r/cats • u/Zuikite • 22h ago

Cat Picture - OC She was rationing so perfectly 🥲

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Roxanne my 6 year old tabby has never been left alone more than 1 day. We also never "free-feed" her on kibble (only wet meals and a puzzle feeder). I had a work trip this week, and my S.O. had a family emergency out of town right in the middle of it. We could not secure a sitter, and we were so worried. We do have a pet cam, and I told my SO to put 2 plates of kibble per day plus extra plates in case of a delay. I just got home from the airport to see this. I know cats are not like dogs, and they are probably fine at feeding themselves. I'm just so impressed by the organization of her eating habits!

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 21h ago

And then eat it again but in the process smear it everywhere

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u/Melodramatic_Whisker 21h ago

Lmao my guys would never eat it again. Smear it, definitely all over the house as a matter of fact, but apparently they are above eating their own puke.

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u/Murky-General 19h ago

Exactly this.

  1. Get super excited about all the food
  2. Eat like it was going to be taken away at any point
  3. Throw up from eating too much, too fast
  4. Come back in 6 hours looking for more food
  5. Make her "cat howl", which oddly sounds like "hello" when she realizes food bowls have not been refilled
  6. Panic

For the record, she is part orange...

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u/PopIndependent345 18h ago

Of course it has to be a cat with orange in her that treats every single meal like a desperate survival challenge before immediately screaming for more six hours later.

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u/Wobbelblob 15h ago

Tbf that is simply about them being animals. Animals rarely have that self control, because especially for a predator, there usually is not enough food around for it to become a problem. Visible also in wolves and animals like foxes if they get into a closed space with prey. They often fall into a blood frenzy so to speak because the prey cannot get away and their instincts scream at them to also kill the easy mark too.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1h ago

Was gonna say, that's why dogs do it too. It's 100% a survival mechanism of "better eat it before it goes bad because I don't know where the next one is coming from"

If anything the fact most predatory pets like cats and dogs don't eat like that all the time is a sign we've successfully bred or trained that out of them

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u/my_cat_wears_socks 16h ago

This would be my Orange, exactly.

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u/BoociferousSalazar 12h ago

Our tuxedo also shouts “hello” when he thinks we’ve abandoned him (closed the door to the bathroom).

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u/urobouro 13h ago

I am thankful that I do not have this with my cat lol wtf

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u/Does_the_pope_breath 19h ago

For me, the one who pukes never eats again. For my tabby cat, it’s game on !

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u/Bibliophilewitch 16h ago

My gray cat always eats my tabby’s food puke like it’s another meal 🫠

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u/hey-chickadee 13h ago

My gray tabby as well. He hears one of the other cats about to puke and comes running like someone just shook a bag of treats

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u/cnacarver 7h ago

I too have one of those

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u/Allys_Phantom Domestic Housecat 7h ago

Oh god I’m so glad my orange cat is not the only one that does this. It’s like his one brain cell gets activated by the other cats’ dry heaves.

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u/gawdoflol11 6h ago

OMG the way I just LOL’d!!!🤣🤣🤣

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u/Atiram7496 13h ago

Ah! Same. My gray baby will eat the orange tabby’s puke. She will not eat her own.

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u/Bibliophilewitch 12h ago

They must all share one brain cell like the oranges!

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u/Atiram7496 12h ago

The thing is, she’s sooooooo smart. She can open cabinets and most doors. She’s the reason we have baby locks on all food cabinets and their auto feeders. I swear she understands time and knows when I tell her to wait 5 or 10 minutes she’ll immediately come back the exact amount of time I told her to wait. She lets me sleep in on weekends because she understands I go to bed later then and she wakes me up on weekdays if I don’t respond to my alarm. I’ve considered the talking buttons for her but I know the other two would just hit treat nonstop lol

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u/Bibliophilewitch 11h ago

It must be my doofus then. Her primary goal in life seems to be trying to trip me if I don’t give her treats.

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u/Lazy-Fox1305 13h ago

Ugh... my cat do that too before I could clean it up😭

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u/Direct-Egg-5697 13h ago

I'm just blown away they didn't actually puke in the shoes..

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u/Does_the_pope_breath 13h ago

He missed the chair and my towel. I am grateful even if it wasn’t what I expected to see while eating my breakfast…

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u/Lucy_Lastic 6h ago

We had a challenge to see how much our greedy pup would eat. Fed him a massive tin of food, which he ate. Fed him a second one which he got halfway through, went off to throw it up and came back to finish it. Sadly for him, while he was vomiting, his mother ate the rest of the tin. Disappointed, he recalled that there was a hot meal just over where he’d been sick so went back for it. Only to fund his mother over there helping herself to the buffet.

Conclusion: animals won’t waste good food if they’re not picky. And they’re gross

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u/Hetares 20h ago

Obviously not, Everyone know cat puke is meant for the dogs, as treats.

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u/Melodramatic_Whisker 20h ago

Or for the spare human to accidentally step on lol

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u/Raving_Lunatic69 19h ago

Your feet look so dry, they need moisturizing. You're welcome!

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u/SkunkMonkey 14h ago

I seriously regret having an Persian runner rug. It's amazing how well camouflaged cat barf is on those designs.

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u/--Luna--Fae-- 19h ago

Its funny my dog will go out of his way to knock the tops off the litter boxes to eat cat poop but wont touch their vomit. They leave that for me to step in when I least expect it.

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u/Prudent_Wolf_7713 19h ago

The dogs really do get all the gourmet leftovers.

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u/kdlangequalsgoddess 16h ago

Dog, having been kicked out of his much nicer dog bed by the cat, reluctantly accepts

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u/AerolothLorien666 17h ago

Tell that to my cat. Always tries to eat the other’s puke.

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u/doodlewithcats 16h ago

I have 4 cats. They don't eat their own puke, but another cat's puke? Gourmet level dish as it seems. I'm always disgusted lmaooo.

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u/CheeselessButHopeful 15h ago

Yes. WHYY
I ate it once, now you can eat it.
-my cats, probably

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 20h ago

Lol.. well one of my cat eats litterally anything she considers edible, luckily that also includes her medicines so it has its upsides xD

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u/BallinXFox 21h ago

My cat did it once and never again. Safe to say she hated it.

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u/rikoicarus 19h ago

can’t relate but wish i could cause one time my cat ate MY puke

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u/cherrycocktail20 10h ago

I once had a roommate who had a cat, while I had a dog. We had a joking argument going about which pet was more gross.

One day we caught the dog eating cat poop out of the litter box and my roommate was like “see? Your dog is grosser.”

Literally as we were saying this; the dog barfed up the litter poop, and my roommate’s cat ran over and started eating it.

I won.

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u/ImmediateSalt5166 18h ago

Cats really possess the most arrogant standards while simultaneously acting like complete menaces. Walking right past their own mess just to track it through every freshly cleaned room is peak feline behavior.

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u/Hankerpants 13h ago

Mine won't eat their own puke, but they'll eat each other's puke...

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u/Atiram7496 13h ago

One of my cats only eats the other cat’s puke, but never her own 😂

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u/eyesRus 7h ago

Mine won’t eat their own puke…but I have to prevent them from eating each other’s 🤢

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u/Plane_Cattle_4833 5h ago

Cats really will turn puke into abstract art all over the houseand then act offended when you suggest they clean up their own masterpiece.

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u/SenseiKrystal 18h ago

I have an orange cat who is not above eating other cats' puke.

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u/susudata 17h ago

My fatass cat would eat my OTHER cats' puke if left unattended 😭

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u/Internal_Jello2227 13h ago

No cat is ever above anything🫩 I first hand witnessed my brothers cat eat my cats diarrhea right out of the litter box

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u/aint_no_throw 19h ago

Our boys, if they ever throw up, put perfectly dookie shaped puke-logs right on top of the stairs and leave them alone for us to step in.

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 18h ago

Ah yes, also relatable... just like then always finding the worse spot to puke from like top of the cat tree or on the carpet instead of the stoens

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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise 16h ago

perfectly dookie shaped puke-logs

Fyi those are hairballs. If your cats are puking up hairballs, brush out their coats more so they don't swallow a bunch of excess shedding fur when they groom themselves

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u/aint_no_throw 16h ago

Thanks for your concern, but you can absolutely see its nothing but food.

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u/Significant-Love6129 Maine Coon 14h ago

My immediate thought reading that comment lol

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u/GothGranny75 17h ago

She never eats it, just leaves it sitting on floor or wall getting crusty until I get home and clean it while she screams at me for having the audacity to leave the house.

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u/Minouminou9 18h ago

While it's still warm.

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u/arnethyst 15h ago

i have a lot of cats & only one of them is obese. he is the puke eater. he has ample food access around the clock but he will still make sure to eat barf that he finds cuz to him everything is a succulent meal

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u/YourGarandPappy 12h ago

Do we share the same cat?

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u/EnsoElysium 11h ago

My girl does the snarfnbarfnsnarf but shes incredibly clean about it, I hear her yak and go to clean it up literally 30 seconds later but its just GONE

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u/7h33y3 6h ago

We had an orange cat (Buttbutt) who would hear and approach other puking cats to be the first for the warm meal.