Feed the cat now

Little Miss Cleo - Here is Little Miss Cleo helping us pack up pottery by supervising and testing the strength of our containers. See how helpful she is. I guess it is hard work to supervise.
United States
September 27, 2007 2:13pm CST
The other morning when the wife was not at home, I was tring to get another half hour of sleep. And one of the cats, Little Miss Cleo, started to push her water bowl around all over the floor. Finally I got up to discover the bowl was completely empty. I told the wife the story and she ignored it. Until last night. Now Cleo because she has just three legs sleeps in the bedroom. We shut the door to keep the other cats out; Toni (my wife) has problems sleeping, so cats bouncing on the bed is not desirable. So we have to keep a food and water bowl (besides a litter box) in the bedroom. Toni mentions that her food bowl is empty, but she does not want to deal with it tonight and puts it on my to-do list for the morning. So I am watching TV, and I can hear a bowl being pushed around on the floor. This went on for ten minutes before the wife got the hint, and stuck her head out the door to tell me to full the bowl now. Smart cat. So how does your cat tell you that their bowl is empty?
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@scribe1 (1203)
• United States
27 Sep 07
My cats will generally leave their water bowl as is and probably expect me to notice that it's empty and refill it. Food is another matter. My Columbus will keep pestering me --- he'll rub against my legs and meow and look at me with a piteous expression --- until I reach for his favorite canned food and open it. Early in the morning, Columbus will yowl loudly for breakfast. He got up because he heard traffic outside or noticed how light it was outside or realized that he's hungry. His yowling, in turn, wakes up my other cat, Waffles, from a sound sleep. Before I know it, both cats are restlessly walking around on my bed, waiting for me to get up and feed them. I have myself to blame, however. I started feeding them the minute I got up in the morning. Now they're all spoiled silly!
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• United States
28 Sep 07
I don't have a cat but my dog puts her paw in the bowl then pushes around with her nose. My dog really likes running water though she use to go into the bathroom and stand on the sink with her front paws and barks at the faucet so I can turn it on and she can drink.
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• United States
28 Sep 07
That is funny.
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• Tuvalu
29 Sep 07
Thats funny and wierd :P
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@rosie_123 (6113)
27 Sep 07
Well I have 6 of the little darlings - so it impossible not to know when they're hungry and they need feeding - they turn from cute furry felines into rampaging vultures - LOL! I always leave dried food and water down in the kitchen for them to help themselves overnight, - and there is also dried food in the garage, and on the landing too - but by about 6.00am they want something more exciting than dried food. On a work day I am up at 5.30am anyway, but at weekends we are obvously still fast asleep at that time, so Wilby (who is overweight and very food-obsessed) will come into the bedroom, jump on the bed, and literally nibble your nose and ears until you wake up. He has quite sharp teeth so that normally works a treat, - but if it hasn't worked in 5 minutes, then Frodo will come in and sit at the foot of the bed and howl like a demented banshee! Not surprisingly, I invariably get up and feed them just to shut them - and then they leave us in peace to go back to sleep.
• United States
28 Sep 07
I refer to that behavior as "Wild Kingdom."
• Canada
27 Sep 07
This is a cute story! I have no such stories to tell except that my cat would sit beside the door which lead to her food and meowed until she got my attention. Ahh thats cute, isn't it?
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• Tuvalu
29 Sep 07
That is cute :P I wish I had a cat
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• Canada
28 Sep 07
Both my cats start to eat plastic bags. One will make it very obvious that he is hungry by chewing violently on plastic bags after calling at me. The other just enjoys eating plastic bags and then throwing them back up. My spouse's mother has a theory that cats eat weird things because they feel that they're not getting enough nutrition. Either way, when cats start eating plastic, I remember their bowl is empty.
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• United States
28 Sep 07
Two of my cats also lick plastic. Call it a "guilt trip." LOL.
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@KH0389 (56)
• United States
27 Sep 07
LOL, this is a cute story. I love when cats are intelligent enough to say 'hungry, feed me'. My cat isn't all that smart. We feed our cat inside of the same room where the dogs eat, and everything seems to work out fine, until we find the cat bowl empty, the dog bowl full, and the only one we saw eating was the dog..........................................................................uhhhh......................................................OK...Anyway, when both bowls are empty, the cat will jump on my husband's lap and meow until she gets pushed away. When he stands up, (or when I stand up - whoever's first) she bolts to the room even if we're going to a totally different room on the other side of the house. And all we hear is barking and meowing. One day, my husband forgot to warn me that we were out of food for the cat. We hear the barking and meowing and needless to say, the cat had a meal with the dog bowl until we went to the store to purchase hers. (In hours his food was gone.) So our animals don't tell us unless both bowls are empty, and they don't care which food they eat. It seems as though they share..............
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• United States
28 Sep 07
It is not an emergency until both bowls are empty. LOL.
• Tuvalu
29 Sep 07
You should get a like an automated system thing, they sell those for: Food: $99.99 water: $49.99 lol
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@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
28 Sep 07
Thats a really cute story about your cat. I have 2 of them and when they are hungry they come up to me and meow untill I say okay. Then I get up and feed them either food or treats.LOL They are addictd to cat treats.LOL My fault of course.LOL
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@Darkwing (21583)
27 Sep 07
I love this story... too cute! I don't have a cat any more but the one I did have, Smokey, used to knock on the front door when he wanted in! lol. Our letter box and knocker were about fourteen inches from the floor and he used to stretch up and knock the door until we would let him in. Cats are way too intelligent... much more than we sometimes credit them for. Brightest Blessings.
• Tuvalu
27 Sep 07
Omfg, Thats funny :P
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