Feeding time at my house can get a little hectic. So many mouths to feed.
@bbsmooth so grown! All 8 plus the mom! Some are quite long already…
Nice to see that some cats do eat out of the bowl with the ears. We tried that, but ours deal best from saucers.
@mirabilos @bbsmooth
My cats eat out of bowls, but they can't do it if I place their bowls too close to each other — the cats start poking at each other with their ears and get distracted because of it, it looks quite funny 😹
Proper spacing solves the problem for me.
@mirabilos @bbsmooth
Mine are smaller than average cats so they don't have any problems. Although one of my cats adopted this habit to pick the food out of the bowl with his paws — he had to wear elizabethan collar for a rather long time after my other cat gave him a bad scratch, he was abusing my having to remove the collar for him to eat to run away and hide under the bad and scratching his wound again, it took longer than a month for the wound to heal because of that.
@mirabilos @bbsmooth
Anyway, that was probably when he picked up the habit and sometimes he eats like that ever since. First I thought that maybe eating from a bowl might be a problem for him, but no — when he's hungry he eats like cats normally do, not problem with the bowl at all, but when he's just snacking and he's alone in the kitchen, he resorts to this stately and elegant eating manner of his 😹
First he was using it for dry food only, but has since adopted it for both types of meals.
@m0xee @bbsmooth Malik also sometimes eats with his paws. After his snipping we held the saucer up to his face so he could eat, but things still ended up at the neck closure of the cone, but it wasn’t for too long thankfully, and it was sort of bonding even (he got snipped, vaccinated and chipped a small handful of days after rescuing him off the streets)
Čara meanwhile is also much smaller than average but still prefers the saucer, but we’re wondering whether she needs a stand for them so the doesn’t need to bend down this much. She’s 8 and a half now.
@mirabilos @bbsmooth
He's pretty weird in a way that he has better… "manual dexterity" if I might put it that way, than most cats — he also uses paws differently when he plays with toys: most cats try to push the toy down to the ground — he tries to catch the toy mid-air as if he has fingers. Well, he does, but rudimentary ones — not like those of humans or monkeys.
It's quite entertaining how he uses his front paws not like cats normally do!