4 ms·
We tried this with our cat for years. He had a designated feeding time. We never broke it. His internal clock is pretty good but not exact, so he starts to p
by massysett 10y ago
We tried this with our cat for years. He had a designated feeding time. We never broke it. His internal clock is pretty good but not exact, so he starts to pester for food an hour or two before feeding time.
So he would surely wake us up if fed at 7:00am, so one solution is to feed at night. This results in a cat constantly underfoot begging for food for two hours, which is literally a tripping hazard.
The solution is to feed him from a machine and to make sure he never sees us touching the machine. Now, at feeding time he sits by the machine and stares at it, waiting for it to open.
- e40 10y agoSo, your cat transferred all their respect for you to the machine.
- DonHopkins 10y agoI love the way my cats stare at me worshipfully, and I'd envy the machine.
- AlexCoventry 10y ago> This results in a cat constantly underfoot begging for food > for two hours, which is literally a tripping hazard. We found a solution to this: Only feed the cat when an audible alarm goes off. This way they associate the onset of food behavior with the alarm, not with you.