Multi-pet owners - answer me this - Democratic Underground

LynneSin

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:15 AM
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Multi-pet owners - answer me this

I own two cats - Dingbat and Ms. Dingbat (you might know them as Abbott and Evita).

I could put out 20 identical food dish with the exact quantity and type of food in each dish and no matter what, Ms.Dingbat will always insist on eating from the dish that Dingbat eats from. And Ms. Dingbat will actually put Dingbat out so he'll go to another dish and Ms Dingbat will then claim that dish as her food dish.

Mind you - these are 2 very well fed cats, I'm guessing after Ms. Dingbat gets full, Dingbat goes back and claims the rest.

But seriously - what the hell is with that?

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NC_Nurse

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:27 AM
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1. Other people's food just looks better.

:)
My animals do stuff like that. My kids used to prefer to eat off of my plate when they were little too.
Sometimes I feed one cat or dog in another room just so I'm sure they're getting all they want before the others horn in on their meal.
Little critters are funny that way.

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livetohike

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:29 AM
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2. My dogs Cindy and Murphy do that all the time

I figured the two of them will figure out who is dominate. Murphy hangs back until Cindy eats one or two bites out of one bowl. Then she moves over to the other bowl and Murphy starts eating. At some point, they switch again.

Cindy outweighs Murphy two to one and she eats faster too. When she finishes the one bowl, she will leave. But if she tries to come back, Murphy growls at her.

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:29 AM
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3. It's a dominance thing.

Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 08:30 AM by haruka3_2000

We have four cats. Midnight is the dominant cat. One of her favorite activities is randomly attacking whatever cat is eating, then just sitting by the food, until she gets bored. She also gets to eat first; the other cats sit, at a safe distance, and wait their turn. The other three have no problem lining up next to each other and nicely eating out of whichever bowl is available.

They get canned twice a day, but they have a gravity feeder of dry always available, so it's not like food is scarce.

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MissHoneychurch

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:31 AM
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4. ...

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LynneSin

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:35 AM
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5. Oh I've posted these guys many time

Dingbat:

Ms. Dingbat:

He's about 6lbs more than she is but she'll the food agressor

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:36 AM
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6. In my house, the cat that gets beat up the most has 10lbs on the cat

that does the beating. That's more than twice her weight.

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MissHoneychurch

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:36 AM
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7. I know you did

but you can't post a kitten thread without the main persons in it :rofl:

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Crazy Dave

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:42 AM
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9. I just had to steal your smileys MissHoneychurch

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Crazy Dave

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Wed Oct-04-06 08:37 AM
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8. Most of mine are the same way

Our baby girl is the rudest of all of them. She'll go back and forth many times if you pour a little in one dish and then another. And she puts her front paws in the bowl she's eating out of.

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Wcross

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Wed Oct-04-06 10:08 AM
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10. six dogs and two cats= two food bowls.

I keep the cat food on the counter top so the dogs can't get to it. The dogs all eat at some point but do it on a seniority basis.

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Mad_Dem_X

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Wed Oct-04-06 10:54 AM
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11. My sister had two dogs

A large Boxer and a small Miniature Pinscher (sp). The little one would gobble all her food up and then try to eat out of the big one's bowl. So Sis had to put the bowls in different rooms and also watch over the Minpin to make sure she didn't sneak over to her sister's bowl.

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