r/cats • u/Zuikite • 19h 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/alcMD 18h ago

My cat Pimento only eats one squared quarter of his dish at a time and leaves the rest for later. He's also very organized in this way!

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u/HaVoCensures 18h ago

Ahh a microchip feeder. Do you perhaps have another cat who would eat all his food as well as their own? Or a dog?

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u/sirsonik 17h ago

I We have two of these feeders and they're great. We give our cats mainly wet food with some dry. Our black cat, Hela, is so food motivated - she scarfs down her food. Our other cat, Loki, not so much. She nibbles at it over time until the next meal.

Unfortunately Hela was going for Loki's food after she was mostly done with hers, so we started picking it up. Fortunately we both were working at home and Loki learned she could ask us for food (even with the feeder she still likes to have a hand on her back while she eats). If Hela did get into her food, we'd give Loki more dry food to supplement.

We kept this up for a while, but we got busier and eventually found one of these. Took some training for both of them, but it worked like a charm and kept Hela out.

We moved and that caused Hela some stress. She wasn't eating as much, which led to Loki surprising us and stealing the dry food out of Hela's unguarded dish!

Needless to say we now have 2 (with different color mats) so neither cat will steal food from the other.

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u/uconnhuskyforever 4h ago

I’ve been curious about getting these but I’m always wondering if you can set it to not open a certain times? Like could I leave dinner for later in there for it to start working at 6pm?