My tabby must be higher class than yours. She will ONLY eat wet Fancy Feast. I bought her some dry food one time. Her reaction was pretty funny.

On a side note did you realize that gun manufacturers build pistols with special grips that fit around the paw of your average house cat? Amazing!! And you'd think they wouldn't have any control of the thing but you'd be wrong.

I refuse to believe your pet cat doesn't have a name!

Maybe the cheap stuff didn't fill them up. There is that myth that you're hungry soon after eating Chinese food. That's a joke, people.

It's not the food, it's you. You have trained them to expect to be fed whenever they want. You feed them three times a day by your narrative, which is unnecessary and not particularly healthy for a cat. Cats are smart and can be greedy. If you feed them each time they give you a cue they will give that cue more often.

Charles, your cats are so cute!

Maybe you can offer a few mouthfuls of cat crack to them if they'd run a broom and a mop across that floor.

I'm pretty sure these are the two cats who tried to sell me an obviously stolen stereo system in the South Center mall parking lot.

@2: our family has never named cats. Other people insist cats should have names, so we let other people name our cats, but we never use those names. At home, they're all just "puss puss".

so sad. to miss the joy of giving a cat a ridiculous or badass name and then getting to say it for 15 years?

@7 - I'm curious. Why don't you name them? How do you reference a specific cat when talking to a family member?

I had a similar experience. While unemployed, I ran out of money and switched away from my pretty good cat food to the cheapest Friskies kind.

End result was that despite controlled feedings at set times one of my cats gained 3-4 lbs (a lot on a 13 lb cat!) and the other somehow became perpetually, uncomfortably, disturbingly horny. Despite being fixed, he was going after everything: pillows, slippers, the dog, the other cat.

At that point I realized there was something wrong with the food, downgraded my ramen, and went back to the pricy stuff for the cats. The horny cat chilled out after a few days, thankfully. The fat cat remained fat (it took years to get off him!) but at least his appetite went back to normal and he stopped gaining weight.

/csb

Must have crack in it. I've never known a cat to be subjected to a new and unfamiliar brand of kibble and actually LIKE it.

Also, if you don't name your cats, you miss out on the delightful experience of calling your cat by name and having them look over to you (they recognize their spoken names eventually) but instead of coming over, just giving you an insolent look. That's what being a cat owner is all about, man!

Maybe you should sleep with one eye open and the valuables locked up for a while, just in case. I've seen a lot of good cats go bad on that stuff.

If their used to higher quality food, their gonna go nuts scarfing it down then promptly diarrhea on the kitchen floor. That shit's like McDonald's to them.

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@1 one of my cats (the tabby I'm holding in my profile pic) looooves cheap dry food. We mostly feed him nice wet food (due to our other cat's dietary needs), but whenever we give him the dry stuff he scarfs it down like a stoner with a bag of Doritos. The weird little beasts want what they want.

A) Yep, Friskies & Fancy Feast are both pretty terrible.
Worse? AMWAY brand cat food. >_<
You might want to buy them some good quality Catnip from the food co-op (the "human grade" herb, not the crap at pet stores & supermarkets). I'm serious. If they coming looking for you with their addiction-crazed eyes, and they won't take their higher-quality food, give them some catnip, it'll soothe their anguish AND hunger. At least for a little while, until their li'l furry cute bodies go cold turkey and push through The Need.

B) Finally resorting to using the trope of "Cats!" to drive up hits? :D ...well, it works. I got my most ever responses to FB posts whenever I mentioned cats. Also, it probably proves we're all infected with toxoplasmosis gondii. Oh well.

See, both my cats go "meh" to that brand of cat food. It's Fancy Feast they prefer. And I agree with someone upthread... just leave out dry food 24/7 and they won't get that look in their eyes.

@19 - Leaving dry food out works for some, but can be deadly for others (i.e. males pron to urine crystals/bladder stones).

@20, yeah you're right... but lol, Charles is feeding them whenever they ask anyway.

The concept of naming animals is rather odd inasmuch as I'm quite certain they're wholly unfamiliar with the concept of "names" per se. Rather, they're just conditioned to respond or pay attention when hearing that one word that they know is always goiong to pertain to them. I mean, I wonder if a cat could learn the name of a fellow feline. Would be neat if so.

@22 - Some actually may (recognize another name that is, not be familiar with the entire construct). Dogs often know their brethren's names, but that may have been more useful to for that animals evolution.

Like hippie children after their first Happy Meal. You are screwed. They will not forget.

I write for The Stranger 'bout a cat with no name. You know it's good to be out of the rain. At The Stranger, they can't remember your name, 'cause ain't no one for to give you no name. LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA....

OMG Charles I love your round corner shelf