Show us your kitty cats

Liquid_Entity said:
It's been a week to the hour since I last posted an update.

Butch the male cat has now been renamed Felix (cliche I know) but he really does look like the Felix cat from the advert. He is very much loving the new place, always out and about.

Puddle the female still is very tentative, rarely comes out from under the bed still but when she does she is very affectionate. Just wish she would stay out cos as soon as she hears a noise she's back under the bed.

We've also got an issue where Felix is eating most of his food and then he goes and eats from the other bowl. We try and stop him but he is sneaky. Because she doesn't come out when we give the food out it's hard to know how much she is eating. He is much bigger than she is.

Is there anyway we can try and seperate feeding. Have no idea what to do.
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I'd move Puddle's food under the bed with her and then maybe shut the door so that Felix can't get in and then hopefully when Puddle is a bit more happy coming out you can slowly get her to eat with Felix so that Felix understands that it is Puddles food. Mind you both my boys eat together and they are always swapping bowls lol.
 
Liquid_Entity said:
We've also got an issue where Felix is eating most of his food and then he goes and eats from the other bowl. We try and stop him but he is sneaky. Because she doesn't come out when we give the food out it's hard to know how much she is eating. He is much bigger than she is.

Is there anyway we can try and seperate feeding. Have no idea what to do.
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We have the same problem with our two cats. One is an eating machine and will eat his and his brothers food if we let him. The other just eats a bit.

At feeding time, you could leave Puddle in a room on her own with her food bowl and shut the door. Check in from time to time to see if she has eaten any (she probably will if nobody is around). Then slowly start getting her accustomed to feeding times in general, and also with Felix.

We supervise our cats breakfast time and when the one who does not eat a lot is finished, we put his bowl in the pantry so the other one can't get at it until his brother comes back in for a 'top-up'. Dinner time is not a problem because they both wolf the lot down :)

You could just pick her up and put her in front of her food along with the other cat in front of his and supervise them with the doors closed. If she walks away or tries to escape pick her up again and put her in front of her food again. Keep doing that till she gets the message.

Likewise if the other one tries to eat out of her bowl, pick him up and put him in front of his own, with a firm word or two, or exclude him completely once he is finished.

We tend to feed ours at the same time instead of just leaving food lying around. This means we can monitor them both at meal times but it also reduces the risk of other cats coming in to steal food.

It also helps to have an audiable cue to signify meal time as your cats will associate with it quite well. All we have to do is pick up the bag of cat biscuits and they will both come running if they are anywhere in the house. Try and think of something that will happen every meal time, and when they hear it, they will come. We chose the biscuit bag because it gets used at every meal time and we can also shake it with the door open and entice them into the house if they are outside being stubbourn :p

Are your cats siblings? Does Felix pick on Puddle? Once she knows that she is not going to get hurt at feeding time she should start to become more comfortable with it. As much as I loathe messing with cats generating their 'pecking order' around the house, sometimes I feel it is best to intervene if one cat is getting bullied and is clearly afraid to enjoy their surroundings or to the point that they are not eating properly. Also keep an eye on her water intake. If they are on wet food that should not be a problem, but if you use dry food only she will become dehydrated very quickly if she is not drinking and that will certainly effect her health.

The hiding under the bed stage should pass. When she does come out, it can be good to reinforce it with a big fuss and maybe a treat so that she starts to associate her wider surroundings with good things.

She will get there, it just takes a little time.
 
Thanks for the advice. She does eat when she comes out from under the bed but there's not a whole bowl full (wet food at night, biscuits in morning) left by the time Felix is finished.

I will try feeding her when she is under the bed while Felix is about the rest of the flat. Hopefully get her fed up. She doesn't look ill but she is considerably smaller than her brother who is not overweight but is bigger.

I need a photo of them side by side to get a good picture. Hard to do when they aren't always around together.
 
Liquid_Entity said:
Thanks for the advice. She does eat when she comes out from under the bed but there's not a whole bowl full (wet food at night, biscuits in morning) left by the time Felix is finished.

I will try feeding her when she is under the bed while Felix is about the rest of the flat. Hopefully get her fed up. She doesn't look ill but she is considerably smaller than her brother who is not overweight but is bigger.

I need a photo of them side by side to get a good picture. Hard to do when they aren't always around together.
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We found the best way to stop our cat from eating it all at once as soon as it was put down was to use an automatic feeder.
 
Liquid_Entity said:
Thanks for the advice. She does eat when she comes out from under the bed but there's not a whole bowl full (wet food at night, biscuits in morning) left by the time Felix is finished.

I will try feeding her when she is under the bed while Felix is about the rest of the flat. Hopefully get her fed up. She doesn't look ill but she is considerably smaller than her brother who is not overweight but is bigger.

I need a photo of them side by side to get a good picture. Hard to do when they aren't always around together.
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Females will often be smaller, so that is not a problem. Even in male siblings there can be a notable difference in size. Our one cat is a lot smaller than his brother, so much so the neighbours thought he was a girl! :p

Also, if you don't do it already, feed them in separate bowls and use proper cat ones not the kind you have your breakfast out of. I read somewhere that cats dislike having their whiskas touching the edges of the bowl when eating that is why cat bowls tend to be quite shallow.

Funny thing is our two won't drink from a cat bowl, but will happily sit and drink from an old style glass 1 pint beer jug! The loons :p

Dry in the morning and wet at night is basically what we give ours, but we put a few biscuits in with the wet too. Wet just on its own is also fine though.
 
Deiwos said:
We found the best way to stop our cat from eating it all at once as soon as it was put down was to use an automatic feeder.
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Yeah we were thinking of trying one of those but we decided that with two cats it wouldn't work so well as we have to entice the one in every night to make sure he gets fed. :p Plus the other one is such a machine we would probably catch him in the kitchen with a tool roll taking the thing apart to get to the food :D They must be useful for those with just a single cat though.

I would also imagine an auto feeder would not stop one cat eating more than the other if the smaller one is being pushed out.
 
Captain Planet said:
My cats have become rather attached to me.

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This is normal right?
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Funniest picture in this thread for ages! :D

I wish mine were all over me a bit more, Lola sometimes follows me to the loo, but they aren't what I would call cuddly. I actually like going to bed at night, because it's the only time I get cuddles from Dave, when he jumps up on the bed with me :)
 
One of our cats used to have problems with cystitis,the vet recommended using cat food with a low ash content and it did the trick.
 
knip said:
Funniest picture in this thread for ages! :D

I wish mine were all over me a bit more, Lola sometimes follows me to the loo, but they aren't what I would call cuddly. I actually like going to bed at night, because it's the only time I get cuddles from Dave, when he jumps up on the bed with me :)
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Yup, ours are certainly clingy. Barry is sat outside the bathroom door right now meowing. Poppy slept across the top of my head last night. Yesterday Barry was chancing jumping into the shower with me. Sooon :p
 
So our cat has gone missing :(. God knows when she went, sometime in the night. Not a clue where she is, she won't know where she is either. Been out around the neighbourhood for a while and no sign.
 
platypus said:
So our cat has gone missing :(. God knows when she went, sometime in the night. Not a clue where she is, she won't know where she is either. Been out around the neighbourhood for a while and no sign.
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Dave went missing for over 24 hours once. Convinced myself he was dead and everything.

He sauntered home late at night, ravenous, and without a care in the world for my questions as to where the bloody hell he had been.

Fingers crossed she comes home soon platypus :)
 
knip said:
Got mine from Vets UK, didn't need a prescription and the vet checked it to say it was the right stuff. Also half the price of the stuff they were prescribing me.


Would you have heard him if he was struggling to go in the night? Is he grooming his bits more often than he would?

I think I'd see how he is today, but usually once they've got cystitis then it needs the medicine, so might be worth getting him checked. :)
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