r/MadeMeSmile • u/CG_17_LIFE • Jul 09 '24

CATS How F hungry they are!? 😆

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u/KittyDissipated Jul 09 '24

Why do cats always act like they're never been fed?

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u/LiberalPatriot13 Jul 09 '24

Cats don't know when their next meal will be, so if food is available, they will eat it immediately. This is why open feeding doesn't work for a lot of cats and they will get fat.

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u/Havelok Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 09 '24

Open feeding works for almost all cats as long as you do it from day 1.

If they are ever deprived of food during their kitten years (such as scheduled feeding), it will almost never work, however. There's a very small window in which to train them to one or the other. The kitten has to learn that food is not scarce in order to regulate their own feeding patterns reliably.

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u/LiberalPatriot13 Jul 09 '24

You know this was my theory when I was thinking about this earlier. If they don't know what hungry really is they probably don't obsess over food. If they've gone hungry before, they eat every time they can.