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Description
Purchase a MiBowl for each pet and benefit from 15% off every 2nd MiBowl in your basket!
Do you share your home with more than one pet?
If so, you’ll know how much your pets love taking food from one another, and that’s where MiBowl is the perfect pet food companion!
MiBowl automatically detects your pet’s individual microchip giving them unique access to their next meal. Suitable for both wet and dry food – perfect for pets who are on regulated or prescription diets. MiBowl’s fully enclosed design ensures greedy siblings cannot access from the rear or sides during feeding.
With a compact footprint, quiet operation, and stylish colour-coded features, the microchip feeder will seamlessly blend with your home and lifestyle. Designed with pets in mind, MiBowl offers a more natural feeding position, enabling easy access and allowing your pet's paws to remain firmly on the ground for optimal comfort.
MiBowl comes with removable portion-protecting clips as standard - providing an extra shield for small cats, kittens and smaller dogs.
With the capacity to program your feeder for up to 10 pets with microchips or electronic I.D. Disc collar tags, MiBowl is easy to set up and keeps food fresh and pest-free throughout the day. Making it the ideal automatic feeder for both single and multiple pet homes.
- MiBowl automatically detects your pet’s ISO or AVID 15-digit microchip giving them unique access to their next meal
- Perfect automatic feeder to regulate food intake and monitor pets with separate diets
- Easy-to-clean, removable, and dishwasher-safe food bowl
- Feeding Bowl is BPA and Phthalates free
- Covered bowl keeps up to 340g (12oz) (four pouches) of wet or dry food fresher for longer
- Capacity to program feeder for up to 10 pets
- Practical, compact design takes up little space in your home
- Fully enclosed design ensures persistent pets can't access food from the rear or sides during feeding
- Tamper-resistant, with lid stall detection to protect the most inquisitive pets
- Ultra-quiet lid opening
- Removable portion-protecting clips for kittens, small cats, and dogs
- Compatible with long-life and rechargeable batteries
- Suitable for non-microchipped pets using electronic Pet Mate I.D. Disc
- Requires 4 x C-size batteries (not supplied - find them here)
- Comes with 1 Pet Mate Electronic I.D. Disc as standard
- 3-year guarantee
- Designed and manufactured in the UK
- Accessories available: Replacement Bowl, Replacement Lid, Replacement Baffle Pair.
UPC: 035368901003
"We originally used the Surefeed feeders but there were many things we feel could have been improved with their design and the product in general. The MiBowl far surpasses the Surefeed models in our opinion. So, thank you for creating such a wonderful product that helps us to care for our fluffy little family in a safe and user-friendly way!"
"Cats were less argumentative at dinner time as they knew which station was theirs"
"Covered the wet food when pets were not eating, good in warm months with flies and odour."
"Cover stopped the infant from getting to the cat's food!"
"Pet was very happy with it!"
"Nice and compact. We have used other feeders in the past which have a much bigger footprint."
"I like the look of it. It's sturdy. The bowls are nicely designed and easy to wash. The products work well at keeping each pet to their own dish."
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Customer Reviews
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I have a 13.5 year old cat and recently we took on a kitten. My old girl is used to free-feeding biscuits throughout the day. The young lad decided that her senior biscuits were far more appealing than his kitten biscuits. For a while I just kept picking her food up out of the way and putting it down again when she wanted it. But that very quickly became a nuisance. I needed a way to stop him eating her food. The MiBowl was the solution.
He quickly realised he can no longer get her food, much to his annoyance, and she can still graze throughout the day as she pleases. He has not yet tried forcing his head in next to hers while she is eating, but if he does, the unit came with portion protectors to simply clip on.
The old girl figured out the MiBowl very fast. I just left the lid open for one night while the kitten was in another room just to get her used to putting her head in it to eat. The next day I closed the lid and the old girl just started using it as it is meant to be used. The open and close movement of the lid is very quiet so doesn't phase her at all.
My only criticism is that there is a slight delay in the lid closing after she moves away. Kitten hasn't clocked this yet, and I'm hoping he won't or this will be an issue!
The unit is pricey, but a good bit of kit, and has a 3 year warranty. I think for the price, the stainless steel bowls should definitely be included. That would make it better value for money, as the stainless steal bowls are very expensive to buy seperately but neccessary for cats that have plastic allergies, and simply because they are more hygeinic for all cats. I intend to purchase the stainless steel bowls in the future, but I'm currently researching microchip cat flaps first as a priority. The bowls will have to wait as these chip-reading devices are not cheap 😂
The instruction manual is clear and the unit was easy to set up and programme. It recognised the microchip with no issues. Hopefully the batteries will last quite a while because they are the expensive C type batteries. I think a mains powered unit would be a definite improvement.
I picked this microchip feeder over the other well-known brand one because the MiBowl is enclosed at the back. I didn't want to have trouble with the kitten pinching the old girl's food from the back or side while she was eating. For this reason I'm very glad I chose the MiBowl.
It has a modern monochrome design which blends in great and looks smart.
Overall I think it is a good product.
Hi Charlotte,
Thanks for taking the time to leave us this positive review! I'm so glad you're happy with your MiBowl and that it's helping to protect your senior cat's food from your new little kitty. The lid closure delay is specifically designed to act as a safety mechanism and ensure the lid doesn't close on your pet whilst they're eating, especially if they lift their head and then go back for seconds. Hopefully this isn't enough time for your kitten to sneak in, however we do offer safety clips on either side to prevent this. We do also offer stainless-steel bowls as you say, however these are currently only available as an accessory but I will share your feedback with the team.
If you're looking for a microchip cat flap, we offer a range of options, starting from £49.99, which you can explore here: https://closerpets.co.uk/search?type=product&q=microchip+cat+flap
Our expert customer service team will also be happy to help you choose the right door for your pet if you get in touch via phone or email.
Best wishes,
Sarah
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The replacement steel bowls are great but very expensive. I wish there was an option for bowls with two compartments as we'd love to get one for our other cat but he doesn't like his dry and wet food mixed.
It works very well at keeping one cat from the other's food, it was easy to programme and it's very sturdy. Our cat got the hang of using it quite quickly and she has no problems using it at all.
My only improvements would be to offer the stainless steel bowls at a better price point and give the option of stainless steel bowls with a divider to allow for 2 separate compartments.
Hello Natalie,
Thank you for leaving a review. I am glad to hear you like the product, and we really appreciate your feedback on the features. We always aim to price competitively, while ensuring we use premium food safe material in our manufacture.
Best wishes,
Katie
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Bought this for one of my cats as the other is rather greedy and on a special diet but yet he proceeded to try to steal her food constantly and I was having to pick her bowl up every time he was around.
She took to the bowl quicker than I thought she would. She was a bit jumpy at the mechanism when the lid opened to begin with but after a day or 2 it no longer bothers her, she just walks up to it and waits for it to open.
I'm hoping this stands up to the test of time as it's making my life a lot easier, even though my other cat rather hates it as it stops him getting into her food and stuffing his face.
I went for this one over the surefeed one as the depth of the mibowl is considerably less than the sure feed meaning it doesn't stick out into the room anywhere near as much as the sure feed would of done. Yes its taller and bulkier but the footprint of the device was the deciding factor for me.
Hello Jacob,
Thank you for taking the time to leave this positive review. I'm so happy to hear that you and you cat are enjoying the benefits the MiBowl has to offer, and they can now enjoy their food without sneaky siblings trying to steal it.
Best wishes,
Katie
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I confess, I have just rejected the Surefeed alternative to try this one. MiBowl appears to be far superior because (1) My greedy and hence larger cat in unable to steal her sister's food from the back or side of the unit due to the closed-cube design (2)Coloured clips/labels supplied so you know which cat is paired to the feeder and therefore which pet you are feeding! (3) Easy to remove/clean robust metal bowl (4) Brilliant ice pack below the metal bowl to keep the food fresh on hot days (5) Quieter operation so didn't startle the cats. (6) Sturdy design - no flimsy bits. A split bowl would be handy to separate wet/dry food but at the minute I put them side-by-side as the feeding bowl is large enough. If the expensive C Alkaline batteries last several months and the units don't malfunction (unlike my Surefeed experience) I will be a very happy cat mummy!!! Hopefully I can return to give an updated review in a few months. Thank you Closer Pets!
Hi there,
Thank you for sharing your experience with us and I'm pleased to hear you're happy with MiBowl®! We believe that, as a microchip controlled feeder, the unit should be designed in a way that genuinely protects the food from other pets and so were keen to address the limitations of other feeders on the market.
We pride ourselves on the quality and longevity of our products, however, should you have any issues with your unit, we offer a 12-month guarantee as standard with an extended warranty of three years if you register within the first 14 days - so can replace or fix as needed. And a split bowl feature is something our team are looking at introducing in the future, so thank you for sharing your feedback with us.
Best wishes,
Sarah
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Excellent quality product, sturdy and robust construction. Easy to set up and keep clean. Three months in and still on the original batteries.
We are a two cat household our 6.6kg big boy was a food thief and was gaining too much weight, now no matter how hard he tires he can't get to his sisters food now he's a slim 6kg big boy.
Another plus is that it will keep the food away from flies in the summer months too.
Thank you Closer pets for a great product.
Hi Sara,
Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
Owners with multiple pets like yourself are exactly the reason we designed MiBowl as we know how difficult it can be when one pet steals another's food, so I'm happy to hear you're already noticing the health benefits and I'm sure your other cat is grateful to finally have their dinner to themselves!
Best wishes,
Sarah