Sorry for this topic at breakfast
But we have a problem with the cat and her foodbowl.
She is getting on a bit and does not always eat all her food at once - well, rarely actually. She never has done in fact.
She has a little bit, rushes outside, presumably for personal reasons and then returns and eats a bit more before retiring to my bed for a long sleep.
I therefore have cat food sitting in the kitchen most of the day...I don't like to remove it as she does come back and finish it randomly during the day, and then I feed her again later, which again gets left hanging around for some time.
It is wet food, if I give her dry she gets cystitis as she won't drink much. Then she wees all over the house.
I bought an automatic opening dish, which I thought would be the answer, but though she got used to the lid thing very quickly, the flies managed to crawl in through the little fingertip shaped indentation at the edge and lay eggs in there the fist day we had it!
Anyway I would appreciate any ideas from other cat owners..we do have the garden door open a lot for Ds to go in and out, and I have a curtain there but somehow they still get in!