This is great – my cat has learned that his dry food comes from here so he doesn’t bug us at his dry food feeding times. We do 3 feedings a day (plus a wet, which we do separately) so this lasts two days per filling. We have used this when we’d be away for a while. As suggested by other reviewers, we put an ice pack under the feeder and partially froze the wet food before putting it in, but it worked perfectly.The only thing that bugs me is when you refill it and reset the timer schedule, it cycles all the way through and adds your recording at the end, which I guess is good to know it’s working, but I have to time it with actually giving him food, or it confuses him… Would be nice to have the option just to set it without it cycling through and playing the recording. We’ve been using this for almost two months, and it’s working perfectly.