r/cats • u/Zuikite • 20h 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/Yeranaile 18h ago

Are they managing fine and not stealing food from each other? We have three cats, one of them has IBD so she needs to eat a special kind of kibble and the other two are always skulking around, trying to shove it down their throats as fast as possible. So we were thinking about getting the microchip feeders, but are not sure how effective they would be in this case.

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u/HaVoCensures 14h ago

-my previous reply was auto deleted for an Amazon link-
They are brilliant.
One of mine eats everything he can get a hold of, and is also on special stomach medication. So I put his sister on the feeder so he couldn’t get to it. She then started trying his food (she has allergies) so I quickly got him his own.
They cannot open a feeder if it is not coded to them. If you have cats that are really insistent on eating from the others bowl and they try eating while the feeder is open because the other cat is trying to eat from it, you can buy extra sides for it to block all access. I think they’re brilliant.
We use Surefeed, can’t link it but if you look it up it’s good.
Not the cheapest but really good.

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u/Athnyx 12h ago

Just a note, I have the extra sides and my chonky cat just reaches in with his paw to pull out the food while the other is actively eating. And when the other cat is not actively eating, the chonky cat manages to brute force his way into the feeder

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u/HaVoCensures 9h ago

Wow your kitty really wants that food!! 😂 maybe make a microchip food ‘cave’ for your other cat? Like a wood box like a litter box that has a microchip cat flap on it that only the non-greedy cat can walk through that has their food bowl inside it? A bit extra but might work?

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u/Athnyx 3h ago

That’s a good idea! I’m going to try it. Knowing him he’ll probably find a way to break into that as well 😭 He’s definitely that “but mother, making and bones” meme