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Ted Davis - 17 Jun 2005 21:35 GMT

Last night I was transferring cat food from 20 pound bags into plastic
buckets. The food bowl was empty when I got home and the buckets were
empty, so I processed one bag, fed the cats, then processed the other.
Ozy insists on eating out of the bucket - the food just poured into
the bucket is obviously much fresher than the same food immediately
poured into the food bowl.. He sampled both buckets for the first
bag, then ate his fill from the bowl. While I was pouring the second
bag, he not only grabbed pieces from the bucket, but he also turned
his head sideways - the way they do whne drinking from a faucet stream
- and tried to eat from the stream of food as I was pouring it - It
must be much better before it even gets into the bucket. Of course,
he also eats watermelon.

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Wayne Boatwright - 18 Jun 2005 05:28 GMT

> Last night I was transferring cat food from 20 pound bags into plastic
> buckets. The food bowl was empty when I got home and the buckets were
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> must be much better before it even gets into the bucket. Of course,
> he also eats watermelon.

One of our 5 cats will only eat by picking his food with his right paw and
feeding himself. That goes for either dry or canned food.

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rpl - 18 Jun 2005 05:36 GMT

>>Last night I was transferring cat food from 20 pound bags into plastic
>>buckets. The food bowl was empty when I got home and the buckets were
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> One of our 5 cats will only eat by picking his food with his right paw and
> feeding himself. That goes for either dry or canned food.

Think he's trying to emulate you; cat got my attention one day; she does
the same thing (dip paw in food, eat from paw) then gave me a "so
what's the point?" look and went back to shoving her face in the dish.

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Wayne Boatwright - 18 Jun 2005 05:48 GMT

>>>Last night I was transferring cat food from 20 pound bags into plastic
>>>buckets. The food bowl was empty when I got home and the buckets were
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> the same thing (dip paw in food, eat from paw) then gave me a "so
> what's the point?" look and went back to shoving her face in the dish.

Yes, I believe he is. He always eats this way, and began doing so not long
after we adopted him. What's really cute is when all 5 are eating out of
their separate bowls of canned food. He will walk around and take a paw
full of food from each bowl to taste it, then return to his bowl and finish
eating.

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Ted Davis - 18 Jun 2005 17:13 GMT

>One of our 5 cats will only eat by picking his food with his right paw and
>feeding himself. That goes for either dry or canned food.

Spooky used to do that - he refused to eat out of a bowl, but he
insisted on dragging bits out onto the floor and eating them there -
he would do this under the chin of the alpha cat while she was eating
from the bowl. He gave that up sometime after I moved to the country
and added a lot more cats ... I'm not sure, but he may have given it
up after Ming Toi, the much older alpha, died.

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spookysmybaby - 20 Jun 2005 04:03 GMT

one of my 3 cats will not drink water from a bowl. she has to drink from
the toilet like a dog. and recently my other 2 have picked up the trend

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