potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoPlease don't starve your cats!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1464arrow-down18
arrow-up1456arrow-down1imagePlease don't starve your cats!lemmy.worldpotoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squareBluegrass_Addict@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up69·3 days agocats don’t like when their whiskers touch things. it triggers their senses of ‘tight space, might not fit’ try using a plate instead of a bowl and they will be less likely to meow/pester you when they get to the ‘bottom’
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·3 days agoWhisker fatigue - brushing the side of the bowl hurts their whiskers over time
minus-squareSmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 days agoMy cat’s whiskers were breaking short and when I noticed I switched to a shallow bowl designed for cats. It immediately helped. Cats Ike plates and shallow bowls over tight spaces.
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoI think this is closer to the truth, because she’ll still happily get herself stuck in a cardboard tube.
minus-squarepotoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 days agoI don’t actually have a cat (two dogs, though), I’m a fraud! But this is great advice!
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days ago You sit on a throne of lies
minus-squarepuppycat (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·3 days agomy dog does this too lol edit: she does think she’s a cat so it checks out
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoHmm, I do like knocking things over and am indifferent to most people. HOLY SHIT, I’M A CAT!
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agowe wash our orange’s bowl when he’s filled it with crumbs. takes about a week. he doesn’t like crumbs, the spoiled SOB
cats don’t like when their whiskers touch things. it triggers their senses of ‘tight space, might not fit’
try using a plate instead of a bowl and they will be less likely to meow/pester you when they get to the ‘bottom’
Whisker fatigue - brushing the side of the bowl hurts their whiskers over time
My cat’s whiskers were breaking short and when I noticed I switched to a shallow bowl designed for cats. It immediately helped. Cats Ike plates and shallow bowls over tight spaces.
I think this is closer to the truth, because she’ll still happily get herself stuck in a cardboard tube.
I don’t actually have a cat (two dogs, though), I’m a fraud! But this is great advice!
You sit on a throne of lies
my dog does this too lol
edit: she does think she’s a cat so it checks out
Don’t we all think that…
Hmm, I do like knocking things over and am indifferent to most people. HOLY SHIT, I’M A CAT!
we wash our orange’s bowl when he’s filled it with crumbs. takes about a week. he doesn’t like crumbs, the spoiled SOB