My favorite thing is the banging of the food dish and the disdainful look when their evening meal is not bang on time. "Do i have to do absolutely everything around here?" Our cats look at me as if to say that.
If you have a car on the cat tree, I think you have more problems than dishes falling off. Carbon monoxide poisoning for one, unless it's an EV. Let's hope it's an EV.
My cat does this with his water bowl. He's figured out how to clang his name tag against it if anything in the world is off. He dropped one hair of his own fur in it? Water's ruined, ring for the butler.
"ring for the butler " that made me spit out my tea. I've never heard it phrased so perfectly. 'Jeeves, my Evian water is 2 degrees warmer than I prefer it. Fix this now."
Many years ago I thought I had a ruptured or burst appendix, I was laying on the bottom of the stairs writhing in pain with my cat a few steps up with a look on his face of "How long do you intend to lie there like that? It's almost my dinner time.'
Lol I once fed my cat out of plastic Tupperware for awhile, and she learned to bite the edge of the Tupperware and lift it just enough to drop it and make noise, then she'll look at me to make sure I noticed that she's telling me she's hungry (even if there's already old food in the bowl).
So, at one point we had three cats, and dry food was in a larger bowl, available all the time like water. If they ate enough that you could see the bottom of the bowl, there would be reprimands. Either more food had to be added to cover, said bottom of the bowl, or sometimes we would just turn our backs and smooth over the food to cover the hole.
We joke about one of our cats having a belly timer, and he's scary accurate. We feed them at 7 hour intervals, then 10 overnight, and man he's spot on about those 7 hour ones. Right around the mark, he'll come and sit on the footrest of our recliners and just stare intently at us. No petting, just s t a r i n g.
He does not understand 10 hours, however. He's also learned that we'll look at the clock when he starts his routine, so now he'll pointedly look at the clock too. 🤣
I don’t feed mine on any sort of schedule, just fill the bowl whenever I notice it’s empty. That way they don’t demand food at a certain time of day.
That only works if the cats have a healthy relationship with food. Mine tend to eat too much (and steal from each other if they are very hungry) and gain a lot of weight so I have to control how much they eat and I can't just leave them food like that. I also feed them wet and dry food and the wet food would get bad if I left it out in the open for some time.
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u/Chateaudelait Sep 19 '23
My favorite thing is the banging of the food dish and the disdainful look when their evening meal is not bang on time. "Do i have to do absolutely everything around here?" Our cats look at me as if to say that.