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I think I actually am giving my cat an eating disorder
While trying to keep Fatty away from the food so Velociraptor could actually eat, I accidentally spilled the kibble all over the dining room floor. Being the lazy heifer that I am, I decided to leave it, figuring they would just eat it throughout the day.
When I got out of the shower, there was cat puke EVERYWHERE. I think there were four separate piles of it. Methinks Fatty binged and purged. So gross. Aaaand I'm a failure as a cat mom, to boot!
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Re: I think I actually am giving my cat an eating disorder
My cat thinks her stomach is far bigger than it actually is. She'll eat the wet food I give her, chow down on the dry food, and then puke it all up 5 minutes later.
I wonder why I even bother.
ETA: You're not a cat mom failure! On Sunday the cats were bugging us. We kept shooing them off and going back to sleep.
Once we woke up and went into the kitchen, we found that they had no food. Not a single kernal. That's why they were bugging us. Cat parents of the year, right here.
Fatty freaks out the second his bowl is empty and starts bugging us. We have to let it sit empty for a while, or he'd gain even more weight. He's already really, really fat.
Is he all "I will sit on your toilet so you cannot use it! This will continue until I get fed!" Or like my cats "I will sit on your head/face/xyphoid process until I get what I want"?
My cats do the same thing. Our first cat would eat a bit when we first filled his bowl, then he'd walk away and come back for little nibbles throughout the day.
We just got a younger female cat. Once we fill the bowl she plows through it until it's all gone, then she eats the male's food that he's left behind. Sometimes she'll push the male out of the way to get to his bowl, and he just looks up at us like, "The fucck am I supposed to do now?" And then he cries an hour later because he's hungry.
He's not getting the concept that he should either eat it all in one sitting, or that he needs to smack the female around a bit to teach her not to take his food. I mean, I'm glad he doesn't take advantage of her because he's bigger and older, but on the other hand he's a total doormat to her.
LOL! I love that you mentioned the xyphoid process. Fatty rarely tries to actually climb on us, but he will just stay underfoot until you feed him. This usually results in someone accidentally stepping on his paw, which induces guilt, which leads to feeding.
Occasionally Fatty does step on my sternum, and it generally knocks the breath out of me.
My cats like to stay underfoot just as I am about to feed them. Asses.
They also have the innate ability to step on whatever part of your body is sore or tender. DH had his appendix out and our big fluffy cat was so excited that he was home that she climbed on top of him. And managed to step on all of his incision points in the process.
He nearly pitched her across the room. She came back and tried again.
I can't decide if they're really stupid or really smart. Or if I'm the dumb one by letting them run my life.
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If mine has unlimited access to food (for example, if someone forgets to put the bag of kibble away and he chews through the side), he will eat until he throws up. Then do it again. And again. And again. If he runs out of food, he will eat the puke (which, because he inhales rather than chews, actually is extremely hard to distinguish from kibble).
I share your shame.
Oh, I've been there! Same with the "Being underfoot until getting fed" thing, plus the guilt induced paw stepping...
lol I've long since accepted that I'm at the bottom of the totem pole in my own house.
I can't keep food down all day because fatty fatty fat cat will eat all of his and then all of the other cat's food. As a result, around 630 they start trying to mind control me into feeding them dinner early. They're often much for successful at getting their 530am breakfast early since they'll both sit on me meowing and pawing me in the face and head butting me. Usually starts around 430. Punks.
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I switched our brats food a couple of weeks ago, and not to crap mind you.
They went on a bender for days until we gave in and bought their regular California Natural. Sometimes I want open the door and tell them to do better else where.
I free feed George and he'll eat a couple kibbles here, couple of kibbles later. But if he can see any part of the bottom of his food bowl (ie: he has pushed all the kibble around so part of the bottom is showing) he is convinced he has no food.
I am in full acceptance that he runs the house and lets me live in it.