I am looking after two cat sisters for a friend and living in their house while I do it. One is obviously more dominant, the other more submissive.
They are in and out of the house, so the time I put the food down is not always the time that they are around.
The dominant cat will go to eat first from her bowl, but will always leave her sister's bowl full of food.
If the submissive cat is around while I am filling the bowls and her sister isn't, she will eat both hers and her sisters. When the dominant cat gets back and the bowls are empty, she will get upset and pester me until I feed her. Naturally, I give her a pouch of food for herself. But then the submissive cat will walk to her bowl and look daggers at me that I have not also given her some (even though she knows I know she ate two pouches already!)
The dominant cat will also look at the submissive cats bowl and look at me, as if I am being very unfair. The submissive cat will sit by the dominant cat watching her eat her pouch and occasionally sniffing her own bowl and then looking at me.
Once the dominant cat finishes, the submissive cat will then pester me for the rest of the evening for more food, to the point that she will scratch my bedroom door through the night.
What's going on in their heads?!