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> we feed the cat out of the can Don't you get problems with sharp edges that way? Also, even short cans have a geometry that I would expect to be hard to clea
by tom_mellior 6y ago
> we feed the cat out of the can
Don't you get problems with sharp edges that way? Also, even short cans have a geometry that I would expect to be hard to clean out completely with a cat's relatively short tongue. Also, cans are very light, doesn't the cat move the can all over the place compared to a heavier feeding dish? So many questions...
> Also, if you don't feed out of the can, now you have to store half a can of wet food in your fridge (ew).
Around here many people have reusable plastic lids to put on open cans, those work well. The bigger problem is feeding fridge-cold food to your cat, which is apparently not ideal. When I had cats we mostly fed them with individual portion-sized pouches. That generates a lot of non-recyclable waste though.
- dekhn 6y agofor the sharp edges, I haven't noticed a problem with that. The cat sort of eats from the middle, not the sides. We put the can in a larger plastic thing- which would normally hold a cat food bowl (IE, it's the thing that holds the cat food bowl in place) so it doesn't move around.
- Akronymus 6y agoOver here, we simply don't put cat food into the fridge. The very concept of that is just alien to me.
- tom_mellior 6y agoWe're talking about an open container of wet, meat-based food. It will be prone to spoilage. Though I guess you could argue that if you feed one half of the can now and the other half in not more than 12 hours, it will probably be fine.
- Akronymus 6y agoOh, that was more in relation to still closed cans.