Your cat doesn't eat dinner, it ambushes it. Wind Cade up and it paces the meal into six small chomps. No power, no batteries, no app.
Mitzy has an eating disorder. She would inhale her food and bring it right back up, so she had to be hand-fed tiny portions every fifteen minutes, by hand, around the clock.
Rather than buy some mass-produced feeder shipped in from overseas, we built our own. Cade is hand-made, 3D-printed in food-grade filament, and comes apart in seconds so it is easy to clean.
Mitzy and her brother Kirby are Cade's first beta testers.
A lid with one opening sits over a turning plate of six sealed wells. You wind it up, and the movement steps the plate one notch at a time, bringing the next portion to the opening while the rest stay covered.
Your cat can only reach the single well at the opening. The other five stay shut, so there is nothing to gulp ahead.
Once you wind it, the plate turns one notch about every fifteen minutes until the meal is done. Then you rewind it for the next one.
The cooled, app-driven feeders need outlets, wifi, batteries, and subscriptions. Cade needs none of it. You wind it up by hand, it paces the meal into six small portions, and you rewind it for the next one. No power, no batteries, no landfill electronics.
Spoon one meal across the six wells and close the lid. Sealed tight, no sneaky previews.
Give the dial a twist. That wind is the only power Cade ever needs.
Cade releases one well at a time, about every fifteen minutes, until the meal is done. Rewind it for next time.
Pacing the meal stops the gorge that brings food straight back up.
Deliver the small, frequent portions your vet asks for, without hand feeding all day.
Steady, measured meals that help build slower, healthier habits over time.
The bully cannot clear the dish in one go while the others miss out.
Cade supports your veterinarian's feeding plan. It does not diagnose or treat, and it is not a replacement for veterinary care.
Cade is not a mega-brand product shipped over by the container load. Every unit is designed and 3D-printed to order by a small American maker, then checked and packed by hand.
One simple mechanical feeder that runs on a wind, not a wall socket.
A spring-driven movement paces the meal and steps the plate. Wind it, feed, rewind. That is the whole routine.
No outlet, no batteries to die, no subscription. Just printed parts you can replace instead of throwing the whole thing away.
The mechanism lives inside a dampened housing, designed to keep the works tucked away and out of sight.
Cade was built around one idea: a cat eats best when the meal comes a little at a time. Everything else follows from that.
Yes. Cade is a hand-built, fully mechanical slow feeder for wet food. You wind it up and it serves one meal as six small portions, keeping the rest sealed, so a fast eater cannot gorge.
Pacing a meal is a common way to reduce the gulping that brings food back up, and Cade does this automatically. It supports your veterinarian's feeding plan and is not a medical treatment.
Six. Cade turns one well to the opening at a time and keeps the other five sealed until they are served.
No. Cade is fully mechanical. You wind it up by hand and that is the only power it uses. No outlet, no batteries, no app, and nothing to charge.
No. Cade paces a single meal that is eaten within about an hour, so no cooling is needed.
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