Over the course of nearly a decade, my husband and I have dutifully carried out a four-times-daily ritual of feeding a pair of lovely cat siblings who hate each other.
This was mostly manageable for years, but in 2024, disaster struck for my small dependents: We had a child.
Suddenly, the cats were no longer our first priority.
Despite our best efforts, their dry-food snack times began slipping or getting missed altogether.
It was time, we decided, to turn to the pet-tech industry and hope automated feeders could deliver the attention we couldn't.
Four machines and a few hundred dollars later, our hope has proven mostly well founded- though … Read the full story at The Verge.