I went through a similar process in 2003 with two cats that begged incessantly for food. I had to bolt the feeders (of different manufacture and style) down to a sheet of melamine and add thin metal shielding at the front to prevent the cats from reaching up the chute to the auger, but IMO Furiosa's feeder is grossly over-engineered due to leaping from various half-baked initial anchoring attempts directly to a doomsday device. In any case, our collected experiences suggest that cat feeder manufacturers do not adequately field test their devices.