Do your cats require a top off?

[RiffRandell]

Mine will have a half to 3/4 bowl full of food, but will circle and meow around it until I put more in, then they start chowing down.

I clean/change their bowls often so the food at the bottom doesn't get nasty.

Just another demand.

[davidpdx]

1. Damn cats are so demanding

They think they run the world. I have two. One is extremely vicious and will attack when he is mad. The other one was a street cat my wife adopted while I was away and she doesn't like anyone except her (granted she will ask me to open doors. I just love being the "doorman" at the house for the cats, like I have anything better to do?).

[RiffRandell]

4. Sounds about right.

Normal stuff.

[Heidi]

2. Of course! That's a classical first-world cat problem!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/the-best-of-first-world-cat-problems

[RiffRandell]

3. That's great!

And so true!

[Agschmid]

8. Loved it!

[mockmonkey]

5. I had a cat that

would wake me up at 4 A.M. so that I would watch him eat his food. He would eat a little and then turn to see if I was still watching and then go back to eating.

Here is a picture of Lucius after he died...

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OH WAIT NO! That is Titus, he's NOT dead he always looks like that when he sleeps.

This is Lucius.

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"Watch me eat or I'll suck your blood" Lucius is NOT dead either but no longer lives here since my S.O. became someone else's S.O.

It's now someone else's job to watch Lucius eat at 4 A.M.

[RiffRandell]

11. Our dog does that.

If we start tossing and turning at 5am he's hounding us to go downstairs to be fed.

Cute pictures!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Cats will eat til they fall over.

Then they'll sleep. They won't come when called but will give you that look that says, "Got any food in your hand?"

[RiffRandell]

19. That would be my dog.

The only thing the mutant won't eat is ice...wtf? At least clean a spare piece up that drops out of the fridge when I'm getting water out of the machine.

I dropped one of my herb capsules (milk thistle) on the floor one day and hey actually chewed it so it broke in half and he was one sorry dog. Serves him right....I know, mean but funny!

[Katashi_itto]

7. Unleaded or Regular?

[RiffRandell]

15. Like Mommy, the High Octane.

[alarimer]

9. Yes. He doesn't want food, he wants NEW food.

It's so hilarious.

[RiffRandell]

16. I find it annoying!

I love them to death, but jeepers! They could stand to lose a few pounds anyway....according to my vet.

[BarbaRosa]

10. Bill doesn't like to dine alone.

He'll raise quite a fuss, yelling and screaming (he's a very vocal cat anyway) until someone goes over to watch him eat, then he's fine.

[RiffRandell]

17. Oh man.

That's rough.

[Jokerman]

12. BOTB Syndrome

Bottom Of The Bowl

Our cats are just fine until that one piece of kibble that has no more directly under it gets eaten and they can see the bottom of the bowl, then IT'S ON!

[RiffRandell]

18. Mine never see the bottom of the bowl.

Unless our pig of a dog inhales it.

I can't win.

[Flaxbee]

13. Yes, but sometimes I'll just get a fresh kibble or two, reach into the bowl and "fluff" the

food up to pretend like it's new. Seems to work, esp. if the bowls are already at least half-full. Have two cats that are overweight so I really have to limit what I put out / leave out for them (the three others are slim and sleek).

[RiffRandell]

14. Oh yeah.

We'll shake the bowl and that usually works.

[frogmarch]

20. i don't have a cat, but my dogs

(a tiny elderly Boston terrier and a middle-aged poodle) eat about half their kibbles and then make me scatter the remainder of their kibbles on the floor so they can chase them down before they eat them.

Pets are weird, aren't they?

[LiberalElite]

22. but they manage to train us - and without treats eom

[frogmarch]

23. haha, yep! nt

[Blue_In_AK]

29. Our Shih-tzu won't eat her food out of her bowl,

But if you feed it to her like it's treats, she'll gobble it up. She's a princess.

[RiffRandell]

32. They are.

I had 2 dogs that would nibble at their given portions throughout the day. One would take a mouthful and walk over to the carpet and eat there, leaving crumbs.

Our current dog gets 1/2 cup morning and night and inhales it in about 3 seconds....not kidding.

Then he'll waste about 5 minutes licking the bowl and floor in case he missed anything.

[LiberalElite]

21. A friend had a cat who required a tuna garnish

every time. She'd wait for it.

[RiffRandell]

33. I did that when my first cat was dying of kidney failure to get him liquids.

I also would give him IVs every day which was so hard....he was only 12 so we tried everything but we knew it was time when he stopped purring.

I'm crying just thinking about it and that was 12 years ago.

[Taitertots]

24. Making people refill the bowl is how cats make sure you are paying attention to them

Every cat that I've ever heard about doing that will empty it's bowl after a very brief period without service.

[RiffRandell]

34. My cats get plenty of attention.

I would like to try that as an experiment but I think I could only last a day.

[winter is coming]

25. I usually rattle the kibble container and shake a half-dozen pieces on top of what's there.

It doesn't take much to convince them it's "new" food.

[RiffRandell]

26. My husband calls it the shake and fake.

Hey, it works.

[winter is coming]

27. LOL! Love it. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

28. Mine eats the center down to the bottom

and then acts like she's got an empty bowl.

[sakabatou]

30. Yep

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Feed a dog and it thinks...

"he fed me- he must be god". Feed a cat and it thinks "he fed me- I must be god"