[RankingMember]

I've envisioned something similar, but for wet food (dry food is better for our convenience than it is for cat health in my experience). You'd fill a (washable and refrigerated) cylinder with wet food, which would be forced out a heated tip by a piston (sort of like squeezing a toothpaste tube).

The refrigeration and heated tip are the complicating factors. The heated tip is used because cats don't tend to like cold food, and if you're going to go to the trouble of hacking something like this together, you might as well go all the way.

[mkoryak]

My cat doesn't care if the food is cold. In fact, he will eat pretty much anything.

He loves to eat the salad we make every day for dinner, and its not just the avocado, the other day he ate some tomato that I dropped on the floor by mistake.

If your cat doesn't like cold food, perhaps you are feeding him too much?

[CaptSpify]

More likely: the cats are just different. I've had cats that were super picky eaters, and ones that will eat almost anything.

[joshschreuder]

I think from an evolutionary standpoint, having warm food is probably more to their liking (killing prey and eating it), though I agree with your point, as my cat doesn't seem to care either way if it's room temperature or cold.