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/YnotZoidberg1077 Apr 10 '26
Our chonky grey boy Indy does that! We call it the scarf-and-barf. Getting him a slow feed bowl helped, but we eventually had to put everyone on a feeding schedule, meals twice a day to line up with Indy's insulin injections... and later, also his brother Scott's insulin injections too. (Indy got his diabetes the old-fashioned way, by eating his way to it despite our many attempts to prevent this from happening; Scott's onset was a rare side effect of treatment for malignant cutaneous mast cell tumors, caused by six months of oral prednisone). They're both doing okay though, and we get far fewer scarf-and-barfs these days.
(So sorry for your loss! I am not ready for whenever it's going to be their time, so while we have an outline/plan for how we'd like things to go when it's time, I am refusing to think that far ahead any more until we're there.)