How to stop bugs from getting into automatic pet feeders
Pests like cockroaches easily break into standard automatic pet food dispensers to reach the kibble. This forces owners to constantly take the feeders apart to sift through the food or rely on sticky traps next to the bowl instead of finding a truly secure feeder.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Disassembling and inspecting the feeder and kibble
- 2Placing the feeder inside a makeshift moat of soapy water
- 3Using sturdier feeder models like PetLibro Granary or Xiaomi pet feeders with locking covers
- 4Leaving bowls full continuously instead of using a feeder
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I need one that these monsters can’t break into.”source ↗
“I did see one baby near by the automatic feeder and ofc killed it on sight.”source ↗
“I decided to take the whole thing apart and slowly sift through all the kibble.”source ↗
“I will say i woke up this morning and found an adult roach in my sticky trap that I left right next to the aluminum dish.”source ↗
Where this came up
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