Spork, Fork, Spoon, Knife, Scoop?

What utensils do you regularly use to dish out your cat's food?

A spoon? fork? forklift? measuring cup?

If your cats don't eat dry food (measuring cup?), do you 'change the format' of the canned, wet, or raw food into sizes or shapes that they seem to eat more readily?

I have the same designated spoon I use all the time to slice up and cube Milly's canned food into little pea-sized bits. (So far I haven't mixed up Milly's food spoon with my husband's coffee spoon.)

I use a small fork and kitchen scales. Iris and Mocha get 2 ozs. at each meal. Lily gets about 2 1/2 ozs. I don’t know why I use a fork. A spoon would make more sense because their food is very wet and sloppy. I guess it’s a carryover from when I fed canned foods, all of which were pâtés and easily divided. No way to make shapes, though. I make their food and add quite a bit of water.

A spoon for the wet food and a measuring cup for the dry.

A spoon for wet food (always pâté) and a small handful of dry food when a refill is necessary in Lelia's bowl (we also have an automatic feeder that lets out I wanna say 1/4 cup twice a day - mostly for Sparkle, but Lelia will steal some.)

I use a salad fork for the wet food, and water and mix. Geoffrey does not seem to like chunks.

For the dry, I use a coffee scoop or a washed pudding cup container.

Normally an old baby spoon for the wet food, and we store the dry food in plastic cups after we weigh it out.

I free feed, and use a measuring cup to fill up the feeder because it's not nearly as messy as pouring from the bag.

A quarter cup measuring cup for her morning kibble and a knife to cut up her 1.5 oz of pate in the afternoon.

At night, I give them a handful of dry food each.

For the twice a day canned food, I use a spoon, and if it is a pate, I chop it up with the spoon. I tried it like they do on the commercials, just plopping it down in a can shape, but they don't eat it as well that way. When Diamond hears the spoon scrapping the last little bit out of the can, he loses his mind. He screams, weaves back and forth and hits the door, making a banging noise! I always reassure him that it is coming soon, which will stop him for a second or two. But then he starts again! This servant is just not fast enough for Diamond!

susanm9006 said:

A quarter cup measuring cup for her morning kibble and a knife to cut up her 1.5 oz of pate in the afternoon.

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I’m not the only weirdo knife user! I like to use a knife for pate canned food so I can divide up the can (nice even chunks!). If it’s the second time with the can I use a spoon. I used to add water but Olive hates it so now I just sort of chop it up a bit.

Randall serves the prince of darkness, Gohan. He will only eat Caru, which is soupy and comes in a carton. He prefers a large spoon, I prefer to just pour it out.

Boris Diamond said:

I tried it like they do on the commercials, just plopping it down in a can shape, but they don't eat it as well that way.

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Yes! Mine struggled with that, too. To really get a mouthful, they had to smoosh their muzzles into the food, and they hated getting food on their faces and nostrils..as anyone would. I always chopped it up so it was easier for them to bite off portions.

Boris Diamond said:

... I tried it like they do on the commercials, just plopping it down in a can shape, but they don't eat it as well that way. ...

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Tobermorey said:

Yes! Mine struggled with that, too. To really get a mouthful, they had to smoosh their muzzles into the food, and they hated getting food on their faces and nostrils..as anyone would. ...

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Yeah, I chop mine up too. A few times I tried sculpting a sort of skinny Devil's Tower shape out of the pate, but that did not go over too well -- not in the long-term. So, back to cutting it up into bits!

I used a stainless steel ice cream spoon to scoop wet food for my boy and also scoop the juice from the can for him to drink from the spoon.

I scoop one spoonful of food each time and when he has finished it, I'll scoop another. Sometimes I spoon feed him when he feels like not eating anymore.

I use plastic measuring spoons for supplements and general measuring of wet food. I use metal measuring spoons for raw meat.

I open the can of pate, plop it on plate then fill 1/4 of can with warm water and dump it on plate and use can to mash food and water together.

I dump the frozen nuggets into 2 bowls and set them in my sink full of warm water to thaw, then I use a teaspoon to measure it out into 4 bowls total, 1 for each Cat.

PushPurrCatPaws said:

Yeah, I chop mine up too. A few times I tried sculpting a sort of skinny Devil's Tower shape out of the pate, but that did not go over too well -- not in the long-term. So, back to cutting it up into bits!

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But did it mean something!? Was it important?

I use the same spoon to dish out the wet food and then just a small handful of the dry food.

Krista has her own corner of the counter. This is actually much improved from last year. These days I have an empty Rad Cat tub that holds her fork(s) and any measuring spoons or syringes. The plastic baggies are to warm up each and every portion which gets weighed first. And these days the only supplements or meds she takes regularly is a probiotic and sometimes salmon oil (which is added directly to the can of food rather than individual meals.). Last summer, this corner used to be much busier with all kinds of meds and supplements to get her through her various GI illnesses.

She is allowed on this counter because I used to feed her raw food up here. If she’s going to fling food, I’d rather clean it from a counter than a floor. She keeps showing up here to watch me prep her food, like my furry foreman, even though I don’t feed her up here anymore. I don’t mind at all. Her talking to me and climbing all over me throughout prep (I put up a leg for my back and for her to have more surface than that tiny ledge) is some of my favorite time with her.