Feed The Cat: an idea we see too rarely in 2026

An idea we see far too rarely in 2026!

Controversies and clashes: large parts of today’s internet culture are anything but uplifting. Yet in its early days, its pioneers embraced a different spirit, built around experimenting and simply having fun together without toxicity. That is exactly the ethos behind Feed The Cat, a project that has taken the form of a website bearing the same name.

According to says.com, its creator is a jobseeker who wanted to recreate the Hello Street Cat experience with his own cat. This Chinese platform lets thousands of people watch cats eating live through its app. Users can donate to provide a meal for a street cat, then watch it enjoy the food.

The original ambition for Feed The Cat was much more modest: its creator wanted to trigger an automatic dry-food dispenser remotely and watch his cat eat via a camera, even while away from home.

How Feed The Cat lets people feed cats remotely

He has since built his own website, where anyone can press a button and watch the automatic feeder dispense food in real time when a cat comes over to eat.

Is Feed The Cat safe for the animals’ health?

To bring the concept to life, the site’s creator has worked with shelters, as can be seen when visiting this portal, which is clearly hypnotic for anyone fond of felines.

Our colleagues also report that other cat owners can now connect their own automatic feeders to the website, allowing internet users to feed moggies around the world.

Spend just a few minutes there and the enthusiastic atmosphere among these cat lovers, already numbering several hundred and chatting online, becomes obvious. Whenever the chance arises, someone presses the button to feed a cat, which needs little encouragement to appear before the delighted viewers. One user perfectly captures the mood: “Divided by nations, united by cats”.

A radio station and computer vision for cat lovers

The platform is also well suited to people working from home, as it includes a radio station playing background music. Apparently a technology enthusiast, its creator has thought of everything needed to keep the show running:

The developer is incorporating computer-vision technology to improve the user experience by detecting the physical presence of a cat near the feeder.

One pressing question remains: is there not a risk that the cats could eat too much? The answer is no, because the website applies a time limit, meaning the automatic feeder cannot be used too often. That is reassuring: a different kind of internet is possible, even in 2026!