Life With Cats: Food Politics

[lagilman]

Every morning, one or the other or both household felines comes forth and yowls in my ear FEED ME!  I'M HUUUUUUUNGRY!

So i get up - never before 6am, rarely after 7am, I am a well-trained human - and feed them.  One serving of gooshy food each, in different bowls, in different rooms.

Inevitably, as in EVERY DAMNED DAY, CatofSize will finish his food first, and wander over to stare at ElderCat, who is still eating.  She, 5 days out of 7,  will wander off, because she does not like being stared at. He will then attempt to eat her food (unless I see him and yell).

Meanwhile, 4  days out of those 5, ElderCat wanders over and eats what he left in his dish, so when he comes back - having eaten all hers - there's nothing left.

Cats.  Either they're fucking with us for some great alien lab test, or they're just fucking with us.

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Gawd, cats (and dogs). Sid has to be stood over when he is eating, because either Henry or Cass will boot him out of the way and because he is a wimp, he will let them. Meanwhile Henry has just presented me with a baby shrew.

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

Ha. Yeah. Yakko tries to eat everyone's food. Not that much of a problem for Wakko, who generally polishes his off before his brother starts getting ideas. But I now put Dot's bowl up on the corner of the counter, because she is the least food-focused cat ever. She'll eat a bit and wander off. I now cover the dish and, if I'm home, present it to her later on. She'll eat a bit more, scuff around, and wander off again. ::sigh::

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my cats.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

There are bowls enough for the hoard here and still I have to drag them to the bowls so that the one who hates everybody isn't hogging the big bowl the alliance eats out of so that one of the members of the alliance goes and pushes the omega away from her dish.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my cat.