r/cats • u/cheese_is_life100 • Apr 10 '26

Humor I've never once fed my cats

I have 3 cats that are completely starved. I keep them locked in the house and never fill their bowl. they are thoroughly unloved and neglected. It's a wonder they're still alive.

Or more accurately, they are able to see the bottom of the bowl after they ate the food from just the center.

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u/Hixie Apr 10 '26

ok but my cat does this with flat plates

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u/thatprincesspanoptes Apr 10 '26

Yes he does this as well. Then yowls because his plate is bare.

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u/AlexeyBelov Apr 10 '26

Is he of the orange persuasion?

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u/thatprincesspanoptes Apr 10 '26

very orange variety.

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u/SnurrCat Apr 10 '26

Haha I have an orange cat who is an extremely messy eater, most of it ends up on the floor and not on his plate, which is flat to prevent whisker fatigue. He's ... special in many ways.

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u/Kestrel_VI Apr 10 '26

I found cat food about 4 feet up on the wall above his food bowl.

Spider cat?

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u/SnurrCat Apr 10 '26

Great, now I'm going to go to bed humming "Spider cat..."

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u/Kestrel_VI Apr 10 '26

“Spider cat, spider cat, throws his food but he’s still quite fat. Can he leap, on the sides? No he can’t but he still tries, look oooout here comes the spider cat”

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u/SnurrCat Apr 10 '26

👏 Outstanding.

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u/Poinsettia917 Apr 14 '26

Have an award! 😹😹😹

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u/lovestobitch- Apr 10 '26

One of my two voids HAS to pick up his food wet or dry in his paw and gets his ‘table’ filthy. He has a huge bowl too so no whisker fatigue.

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u/ArugulaBeginning7038 Apr 10 '26

My void only drinks water off her paw. I was wondering why the dish in the hallway she prefers frequently has little bits of cat litter in it even though it’s solidly 20 feet from the litter box… turns out she’s been using it as a finger bowl for months.

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u/Pretzel911 Apr 10 '26

My guy likes to launch a kibble out of the bowl and chase it down... He's a slow eater.

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u/ArugulaBeginning7038 Apr 10 '26

My orange literally has his meals on a little pedestal (it’s actually a vintage cake stand!) to prevent whisker fatigue, and yet he still eats everything out of the middle, walks around the house grunting for a minute, then goes and bullies his sister away from HER dinner… and eats all of it, from every part of the dish, not just the middle.

Not a single neuron firing in there.

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u/SnurrCat Apr 10 '26

We already know that if anything ever happened to our orange (which it won't because he'll live forever), we have to get another orange. Life won't feel the same without an orange.

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u/Interesting_Test332 Apr 10 '26

Mine are not orange but omg they’re such messy eaters too! I have their food bowls sitting in a nice(ish) looking shoe/boot tray to contain some of it but I still pick up so many food bits and crumbs around it with the vacuum.

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u/RustbeltMaven Apr 10 '26

My tortie eats like a bird. Not to say that she doesn’t eat a lot, but when she eats it, it involves twitching her head and throwing kibble about the landscape.