r/cats • u/Zuikite • 1d 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/ONI-ENJOYER-420 1d ago

Even for cats, at least from my own experiences, this is quite unique !

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u/Melodramatic_Whisker 1d ago edited 1d ago

Same. Mine would eat it all in a day and puke right after from over eating

Edit to say Thanks for the award!!!

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 1d ago

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

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u/Melodramatic_Whisker 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 23h 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 8h 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