Kitty4670 wrote:
Do you suppose to give can food once or twice a day?
That will most likely vary with the cat's personality & the human's situation. My two orange tabby fellows get a serving of canned food in the morning and then in the evening. They each only eat about a dinner fork's worth of canned food at a time, so that's all I put out.
And then they each have a saucer of dry kibble to graze as desired.
Out of the 8 cats I've had through the decades only 1 didn't self-regulate their eating without overeating.
I feed them on saucers so they don't have to crowd their whiskers in to a bowl.
Yes, that is a thing,
https://www.lonetreevet.com/blog/avoidi ... e-in-cats/Quote:
Whiskers, much like any other sensory organ, can suffer from overstimulation under the right circumstances. Whisker fatigue doesn’t exactly mean the whiskers are tired, rather, they’ve become stressed from overuse. The most common cause of whisker fatigue is something a cat does every day – eating and drinking.
Small, high-sided bowls typically used for feeding a cat’s food and water are usually to blame for whisker fatigue. As the cat attempts to eat or drink, the whiskers repeatedly brush against the sides of the bowl, which can cause reactions ranging from irritation to pain, depending on the sensitivity of the cat’s whiskers.
Cats that experience whisker fatigue or whisker stress may show it by not settling down in front of its food bowl, eating only out of the center of the bowl, trying to get the food out of the bowl or tipping it over to eat off the floor. These cats may also become aggressive toward other pets around food.
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09 Jan 2021, 7:31 pm
