• Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I learned recently it’s because their whiskers are overstimulated by rubbing the bottom of the bowl

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, my cat used to do this. Sort of. The center of the food would be eaten away but the sides perfectly fine. Showed her how to move the food and she did that until I got her a plate. Now? She just eats a little bit and moves it around and then screams at me. I put it back in the bowl and same thing.

      It’s not her bowl. She just turned into a removed.

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        It’s not her bowl. She just turned into a removed.

        Ohhh man. This had me cackling. I mean, I feel bad for you, but it does speak to me in my soul.

        The one I have now won’t even eat off a plate unless it’s wet food, where I’m guessing she’s too excited to care about the peasant presentation.

        I found out about the whisker thing and handed her fresh kibble that way just to see, and she wouldn’t even touch it til I put it in her bowl for her.

        It HAS to be in a bowl and it HAS to be full to overflowing, and she’d better not see any goddamn silver or she’ll beat me with a coat hanger. And then the bottom goes stale because her whiskers.

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        We had one that would push the bowl or plate off the mat and into the middle of the floor.

        Replaced the mat with a small plastic food service tray. Which off course proved easier to slide across the floor.

        Ignoring the behaviour is the only solution, but it takes cats 2 weeks to believe any behaviour changes are real. Why did we leave to fall for patient predators as pets?

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      8 months ago

      My dog won’t eat out of a bowl that’s too deep, we had to get him a shallow one.

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      8 months ago

      The whiskers brush the sides, not the bottom. It’s just when kitten reaches for the bottom that it happens so it just always stays half full and stale

  • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
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    8 months ago

    My cat has been driving me crazy this weekend. She walks up to the closet door next to me and meows a ton. I open it, and she just walks away. I close the closet and she comes back and starts meowing again.

    I can’t win

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    8 months ago

    They are warning the kibble in Sto-bowl-kor that a great meal is about to arrive. The food in the bowl is only an empty shell now; the humans should treat it as such and dispose of it.

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    8 months ago

    Whatever sad, evil Romulan wannabes that downvoted this deserve an all-expenses-paid trip to an Agonizer. Just sayin’.