Husband going through bin for cat food

This would infuriate me. He needs to get over it.

Im actually wondering if you’re my SIL as my brother sounds like this 😬

Yes, biscuits is dry food, actually known as kittie cookies in my house.

My cats have unlimited dry food, but only whiskas as they won't eat any other brand, a pouch a day each and treats every night before bed, they're fine on this at 14 and 13, all cats are different but I think it's clear that OPs husband is too stingy to care about them, or ever adjust to their needs like any good cat owner would.

Can I just ask, when people say “biscuits” for the cat, do they mean dry food? I don’t want my cat missing out on something

Mine as well, also has Dreamies but still thinks he is hard done by! 😂

My cat has breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper sachets with a constant bowl of biscuits. She has put a tiny bit of weight on and the vet is pleased because she was underweight before. She's still a small skinny cat. She is a Tonkinese though and they are known for their love of food. Your cat sounds half-starved and your husband is definitely scrooge-like.

but cat doesn't seem to actually like the dry cat food - bulk bought from somewhere like Costco. and it seems to be own brand too.

Miserable and mean.

Cat isn't starving. Cat has dry kibble down and only the wet food is rationed, presumably due to the cost. He obviously doesn't like to see it dry up and get wasted if it isn't all eaten straight away. Which is fair enough, but half a pouch at a time and if the cat finishes it, give the other half. All this ekeing it out in tiny portions and scraping out every last scrap is ridiculous.

Perhaps they should move to tinned cat food and freeze it in large ice cube blocks then put them loose in a freezer bag. Then they can remove as many as the cat needs each night, leave them to defrost in the fridge ready for the next day and serve them up as required. Zero waste so long as you don't dish up too many cubes at once. All this cutting open and scraping out pouches seems a tad obsessive to me.

The relationship aspect aside, which sounds wearisome, we have one of those M&S oblong soup containers in the door of the fridge that we keep opened cat food sachets in. Its shape keeps it contained and upright. Could you do similar and leave the half opened sachets in there and let your DH scrape them out at his leisure? I also cook a chicken breast for our cat and cut it into tiny chunks - much nicer than icky pouches and it works out the same in price.

This is animal cruelty. Cat is starving . Would he do that too a child ? Would you be on here writing about it ? No . Sort it out or rehome . How would you feel being hungry all day ? Every day . If starve your husband for a while .

I've not read whole thread but a knife is easier to scrape sides.
And he sounds awful.
Hope he has redeeming features

That’s disgusting. I wouldn’t use it and let him enjoy it all by himself. If I were you, I’d keep a lock box of your things just for you. Even if you have to hide it. And as far as the pan thing goes my husband used to buy me Swarovski, I hate it and told him every time he bought me a piece so he didn’t stop I started to buy him Swarovski for his every occasion. He finally got the hint. It took a couple of years. I still have the crap. I’d sell it but it’s worth nothing..

Nothing less attractive than a miserly, stingy tight arse. I have a friend whose husband is like this, and they earn good money between them. I couldn’t put up with it!

See my cat is 7.5kg but he gets 2 x 85g tins and that’s it, no biscuits
he maintains on that and I really need to cut him down to 1.5 tins but it’s hard

Or maybe reverse those actions in to the correct order 🤣Seriously tho OP. He won't change. It really depends if you can bear to live like this. My ex would cut a current in half. I divorced him. Skint but happy.

Good! I was being sarcastic.

I think I read you have a tuxedo cat I do too.

They are such handsome creatures and he gets so many compliments when he goes to the vets.

My one is very elderly and is on numerous medications a day. He lost a lot of weight and had to be put on thyroid medicine to make him eat more.

Sometimes I feed him and he turns his nose up and he gets another sachet of a different brand until he eats it! Sometimes he eats two sachets in a go and I am delighted!!

Hold the pouch at the bottom and just flick it side to side, it gets the food out of the creases at the bottom.
I would then wash it out straight away

In the meantime throttle the other half

Try that with my two and they'd have me up before the RSPCA, so much do they loathe that jelly. The fussy little minxes. Now they are very old, like meself, and they want maximum slop, interspersed with expensive tiny kibble (tiny owing to scarcity of teef)

Yet another weird male behaviour apologist 🙄 You wouldnt ever catch me going through bins for a teaspoon of cat leftovers.

I have 4 cats and I use a knife to get there food out of the sachets because I can’t bear to get it on my hands 😂 it does all come out though . They have their own knife too. 😂

Starving the poor cat!!! Leave the bastard!! Start rationing his food out and see how he likes it!! He’s cruel as well as mean!!

ZERO shame. His tight-fistedness overruled shame.

I was so ashamed I dumped him.