Feline Fun Friday – How Does Your Cat Eat?

Olivia is a finicky eater. She wants to graze on kibbles. Rarely will she eat a plate of canned food. This worries me and I weigh her  often to make sure she’s maintaining a good weight. Ten pounds. She always sits on the ten pound mark, so I guess that’s a good sign. I continue to offer her canned food, though, and sometimes she’ll eat it—most of the time she doesn’t. Wasteful, I know.

Another cat we loved, Winfield, would eat canned food, but he also liked his kibbles. At bedtime when we were shutting down the house for the night, Winfield had his own routine. He’d go to the kibbles bowl. If the kibbles covered the bottom of the bowl, he’d join us in the bedroom. If he could see the bottom of the bowl, he’d stand at it until we walked by, then he’d signal for us to add kibbles to the bowl. To eat, he’d take a mouthful out of the bowl, drop them on the floor and eat them. He drank water with his paw—dip, and lick, dip  and lick.

Lily was the best eater we ever had. She’d eat anything and everything we gave her and if I was eating it, she’d eat it—lettuce, tomatoes… Of course, I didn’t feed her these things, but if she had the opportunity, she’d eat them.

I found my Himalayan cat, Katy, eating chocolate brownies one night. Frightening. I’d remembered I forgot to cover the brownies, got up to do that and found Katy chomping away at them. Who would have thought? (Yes, some cats are attracted to chocolate–and yes it is toxic to cats.)

Does your cat eat what you think is best for her or is she a finicky eater, a messy eater, a routine eater, an anytime eater, a beggar, or?

Does she have a special eating place? I leave kibbles and water bowls in my office and in the service porch off the kitchen, but when Olivia wants to eat canned food (which I serve to her on a small plate to prevent whisker stress), she runs to a spot in the living room where we first started feeding her when she was a kitten. Cats seem to like routine and familiarity.