I often take care of a friend's 15 year-old Maine Coon when she's out of town. She takes very good care of him, and the cat gets in-home visits from a mobile vet. He is an only cat. He eats an expensive dry food.
But when I cat-sit for him, part of the job is cleaning up the mess he makes when he eats, which is like nothing I've ever seen before. You have to vacuum scattered bits of dry food all around the feeding area every day. He makes more of a mess in one day than my four cats make in a week. She's tried to deal with it by getting a larger bowl, but even that doesn't seem to help. I've noticed that he bends down to eat and then flips his head up to chew. This is when food gets scattered. He never eats the bits he's scattered.
Has anyone encountered this before and figured out a good solution?
But when I cat-sit for him, part of the job is cleaning up the mess he makes when he eats, which is like nothing I've ever seen before. You have to vacuum scattered bits of dry food all around the feeding area every day. He makes more of a mess in one day than my four cats make in a week. She's tried to deal with it by getting a larger bowl, but even that doesn't seem to help. I've noticed that he bends down to eat and then flips his head up to chew. This is when food gets scattered. He never eats the bits he's scattered.
Has anyone encountered this before and figured out a good solution?