To be fair, millions of years of evolution necessitated eating anything and everything you could whenever you found it. Which is kind of what gets us (and our fat little Beagles) in trouble in the modern world, lol.
A lot of the comments on this video refer to the cat being "spoiled" and I find that a little unfair, but this seems to be an example of what you three are talking about.That's so true. Last night, Mingo was back in the kitchen meowing for food an hour after I fed him.
Yeah I agree. I am going to draw the line at food-restricting a pregnant queen. If she weighs a metric tonne so be it. Those fetuses need nutrition.
Food-restricting just gets to me disproportionately for some reason. I have a persistent sort of nightmare about waking up to all my animals having starved even though nothing close to that has ever happened. In fact I've always been the animal guru from the time I was a kid. If it was some exotic-looking reptile or weird frog somebody found in the Everglades, I could get it eating when no one else could. My little pack of friends used to hang out at the reptile shop and gab about what we found instead of buying anything because we didn't have any money. Sometimes he'd trade us food for what we found. I wasn't always the best at finding but I was definitely the best at caring for.
If I need to get over it I'll get over it. I've already had to, to some degree with the dog. It's just very, very difficult for me but I would climb to the moon to do this so whatever I gotta do, I gotta do.
It's not just because it makes me feel bad though. I honestly don't think my measuring cups and the latest research on exactly how much of what Fluffy ought to have can equal to millions of years of evolution, and I kind of think Fluffy knows best.
That's counter to my experience. However, I don't really like dry food anyway, though some cats came to me unable to eat anything else.Dry food will always cause a cat to gain weight no matter if they are fixed or not.
This certainly would be worth a tryI wonder if it's okay to just have mealtimes and let everybody eat up, then save whatever is left so it's not always out. This would mean that everybody gets their fill, but they aren't always munching.
That's how I do it. I set the food out and give them 20-30 minutes or so to eat, then if anything is left I put it in the fridge and set it out again after a few hours.That's counter to my experience. However, I don't really like dry food anyway, though some cats came to me unable to eat anything else.
I'm willing to take advice and it seems everyone is pro-food-restriction so I suppose that's just what I have to do.
I wonder if it's okay to just have mealtimes and let everybody eat up, then save whatever is left so it's not always out. This would mean that everybody gets their fill, but they aren't always munching.