Husband going through bin for cat food

Do you have children together OP? What on earth is making you stay?

Get a long handled spoon that you only use for the cat food. Job done, no more rooting in the bins.

@CaroleKing soft plastic recycling, not foil.

From what I understand and have read in the past, I think it is to do with instinct why cats don't drink water that is near food - in the wild they don't drink water near a prey as it may be contaminated.

So he's trained your cat to meow all day? Fantastic

Sorry if someone answered with this already within the thread. We have a device called Sachet Mate from Lakeland Plastics, which is basically a handle with two long metal prongs. You open the pouch, and run it between the prongs from the closed end, and the food plops out into the bowl. It even works on gravy pouches, which are a bugger to empty.

I just looked and the brand is discontinued, however, Etsy has a lot of similar, but plastic versions, that appear to operate the same way. You're never going to get every single morsel out, but psychologically your DH might think this is less wasteful.

The soap story is gross. Old lady used soap ewww

Keep the cat, ditch your husband!

I couldn't live like that!

You should rinse the pouch, put the food that washes out into the cats’ bowl, and save the empty, clean pouch in a bag to take to the soft plastics recycling bin outside in in the foyer of practically every supermarket.

All unwashed food containers make a bin smell repulsive, it’s revolting to not rinse them and yes, it actually is wasteful too.

My grandma was a young woman during the war and experienced rationing. When clearing her house out we found a tin of all the little ends of soap bars. We laughed and threw it in the bin.

The way I see it you have three options. You can live like this forever (please don’t do that), you can leave him, or you can put your foot down about all this nonsense. That means you feed the cat, you bin the soap, you buy your own nice birthday present, and you tell him very firmly that his behaviour is unacceptable. You can offer to support him trying to get better and encourage him to go to therapy if he’s willing. But ultimately you cannot change him, only he can change him, you can change how you deal with him.

Sounds perfect. Sensible to do similar with kids. They don't always eat their meal so it makes sense to keep haribo on hand for when they start whining later.

I'd just be telling him to fuck off and feeding the cat 2 pouches in the morning.

Have you got kids yet? If not then don’t. Imagine when your kids are hungry and he’s decided they don’t need to eat..

As a cat owner I agree. 1 in the morning, 1 in the evening and biscuits ad lib.

Lord my cats are small and they get 3 pouches a day each aswell as access to nuts
you need to feed more. cat food is always on offer
plus aswell cat food pouche manufacturers have very slyly reduced their size of their pouches they used to be 100g but now 85g so I have had to use more

Its all bloody odd.

Sachets are a pain because there is always a few chunks left in no matter how much you squeeze the pouch, so I suppose your DH is right that it needs to be scrapped out. But going through the bin to do this is not normal.

Also, 1 sachet spread throughout the day?! And continuing to use dry food when clearly the cat doesnt eat it?

Just give the cat more wet food.

Why so bloody stingy with the cat food?

This is what we do. But neither me or my DH do this because of the miniscule amount of waste, it's because our cat never seems to touch the water we provide.

I always wash out the sachet under the cold tap before binning because I don't want the bin to smell. My first husband was cheap everything and mega stingy. I divorced him.

Our cat would drive him mental. She quite often licks off the jelly and leaves all the meat. She also has two sachets a day and a bowl of biscuits. She's the smallest cat you can imagine so I'd expect yours needs at least that much. I find if I squeeze the sides of the pouch together slightly to make the opening as wide as possible then the food kind of plops out quite cleanly so there's less stuck to the packet. It only really works with the jelly ones though, not gravy

OP what a nightmare, I couldn't put up with this!
My advice:
Rinse the sachet out after feeding so the sachet is empty, hopefully your husband will get board of looking after a few days/weeks.
Think about moving to dry food so there is no waste (we feed both dry and wet food).
Have a supply of Dreamies always on hand, our cat has a very loud meow and worries for food a lot, the Dreamies pacify him.
Good luck with this OP x

Again, if the cat is not underweight it is not underfed. It may prefer a different ratio of dry to wet cat food but it is not underfed! The DH clearly has issues though.

@Marmaladelover @mullers1977 anywhere that accepts soft plastic recycling will take pet food pouches, Co-op food stores for example and many other supermarkets as well as Pets at Home stores. Check recyclenow.com.

@mrsgumpy I agree your cat sounds underfed.

If this is genuine (and not a joke 🙃) - the foil recycling specifically excludes pet food pouches in most places

They don’t always demand more mine never demands food. He has two sachets a day and a handful of biscuits overnight which he snacks on. The cat is meowing because it’s hungry with its one sachet of food from the husband who gives it biscuits it doesn’t like! If he’s concerned on waste why keep buying biscuits that it won’t eat?? Yes some cats do demand food and will keep eating this one sounds like it is genuinely hungry

If the cat is a healthy weight the vet will not advise increasing the amount of food they are giving!