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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2005Starving Kitties
Not really, but they try to give me the impression that they are. You see, today is the day that their (5) food dishes & (3) water fountains get run through the dishwasher (on sanitize setting). I leave the tub faucet running a thin stream so they have water. There is food scattered on their 'placemats'. But they sit and stare at the 'placemats' as if their food dishes will magically appear, filled to the brim with food. Poor starving kitties, Mommy *never* feeds them! <sigh> --? The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)? email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep > Not really, but they try to give me the impression that they are. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com > http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep I know! I cleaned Persia's fountain and bowl this morning and she just sat there staring like "But... I don't have any water!" Took all of 5 minutes to wash her fountain (I didn't use the dishwasher) and you'd think she was being deprived of oxygen or something. She sat on the toilet seat lid and put her paws up, inspecting as I washed out the fountain. I put it back down, filled it up, plugged it in - whoosh, it started. Did she want a drink? NO. The wench went and took a nap! Jill > Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: >> Not really, but they try to give me the impression that they are. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Jill Oh, for Heaven's sake! She just wanted to make certain you did a thorough job. MLB On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:03:45 GMT, "Magic Mood Jeep©" <nobody@nowhere.net> yodeled: >Not really, but they try to give me the impression that they are. > >You see, today is the day that their (5) food dishes & (3) water fountains Q: How do I know Stinky is starving? A: The bottom of his bowl is visible. :P Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Kreisleriana <kreisleriana2@yahoo.com> had some very interesting things to say about Re: Starving Kitties: >Q: How do I know Stinky is starving? >A: The bottom of his bowl is visible. :P Felix does that too :-) [was Stinky ever a stray? I can't quite keep all the bios straight]. He'll come get me and lead me to his dish and make it quite clear that Meowmie MUST rearrange the kibble to cover that horrible bowl bottom.  Signature"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL >Kreisleriana <kreisleriana2@yahoo.com> had some very interesting >things to say about Re: Starving Kitties: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Felix does that too :-) [was Stinky ever a stray? I can't quite keep >all the bios straight]. Abandoned. He's long since stopped gobbling, and also stealing everything edible that wasn't nailed down-- he used to jump on the table, pull stuff off, and try to drag it away like a leopard with a gazelle. :) But some mornings when he wants to play, he still gobbles, then goes bouncing up and down the stairs, and then <errrrk>. :P Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com That's nothing! Fez complains *loudly* that he is starving when he gobbles up all of the larger kibble of the mix I give them. He loves the big ones, so he eats them all and then yowls that there is nothing to eat. If I don't pay attention to him, he tries Tom. Actually, he'll try Tom even if I do go refill the bowl, just to see how much he can get. :) Oh dear! You CAN teach an old cat new tricks cause my Punkers discovered if she sits up on her hind legs with her front paws crossed neatly over her ample belly and does her "silent meow", I melt. At least she withholds that pose until the special stuff...like fresh salmon or a nice med rare steak...come along!! PatM Oh my goodness! That is quite a trick. I picture Daisy trying that & rolling over backwards like that old cat cartoon. Katz, mom to pleasantly plump Daisy & trim 'n slim Miss Moxie Oh dear! You CAN teach an old cat new tricks cause my Punkers discovered if she sits up on her hind legs with her front paws crossed neatly over her ample belly and does her "silent meow", I melt. At least she withholds that pose until the special stuff...like fresh salmon or a nice med rare steak...come along!! PatM Oh dear! You CAN teach an old cat new tricks cause my Punkers discovered if she sits up on her hind legs with her front paws crossed neatly over her ample belly and does her "silent meow", I melt. At least she withholds that pose until the special stuff...like fresh salmon or a nice med rare steak...come along!! PatM > Not really, but they try to give me the impression that they are. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com > http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep Oh, yeah, I know that feeling. At Kitty Supper Time or Kitty Breakfast Time, I have three howling beasts that you would SWEAR had been locked up with no food for at least a week. =o) And then mealtime lasts about five minutes. (They get two generous meals a day, but I don't leave food out on a continual basis.) As soon as I start fixing my OWN meal, I get a fascinated audience, anxious to assure me they are severely underfed. Of course, if I gave these cats food EVERY time they asked, Francesca would reach beach ball proportions in no time. =o) Melissa Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: ---------------------<snip>---------------------- >Poor starving kitties, Mommy *never* feeds them! Every time my DH gets up from a nap, goes out and comes back in, goes to the loo and comes back, the hard-core chowhounds (usually four out of the six) seem to think it's a new feeding time. She never feeds them either. Regards and Purrs, O J > >Poor starving kitties, Mommy *never* feeds them! Let me give you the award winner! Some friends of mine went for a fortnight's holiday but they had the ideal arrangement to care of "Fluff" their cat. A close friend agreed to come and stay at their house for the whole fortnight to catsit. So they left food and instructions but neglected to mention that Fluff was a scrounger who could do the pathetic "feed me" act perfectly and would stuff his face given a chance so he ought to be ignored or he would get fat. Result: When they got back, their friend gave them a huge bill for all the extra catfood he'd brought Fluff waddled up the hallway to greet them, in two weeks he's managed to get from stocky but not fat to belly on ground obesity! It was later worked out that Fluff was eating 2 or 3 tins of catfood a day! And he was very very sorry to see his new friend go especially as he was then put on a diet! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous (and not at all fat to their annoyance) Furballs > > >Poor starving kitties, Mommy *never* feeds them! > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Slave of the Fabulous (and not at all fat to their annoyance) Furballs I was away this past weekend, and to keep the cats going until Saturday when their pet sitter came, I put some kibble into one of those dry food dispensers. I left what I thought would be plenty of food for three cats for two days. By last night it was gone, and Francesca's waist line was somewhat inflated. =o) That girl is shameless, and I'm sure she'd pull a con game on any live-in cat sitter just like Fluff did. FOr that matter, Nina and Pan probably would, too. Melissa > I was away this past weekend, and to keep the cats going until Saturday when > their pet sitter came, I put some kibble into one of those dry food [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > game on any live-in cat sitter just like Fluff did. FOr that matter, Nina > and Pan probably would, too. Mandy once convinced a cat-sitter that the tins of Fancy Feast kept as treats were her regular food. And since I'd told the sitter where to find the real regular food, she got that too! Betsy, who is less of a con artist when it comes to food, simply helped out once the food was available. Truly, the way to Mandy's heart is through her stomach; she practically defines 'cupboard love'! She's normally a friendly affectionate animal (except with vets), but she becomes positively adoring if she thinks food might result, especially food that isn't already in her bowl. Oddly enough, it's Betsy, not Mandy, who had the hard kittenhood searching for food on the street. Mandy, whatever she might try to imply, has never gone hungry for more than, say, a few hours pre-spaying. SignatureCheryl This thread is sorta like what happened to Jazz once. Our daughter was going to have her senior piano recital at her college and we were going. The college was out of town and it meant we would have to stay at least overnight at a hotel. Since it was just overnight, we figured leave Jazz with enough food and water and a clean litter box and he'd be ok until we got back the next day. So, I put 4 dishes on his food mat, 2 for food and 2 for water. As soon as the food was down he went to town chowing down! I said, no Jazz, that's for today and tomorrow! Well, he ate all the food, so I put down some more as we were getting ready to go and when as I walked out of the door he was still at it. He never did tell me if he was hungry that night or early the next day since he had eaten all the food that was there in one meal. Jazz & his mama SignatureIrulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time > >> > >Poor starving kitties, Mommy *never* feeds them! [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > Melissa Such a mean meowmie...............not;o) Suz *relearning this windoze thing argh! > Such a mean meowmie...............not;o) > Suz > > *relearning this windoze thing argh! Sympathies...... :-) Deb. Signaturehttp://www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield
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