In terms of my experience (FWIW) of 16 years of James and 11 years of Higgs, what they're prepared use in terms of litter tray differs - James is a big fan of this one where he jumps in from the top:
But Higgs simply can't work it out.
In terms of feeders, we used to use an automated one for Higgs, but it does nothing to stop James stealing her food, so we now have two microchip reading ones:
Which they both use.
The other thing about moving from an automated system to a manual one is that James (being old and arthritic) needs medicine every morning, so automation doesn't work from that perspective.
We also found that both cats coats are (very) noticeably better in terms of condition when they have wet food in addition to the dry food, so we give them both at each mealtime now.
They eat at ~9am and ~9pm each day.
Toys - they quite like these stuffed fish, with some catnip inside, but as has been said they'll spend hours playing with e.g. a dry leaf, ignoring the toys you bought for them.
Can highly recommend jigsawing a hole in the bottom of your microchip feeder and placing on top of an automatic rotary feeder if you want a little bit of automation back in your life. Medication in a pill pocket placed on top of the meal has not failed to be consumed yet.
In terms of my experience (FWIW) of 16 years of James and 11 years of Higgs, what they're prepared use in terms of litter tray differs - James is a big fan of this one where he jumps in from the top:
But Higgs simply can't work it out.
In terms of feeders, we used to use an automated one for Higgs, but it does nothing to stop James stealing her food, so we now have two microchip reading ones:
Which they both use.
The other thing about moving from an automated system to a manual one is that James (being old and arthritic) needs medicine every morning, so automation doesn't work from that perspective.
We also found that both cats coats are (very) noticeably better in terms of condition when they have wet food in addition to the dry food, so we give them both at each mealtime now.
They eat at ~9am and ~9pm each day.
Toys - they quite like these stuffed fish, with some catnip inside, but as has been said they'll spend hours playing with e.g. a dry leaf, ignoring the toys you bought for them.