I must be getting too old for this racket, or else I just worry too much.
Here's the scenery. Morris is the heavy-weight, broad shouldered, big-boned, eats like there is no tomorrow. I'd say he weighs around 2100 grams now. Stango is my "baby", lightboned, more gentle in his manners, more cuddly - but he eats so little, it drives me nuts !! I just can't feel that he is putting on weight. Perhaps he is around 1700 grams now.
They were born 1st October 2012.
Morris tends to be the top cat around the house, he is more outward and tomboyish - and he pounces Stango a lot. Also their rough playing and fighting is sometimes too rough, IMO. I don't like it when they fight so much, because it looks so ferocious.
Even if Stango is also sometimes the "aggressor" in the rough plays, he does seem to be a bit intimidated by Morris, also when it comes to the dining scene.
Morris couldn't care less, he just dives into his food bowl and starts scarfing everything down. So there is no hissing or blocking (not physically, anyway), but Stango just can't concentrate on eating. He does all sorts of procrastination acts: playing with the toy mice, running around etc. I take him to the food bowl and nudge him to eat, he walks away. I bring him back, places him before the food bowl. But no, won't do.
OK, perhaps he is nervous that Morris may pounce him any minute, so he can't relax and eat in peace of mind. So I try to feed one cat in the basement and the other cat in the kitchen. Still Stango only eats, if I am lucky, a tablespoon of food.
I must add that they are lively enough, both of them, but it is driving me desperate and I am really unhappy, because there were no such problems when they first got here before Christmas: they would run to the food bowls, both of them.
Now tonight at dinner time, the same thing. They wake up after their nap, I prepare the food. Place 2 bowls in the basement, with lots of space between them (I even have a Feliway diffuser in the room) - and 1 bowl in the kitchen. Morris starts eating like a horse and still Stango won't have any.
After a bit of playing he returned to his chair as if to resume the nap. But that felt so wrong !!! So I decided to take him to the basement (closed the door, so Morris couldn'tt come and pounce) - placed Stango before the bowl, nudge, put my finger in the food, held him to it. And THEN finally he started eating. I walked away to give him some peace - but when I looked into the basement after a while, I could hardly see any food missing from the bowl.
I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THIS GODDAM SHOW !!
Here's the scenery. Morris is the heavy-weight, broad shouldered, big-boned, eats like there is no tomorrow. I'd say he weighs around 2100 grams now. Stango is my "baby", lightboned, more gentle in his manners, more cuddly - but he eats so little, it drives me nuts !! I just can't feel that he is putting on weight. Perhaps he is around 1700 grams now.
They were born 1st October 2012.
Morris tends to be the top cat around the house, he is more outward and tomboyish - and he pounces Stango a lot. Also their rough playing and fighting is sometimes too rough, IMO. I don't like it when they fight so much, because it looks so ferocious.
Even if Stango is also sometimes the "aggressor" in the rough plays, he does seem to be a bit intimidated by Morris, also when it comes to the dining scene.
Morris couldn't care less, he just dives into his food bowl and starts scarfing everything down. So there is no hissing or blocking (not physically, anyway), but Stango just can't concentrate on eating. He does all sorts of procrastination acts: playing with the toy mice, running around etc. I take him to the food bowl and nudge him to eat, he walks away. I bring him back, places him before the food bowl. But no, won't do.
OK, perhaps he is nervous that Morris may pounce him any minute, so he can't relax and eat in peace of mind. So I try to feed one cat in the basement and the other cat in the kitchen. Still Stango only eats, if I am lucky, a tablespoon of food.
I must add that they are lively enough, both of them, but it is driving me desperate and I am really unhappy, because there were no such problems when they first got here before Christmas: they would run to the food bowls, both of them.
Now tonight at dinner time, the same thing. They wake up after their nap, I prepare the food. Place 2 bowls in the basement, with lots of space between them (I even have a Feliway diffuser in the room) - and 1 bowl in the kitchen. Morris starts eating like a horse and still Stango won't have any.
After a bit of playing he returned to his chair as if to resume the nap. But that felt so wrong !!! So I decided to take him to the basement (closed the door, so Morris couldn'tt come and pounce) - placed Stango before the bowl, nudge, put my finger in the food, held him to it. And THEN finally he started eating. I walked away to give him some peace - but when I looked into the basement after a while, I could hardly see any food missing from the bowl.
I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THIS GODDAM SHOW !!
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