About Cat Mate
Cat Mate traces back to Ani Mate, a UK pet-products company founded in 1986 that says it was the first to develop the concept of the automatic pet feeder. Ani Mate split its lineup into two sibling brands, Cat Mate and Dog Mate, and in 2021 brought them together with Fish Mate under a single company, Closer Pets, while keeping each product line under its original name. The Cat Mate range spans timed dry- and wet-food feeders, water fountains, and microchip-activated cat flaps, plus the ice packs, stainless steel bowl inserts, and wall liners that keep the feeders running long after the original purchase.
In our automatic cat feeder reviews, we tested two of the brand's feeders: the Cat Mate C300 Automatic Digital Pet Feeder, a three-compartment sealed rotating tray that takes wet, dry, or raw food and runs on a digital timer with an ice pack for short-trip food safety, and the Cat Mate C200, a simpler two-meal analog-timer feeder built for a weekend away. Both are BPA- and BHT-free, dishwasher-safe, and run on batteries with no app or Wi-Fi dependency, a design the brand has kept largely unchanged for years even as newer connected feeders have entered the category.
Brand website: closerpets.com
What Cat Mate makes
Cat Mate's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Automatic pet feeders
digital and analog-timer feeders, including sealed rotating-tray models for wet food, one of our top picks — featured on House of Mittens
Microchip and selective cat flaps
cat flaps that unlock only for a specific cat's microchip or collar tag
Water fountains
circulating pet water fountains with replaceable filter cartridges
Dog Mate feeders and dog doors
sibling brand under the same Closer Pets company, feeders and doors sized for dogs
Feeder accessories
replacement ice packs, stainless steel bowl inserts, and wall liners for existing feeders
Why we recognized Cat Mate
The House of Mittens Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our vet-reviewed category guides. Cat Mate earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: assessed against feline-health criteria, used with real cats, and judged on merit.
Cat Mate products we rated highly
Cat Mate C300 Automatic Digital Pet Feeder with Ice Pack
The proven Cat Mate sealed rotating tray is a low-tech approach to wet food that runs on batteries with a digital timer and no network at all, so there is no connection to drop and no app account tied to a cat's dinner. Each of the three compartments holds up to 11.5 ounces, comfortably serving a large cat eating a full can per meal, and the tray takes wet, dry, or raw food. It is BPA and BHT free with dishwasher-safe bowls and lid, and it holds more than 4,800 ratings at a 4.1 average.
Read the 10 Best Automatic Cat Feeders of 2026 guide →
Cat Mate C200 Automatic 2 Meal Pet Feeder with Timer
An analogue timer with no apps and no Wi-Fi means there is essentially nothing to configure wrong, a design that has survived unchanged for years. It handles wet or dry food equally, is tamper-resistant and dishwasher-safe, and covers the single most common scenario cat owners describe: two timed meals for a weekend away. It carries more than 5,600 ratings at a 4.2 average.
Read the 10 Best Automatic Cat Feeders of 2026 guide →What earned Cat Mate the recognition
- Two of our featured picks in our automatic cat feeder reviews come from Cat Mate: the sealed rotating-tray C300 for wet food and the simpler two-meal C200 for short trips.
- Traces back to Ani Mate, a company founded in 1986 that says it was first to develop the automatic pet feeder concept, giving the sealed-tray design decades of iteration.
- Both featured feeders run on batteries with a digital or analog timer and no app or Wi-Fi dependency, removing a common point of failure in connected feeders.
- Bowls and trays are BPA and BHT free and dishwasher-safe on both models we tested.
- Together the two feeders carry more than 10,000 combined Amazon ratings, a meaningful real-world reliability record for a design that has changed little over the years.