So... how do YOUR cats act when it's dinner time? Lol!

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Originally Posted by ripley601

MIne act like they have gone completely mental, when they hear that can open. Which also brings up another thought, do any of cats go berzerk over a specifiec human food. Mine lose it over cereal and olives. I haVE ACTUALLY BEEN BITTEN over an olive.


Well, its odd after reading in the Lounge that cats have no "sweet tooth" as Lovey loves to lick jam off my fingers...Maybe its the texture or something else in it??
He also LOVES Burt's Bees lip balm. He licks it right off my lips. Its minty fresh!

Weird cat.

Rocky eats anything.
 

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I need three votes! They have dry food during the day but twice a day, they get wet. Carly will start meowing the minute I walk in the door in the evening and she doesn't shut up any until I feed her. Since we're trying to keep a consistent dinner time, this could be two hours. Much will come down when she realizes I will be feeding them and sits patiently. Lucy could care less most of the time and just wants to hang around with everyone. Her portions are tiny and are usually given to Carly.
 
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Originally Posted by stormy

As soon as I open the cabinet the canned food is kept in I get ganged up on!!
Ha ha, I accidentally opened the wrong cabinet today... WOOSH 3 cats appeared! Sorry guys.
 

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Originally Posted by pinkdaisy226

Ha ha, I accidentally opened the wrong cabinet today... WOOSH 3 cats appeared! Sorry guys.
Oh - that is mean.
 

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I keep the canned cat food with our canned goods in the cabinet. Anyone who catches me open that door gets instantly alert.

At 7PM sharp (dog and cat feeding time):

The dogs wander into the back porch where they are fed. I close the gate and they stand their anxious to lick the crumbs from the cat food bowls. If I forget to close the gate they still sit there anyway cause they know better than to come out.

The cats come running from all over the house. Tigger starts meowling very loudly. All pace around the kitchen in anticipation. I open the cabinet and pull out the food, then over to the dish strainer and move the clean bowls (all 13 of them) to the counter.

Scarlett jumps on the counter where I fill the bowls. Hers is the first bowl filled and she digs in as I fill the remaining bowls. Yes, she eats on the countertop.

Stumpy, Bob, Spanky and Koko jump on the kitchen table. Stumpy and Bob are fed second on the table. Spanky and Koko get shooed down.

Muddy and Koko get fed third in the bathroom with the door shut. They are little pigs and will eat everyone's if you leave them unattended.

Then we drop 7 bowls on the floor in the kitchen, all the while telling the "sieta gatos" (7 cats in spanish, pardon my spelling) that their food is being delivered. Tigger, Eightball, Spanky, Oscar, Sage, Dakota and Pinky eat there.

I then take the last bowl upstairs to Emily. She is shy in the first place and doesn't like the dogs so doesn't come downstairs. She waits patiently for me and I use the time to brush and talk to her while she eats.

About 10 minutes later, Muddy and Koko are let out of the bathroom to lick the bottom of the bowls. About 5 more minutes and the dogs are let out of the back porch where they frantically lick up whatever is left by then. If the cats don't like the food of the day, they get a feast.

It's such a ritual around here that they are all excited thru the entire process.
 

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Not just when it's time to eat, but ANY time I go into the kitchen, Sophie comes running from wherever she is!!
Then she starts eating her dry food like someone is going to take it! Silly girl!
 

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Maya is just a spoiled little princess
At 6;30 am she starts waking me up, (sniffs my eye lashes, touched my eye lids with her paws, purrs, starts licking my fingers, then her own paws, then my hairline), she is hungry....
As soon as I sit up, she starts meowing, and growling, we go into the bathroom, then she runs into the kitchen, lays on her back, rolls around, keeps growling and meowing like there is no tomorrow. Then we go back to bed for another hour. She does the same in the evening....I can't understand what all the fuss is about because she eats real slow, and usually only eats half at once and the other half an hour later...
 

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At 5:00 am Ginger comes into the bedroom and walks around me and sits on my hair and does her I'm starvin momma talk in my ear. Meanwhile,the boys Sam and Bam-bam are waiting in the floor for Ginger to get mom up and on her way. As soon as feet hit the floor the boys run ahead and are on the table waiting while I get a personal escort to the table. (as if I might forget my way!) This is repeated by Ginger in the evening. Starting at 5:00 pm anytime feet hit the floor she thinks it is time to eat. She will harass me until she gets her way.
 

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Pixie does the whole rubbing against my legs act and will meow a little, but she's not too bad with the starving routine.

Milo, on the other hand, is the worst. He yells, he whines, he headbutts me, and acts like a total mental case, lol. When I take out the bag of dry food, he'll try to grab it from my hands like I'm just too slow and he hasn't eaten in days. Wet food is even worse. Let's just say he was so excited last night that half the pouch wound up on the floor, bc he tried to pour the food out faster. Silly, silly kid he is.
 

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When I open a can of wet food, all three come running. The girls are pretty patient, but not Pete. It's the one time he's very vocal. Also, he's generally pretty shy around strangers, but anybody could open a can of food at my house and instantly become his best friend. That's my boy!
 

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Mine come running at top speed as soon as they hear the rattling of the dry food or see the wet food in my hand. Then once it's in the bowl they act like they haven't eaten in days, but usually only eat for less than a minute before wandering to do something else and then returning later.
 

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Mine are on a canned-only diet, one is on a special diet. So it takes me a few minutes to get the plates out, get the cans out & separated.

In those few minutes I hear more meows, mews, screams, purrs, cackles and begging cries than anyone can imagine. I hear cats smacking each other for 'the chance to be first'. They stare at me with eyes large as saucers, as if they haven't eaten in daaaaays.

Then finally when the plates go down, the snorting/gulping sounds are kind of funny... they realize 'oh this is just regular cat food' and slow down... then go off to sleep again.

Imagine when I bake fish or chicken. They always get their own piece but the eyes get wide & the sounds get weirder!
 

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Well, Chichi gets all anxious around the kitchen, meows and rubs against my legs like a normal cat as if she waits for her food. Then when I put it down for her, she sniffs it, covers it up with dry food and makes digging/cover up motion just like she does with her litter only this time there is nothing to cover it up with except for the dry food in the adjacent dish. Sometimes if her toy paper bag is around she'll bring it in and cover her dish entirely with the paper bag and goes about her business. When I come home after a while, her food is gone.
 

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They both know where I keep thier food, all I have to do is shake the box, and they about trip me before I even get to the bowl.....they don't even wait for me to shake the box/bag...they hear the door to the cabinet when I open it!


They're so funny!
 

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All of a sudden they forget their differences and they all love each other and go into a frenzy of rubbing up against each other and my ankles, and meowing at me.
 

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Kandie sits there for a while then she starts the I am so unloved speech which signals Zoey to get up and sniff Kandie...lol... I get the can or wet food out and into bowls as quick as I can
 

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Mine are a mix of the first two. Willow is patient, but if you hold a treat anywhere near her, she'll swipe at it and to heck if your hand gets snagged by a nail. But if you make her wait, she'll wait, but if you give her a chance, she'll rip you to shreds in her efforts to get the food (she may not mean to rip you to shreds, you just happen to be a liability)

Buffy's pretty patient. She's not a savage like Willow. If anything, she's really delicate about eating. Give her something, she'll take it ever so gently (afraid of nibbling human skin, perhaps? She's never liked taking food from our fingers) and then will eat. When we're cleaning up her food bowl, putting fresh water and food in it, she'll sit on her placemat and wait for the food to return. When you do return, she keeps sitting there, so you have to start calling, "Excuse me Buffy, 'scuse me!" and slowly lower the bowl. She'll eventually get the hint and move before the bowl can crush her to death
 
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