I know! I let the cats at it for five minutes and then they lost
interest in playing vacuum cleaner, so I sat down on the little
footstool and picked up as much kibble as I could and put it back in
the bowl. Thank goodness for small mercies - I did NOT put the brand
new 'holds a weeks worth of kitten food' dispenser up there because it
was too big and I had a nasty feeling it would be hitting the floor
sooner rather than later! I just used a disposable plastic bowl with
two days worth of kibble in it, and Tessie had eaten half of that
already. So there wasn't nearly as much mess as their might have been.

An hour later I went out there and there wasn't a grain of kibble to
be seen on the floor, even in the corner I couldn't reach! Somebody
polished it off for me :)

I put the kibble bowl back on the dresser and I'll just have to keep
an eye out for Silver jumping up there... if I catch her up there too
many times I'll have to start having 'feeding time' but I'd really
rather not do that - either they're all free-feeding or they're all
restricted. It's not fair to them to discriminate.

Good kitties!  Good kitties!  Cleaning up!  (When this happens in my
house, we have to call in the reserves-- the dog, who is quite happy to
clean kibbles off the floor, or wet cat food that went "splat" upside
down.)

Cantate (and Cherry, Chibi, Jona and Emma)