Cat Mate C500 5 Bowl Digital Timer-Controlled Automatic Pet Feeder - 5-Meal Feeder with Stainless Steel Bowl and Ice Packs, Wet or Dry Food, 5 Meals Up To 330 g Each, White

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Cat Mate C500 5-Meal Automatic Pet Feeder: What to Know

The Cat Mate C500 is the simplest feeder in this lineup, and that's the point: it's a battery-only digital timer feeder with five individual bowls under a rotating tamper-resistant lid, not a WiFi hopper. You load each of the five stainless-steel bowls by hand, set the digital timer for up to five feeding times, and the lid rotates to reveal one bowl at a time on schedule. Two included ice packs sit underneath the bowls to help keep wet or raw food cooler for longer, which is something none of the WiFi hopper feeders in this guide are built to do.

We're covering the current live Amazon.com listing under Cat Mate's Closer Pets brand storefront (ASIN B0BBMDHL27), since Cat Mate's original C500 ASIN on Amazon has been superseded, that older product page now redirects to a replacement-bowl accessory listing rather than the feeder itself. The B0BBMDHL27 listing is the current, correctly-titled 5-bowl C500 feeder and is what we'd point a buyer to today.

Because there's no app and no WiFi dependency, this is a reasonable pick for a pet sitter over a weekend, or for households that specifically don't want another connected device. The tradeoff is that a rotating five-bowl design gives you five total scheduled meals maximum (not a flexible number of small portions per day the way a kibble hopper can), and each bowl holds up to 330g, so this suits wet or measured dry meals rather than free-feeding a large kibble supply over weeks.

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