at 830pm, bc that’s a set feed time. Then, the next feed time it’ll do is 12:30am, and so on… Make sense? Does to me lol. If you do different foods at different feed times, then you need to keep that in mind. If you don’t need all 5time slots, then you just put 12:00am in the slots you don’t need. So, again, for me I just do it as 12:30am, 4:30am, 6:30am, 830pm, 12:00am. I’m trying to attach 2 vids to this review, unfortunately only part 1 can load darn! So I’ll just explain…When tray is in place, think of it like a clock… The 6pm position is immediately feed. The tray rotates clockwise, so, whatever you want your pet to get fed next, need to go to the right of that immediate feed. And the keep placing it around like that.But again, I think this feeder is great. Also, it’s extremely easy to clean the tray out! Added perk! It’s a rechargeable battery, so can charge and out anywhere, but you can also just leave it plugged in. Nice options! I definitely recommend this machine!! So glad I got it!

Meal signal very quiet
Reliable and pretty easy to set up. The volume of the beep that signals a meal has been dispensed is really quiet… my cat doesn’t hear it when he is asleep and there is no way to increase the beep that I know of. Good if your cat stays in one room and will be able to hear it but otherwise his meals just sit there until he wakes up.

Saved me a lot of sleepless nights! Works great no issues

Was unsure about ordering this but it’s been a good decision. I can maintain the feeding schedule of my kitten, and trust the ice packs will work well. Easy to assemble and schedule. Happy that it’s usb charged rather than battery, although a power low warning light helps either way.