Husband going through bin for cat food

[mrsgumpy]

So I need some perspective on this. And yes I know it is ridiculous to be arguing about cat food.

My husband hates waste. He thinks I don't get all the cat food out of the sachet when I feed the cat. I try to squeeze all the cat food out but I find it disgusting so I am not going to use a teaspoon and scrap every last bit out of the sachet. I prefer to get as much as I can out by squeezing the sachet and then chucking it in the bin. However, every time I feed the cat, DH goes into the rubbish bin, finds the sachet and then scraps the rest of the cat food out. It drove me a bit crazy for a while and then I just decided to let him go for it. This morning it started to irritated me all over again to see DH rummaging in the bin and then trying to scrap out tiny morsels of cat food from the sachet.

I am the first up in the morning, which is why I feed the cat otherwise I would just leave him to it. Whenever he feeds the cat it is such a palaver that the poor cat is almost beside himself with waiting for something to eat. DH also likes to ration the cat's food to avoid waste so he eeks out the cat food in small portions over the course of the day, which means we have a constantly meowing cat around the house. Drives me crazy.

Ok, so what do you think? Am I being unreasonable? Should I just let DH rummage through the bin for cat food and not care about it?

Our cat eats about that much and she's on a diet and pretty inactive so yours must be really hungry. It must be confusing too having different food routines on different days
You can buy wet flood automatic feeders as well so you could set his breakfast either the night before or before you go to.work if you won't be there to give him breakfast

Crikey OP! Those cat food pouches are tiny, three a day in our house (and biscuits if they want a snack).

I think i am still trying to get my head around the tiny bits of soap!!!

How on earth do you cope with this weirdness? Hat off to you

Crikey OP! Those cat food pouches are tiny, three a day in our house (and biscuits if they want a snack).

I think i am still trying to get my head around the tiny bits of soap!!!

How on earth do you cope with this weirdness? Hat off to you

Feeding just small amounts to the cat to make the food last you say ?
Try fucking doing the same to him , half his dinner , and half a cup of tea with half a biscuit . I'm sure he'd love that !
Why do you remain with a cruel man ?

My cat has 3 whole pouches a day plus as many biscuits as he wants. If I only gave him 2 half pouches a day he would be reporting me to the rspca for starving him.

ignore your tight arsed husband, he doesn’t deserve to own a pet.

what happens if he needs to see a vet????
poor cat

But that’s how companies actually make their profit, not on what we eat but what we waste! Jeremiah Coleman of Coleman's mustard famously said he made his fortune on what people wasted not what they ate!

I've just had another thought... Can't you point out to your H how much money he is wasting on the Costco biscuits because the cat doesn't eat them?
Our cat is quite fussy with food, we've tried a.few different things before we found t the ones she likes,the thought of just keep giving her food she doesn't like until she's hungry or desperate enough to eat it makes me sad!

I’d be taking the empty packet to a public bin across the road, deny all knowledge of where it went

More water for cats is always a good idea, especially male cats
they're prone to not drinking enough and it can lead to expensive and painful urine issues
source - 6k so far of insurance on a cat with idiopathic cystitis, a vet hospital stay and many vet visits
I mix water in his food, give him hydration sachets and water fountains, anything to get more water in them

Honestly he’s under feeding! Do you give them biscuits? Otherwise you both are! There are clear instructions on the side of the box how many sachets you should give them. Please feed your cat more and if your husband won’t then you give it more poor thing.

Biscuits?

LTB

My 2 cats (active ragdolls - so medium to large cats) share a pouch in the morning (now it's winter and they don't like to be out and about as much they sometimes don't even finish that), and have dry (100% meat) food available all the time (boy cat eats a fair bit of that, girl cat a bit less). And if they ask, they get treats/another pouch to share if they seem hungry (girl cat more often, especially if boy cat eats fast and then comes for hers in the morning)

But if your cat isn't overweight and is asking, then I'd feed it more TBH.

I also wouldn't be doing any nonsense cutting up packets to scrape out the last bit - you can get things that slide up the packet to empty it (like those toothpaste ones, but bigger) - but TBH, in the grand scheme, a couple of flakes or a bit of jelly isn't going to be what will bankrupt you and I couldn't waste minutes of my life worrying about it.

It does depend on the cat! OP says he has biscuits
cats will demand more food, they always want more

The side of the box is way too much for mine, I give him 2 x 85g a day wet food tins with extra water, an hydration sachet and no biscuits. He gets 2 dental treats and that’s it

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

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

@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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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