Oh the horror! Impending starvation!🙀

[Catsmere]

Just look at this empty plate! Poor Phoebe has no food!

Gorgeous cat - lilac or blue point?
I have a tortie point Siamese who is v clever and has us all very well trained 😻

I love this thread!

My black girl has actually trained me. She knows that if she drapes herself over my feet, in bed, that I will get up and feed her. She might not know that the reason for this is that I hate it when my feet are too warm. 😆

My beautiful black boy has to be led to what were obviously invisible biscuits in the bowl, somehow me leading him to the bowl makes them magically appear! I have been known to shuffle a few from the bowl back into the daily allowance cup and pour them out again in a "ta-da!" fresh biscuits manoeuvre, it sometimes works. 🤣

Daisy has trained me, too! She knows if she tells me she's done or is about to do a poo, I'm likely to come and sit on the bed and give her pets and snuggles, which is what she requires in life. She's also trained me to turn the light off reasonably early, because when she's on a night shift part of her cycle, she usually won't do it until lights out.

@LilacpointMummy She is a lilac point, thick as a ditch and the clumsiest cat ever - although I’m sure in her head she’s a delicate ballerina.

@SheikhDjibouti I bet Daisy could challenge her! She has little muscle tone, and though she's quite able to leap up on things (kitchen bench, tallboy etc) she's forever falling off small tables, wobbling around walking on my lap, and knocking things off my bedside table at night. 😸

Mum! Look! I'm wasting away, so starved I fit in my toy basket.

🙀🙀🙀

I bought bowls that are curved in cross-section so that DCat's food falls to the centre. I don't have problems with leftovers now.

Ooh, have you any pictures? Are they a particular type/brand or just bowls deep enough to do that?

Middle of Lidl, blink and you missed it, but you might get similar elsewhere.

https://offers.kd2.org/pics/2f/22/2f22f251ad9300c326117556fc8666a6652f3541.jpg

https://offers.kd2.org/pics/45/41/454193a4580fbb78a0386bced3d365edeec103ea.jpg

Thanks! I'll have a look round and see if any shops here have similar designs.

They are brilliant - designed by a woman someone who really knows cats!

@Catsmere
The BalletCats have these - they needed elevated bowls because Nijinsky has a tendency to vacuum up his food, with the inevitable consequence 🤦‍♀️ They’ve water bowls of the same design & it definitely encourages Balanchine (who has genetic renal issues 💔) to drink more.

There are absolutely heaps of them available - if you look for “elevated cat bowls/feeders” you should get what you want 😸 Amazon has lots of choice; Pet Planet has a few; Pet Barn has 5; Peticular do [at least] one; & Pet Circle do have them, but you have to have a bit of a hunt through their offerings. (I realise you can use Google, but I always try to provide recommendations/links in countries people are from/in where they’ve provided that information because somehow it feels as if it might be more helpful.)

Apparently it’s better for cats to eat from a raised, angled, bowl, so you’d be doing more than solving the Schrödinger’s bowl problem.

(Have attached a picture of the BalletCats enjoying their Special Birthday Lunch. And you can try telling THEM they want their water bowls away from their food bowls, anyone inclined to criticise: even in a heatwave they will go down to the kitchen rather than drink water anywhere else in the house. I persuaded them to accept the concept of food security, & thus eating each meal not leaving 1/3 - 1/4 of it every time because their next meal might not appear for more than 24h; but they would not bend when it came to where they wanted their water. Funny creatures.)

Thank you, @TheBalletCats, @LilacpointMummy and @VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia ! I've been offline today (Optus, 'nuff said) but those links look very helpful.

My current overlord approved extra water bowls are two upturned buckets in the garden.......go figure. (Oh and my indoor food bowls are right next to the water and always have been!)

My furry overlord will only drink from a bedside water glass.

Mine will only drink from the mankiest nasty water they can find in the garden. Usually collected around the edge of a plant pot, or in a crease of tarpaulin. If I were to put a cat bowl out to collect rain water and let it go green they wouldn't drink it, but would if i put the lid of a paint pot or an old ice cream tub or some rubbish like that because of course they are neglected souls who have to drink manky water from rubbish, probably in the rain.

It's that or from someone's water glass. There's nothing in between - you can bring manky garden water in for them and they will refuse it, you could give them their own water glass and they would refuse it.