Fellow masters, it's come to my attention that there have recently been
incidents of neglect by our staff. Food bowls not kept topped up, litter-box
a bit manky, that sort of thing.

What worked for me in the past to keep staff up to scratch was a loud and
penetrating series of miaows, rising to MIAOWS, which clearly indicates that
there's a problem. Escorting the enquiring staff to the source of the
neglect usually did the trick.

However, on the pretext of being "bizzy", which is their excuse for not
paying full and proper attention to US, this hasn't always worked. So I've
developed an extra dimension to my strategy. Once the alarm howls haven't
roused the lazy SOAs (sons of apes, could be daughters in some cases) I now
seek them out, plant myself between them and their "work", mioaw my
complaint, gaze deep into their eyes and put a paw (large and sharp-clawed
in my case, YMMV) on their "bizziest" arm. This invariably stops whatever
they're doing so that a trot to lead them to the source of their shortcoming
now works fine.

If the staff should prove resistant even to that, hardly likely but just
possible, I find that a noisy and destructive clawing of their favourite
piece of furniture never ever fails.

HTH
Snowball
Professor Emeritus, HK Class of '03