Question 1: What are Automatic Dog Feeders ?
Answer: Automatic dog feeders are meant for providing feeding for your doggy in safe, hygienic and automated way without the boundation of your presence. Thus it is very useful for busy pet owners.
Basic parts of any dog feeder includes a food container to store food, a transmitter and a pet collar ID. Other inclusions depend on brand, features and associated technology of the feeder your have.
These dog feeder can be customized for portion of food and number of meals per day according to requirement of your pet. When the pet with collar ID approaches the feeder within its range the system is activated to dispense definite amount of food for the pet.
Question 2: Why should you have an Automatic Dog Feeder for your Dog ?
Answer: Feeding of a pet requires every day attention with boundation of your presence. So if you are a busy person then an automatic dog feeder is must for proper feeding care of the dog.
A dog feeder with pet collar ID and its electronic system is capable of automatic feeding of your dog with customized portion and number of meals per day without the need of your presence.
You can set portion of food from 1/2 cup to 6 cups and 2 to 6 meals per day according to diet chart you want to follow for your lovely dog. Dog feeder also avoids food stealing by other pets. There is a LCD display to show the programs set by you, viz it shows number of meals per day and amount of food for every meal.
Question 3: How a Dog Feeder Dispense Food Automatically ?
Answer: Your particular dog is recognized by the feeder with the help of pet collar ID/smart key of the pet. When your dog is within the range of the feeder it start to dispense selected amount of food to let only your dog to have meal. Thus the system also avoids food stealing.
Amount of food is decided in the form of portions/cup e.g., you can set 1-20 portions of approx 20 gm each or from 1/2 cup to 6 cups per diet as per requirement.
Number of meals per day can be set from 2 to 6 with customized amount. Proper dog feeders can hold sufficient amount of food to avoid early refill. They are also easy to move, clean and made of food grade material for hygienic care of the pet.
Question 4: How to customize the Automatic Dog Feeder ?
Answer: A screen display with control buttons is available in every automatic dog feeder to program it for food portion and number of meals per day.
Portion setting decides amount of food per meal and it can be customized from a little amount of food to sufficient one. You can set the dog feeder to serve 1 to 20 portions of food as a single meal for your pet. Each portion stands for approx 20g.
Number of meals is adjustable from 2 to 6 in a day i.e., you can feed your dog two times to six times a day with selected portion/amount of food. Thus an automatic dog feeder can act as a perfect care taker of diet of your pet.
Question 5: How a Dog Pet Collar ID receiver works ?
Answer: A pet collar ID is an electronic unique ID of your dog and identified by pet devices like feeder, door, fence etc. to let your dog to use services of these devices.
In case of automatic dog feeder it provides time to time feeding only for your dog with exact identification with the help of collar ID of the pet and avoids stealing of food by other pets.
These feeder works only with collar ID which are already added to the system of the feeder. So when the pet with added collar ID is within the set range (e.g. 2 sq. ft) of dog feeder it start to dispense food for your dog. Some dog feeders are compatible for multi collar ID to let the pet owner to use the same feeder for more than one pet.