Do you ever just give in?

Bless his little heart, Paddy was always the one who would get me to feed them early, simply by running round welded to my leg screming, or jumping up and sticking his face in mine - it was kinda hard to ignore.

Generally the other tree aren't that bad, although if Max has had a stressful day we will collapse on the floor at my feet "look, I am starving - I can't stand with hunger.............."

It doesn't often work though!!!

We went away last year and mum in law 'baby-sat' for us with strict instructions that they all eat twice a day, whatever they told her - funnily enough hen we got back, a weeks supply of food ad all gone and she had had to buy some more, and they had somehow acquirer lunch time as well as breakfast and dinner!!!! Her argument was that they were all obviously hungry as they were crying for food!!!! They aren't stupid, are they?!?!?!

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When their teenagers they can, but that's teenagers in adult years

Raphael gets crazy when he gets hungry. He starts out being lovey and lappy, then he starts to cry, then that turns into a howl, then the other cats get scared and the neighbors become concerned that I'm killing my cat.

Still, I'm FAIRLY good about staying between 7 and 9 AM and PM.

My cats each get 1/2 cup of food per day. They get half of that (1/4 cup) at 4:30 in the morning and the other half at 5:00 in the afternoon. They also each get locked up in separate rooms while they eat for 1 hour. If they finish their food before their hour is up, they get to come out.

My kitties don't get a darn thing when they whine and cry since I free feed them dry. They've pretty much stopped all together now. I feed them wet atleast once a day. I'm thinking of stepping it up to twice. But with work and study, I can't let them boss me around. Wish I could play and nap all day and send them to work haha.

The cats are free fed, but I get the sad eyes I'm starving ploy from the dog.
He gets fed once a day at 9pm, just to ensure he actually goes potty before bed.
Tried breaking his feeding up into two meals, he always peed in the house by the back door. The weirdo.

I free feed my cats, but there's times where I will give them more dry food.

however, I do NOT free feed my dogs, because all of them except one are very food aggressive. So they get fed once in the morning and at night after dinner. and then they get cookies before we go to bed and the cats get treats, too of course.

It depends...With my foster kittens- i keep them on a STRICT schedule- i measure everything- formula, their weight, and record feeding times and everything to keep track of who has had what- if i just feed them whenever - my schedule will be out of wack and i won't know who has been fed. So i feed according to age/weight. (every few hours usually). / With my adult cats it really just varies- i rarely EVER give into them- if i did,they'd be big as a house Those girls can eat! I do however give them a small healthy treat if they start begging though / For Kojak the kitten- i feed him whenever his bowl is empty of dry food (he's like Trout- he won't tell me eithor! ) and I give him soft food in small portions several times a day as he is sick and still small The dogs are huge doggies, so they're free fed and eat whenever they want.

It depends...With my foster kittens- i keep them on a STRICT schedule- i measure everything- formula, their weight, and record feeding times and everything to keep track of who has had what- if i just feed them whenever - my schedule will be out of wack and i won't know who has been fed. So i feed according to age/weight. (every few hours usually). / With my adult cats it really just varies- i rarely EVER give into them- if i did,they'd be big as a house Those girls can eat! I do however give them a small healthy treat if they start begging though / For Kojak the kitten- i feed him whenever his bowl is empty of dry food (he's like Trout- he won't tell me eithor! ) and I give him soft food in small portions several times a day as he is sick and still small The dogs are huge doggies, so they're free fed and eat whenever they want.

Well, my kitties are on a flexible schedule. I don't feed at a specific time, I feed "around" a specific time, lol. We go by Morning, Lunch, and Supper. Morning is whenever I wake up (so could be 10am, could be 4pm). Lunch is shortly before the human supper (though it could be much earlier, like 3pm), and Supper is an hour or so before bedtime. What a weird schedule, lol. Sometimes they get fed at 10am, 3pm, and 12am, other days they get fed at 3pm, 9pm, and 3am, lol. But usually if I wake up really late, they'll miss a meal, though the two meals they get will have larger servings so they still get the same amount over the whole day.

Willow and Buffy are good little girls when they're hungry, they just walk around and keep me in their sights ("When is that blasted human going to get off the computer? Oooh, look! A bug!"). Molly is the one that tends to get annoying: she's picked up a new trick where she'll pat me on the back or hip to try to get my attention when I'm on the computer. It's really sweet and cute and SO ADORABLE, but her nails prick my skin every time. I can't tell you how many times I've been totally engrossed in something on the computer, and suddenly I'll feed a sharp prick directly center of my back, even though my back is pressed against the chair (it's a chair with bars, kinda like jail, lol, so Molly can still touch my back). I'll bolt forward, arching my back, and GASP! And my hand will swing around behind me, which I think scares Molly because she always goes running. It ain't fun, but it sure does get my attention, lol

Kallie and Murphy are free fed dry food and will let me know when thier bowl is empty...and get a half can of wet foor at night.....they always try to get it early, my fiance always gives in when he is home and I hardly ever give in.
Sometimes they will try and trick us and have done it a couple of times. When I feed them when my fiance is not around they start to bother him as soon as he gets home and if I am not around to tell them I already fed them they get a second helping.

I dont give in. If I fed Jaffa every time he asked he'd burst. They have their breakfast at pretty much the same time every day (about 6.45am) but tea time varies depending on what time I get home from work and can be anytime from 4.30pm to 6pm, although if I know in advance I'm not going to be home til 6 I tend to leave it in auto feeders. If it's a weekend and I'm home Jaffa will start asking for it from about 3.30pm but I insist on waiting til at least 4pm but sometimes give in then. I've recently put supper back til bedtime and Jaffa will ask for it sooner but if he has it too soon he won't last until breakfast (Jaffa sometimes vomits on an empty stomach) so I don't give in then.

I ALWAYS end up giving it. I'll try to ignore him as long as I can, but he's a persistant fella. He always wins out in the end.

I could never win the "get up and feed me" battle with Fred, he was just too persistent. I just gave in and fed them at the time he thought he should be fed between 7 and 7:30. Scooter and Pepper will try, but I'll just grab one of them and cuddle down and they will leave me alone for awhile. I feed them when I get up. Scooter is honing in on the bladder, though, so it may not be long before thery figure out how to get me on my feet, then I will feed them and go back to bed.